Engravings: Queen Victoria in Dublin including a Grand Military Review (5) and in Glasnevin, Kingstown, now Dún Laoghaire (2) and Carton, Belfast (5) and Glasgow (2). Etc. Other articles: Growing flax in Ireland. Louis Napoleon tours the Republic. Queen’s tour of Scotland.

Engravings: Court Martial of Commander Pitman on HM S Impregnable, Plymouth. Chippewa Indian Chiefs at Montreal. Changes at Sadler’s Wells. Inside Euston, the terminus of the London & North Western Railway. Doncaster Races, Railway Station and rail horsebox(4). Irish Harvest Home, Birmingham Exposition of Arts & Manufactures (3). The crowded London Graveyards of Norwood, Drury Lane, Lambeth and Blackfriars (4). Etc. Other articles: Cholera. Collision with her Majesty’s steamer Salamander. Explosion of a fireworks manufactory. Hereford musical festival.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. This issue dates from just 3 weeks before war was declared. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. The Royal family; Italian military manoeuvres with Spanish & German observers; Fighting the Japanese in China; Excavating Sutton Hoo; Inspection of the Reserve fleet, with colour pages; Danzig and the Nazis; Mildjingi people in Arnhem Land, N Australia; Open air opera; etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. This issue dates from just 2 weeks before war was declared. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. Royal Ulster Rifles in transport aircraft; A spread on excavating Sutton Hoo; Men of the moment across three continents, inc. Hitler with Ribbentrop; Aerial photography at night; London before and after the blackout; Native fishing in Arnhem Land, N Australia; Mass mobility of the Italian army - Lightning War; rouse shooting; Mycenaean discoveries; Zurich exhibition; A Parsi rite of the dead; Chronicle of the car; etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. This issue dates from just 4 weeks before war was declared. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. The battleship, Royal Oak; refuelling in flight; Barrage balloon over London; Italian and German submarine rescue methods; Ships of the Reserve; Royalty; Russian soldiers swimming with their rifles; IRA bomb outrages; King Solomon's seaport, etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. Major spread of the Royal family returning hone from Canada, showing Southampton docks and massive crowds in London with many pictures of the young Princesses; Fatal Mercedes crash at Spa; Two serious fires in London; Wimbledon - the seeds; First definite footprints of a fossilised Sauropod; Ramp-romping in a saloon car; etc

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. Wellington bombers at Brussels air display; Final messages from the submarine Thetis; The Davis escape mechanism; Aborigines of Arnhem Land, N Australia; Toy armaments in school; Royal review and banquet at Greenwich; Spitfires, Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Hampdens and Blenheims over Paris; Mars and Saturn nearer the Earth; etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. Huge display of France's preparedness for war - Guards march through Paris; Franco-British air power; Mars - importance of the red planet; Tientsin incidents - blockade of the concessions; - but Shanghai carries on as normal; Submarine exercising at Malta; Nelson relics; Cook's artist in the South Seas - in colour; HMS Renown before and after rebuild; First group of militiamen welcomed at camps throughout Britain; Treasures of pre-Homeric Athens; French Revolution exhibition; etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. This issue dates from just 5 weeks before war was declared. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. The Royal family at Dartmouth Naval College; Red Square parade; The Great Drama at Kumasi, 1900; Even Switzerland military minded; Peaceful Netherland secures her frontiers; Switzerland stores wheat in its lakes; Da Vinci exhibition, Milan; Tientsin - blockade of the concessions; Failure to rescue crews from submarines Thesis and Squalus and new safety devices; Old cameras; Treasures of Delphi; etc.

RUN UP TO THE WAR NUMBER. 36 large pages, 25.5 x 36 cm, supplied unbound and not sewn. Each issue contains many articles, mostly about topics of the day, with numerous illustrations. This item is without the outer cover, having been bound to an economy wartime standard, leaving five needle holes in each page. National Defence Services parade in Hyde Park; Yankee Clipper flying boat service inaugurated; Primitive but carefree Konyak Naga headhunting people in Burma; The Fleet Air Arm; Mauretania visits New York for the first time; Danzig, Nazi rallies and the one time Polish protectorate; Neanderthal man and graves at Mount Circeo, nr. Rome; etc.