Transport books

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. Buses Illustrated. Numbers 1-165 lacking issue 92. November 1949-December 1968. Overall, nice and clean, a few scuffs and marks with some covers slightly dusty. Issues 1-12 are slightly sad and scuffed along the spines. Issue 3 lacks the rear cover, Issue 6 is stained at the top corner edges, and Issue 10 has the top of the hinge split. 250.00
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. Guide de la navigation interieure . Office National de la Navigation. 2 vols, 668pp of text, 307pp of diagrams of rivers and canals. Similar to the British Nicholson's guides, but far larger. Nice sound condition with slightly weak tops to the spines. 1957. 37.00
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. London Transport bus & tube maps : a collector's guide 1920-2000. Anne Letch. An excellent listing of all known maps. 48pp. 2000. New copy. 5.00
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. Mr Beck's Underground map. Ken Garland. Lovely full colour history of the London Underground diagram. 80pp illus. 1995. New copy. 12.95
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. No need to ask! : early maps of London's underground railways. David Leboff and Tim Demuth. Lavish full colour book covering the period 1890-1933. 80pp illus bibliog. 1999. New copy. 12.95
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. Odhams new road atlas of Great Britain.128pp 48pp gazetteer. Standard atlas plus sections on steep hills, car ferries, throughway plans of principal cities. Coloured maps. Good condition in slightly sad dustwrapper. 1958. 4.00
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. Railway maps and the Railway Clearing House : the David Garnett Collection in Brunel University Library. A very useful work. 44pp illus. 1986. New copy. 9.00
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. Turnpikes and toll-bars. Mark Searle. Only edition. Large hardbacks. 2 vols with 12 coloured plates and 515 other b/w illustrations and photographs. Vol. 1 : xxxiii, 450pp. Vol. 2 : 451-871pp. A comprehensive record covering British, American and European turnpikes, tollgates, coaching, highwaymen and the road system in general. Original maroon half-morocco style binding, red cloth boards, gilt page edges. Internally nice, bright, clean condition, sound firm bindings, slightly dusty closed page edges with scarce dustwrappers darkened in places. 1930. 220.00
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. Winged wheel : the history of the first hundred years of the Cyclists' Touring Club. William Oakley. viii 248pp illus. Well illustrated history. Very good condition in very slightly scuffed dustwrapper. 1977. 9.00

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