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Summer Antiques & Fine Art - Day Three Friday 28 June 2013 10:30 Ewbank's Burnt Common Auction Rooms London Road Send GU23 7LN Ewbank's (Summer Antiques & Fine Art - Day Three) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1575 Duxford 94' PROVENANCE: Air Vice Marshall Bird-Wilson Nepalese hand made wool light blue ground rug, made by (1919-2000) who was known as "Birdy" was a spitfire pilot in Veedon Fleece. 1.8m x 3.6m 71in. (180cm) WW2 and a member of the "Guinea pig club". This lot is sent in Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 for sale by one of his descendants. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 1576 Frederick Forsyth 'The Dogs of War', 1st edition published 1975 Lot: 1583 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Ten books mainly on the RAF with some signed by the author's to include; Wingless Victory, Related by Anthony Richardson, published by Odhams Press Ltd, 3rd impression November 1950, with inscriptions; Seize the Moment, Helen Sharman and Lot: 1577 Christopher Priest, published Villiers House 1993 and signed by The History of Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Helen Sharman; Wing Leader, Johnnie Johnson, published by Earl of Clarendon, also his life which is written by himself, in Chatto and Windus 1956, signed by the author; The Story of Air which is included a continuation of his history of the Grand Fighting, Air Vice-Marshal J.E. 'Johnnie' Johnson, signed by the Rebellion, Oxford: At the University Press, 1843, leather bound author; Monkey Business The Memoirs of General Sir Cecil Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Blacker, Quiller Press , 1993, signed by the author; The Day of the Typhoon, John Golley, published Patrick Stephens 1986, signed by the author; War Eagles, The Story of 71 Eagle Lot: 1578 Squadron, James Saxon Childers, published by Appendix and Fly Fishing for Trout and Salmon on the Faughan By Henry E C Epilogue, Reprinted 1983 Flying through Fire, Geoffrey Heaney 1947 Williams, published by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995, Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 signed by the author; The Rommel Papers, edited by B. H. Liddel Hart, published by Collins 1953; Against All Odds, The Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary appeal PROVENANCE: Air Lot: 1579 Vice Marshall Bird-Wilson (1919-2000) who was known as Collection of First Edition books, including, John Masters "Birdy" was a spitfire pilot in WW2 and a member of the Bhowani Junction, 1954, C.S. Forester Hornblower In The West "Guinea pig club". This lot is sent in for sale by one of his Indies, 1958 and Lord Hornblower, 1946, a signed Colin Dexter, descendants. The Way Through The Woods, 1992, hardbacks with dust- Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 jackets, Michael Joseph/ MacMillan, (4) Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 1584 The Battle of Britain, published by Salamander Books Ltd, 1990 Lot: 1580 containing twenty-nine signatures of men who took part in 'The Manual of Seamanship for Boys Training Ships of the Royal Battle of Britain' to include Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Navy 1883 and Military Sketching Made Easy, and Military John Grandy who was the only officer who fought and Maps Explained commanded a squadron during the Battle of Britain. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 PROVENANCE: Air Vice Marshall Bird-Wilson (1919-2000) who was known as "Birdy" was a spitfire pilot in WW2 and a member of the "Guinea pig club". This lot is sent in for sale by Lot: 1581 one of his descendants. The Air Battle of Dunkirk, Norman Franks, published by William Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Kibner and Co Ltd, 1983 and four other books by the same author to include; Wings of Freedom, Twelve Battle of Britain Pilots, William Kibner and Co Limited 1980; The Battle of the Lot: 1585 Airfields, William Kibner and Co Limited, 1982; Double Mission, Two books titled 'Spitfire' published by The Harborough RAF Fighter Ace and SOE Agent Manfred Czernin, William Publishing Company Ltd. 1946 and 75 Eventful Years, A Kibner and Co Limited 1976; Sky Tiger, The Story of Sailor Tribute to the Royal Air Force 1918-1993, edited by Tony Ross Malan, William Kibner and Co Limited 1980; Battle of Britain, published by Wingham Aviation Books - Canterbury, 1993. Bison Books Ltd, 1981. Each book is signed by the author and PROVENANCE: Air Vice Marshall Bird-Wilson (1919-2000) there are two letters which are addressed to the recipient from who was known as "Birdy" was a spitfire pilot in WW2 and a the author himself. PROVENANCE: Air Vice Marshall Bird- member of the "Guinea pig club". This lot is sent in for sale by Wilson (1919-2000) who was known as "Birdy" was a spitfire one of his descendants. pilot in WW2 and a member of the "Guinea pig club". This lot is Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 sent in for sale by one of his descendants. Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 1586 Stereo scope fold out picture book showing horse and carriages Lot: 1582 together with "This is The Great Exhibition Of The Idleness of The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor, Robert Weston & All Nations", small book of humorous coloured scenes. Robert Taylor , printed for David Charles, sixth impression 1993 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 in slipcase and Robert Taylor Air Combat paintings volume II, Charles Walker and Robert Taylor, printed for David Charles, 1991 and in a slipcase. Both books have a facsimillie 'For Lot: 1587 Birdie and Margaret with all my warmest wishes Robert Taylor Hook; The Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 11 volumes, 1 of 36 Ewbank's (Summer Antiques & Fine Art - Day Three) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com 2nd edition, pub'd 1861, Approximately thirty books on art to include softbacks Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 1588 Lot: 1599 Hawthorne Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, illustrated by Hugh Approximately thirty books on art to include softbacks Thomson, published Methuen & Company Ltd., London 1920. Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Illustrated with thirty one plates Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 1600 Approximately thirty books on architecture, shipping and history Lot: 1589 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 A number of early 20th c book bindings , Thompsons Gardeners assistant Shakespeare's works & Blackie's Cyclopaedia Lot: 1601 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Approximately thirty art reference books Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 1590 King James Bible, full calf leather, printed by Mark Baskett, Lot: 1602 London 1767 Approximately thirty art reference books Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 1591 Lot: 1603 The National Shakespeare Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, Brown's Church History, vols I & II, printed for Ogle Allardice & illustrated by Sir J Noel Paton, published by William Thomson, 1920, and eight other books including: Poems chiefly Mackenzie(3) in the Scottish Dialect, leather bound, The Works of Virgil Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 translated into English verse by Mr Dryden, vols. II & III, both leather bound, Lord of the Isles a Poem by Walter Scott, 2nd ed.1815, leather bound, The Works of Robert Burns in 4 vols, Lot: 1592 6th ed.1809 Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore, The Family Receipt Book, D. Hughson, printed for W. Pritichard published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, leather and cloth bound and J. Bysh, 1817 leather bound The Western Front, drawings by Muirhead Bone, published by Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Authority of the War Office 1917 Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 1593 Desert Rat Sketch Book, Clifford Saber, published by Lot: 1604 Sketchbook Press, 1959 in slipcase Len Deighton, books including some first editions, Billion Dollar Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Brain, Close Up, Spy Story, Yesterday Spy and Bomber, all hardback with dustjackets (5) Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 1594 The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning published by Smith, Elder and Co Ltd, 1907 and another The Ring and the Lot: 1605 Book, published by Oxford University Press, 1912. Both leather Collection of Christies art catalogues, mostly Impressionist and bound Modern, Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 1595 Lot: 1606 Swinburne's Poetical Works Vol I and II, published by William Collection of Sotheby's art catalogues, mostly Impressionist Heinemann Ltd, 1927, both with leather and cloth binding and Modern Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 1596 Lot: 1607 Approximately thirty hardback books on art Collection of Christies and Sotheby's magazines Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 1597 Lot: 1608 Approximately thirty books on art to include softbacks Guiljelmus and Johannes Blaeu, 17th/18th century hand- Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 coloured map of China, 16 x 19½in. (41 x 48cm) Lot: 1598 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 2 of 36 Ewbank's (Summer Antiques & Fine Art - Day Three) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1609 Maris Pacifici , 19th C map of the Pacific region , after Ortelius 18th century French map of England by S.Robert, 1778, 19"x Abrahamus. PROVENANCE: Francis de Sales McHugh 20" Collection. 13 x 19in. (33 x 48cm) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 1610 Lot: 1621 17th century John Speed map of Somersetshire, 15 x 20in. (38 New Guinea , Mid Ramu River area a large ceremonial shield , x 51cm) carved in low relief, with stylised face and eye forms the raised Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 central section with lizard representation , ochre stained . PROVENANCE: Francis de Sales McHugh Collection. 46½ x 18½in. (117 x 46cm) Lot: 1611 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 18th century French map of Senegal, 19 x 13in.