Lockdales - The Fine Sale, Auction 171 - 4th & 5th December 2019

111 847 Scrap Album. A Victorian scrap album filled with numerous birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc., contemporary pictorial cloth gilt, folio £30 - £50 848 Signed Modern First Editions. A group of fourteen signed modern first editions, each with previous owners bookplate to front pastedown, authors include Margaret Thatcher (book damaged), T. F. Powys (with a signed letter), JG Ballard, Tom Sharpe, Norman Mailer, Antony Sher, Michael Hordern, Edward Heath etc. £80 - £120 849 Signed Modern First Editions. A group of fourteen signed modern first editions, each with previous owners bookplate to front pastedown, authors include Penelope Fitzgerald, John Mortimer, Peter Carey, David Lodge, Keith Waterhouse, Anita Brookner, etc. £80 - £120 850 Small collection of RAF and related publications to include Suffolk Air Display 1928, Air Day 1935 and RAF Felixstowe 1959 (seven items in total) £30 - £40 851 Teesdale (Henry), A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, with the Tracks of the Most Celebrated & Recent Navigators, Engraved by John Dower, dated 1842, hand coloured, sectionalised & laid on linen, on two sheets, bound in contemporary morocco, gilt title to upper cover, map size 130cm x 198cm approx., One of the first world maps to show Texas as an independent Republic. £500 - £800 852 The Ladies Pocket Magazine, 8 volumes, comprising 1826 (vols. 1 & 2); 1827 (vols. 1 & 2) 1828 (vols. 1 & 2); 1829 (vols. 1 & 2), containing numerous hand coloured engraved plates of Victorian fashion, contemporary matching half calf gilt, with black morocco labels to spines, 8vo, together with five volumes by Jules Verne, circa late 19th Century, including On the Track, The Ice Desert, The Child of the Cavern, Godfrey Morgan & The Mysterious Document, contemporary matching green half calf gilt, 8vo £80 - £120 853 Three autograph albums, containing signatures including Cheshire County Cricket Club team, 1949, Staffordshire County Cricket Club team 1949, Derbyshire County Cricket Club team 1951, etc. £30 - £50