for our Sir Barnes Wallis 'Dam Busters' Collection auction to be held on Wednesday 25th of March 2026
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| 51 | COKER E.G. and FILON, L.N.G. A Treatise on Photo-Elasticity. Cambridge: At The University Press 1931. 4to, 720pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. The book with 16 coloured plates with protective pages. | 30-40 |
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| 52 | A chrome desk model/paperweight of an R.100 airship 20cm l x 4cm w, together with 2 volumes of Aircraft Engineering, February 1930 and June 1930, both with Department of Aeronautical Research & Development British Aircraft Corporation Ltd, Weybridge Division stamp to the front. | 300-400 |
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| 53 | Report of the R.101 Inquiry booklet, London His Majesty's Stationery Office 1931, paper bound booklet, 122pp, the cover signed B.N. Wallis. With Wallis' multiple critical marginal notes throughout. | 300-400 |
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| 54 | Report of the R.101 Inquiry booklet, London His Majesty's Stationery Office 1931, paper bound booklet, 127pp, the cover signed "FROM P.L. TEED TO B.N WALLIS" (in different hands), similar to Lot 53, though a scarcity of marginal notes. | 80-120 |
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| 55 | WHALE, George. British Airships, Past, Present & Future. London: John Lane 1919. 8vo, 244pp. Original grey cloth, maroon lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, third inner page coming loose from book, foxing in places. The book with pull out diagrams. Signed B.N. Wallis | 80-120 |
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| 56 | FRY, Thornton C. Probability And Its Engineering Uses. New York: D Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1929, 8vo, 470pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Second Printing. Pencil written notes to the bottom of page 148. | 100-150 |
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| 100 | ROUTH, Edward John. Elementary Rigid Dynamics - The Elementary Part of a Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited 1930. 8vo, 443pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Initialled B.N.W. 1943 | 50-70 |
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| 101 | MILNE-THOMSON, L.M. and COMRIE, L.J. Standard Four-Figure Mathematical Tables. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1931. 4to, 245pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, Rubbing to corners and edges of spine, scratch marks to covers. Additional loose double sided, un-numbered copy of pages 244 and 245. Initialled B.N.W. Feb 1941 | 80-120 |
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| 102 | A 1930's double sided beech and plastic ruler by Norton and Gregory Ltd London and Glasgow having measurements of fractions of metres and feet, 45cm | 100-150 |
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| 103 | YOUNGER, John E and WOODS, Baldwin M. Dynamics of Airplanes and Airplane Structures. New York: John Wile & Sons Inc. London: Champion & Hall, Limited 1931. 8vo, 263pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. | 30-40 |
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| 104 | LOW, Bevis Brunel. Mathematics, A Text-Book For Technical Students. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931. 8vo, 448pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, tear to edge of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis. | 80-120 |
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| 105 | MILNE-THOMSON L.M. Die Elliptischen Funktionen von Jacobi. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1931. 8vo, 69pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. | 30-40 |
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| 106 | The Royal Aeronautical Society. Handbook of Aeronautics. London: Gale & Polden Ltd. 8vo, 703pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine, foxing to pastedown, endpaper and back papers. First Edition 1931. Signed B.N. Wallis Oct.1931 | 80-120 |
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| 107 | A Lockheed hydraulic braking system bleeder drain tube in a circular metal tin 7.5cm | 50-75 |
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| 108 | SALMON, E. H. Materials and Structures. London: Longmans, Green and Co 1931. 8vo, 638pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettered spine. Minor rubbing to covers and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis | 80-120 |
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| 109 | LAMB, Sir Horace. Hydrodynamics. Cambridge At The University Press. 8vo, 738pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust cover. Sixth Edition 1932. | 40-60 |
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| 110 | Proceedings of The Royal Society, Series A. Vol. 139. No. A 838, February 1, 1933. 4to, 474pp. A booklet with written calculation to reverse titled "Notations for Paper" by G I Taylor relating to a chapter titled "Air Pressure on a Cone Moving at High Speeds". Loose covers | 400-500 |
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| 111 | USHERWOOD T.S. and TRIMBLE C. J. A. Intermediate Mathematics (Analysis). London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933. 12mo, 457pp. Orginal red cloth with black lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis | 80-120 |
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| 112 | JAHNKE Dr Eugen and EMDE Fritz. Funktionentafeln - Tables of Functions. Leipzig: Verlag Und Druck Von B.G. Teubner in Leipzig Und Berlin 1933. 8vo, 328pp. Original brown cloth with black lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis | 80-120 |
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| 113 | PYE, D. R. The Internal Combustion Engine Vol. II The Aero-Engine. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1934. Lg. 8vo, 398pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, brown dust cover | 30-40 |
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| 114 | PYE, D. R. The Internal Combustion Engine Vol. II The Aero-Engine. Oxford University Press 1934. Lg. 8vo, 398pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine with pencil note J.C Engines Cat 10/x/46 and Vickers-Armstrongs Limited stamp to title page | 30-40 |
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| 115 | RAMSEY, A. S. A Treatise on Hydromechanics, Part II Hydrodynamics. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1935. 8vo, 412pp. Orginal red cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fourth Edition. Initialled B.N.W. Dec 1940 | 80-120 |
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| 116 | WOOD Karl D. Technical Aerodynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1935. 8vo, 320pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. First Edition. Initialled B.N.W. 1936 | 80-120 |
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| 117 | ATTWOOLL A. W. and BROOME D. C. Trinidad Lake Asphalt. London: The Baynard Press, 1935. Lg. 8vo, 56pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettered spine. | 50-70 |
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| 118 | EWALT, POESCHL AND PRANDTL. The Physics of Solids and Fluids Chapters IV to VII. Blackie & Son 1936, 8vo, pages numbered 153 to 396. Half bound in red morocco with burgundy boards, gilt lettering and decoration to banded spine | 50-70 |
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