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Lot 1286
Six books - four relating to Majolica, Medieval Pottery from excavating and Medieval floor tiles, plus The English Country Pottery it's history and techniques Book by Peter Brears first edition with dust jacket and a History of the Staffordshire Potteries by Simeon Shaw, 1970 reproduction of 1829 original
Lot 467
A mixed lot to include first edition of Four Fifty from Paddington by Agatha Christie, a ca 1891 edition of Mrs Beeton's Household Management, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence, Welsh hymn book and a 33 rpm vinyl copy of The Beatles For Sale, Swarovski chain and pendant and a small quantity of Wade Whimsies
Lot 1
Africa.- Anderson (Major G.H.) African Safaris, first edition, half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece and 13 plates (some with double image, which accounts for Czech calling for 19 plates), cracked hinge, original cloth, faint scuffing to upper cover, [Czech p.4], 8vo, Nairobi, Nakuru Press, 1946.⁂ Rare. Anderson was one of the founders of the East Africa Professional Hunters' Association. The work includes elephant hunting in Somaliland, the Sudan, and in East Africa's northern frontier.
Lot 107
Opera.- Pasquini (Giovanni Claudio) La Spartana Generosa, half-title, some spotting or foxing, 19th century vellum-backed boards, small 4to, Dresden, Widow of Stöffel, 1747. ⁂ First edition of this libretto for this opera composed to celebrate the two recent marriages in the Prussian royal family.
Lot 11
Africa.- Big Game.- Lyell (Denis D.) The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, bookplate of William Heneage Wynne Finch, original buckram, spine a little browned (as usual), slight bumping to corners, 1929; African Adventure. Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates (1 misbound), occasional spotting, modern half morocco, gilt, 1935; Memories of an African Hunter, frontispiece, plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1924, [Czech pp.102-103]; and another copy of the second, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ "Lyell provides the rules for hunting big game, as well as chapters dealing with rifle selection and tracking game ... An essential work aimed at a generation of new hunters visiting Africa at the time." Czech p.102
Lot 110
Bibliography.- Osmont (Jean-Baptiste-Louis) Dictionnaire Typographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares, 2 vol., half-titles, some water-staining (mostly in vol.1), some mostly light foxing or spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines in compartments and with double leather labels, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, House of Lacombe, 1769.⁂ First and apparently only edition of this important work.
Lot 113
Food & drink.- Leonardi (Francesco) L'Apicio moderno ossia l'arte apprestare ogni sorta di vivande, 6 vol., some foxing, contemporary vellum, some staining or light soiling, [Bitting p.282; Paelari-Henssler, I, p. 427; Vicaire 514], [Rome], no printer, 1790; and another, Italian Cookery, 8vo & 12mo (7)⁂ Rare first edition of this comprehensive and important work by the cook to Catherine II, Empress of Russia. The work reflects Leonardi's extensive travels in that as well as outlining the history of Italian cookery he also draws upon other cuisines, including French, Turkish, Russian, Polish and English. Included is a glossary of French culinary terms and an extensive list of wines.
Lot 12
NO RESERVE Africa.- Big Game.- McCutcheon (John T.) In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country, first edition, one of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author, frontispiece, plates, one detached, illustrations, broken upper hinge, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, [Czech p.111], 8vo, Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1910.
Lot 13
Africa.- Big Game.- Madeira (Percy C.) Hunting in British East Africa, first edition, cracked hinges, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.105], Philadelphia & London, 1909 § Kittenberger (Kálmán) Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa 1903-1926, first English edition, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, tears, small areas of loss, rubbed and worn, [Czech pp.89-90], 1929 § Bennet (E.) Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa, first edition, occasional spotting, ink signature to chapter 1, [Czech p.16], 1914, frontispieces, plates, folding maps, original cloth; and 8 others, East Africa, 8vo (11)
Lot 147
Dictionaries.- Antiquities.- Danet (Guillaume) A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, first English edition, 3 folding engraved maps, approbation f. at beginning, advertisement f. at end, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Wing D171], for John Nicholson, 1700; and 7 others, antiquities, v.s. (8)
Lot 149
Linguistics.- Elphinston (James) Propriety Ascertained in her Picture; or Inglish speech and spelling rendered mutual guides, [and] an anallysis of the Scottish Dialect, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-titles, a few ff. neatly repaired, occasional light browning or scattered foxing, modern half calf, 4to, by Jon Walter, [1786-87].⁂ Rare in commerce, an eccentric work in which Elphinston laid out his system of quasiphonetic spelling.
Lot 15
Africa.- Big Game.- Schillings (C. G.) With Flashlight and Rifle, 2 vol., 1906; In Wildest Africa, 2 vol., 1907, first English editions, half-titles, portrait frontispieces, photographic plates and illustrations, the second with strengthened hinges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [Czech pp.142-143], § Lydekker (Richard) The Game Animals of Africa, second edition, plates and illustrations, ink inscription and illustration to half-title, strengthened hinges, original cloth, rubbed and worn, split to spine foot, 1926; and 12 others, Big Game, 8vo (17)
Lot 150
Linguistics.- Fry (Edmund) Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world, first edition, list of subscribers, wood-engraved title vignette and tail-pieces, light browning to first and final f., contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, 1799
Lot 151
NO RESERVE Linguistics.- Slang.- Green (Jonathon) Green's Dictionary of Slang, 3 vol., first edition, original cloth, 2010 § Hunt (J.L.) and A.G.Pringle. Service Slang, illustrations, original printed boards, 1943 § Barrere (Albert) Argot and Slang, original cloth, rubbed and faded, 1902 § The Slang Dictionary, ninth thousand, original cloth, 1864; and 23 others, slang, 4to & 8vo (29)
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Lot 16
Africa.- Big Game.- Selous (Frederick Courteney) Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate, facsimile image of Selous' son tipped-in, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech pp.145-146, Hosken p.180], 8vo, 1893; Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 1 folding map, occasional spotting, original pictorial buckram, browned as usual, slight bumping to extremities, [Hosken p.180], 1896; African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, first edition, frontispiece, plates, cracked hinges, bookplate and signature of Will H. Ogilvie, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, [Czech p.146], 1908; and 3 others on or by the same, 8vo (6)
Lot 160
Dictionaries.- Cyclopaedias.- Middleton (Rev. Erasmus) and others. The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 79 plates, light damp-staining towards end, contemporary reverse calf, rubbed, joints splitting, for the Authors, 1778; and c.35 others, v.s. (c.35)
Lot 162
NO RESERVE Linguistics.- Nares (Robert) A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names...in the Works of English Authors, particularly Shakespeare, first edition, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1822 § Ray (John) A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, fourth edition, ink ownership inscription to title occasional browning, contemporary red morocco, gilt, rebacked, for W.Ottridge, 1768 § Grose (Francis) A Provincial Glossary with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1887; and 11 others, proverbs, phrases etc. 8vo & 4to (14)
Lot 164
Linguistics.- Dialect.- Pegge (Samuel) Anecdotes of the English Languarge: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs, first edition, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked preserving original backstrip, 1803 § Smart (B.C.) The Dialect of the English Gypsies, second edition, hinges starting, original cloth, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped, 1875 § Farmer (John S.) Americanisms Old and New, limited edition signed by the author, light browning to margins, Law Society ink stamps, contemporary half morocco, 1889; and c.30 others, dialect, v.s. (c.35)
Lot 17
Africa.- Big Game.- Sutherland (James) The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations, some full-page, advertisement leaf at end, neat ink inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, gilt, small loss to spine foot, otherwise an excellent copy, [Czech p.160], 8vo, 1912.⁂ "One of the true classic of African big-game hunting ... Sutherland's little terrier, Whiskey, survived being thrown into the bush by an enraged pachyderm". Czech
Lot 170
NO RESERVE Dictionaries.- Wilson (Thomas) A Christian Dictionarie, first edition, text within printed border, ink ownership inscriptions, 19th century half calf, rebacked, rubbed, W. Iaggard, 1612; A Christian Dictionary, fifth edition, title a little chipped and soiled, damp-staining, later half calf, rubbed, by Richard Coates, 1648; and 5 others, similar (7)
Lot 175
NO RESERVE Hanway (Jonas) Proposal for County Naval Free-Schools to be built on Waste Lands, giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boys, as may nurse them for the Sea Service, teaching them also to cultivate the Earth, first edition, 2 engraved titles, first with vignette, 9 folding engraved plates, 48pp. engraved music (lacking pp.13-16), some offsetting of plates, uncut in original boards with original engraved presentation label to upper cover, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, folio, [1783].⁂ Hanway founded the Marine Society in 1756 and this work, as is evident from the title, proposes educating poor boys in both rural affairs and seamanship.
Lot 18
Africa.- Big Game.- Ward (Rowland) A Naturalist's Life Study in the Art of Taxidermy, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.170; Hosken p.214], 1913; Records of Big Game, fifth edition, portrait frontispiece, occasional pencil markings, contemporary cloth, monogram and coronet of the Marquis of Tweeddale to upper cover, a little rubbed, 1907; and 2 others, also Records of Big Game, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ "A rare work written by the famous London taxidermist and publisher for private circulation to his friends and clients." (Czech, p.170)
Lot 184
NO RESERVE Antiquities.- Payne (Humfry) & Gerard Mackworth-Young. Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, revised edition, Cresset Press, 1950 § Pendlebury (J.D.S.) A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos..., 1933 § Hege (Walter) & Gerhart Rodenwaldt. Die Akropolis, light spotting, Berlin, 1930 § Zervos (Christian) L'Art en Grece des Temps Prehistoriques au debut du XVIIIe siecle, original boards, frayed dust-jacket, Paris & London, 1934 § Beazley (J.D.) & Bernard Ashmole. Greek Sculpture & Painting, Cambridge, 1932 § Gray (Mrs. Hamilton) Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839, second edition, engraved maps and plates, 2 hand-coloured, some folding, broken and loose in binding, 1841, plates and illustrations, all but the fourth original cloth, the first and fifth with dust-jackets, rubbed; and 13 others on archaeology & antiquities, some pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (19)⁂ Humfry Payne (1902-36) and John Pendlebury (1904-41) were promising archaeologists and friends working in Greece in the 1930s and who both died tragically young, Payne of staphylococcus and Pendlebury being executed by the Nazis for fighting with the Cretan resistance. Payne's widow, Dilys Powell, later wrote a biography of Pendlebury.
Lot 199
Horology.- Derham (William Traité d'Horlogerie pour les Montres et les Pendules..., first French edition, 'Avis au Lecteur' leaf at beginning, errata leaf, 3 folding engraved plates including one of musical notation and chimes, 4 folding engraved tables, 3pp. privilege at end, engraved illustration in text, lightly browned, some spotting and staining, modern boards, [Baillie p.123; Clockmakers' 263; Tardy p.74], 8vo, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1731.⁂ The note to the reader explains how to recalculate Flamsteed's tables for the Gregorian calendar.
Lot 21
Africa.- Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 vol., first edition, engraved title-vignettes, 3 folding maps, 58 engraved plates (including 3 battle plans, each with an explanatory leaf of text), 4 letterpress leaves of Ethiopian dialects, list of plates at end of vol. 5, lacking half-titles, 3G1 & 3G2 misbound (vol. 2), small marginal holes (4O4 vol. 4 & 2G3 vol. 5), faint marginal damp-staining, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, modern green morocco spine labels, cracked hinges, upper cover detached (vol. 5), rubbed and worn, some loss to spine extremities, [Hosken p.29], 4to, Edinburgh, J. Ruthven, 1790.
Lot 22
Africa.- Churchill (Lord Randolph Spencer).- Burton (Sir Richard F.) The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding engraved map with partial hand-colouring, 12 chromoxylograph plates, wood-engraved illustrations, light foxing to verso of some plates, inscribed and dated by Randolph Spencer Churchill, contemporary blue calf, gilt, spine a little faded, [Penzer pp.63-66, Hosken p.34], 8vo, 1860.⁂ Inscribed "[?Suisdale], From his affectionate friend Randolph Spencer Churchill upon his leaving Eton. Election 1864" An Account of the Royal Geographical Society expedition with John Hanning Speke in search of the source of the Nile in 1858-59. After Burton fell ill, Speke carried on without him, as he did not believe that their location was the source. He was the first European to discover what he named Lake Victoria, and claimed it to be the source but Burton disputed it, leading to a long-running and bitter feud between them (see also lot 53).
Lot 23
Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast, 2 vol., first edition, first issue, 11 plates, 5 maps, 1 folding, tears, ex-library with blindstamps, half-title becoming loose (vol. 1), occasional marginal chips and tears throughout, original cloth, rebacked with remnants of original spine laid down, rubbed, bumping to corners, [Penzer pp.88-89], 1872 § Wilkins (W. H.) The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, 2 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, plates, occasional spotting, ink signatures to frontispiece verso, cracked hinges, original cloth, rubbed, 1897; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (6)
Lot 25
Africa.- Chanler (William Astor) Through Jungle and Desert, illustrations, some full-page, 2 folding colour maps in pocket at end, cracked hinges, bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p34], New York, 1896 § Dracopoli (I. N.) Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp, half-title, plates, folding colour map, torn into two, tiny marginal worm damage, not affecting text, [Czech p.51], Philadelphia, 1914 § Baines (Thomas) The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa, 3 photographic plates, illustrations, folding facsimile letter, large folding map in pocket at end, ink inscription to front free endpaper, [Czech p.9], 1877 § Akeley (Mary L. Jobe) Carl Akeley's Africa, first English edition, postcard signed by author pasted to front free endpaper, plates, occasional faint spotting, 1931, all but the last first editions, frontispieces, original cloth, a little rubbed; and 8 others, Africa, 8vo (12)
Lot 28
Africa.- Dyer (Anthony) & Bob Kuhn Classic African Animals: the Big Five, first edition, one of 375 copies signed and numbered by author and artist, additional inscription by Dyer, 6 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, Appendix title signed by illustrator Henry Henley, 6 large colour prints loosely inserted, previous owners ink inscription to front free endpaper, original half-morocco, slipcase, a little rubbed, New York, Winchester Press, 1973 § Kingdon (Jonathan) African Mammal Drawings, first edition, plates, original cloth, original cloth, Islip, Pangolin Prints, 1983; and 27 others, similar, v.s. (29)
Lot 29
Africa.- Elliot (G. F. Scott) A Naturalist in Mid-Africa, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, several full-page, 4 maps, 3 colour and folding, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to extremities, [Hosken p.66], 1896 § Cameron (Verney Lovett) Across Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates, 1 loosely inserted, illustrations, 4 facsimiles, 3 folding, large folding map in pocket at end, label of 'Mudie's Select Library' attached, bookplate (vol. 2 only), occasional spotting, broken upper hinge (vol. 1 only), cracked hinged, original decorative cloth, rubbed and worn, [Hosken p.38], 1877 § Brown (Monty) R. J. Richard John Cuninghame 1871-1925, first edition, number 3 of 1000 copies signed and numbered by the author, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Monty Brown, 2004; and others, Africa, v.s. (sm.qty)
Lot 30
Africa.- Gregory (John Walter) The Great Rift Valley: being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, first edition, colour frontispiece, 20 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps, small hole to front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.67], 1896; The Foundation of East Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, browning, occasional spotting, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, rubbed, 1901; 8vo (2)
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Lot 31
Africa.- Hinde (Sidney Langford) The Last of the Masai, plates and illustrations, slight bumping to corners, [Czech p.76], 1901 § Bergh (Dr. Leonard John Vanden) On the Trail of the Pigmies, presentation copy signed by the author, plates, a little rubbed, New York, 1921 § Leakey (L. S. B.) Defeating Mau Mau, first edition, previous owner's ink inscription, dust-jacket, price-clipped, rubbed and browned, chipping to extremities, 3 small areas of loss, [Hosken p.121], 1954 § Routledge (W. Scoresby) & Katherine Routledge, With a Prehistoric People. The Akikuyu of East Africa, plates and illustrations, folding colour map, front free endpaper detached, cracked hinges, rubbed, [Hosken p.172], 1910, first editions, frontispieces, original cloth ; and 10 others similar, 8vo (14)
Lot 33
Africa.- Höhnel (Lt. Ludwig von) Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie: a Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's Exploring and Hunting Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 maps, 2 colour and folding at ends (mounted on later linen stubs), plates and illustrations, very faint spotting to first and last few leaves, vol. 2 partly unopened, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.78], 8vo, 1894.⁂ "An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents Africa adventure at its finest. Departing from Zanzibar" (Czech, p.78)
Lot 34
Africa.- Big Game.- Jessen (Burchard Heinrich) W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end (2 small tears to folds), ink name-stamp of Major H. Twyford to endpapers and blank margin of p.193, original cloth, gilt, light fading to spine and upper cover, [Czech p.84], 8vo, privately printed, 1906.⁂ Scarce. Jessen, a Norwegian, writes about four hunting expeditions to Africa, taken with the McMillans of St. Louis, Missouri.
Lot 35
Africa.- Johnson (Osa) I Married Adventure, first edition, remnants of dust-jacket loosely inserted, New York, 1940; Four Years in Paradise, first English edition, n.d. [?1942], plates, illustrated endpapers, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, [Czech p.86] § Johnson (Martin) Lion: African Adventure with the King of Beasts, first edition, frontispiece, plates, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.85], New York, 1929 § Huxley (Elspeth) White Man's Country, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates, 4 folding maps, ex-library with occasional stamps and remnants of labels to endpapers, original cloth, abrasion mark to upper cover (vol. 2 only), a little rubbed, [Czech p.81], 1935; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (18)
Lot 36
Africa.- Johnston (Sir Harry H.) The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol., first edition, half-title, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 9 folding maps, ink signatures, cracked hinges, occasional faint spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and worn, 1902; The Kilima-njaro Expedition, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4 maps, 2 folding, spotting, damp-staining to first few leaves and frontispiece, cracked hinges, original cloth, rebacked, very rubbed and worn, 1886; Livingstone and the Exploration of Central Africa, one of 250 copies, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 7 maps, 2 folding, occasional spotting, bookplate, half-vellum, rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1891; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (6)
Lot 37
Africa.- Krapf (Rev. Dr. J. Lewis) Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours, during an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 tinted lithographed plates, 2 folding maps, one hand-coloured, tissue-guards, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, unopened, [Neate K47], 8vo, 1860.
Lot 38
Africa.- Livingstone (David) The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, 1 in pocket at end, advertisements at end, cracked hinges, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Hosken p.126], 1874 § Blaikie (William Garden) The Personal Life of David Livingstone, inscribed and dated by the author, portrait frontispiece, becoming loose, folding colour map, publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth, a little rubbed and bumped, 1881; and 2 others on Livingstone, 8vo & 4to (5)
Lot 4
NO RESERVE Africa.- Bally (Peter R. O.) The Genus Monadenium, first edition, signed by author, vignette title, illustrations, suite of plates (some colour) in pocket at end, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping and creasing to edges, Berne, Benteli Publishers, 1961 § Jex-Blake (A. J.) Gardening in East Africa: a practical handbook, first edition, colour frontispiece and 5 plates, folding list of trees loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed, chipping and tiny loss to top edge, 1934 § Compton (R. H.) Our South African Flora, South Africa, mounted colour frontispiece and 7 full-page illustrations, 100 cigarette cards pasted in as called for, occasional faint spotting, original cloth backed boards, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Cape Times Limited, n.d.; and 4 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (7)
Lot 40
Africa.- McDermott (P. L.) British East Africa or Ibea, first edition, frontispiece, plate, occasional faint spotting, original decorative cloth, 1893 § Lugard (Captain F. D.) The Rise and Fall of Our East African Empire, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 9 colour maps, 5 folding, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached (vol. 1), [Hosken p.129], 1893 § Watt (Mrs. Stuart) In the Heart of Savagedom, frontispiece, plates, original pictorial cloth, slight rubbing to joints, n.d; and 16 others, East Africa, 8vo & 4to (20)
Lot 42
Africa.- Millais (John Guille) A Breath from the Veldt, first edition, number 21 of 60 large paper copies signed and dated by the author, photogravure frontispiece and 12 plates, illustrations (many full-page), occasional faint marginal spotting, original prospectus for the original drawings loosely inserted, original half morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, folio, Henry Sotheran, 1895.
Lot 43
Africa.- Millais (John Guille) A Breath from the Veldt, first edition, half-title, etched frontispiece and 12 etched plates, 12 full-page plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, 1895; Far Away up the Nile, first edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional spotting, bookplate, original cloth, rubbed, 1924, [Czech pp.114-115, Hosken p.142]; and another by the same, folio & 8vo (3)
Lot 45
Africa.- Peters (Dr Carl) New Light on Dark Africa, first edition, heliogravure portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end (1 or 2 marginal tears), occasional soiling, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed at edges, [Czech p.128, Hosken p.157], 8vo, 1891.
Lot 46
Africa.- Pitman (Capt. Charles R.S.) A Guide to the Snakes of Uganda, first edition, one of 500 copies with limitation label to front free endpaper, colour frontispiece, plates, 22 colour, tissue-guards, 2 folding maps, scattered faint spotting, original dark blue cloth in imitation of half morocco, slight rubbing to extremities, [Hosken p.160], 8vo, Kampala, Uganda Society, 1938.
Lot 48
Africa.- Powell-Cotton (Maj. P.H.G.) A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, large folding colour map loosely inserted, 12pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original zebra endpapers, original variant plain red cloth, gilt spine lettering, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.133], 8vo, 1902.⁂ "Numerous hunting episodes dot this excellent narrative of sport and exploration in the Abyssinian hinterland." (Czech)
Lot 5
Africa.- Big Game.- Bell (W.D.M.) The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate of Gervas Clay, original buckram backed boards, slightly rubbed, [Czech p.15], 1923; Bell of Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1960, 4to (2)
Lot 50
Africa.- Schulz (Aurel) & August Hammar, The New Africa: a Journey up the Chobe and Down the Okovanga Rivers, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 4 tinted plates, 1 folding map, illustrations, unopened, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, small loss to spine head, New York, 1897 § Pitman (Captain C. R. S.) A Game Warden Takes Stock, first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, ex-W.H.Smith library with bookplate, abrasion mark to title, original cloth, a little rubbed, [Czech p.131], 1942 § Wardenburg (Fred A.) Operation Safari, first edition, one of 250 copies, ink inscription to title, privately printed, 1948; Safari Encore, first edition, one of 400 copies, privately printed, 1950, inscribed and signed by author, frontispiece, illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original cloth; and others, Africa, v.s. (sm.qty)
Lot 51
Africa.- Slavery.- Buxton (Thomas Fowell) The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, 14pp. prospectus bound at beginning, folding engraved map, ink signature to front free endpaper verso, original cloth, faded spine, a little rubbed, [Hosken p.36], 1840 § Cooper (Joseph) The Lost Continent; or Slavery and the Slave-trade in Africa, 1875, first edition, folding colour map, one or two faint scattered spots, ink inscription, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to extremities, [Hosken p.50], 1875 § Newman (Henry Stanley) Banani: the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba, folding colour map frontispiece, faint spotting to first few leaves, strengthened upper hinge, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, Headley Brothers, n.d., 8vo (3)
Lot 52
Africa.- Slavery.- Elton (J. Frederic) Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, one folding, 3 folding maps, one colour, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight chipping to extremities, [Czech p.55], 8vo, 1879.
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