Great Central Railwayana Limited
Sheffield Railwayana Postal Auction
   

Sale 290P, Closing Date: Tuesday, 15th September 2020

SRA Postal Auction: Early Railway Guide Books

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Lot 24 RAILWAY CHRONICLE "Travelling Charts" for the London - Brighton route. 12pp fold out style showing coloured views of features en route, folding into illustrated paperback covers. Circa 1850s. Faults to covers, contents OK. - Sold for £65 to bidder number 2799

Lot 25 BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 3: English and Scotch Lake Districts, Ayr (Land of Burns). Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, spine taped. - Sold for £28 to bidder number 7699

Lot 26 BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 2: North and South Wales, Ireland". Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, front section detached. - Sold for £28 to bidder number 7699

Lot 27 BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 4: Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire". Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, front cover detached. - Sold for £35 to bidder number 7699

Lot 28 BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 4: Ireland and Scotland". Illustrated paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, dated 1878. Covers dusty. - Sold for £30 to bidder number 7699

Lot 29 BRADSHAW'S CONTINENTAL RAILWAY GUIDE part 2 (descriptive pages) dated "First Issue 1928". Paperback, 349pp plus map in envelope at back. Covers slightly faded, otherwise good condition. - Sold for £50 to bidder number 4743

Lot 30 BRADSHAW'S "Illustrated Hand Book to Spain and Portugal". Hardback with title in gold on front, 189pp plus adverts and fold out maps. Dated 1883. A few pencil annotations. - Sold for £55 to bidder number 4743

Lot 31 HARDBACK BOUND VOLUME of the "Sportsman's Tourist's and General Timetables and Guides to the Rivers, Lochs, Moors and Deer-Forests of Scotland" edited by J. Watson-Lyall and dated July 1873. 382pp in part leather bound covers. Some wear and part loss of one map. - Sold for £18 to bidder number 353

Total number of Lots in Early Railway Guide Books: 8.

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