SOLD FOR £55
A 1930's pamphlet - Visiting Methods for the Admissions and the Ordinary and Extra Control of Flyers in Italy. 16pp. (B.N. Wallis written to loose cover), containing a loose plan of the Benito Mussolini Medical Institute and photographs of equipment used to test Civil and Military pilots of suitability for flight
SOLD FOR £90
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
SOLD FOR £100
RAMSEY, A. S. A Treatise on Hydromechanics, Part II Hydrodynamics. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1935. 8vo, 412pp. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fourth Edition. Initialled B.N.W. Dec 1940
SOLD FOR £65
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
SOLD FOR £55
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
SOLD FOR £100
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
SOLD FOR £120
USHERWOOD T.S. and TRIMBLE C. J. A. Intermediate Mathematics (Analysis). London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933. 12mo, 457pp. Original red cloth with black lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £200
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
SOLD FOR £340
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
SOLD FOR £120
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.
SOLD FOR £65
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.
SOLD FOR £80
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
SOLD FOR £90
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
SOLD FOR £90
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.
SOLD FOR £9000
A 2 inch aluminium sphere of the type used in the Teddington ship tanks during the development of the Golf Mine "bouncing bomb". Discovered in a box of Sir Barnes Wallis' lectures slides on the "Dam Busters" raid, the spheres were the next evolutionary step after the garden marbles leading eventually to the development of the Highball and Upkeep bombs.
Between 9 June and 10 September 1942, Wallis made use of one of the two large indoor water tanks of The National Physical Laboratory at Teddington on at least 18 occasions, he stated "I moored a wax model of a battleship several hundred feet up the tank, broadside on. We fired 2in diameter balls at it, when of course after hitting the freeboard of the ship, the sinking velocity of the ball combined with back-spin to move it towards the ship, and by adjusting the mean density of the ball we were able to pass it right underneath "the soft underbelly", to quote Winston Churchill.
SOLD FOR £220
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
SOLD FOR £170
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.
SOLD FOR £580
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.
SOLD FOR £760
A plastic diorama depicting the R.100 airship docked its mooring mast in St. Hubert Airfield, Quebec, Canada on August 3, 1930. 36cm h x 55cm l x 22cm d. The model visible in the background of many photos of Barnes Wallis' office and depicts the R.100 after its 78 hour transatlantic flight to Canada.
SOLD FOR £220
SPANNER, E. F. About Airships. London: E.F. Spanner, 9 Billiter Square E.C.3. 8vo, 206pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, tear and damage to spine. First Edition January 1929. Signed B.N. Wallis
SOLD FOR £190
5 vols. LONEY, S. L. Plane Trigonometry Part II. Cambridge: At The University Press 1918. 12mo, 211pp. Pen comments and formula bottom page 94, pencil ticks throughout. Original blue cloth with black lettered spine, fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine, staining to endpaper and back pages. Reprinted edition 1918. Signed B.N. Wallis. GHEURY DE BRAY, M. E. J. Exponentials Made Easy or The Story of "Epsilon". London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 12mo, 253pp. Original green cloth with black lettered spine, fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, staining to endpaper and back pages. Mechanical World Year Book 1924. Manchester: Emmott & Company, Limited 1924. 12mo, 173pp. Original red cloth with black lettered spine, fading to spine and cover, damage to spine, rubbing to corners and edges. Thirty-Seventh Year of Publication. Signed B.N. Wallis. DUNKERLEY, S. Mechanism. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1920. 8vo, 447pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettered spine, fading to spine and cover, minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Third Edition, New Impression. Signed B.N. Wallis. STEWART, R. Wallace. The Tutorial Physics Volume IV. The Higher Text-Book of Magnetism & Electricity. London: W.B. Clive University Tutorial Press Ltd. 1920. 12mo, 750pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine. Spine damaged, rubbing to edges and to spine, severe ink staining to cover and edges of pages. Ex Libris Burlington House Cambridge to pastedown. Seventh Impression (Second Edition). Many pages marked with ticks, paragraphs identified with pencil lines and some pages marked in pencil "Omit".
SOLD FOR £60
BALY, E. C. C. Spectroscopy, Text-Books of Physical Chemistry, Volumes I, II and III. London: Longmans, Green and Co 1924 (vol I) marked purchased secondhand 1.3.48, 1927 (vol II) marked received 5.4.48, 1927 (vol III) marked purchased second hand 1.3.48. Vol I 8vo, 298pp, vol II 8vo, 398pp and vol III 8vo, 532pp. All in original red cloth, black lettered spine. Rubbing to corners and edges of spines.
SOLD FOR £80
DIEHL, Walter S. Engineering Aerodynamics. New York: The Ronald Press Company 1928. 8vo, 288pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine and cover, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Initialled B.N.W. Feb 1930
SOLD FOR £120
2 vols. NEON. The Great Delusion: A study of Aircraft in Peace and War, London: Ernest Benn 1927. 8vo, bound in blue cloth, signed B.N. Wallis to endpaper together with MORLEY, Arthur. Strength of Materials. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1925. 8vo, 555pp. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and edges of spine, wear to the edges of the covers. Stamped Airship Company Guarantee Company Ltd to book block
SOLD FOR £380
LEWITT, E. H. The Rigid Airship - A Treatise on The Design and Performance. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1925. 8vo, 283pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Fading to spine, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Signed B.N. Wallis