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Lot 81
Egyptian Credit Foncier (Credit Foncier Egyptien), certificates for one £20/500 franc share, Cairo 1880, 1882, 1904, 1905 (2 examples); one tenth founders share, 1905; Lottery bond for 250 francs, 1903, 3% Loan, bond for 500 francs, 1905 (3 examples), Lottery bonds for 250 francs, 1911(2 examples), 3½% Loan, 1937, 500 francs, Lottery Loan, E£10, 1951 (10 examples), and other documents (2), varying design with text in English, French and Arabic on most, some are hole cancelled, the multiple examples bear differing hand signatures, most with coupons, condition varies from fine to very and better. (25) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 29
Various Africana Auction Catalogues by Richard R Currie and an Africana price-list (1943-1947) 330 x 205 (1) 24 February 1943. `Captain A J Griffin`s magnificent Africana collection` including approximately 500 books by Isaacs, Kolben, Burchell (the 2-vol set in original binding), Latrobe, Campbell and Harris (both with coloured plates). Page 1 includes the note: `Collectors should bear in mind that Africana is daily becoming more difficult to secure, and the destruction of many thousands of rarities in the London Blitz has increased the scarcity.` - Richard R Currie, The Old Mart, Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. ii + 35 mimeographed pages describing 475 lots. The list comes under cover of a letter from Eva V Rose, of Fox Street, Johannesburg, who compiled the catalogue `and handled every book in the collection`. She was prepared to act for buyers `on the usual 10% buying commission`. (2) 24 and 25 October 1945. The same auctioneer and the same Eva V Rose. This time 758 items of Africana and 47 works of art. There is no single main seller. i + 39 pp (Africana) + 8 pp (paintings) + 12 pp (non-Africana items). (3) March 1947. A priced catalogue of a large private collection of Africana collected over more than 20 years from `Africana Private Collector` c/o P O Box 455 Port Elizabeth. 23 pp + 1 p addendum (p 18 missing). This copy was returned to the sender with a one-penny stamp. No money was required until the wanted item was delivered. High-priced items included 27 pounds 10 shillings for a Roupell; 24 pounds 10 shillings for a Golden Cockerel edition of Sparrman, `finished on 27 October 1944 on mould-made paper`, No 6 of 50 specially bound copies in white pigskin, gilt, in cloth case; and 19 pounds ten shillings for a Fairbridge; and the same for a first edition of Olive Schreiner`s `Story of An African Farm` (Ralph Irons, 2 vols, 1883, `original decorated cloth, good state`). Good Johannesburg and Port Elizibath Richard R Currie and others 1943-1947
Lot 199
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook. Like Wolves on the Fold-The Defence of Rorke`s Drift 24 X 16cm Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in he annals of military history. In the morming,a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment anda few dozen recuperating hospital patients were passing another hot, monotonous day, News of the disaster across the river came like a bolt from the blue. Retreat was not an option. It seemed certain that the Rorke`s Drift detachment would share the terrible fate of their comrades. Lieutenant Colonel Snook brings the insights of a military professional to bear in this strikingly original account. It is an extraordinary tale- a victory largely achieved by the sheer bloody-mindedness in adversity of the British infantryman. fighting at remarkable odds of over thirty to one. The heroics of all eleven VC winners are recounted in detail, and we are offered new insights into how the Zulu attack unfolded and how 150 men achieved their victory. Hardback with unclipped dustcover- Foreward by Lieutenant Colonel Huw Lloyd-Jones.Preface. xi plus 302 pages text and index. With supporting illustrations and photographs. As New. Fine London Greenhill Books 2006
Lot 240
Halford, Samuel James The Griquas Of Griqualand 8vo A historical narrative of the Griqua People. Their rise, progress, and decline. Are they an aboriginal race? Where was their ancestral home? Why is there a Griqualand East and a Griqualand West? Why have the Griquas lost control of the territories which bear their name?; 209pp. Condition: red boards good, illustrated end-papers clean, contents and binding good; no dust-jacket. good Cape Town & Johannesburg Juta & Company
Lot 266
Robinson (John) Editor: NOTES ON NATAL: 8vo (185 x 115 mm) AN OLD COLONIST’S BOOK FOR NEW SETTLERS. xxxiv, 237 pages – an appendix comprising 25 pages and a folding table are bound in between pages 224 and 225, pages 228 to 237 are bear commercial advertisements, the last leaf of advertisements 239/240 is missing, bound in recent half brown leather with marbled paper sides. There is a minor repair at the top corner of the title page and the edges of the last three advertisement leaves. A good copy. Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, pages 236-7, ‘There is a full description of the estates and plantations of the colony, with much information respecting the individual farmers and their crops, and other interesting matter. A portion of the volume is devoted to an account of a trip to the then newly discovered diamond fields of Griqualand West. The writer reach Du Toit’s Pan on June 9, 1871, and he give an animated sketch of the scenes at the new digging. A letter from a digger written in December 1871 is reproduced; it is headed, “The great Camp at Colesberg Kop” and gives an early description of the Kimberley mine and the township. It is stated that some of the claims were valued at prices obtained for quarters of claims which would bring them up to £3000 for a full claim, while, “thousands of tents of all sizes and shapes are pitched around the kopje”.’ Good Durban & London Robinson & Vause 1872
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Lot 443
Park, Mungo & Rhys, Ernest [ed.]. Olive Schreiner presentation copy: THE TRAVELS OF MUNGO PARK 18 x 11 cm Originally published in 1907. xxii, 320 pages. Cloth with gilding. (Everyman`s library: travel and topography series).Inscription from `Brakje` on a preliminary page. This was the pet name of Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner for his wife, Olive Schreiner. Also bears Cronwright-Schreiner`s signature, dated 30.1.13, De Aar. Accompanied by a note from Anthony [Clarke] of Clarke`s Bookshop, Cape Town, confirming that the signature `Brakje` is that of Olive Schreiner. Letters from Schreiner held in the Special Collections of the National Library of South Africa (Cape Town) also bear the signature `Brakje`. Very good London J.M. Dent 1910
Lot 1317
1839 Dec 7th cover from Castle Douglas to Thornhill bearing manuscript `4` of the Uniform Four Penny Post, another similar cover dated Dec 25th, each bear Castle Douglas boxed despatch h/stamps, two further covers from Castle Douglas April & June 1840 to Thornhill bearing m/s 1d, obverse bears boxed CASTLE DOUGLAS d/stamps & boxed `5` in claret, Glasgow receiving marks. (4) Symbol: D
Lot 1591
1949-50 Bank Drafts (6) drawn under the National Bank of Australia bearing Revenues from New South Wales or South Australia, five bear British Revenues incl. Foreign Bill KGV £5 (6) & KGVI £5 (2) + 3s & 5s together, another bears KGVI £2 (2) & 5s, another bears KGVI 2s (2), 5s, 10s & 15s (2), another bears single KGV 5s etc. Unusual lot. Symbol: D
Lot 648
A mahogany cased games compendium early 20th century, brass hinge and lifting mechanism to lid, recessed lid interior containing a tooled leather cream and red chess board, five deep deposits to rear of base, cream and red stained ivory chess pieces seated on a central detachable brass handled tray that when lifted reveal a compartment for storage of playing cards etc., flanked by two columns of red and ivory draughts counters, the front holds a removable box containing a set of ivory dominoes with a storage compartment to each side, the ebony and satin wood lids of which bear two recessed ivory markers with brass arrow pointers, 15¼ x 11¼in. (38.75 x 28.5cm.), 5½in. (14cm.) high.
Lot 178
A Watkins and Doncaster 20 drawer mahogany collectors cabinet circa 1900 the hinged door with ivorine makers plaque Watkins & Doncaster, Cabinet manufacturers and Naturalists 36, Strand, London WC 125cm.; 45ins high by 52cm.; 20½ins wide by 47cm.; 18½ins deep drawer size 47cm.; 17ins wide by 38cm.; 15ins deep by 5cm.; 2ins high This twenty drawer cabinet is by a leading name in natural history paraphernalia and equipment. Watkins and Doncaster were founded in the 19th century in London and are still active, although somewhat less central now being base near Hereford. The cabinet contains a superb collection of British moths by Sid Imber and, again, The quality of work and standard of setting is of the very highest level. All have data and are in excellent condition. Sidney Imber was born in 1925 in Brixton fire station where his father was a serving full time fireman at that station. (‘This was a time when firemen and their families actually lived on site’). Aged 17 and a half years ‘Sid’ joined the Royal Marines and trained at Chatham. His war was spent in Burma where he fought for two years under Mountbatten and was awareded the Burma Star. He returned to the U.K. in 1946 where he met his wife to be. He married Olive who was one of ‘Rothschilds Girls’ and he joined the Metropolitian Fire Service where he served for 33 years rising to the position of Commander of the London Fire Service. Oliver Imber who worked as P.A. for the Rothschild family has been married to Sid for 63 years and recalls that according to Sid’s mother he was always interested in insects. Even as a baby in the pram his attention would be trained on a butterfly or beetle as if transfixed. For Olive and the perfect holiday (and their courtship) was spent riding though the countryside together hunting for butterflies and insects. They travelled all over the British Isles on this pursuit and , indeed, all over the world building Sid’s superb collection of butterflies, moths and other insects. Sid’s attention to detail and the correct labelling of his specimens is commendable. His ability to ‘set’ and insect is second to none. He achieves perfection again and again. He believed that every specimen in a collection should be taken by the collector himself and specimens from other sources should not be included. To this end it was not unusual when in the field for his wife Olive to make an interesting capture and offer it to Sid only to be told to release the specimen so that Sid could genuinely ‘net’ the insect himself in order to add it to his collection! The following three lots which contain nearly 2000 specimens bear witness to Sid Imber’s absolute focus on perfect setting, totally comprehensive labelling and taxonomic order. Data labels are of extreme importance with any natural history collection and all the specimens herewith have full date and provenance. The quality of the setting and layout is superb and the three cabinets encompass the three most famous makers, Gurney, Brady and Messrs Watkins and Doncaster.
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