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Lot 394
Dickson (R.W.) - Practical Agriculture or a Complete System of Modern Husbandry, in two volumes, with foldout illustrations of farm buildings, agricultural equipment, this being a first edition, with eighty six plates, twenty six hand coloured plates, one lacking volume two plate twenty seven, printed for Richard Phillips, 71 St Paul's Churchyard, London 1805, bound in half tan calf with marbled boards
Lot 1216
Robert Taylor: a print of 'Fight in the Sky', a presentation copy signed by twenty-five Battle of Britain pilots, the first edition in Robert Taylor's trilogy to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, 1940-2000, Published by The Military Gallery, Bath, England, 2000, 62 by 84cm.
Lot 9
John Barrow An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798 (1802) 14x21.5cm An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798; including cursory observations on the geology of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a map constructed entirely from actual observations, made in the course of the travels. By John Barrow, late Secretary to the Earl of Macartney, and Auditor-General of Public Accounts at the Cape of Good Hope. The First American from the London quarto edition. New cloth boards with gilt titles on spine in protective Brodart, new endpapers, [4] + 386 + folding map. Pages and map browned and foxed, previous owner`s Ex Libris stamp on inside front, small stamps and catalogue numbers appear on three pages, a tight and well preserved copy. Very Good New York GF Hopkins 1802 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 16
Lander, Richard & John Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger in 2 Volumes (c1832) 10x15cm The Landers were commissioned by the British Colonial Office to complete what had been left undone by the Clapperton expedition to the Niger River. They mapped the Niger from its source to where it emptied into the Bight of Benin. First American Edition, issued the same year as the London edition. The plates and maps are a mix of wood and steel engravings, stipple engravings, etc. In series: `Harper`s family library`. 2 vols. I: frontis + xiii + map + 384 + 2 maps (one fold.). II: frontis + 7pp + 337 + 2pp advertisements + 3 plates. Light wear to boards, spine ends slightly chipped, foxing on first and last pages of each volume and inscriptions on inside front covers, otherwise clean, tightly bound and very good copies. Good+ New York J & J Harper c1832 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 104
Small, Adam (poet), Jansje Wissema (photographer), Willem Jordaan (designer) District Six (mint first edition) 300 x 247 On the back cover is the story of how the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects commissioned Dutch photographer Jansje Wissema to record the last days of District Six, how her negatives were not printed as she died soon after completing the commission and how the negatives were discovered (literally in a shoebox) almost twenty years later to form the main content of this magnificent production. Most copies of the first (1986) edition of this book were numbered and signed by Adam Small. This unmarked, fine copy is an exception to that rule, while maintaining the production values of the first edition (browner sepia duotone reproduction of the photographs and quality of the materials used). Drawn-on card covers printed in three colours and laminated; plain black `endpapers` front and back; 12 pp grey matt section with poem `Rising Up` by Adam Small; and 32 pp gloss art section with duotone sepia reproductions of 74 of Jansje Wissema`s evocative photographs of people and places in Cape Town`s District Six, which was demolished in 1968 in terms of the then Government`s Group Areas Act. Mint Johannesburg Fontein 1986 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 111
Escoffier, A Ma Cuisine (his last book; 1934; in French) 215 x 155 Known to be the great French chef`s last book and to have been written in 1934, our book has `copyright 1934 Ernest Flammarion` at the front and `depot legal: 1948` at the back, indicating either that this is not the first edition or that publication of the book was delayed. In either case, the book (703 pp, 2500 recipes) is rare. Our copy has been rebound, using the original green cloth-boards and spine laid down on the green Skivertex strengthening, with new endpapers. The contents are unmarked, with the early pages sunned and the rest of the text evenly toned towards the edges. Very Good (see description) Paris Ernest Flammarion [?1948] Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 112
Smith, J L B and Margaret Mary Smith Fishes of Seychelles (presentation copy) 285 x 220 This excellent first edition copy is inscribed calligraphically `Fishes of Seychelles. Presentation Copy. Richard Liversidge Esq. With Compliments. April 1963` and signed by both authors and `R Liversidge 26/4/1963`. Dr Liversidge was the long-serving director of the Kimberley Museum, the joint author of three editions of Roberts Birds and the author of The Birds Around Us (see Lot 105). The unclipped dustjacket (R4.50) has been painstakingly repaired and the rest of the book is unmarked and in very good to near fine condition. `Generous donations from various sources have been used to keep the price of this handsome volume down to a fraction of its actual cost.` Acknowledgment is also given to the Seychelles government and others who made the Smiths` work possible. As well as endpaper maps and a photographic frontispiece, there are illustrations of `more than 920 species`. These are not limited to those in the Seychelles, but to the whole of the western Indian Ocean, including `Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanganyika, Mozambique and South Africa`. In addition to figures in the text, including one illustrating the first three coelacanths, there are 101 full-page plates, of which 42 are in colour, each with up to 15 drawings and paintings (by Margaret Smith). See also next lot. ÿ Very Good Grahamstown Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University 1963 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 139
Ahrens, F.W. From Bench To Bench (signed copy) 8vo First edition, signed on the portrait frontispiece by the author. 193pp. autobiographical account of the history of the legal profession in South Africa, for the period 1860 to about 1937 when he retired from practice, accompanied by 52 black and white photographs and illustrations. Condition: boards worn and marked, end-papers heavily foxed, text and illustrations good, small patch of extinct worming affecting last 10 pages or so, and inner margin of rear board. good Pietermaritzburg Shuter & Shooter 1948 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 159
Patrica Vinnicombe PEOPLE OF THE ELAND- Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a reflection of their life and thought.(First Edition) 27 X 22.5cm This book, illustrated by over 200 of Miss Vinnicombe`s tracings and the photographs, is the definitive record of the Bushman culture in the Drakensberg and its environs. It also covers the period of contact between the Bushmen and the successive waves of immigrants, both Black and White, who, from time to time, moved into their homeland. Unlike other books, however, this one gives the story from, as it were, the viewpoint of the Bushman. The author, by a careful study of the official records of reprisal expeditions against the Bushmen, was able to establish the probable escape routes they used.Then,in the field, she explored these routes in great detail. In several cases she found rock paintings showing parties of mounted Europeans which in number and apparel, agree with official records of the bumber of farmers and of troopers who took part in the espeditions. These paintings thus appear to be true eyewitness accounts. In the second and larger part of the book she discusses what is recorded in the literature about the Bushmen of the Drakensberg, tells what is known of their beliefs and attitudes to life and relates these to the content of the paintings developing in the process an interesting theory of associations and avoidances supported by a statistical analysis of the subject matter of the paintings. Hardcover with dustcover over original dark brown rexine boards with gilt blocking to frontcover and lettering to spine. Maps to endpapers. Coloured Frontispiece xx plus 388 pages detailed text with tracings/line drawings and colour plates. No Rock Art Collection is complete without this volume. First edition. Very clean copy. Very Good Pietermaritzburg University of Natal Press 1976 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 178
Mike Hoare Mike Hoare x 3 books (2 signed) Mokoro, a cry for help: 2007 first edition paperback brand new with 95 pages. In this book Hoare gives a true account of his adventures in the then Bechuanaland, crossing the Kalahari Desert on his own, exploring Ngamiland in search of the `Lost City of the Kalahari`, his visit to Tsodilo Hills ......... The Last Days of the Cathars: 2012 new and leatherbound and signed. 218 pages. Congo Mercenary: 1971 edition hardcover in good condition. Dust jacket has wear around edges. 308 pages. Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 182
Bosman, Herman Charles MAFEKING ROAD - First Edition 8vo. A near fine copy of this classic South African literary title. Apart from the inscription on the front pastedown and a faint initial on the ffep. and some light offsetting to the fep.`s, this is a very clean unmarked and unfoxed copy in the bright original grey cloth. The scarce dw. has about 1/2cm. chipping at the top of the spine, some edge wear and fraying, some creasing at the top of the rear panel and one internal tape repair of a closed tear. However still in better state than most wrappers of this title that I have seen. A very collectible copy. Very Good Plus South Africa Central News Agency 1947 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 190
Wallace, Edgar; introduction by Eric Rosenthal Unofficial Dispatches of the Anglo-Boer War (facsimile edition) 190 x 135 This Africana Collectanea volume is a reprint of Edgar Wallace`s first book. Full-colour laminated dustjacket. Full bound in red simulated leather, gilt to upper panel and spine. Plain endpapers. The xiii pp of prelims include Eric Rosenthal`s brief but lively pen-portrait of the author. Double-sided frontispiece, 332 pp of facsimile text and a new index. The jacket has been repaired, but the cover, binding and contents are unmarked and in better than good condition. This is No 465 of the limited Struik edition of one thousand copies. Before establishing himself as a prolific and highly successful thriller writer, Edgar Wallace had come to South Africa from Britain as a young man. He was soon appointed as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and the London Daily Mail, reporting both during and in the period leading up to the Anglo-Boer War. He then accepted an offer to be the first editor of the Rand Daily Mail, but rejoined the London Daily Mail after only nine months in the South African job. ÿ Good + Cape Town Struik 1975 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 213
Cole, Barbara Sabotage and Torture 17x25cm This copy was of the first standard edition (a limited number `First Collectors Edition` was published at the same time). Hard cover in the original blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and an unclipped, pictorial dust wrapper, both with only very slight signs of wear - both in very good condition. Octavo (170x248mm), 209 pages including index, 16 pages of black & white photographs; diagrams, maps and cartoons in the text. An account of the transition of the Rhodesian Air Force to the Zimbabwean Air Force as told to Barbara Cole. Unbelievable political machinations were involved and half of the air fleet was destroyed by saboteurs at Thornhill, Zimabwe, in July 1982 . Subsequently, eighteen white airmen, indiscriminately accused of sabotage, were arrested. Eventually all but seven (including three high ranking officers), were released. The seven held in captivity were held under dreadful conditions, tortured and tried for taking part in a South African orchestrated sabotage plot. Their plight lead to an international outcry. Good Amanzimtoti Three Knights Publishing 1988 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 228
T V Bulpin Large Lot of T V Bulpin - Two Signed An obviously second hand, well read set of T V Bulpin titles. All still attractive though, and present well on the shelf. Title as follows : Lost Trails of the Transvaal - Books of Africa 1969 2nd Edition. Pictorial boards. Hardcover. A good copy without dust jacket / Storm Over The Transvaal ? Signed first edition, Howard Timmins, 1955. Very good with no dust jacket / Lost Trails of the Transvaal ? Signed first edition. Very good in the dust jacket. Howard Timmins, 1956 / Natal and the Zulu Country - Books of Africa, 1966. First edition. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Good to Very Good / The Hunter is Death - Nelson, 1962. First edition, grey boars with picture of lion. Dust jacket is worn and has tape repairs on the inside, not visible unless removed. A good to very good copy / The Ivory Trail - Books of Africa, 1967. Second edition. A very good, clean copy in similar dust jacket / Islands in a Forgotten Sea - Books of Africa, 1969. Pictorial boards. A good copy without dust jacket. Good to Very Good Various Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 230
J. W Grill J.F. Victorin`s Travels in the Cape - One of 100 bound in full leather J.F. Victorin`s Travels in the Cape: The Years 1853-1855. Hunting and Nature Pictures from the late Young Naturalist`s Letters and Diaries. FULL GREEN LEATHER with gilt titles on the spine and gilt device to the front board. Book Condition: Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. xvi + 125 pp. 9 Plates. Translated from the first Swedish edition by Jalmar and Ione Rudner. No. 34 / 100 copies only. The full edition was limited to 1200 copies, with 1-100 bound in full leather and the remaining copies were bound in cloth. Very Good to Fine Cape Town Struik 1968 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 256
Carter, Thomas Fortescue A Narrative of the Boer War - Its Causes and Results (Limited Edition) 285mm x 232mm This title deals with the first Boer War and was written in 1882. A facsimile of the third edition published by John Macqueen in 1900. Copy number 469 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. The certificate of limitation is tipped in and signed by the director of this publication. Original red binding with gilt titling on the spine and the upper board. Pictorial decorated end papers. 16 prelims to the facsimile, viii prelims, 574 pages followed by 2 pages of the publisher`s advertisements, black and white illustrations. CONDITION DETAILS: See images for a reddish coloured mark on the page with a note about the author. No slip case. Otherwise a lightly used copy that does have a few minor signs of use. A clean copy Johannesburg Scripta Africana 1985 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 291
Browning, Robert The Pied Piper of Hamelin - 1st. Rackham Edn. 8vo. First edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 4 full page colour plates and many in text black and white drawings. In the original Rackham decorated stiff wraps which have some fishmothing of the upper 1cm. of the rear wrapper and also of the spine extending through the paper in a few small areas. The decorated endpapers have a small faded inscription and a name at the top of the ffep. Internally the book is very clean, bright and unfoxed. No dj. With a low reserve price. Very Good Minus London George G. Harrap & Co. 1934 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 293
Ruskin, John The King of The Golden River - 1st. Rackham Edn. 8vo. The first edition of this title illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 4 full page colour plates and many in text black and white drawings. In the original Rackham illustrated stiff wraps which have some wear and loss at the extremes of the spine. The illustrated endpapers have an inscription on the ffep. There is some scattered foxing on the title page and to a lesser extent elsewhere. The plates are all clean. With the dw. which is frayed and worn and has some pieces missing from each end of the spine. There is a low reserve price in accordance with the condition. Good London George G. Harrap & Co. 1932 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 295
Lyell, Sir Charles The Antiquity of Man - Superb 1st. Edition 8vo. This is a wonderful copy of this important book by Lyell who was a close friend of Darwin and one of the first supporters of his Origin of The Species. The full title of this work is - The Geological Evidences of The Antiquity of Man. In the original embossed green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board. The cloth is in unusually nice state. There is a small bookplate on the front pastedown and the brown endpapers are slightly mottled. The front hinge has a 4cm. split but remains tight. There is some very mild foxing on a few pages but not extensive. 520pp. with 32 pp. advertisements dated January 1863. With 2 woodcuts plates and numerous in text woodcut illustrations. In a custom made marbled slipcase with leather trimmings. A superb copy and just about as good as it gets for a book that is 150 years old. Very Good Plus London John Murray 1863 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 297
Skota (T.D. Mweli) Editor & Compiler THE AFRICAN WHO’S WHO 8vo (220 x 145 mm) An Illustrated Classified Register and National Biographical Dictionary of the Africans in the Transvaal. Contributed by Leading Africans. 373 pages, photographic portraits accompany each entry, blue paper-covered boards – spine faded, a good copy. As well as the Who’s Who the volume includes a directory of churches with names and addresses of their leaders, schools, hospitals with a list of African doctors in the Transvaal and a directory of registered African nurses and midwives, a list of African writers and authors, and lists of merchants and traders. 3rd Edition (Revised and Enlarged). But the first edition thus. In 1930 and 1932 Skota published two edition under the title The African Yearly Register, being an illustrated national biographical (who’s who) of black folks in Africa, which covered the whole of the African continent. He explains in a preface that in the 1960’s political developments made compiling an Africa-wide Who’s Who impossible so he concentrated on the Transvaal with the intention of following this with editions for the Cape, Natal, O.F.S., Transkei and the British Protectorates. Included is a biography and photograph if Skota himself. Born in Kimberly. In 1912 he was organiser and later sub-editor of the Abanthu-Batho, then the only African newspaper in the Transvaal.In 1922 he founded and edited African Shield. He was later appointed president of the Bechuanaland and Griqualand West National Organisation which was subsequently banned. He was also an executive member of the All-African Convention. Johannesburg, Distributed by the Central News Agency, limited., No date (circa 1965) Good Johannesburg No date (circa 1965) Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 337
Hensman, Howard Cecil Rhodes - A Study of a Career (De luxe edition) 219mm x 146mm This is the 46th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 19 of 50 de luxe copies that were bound in leather. The total edition, including the standard edition was limited to 1,000 copies. Most of the titles in the series are facsimiles, but this edition is called the second edition, the 1901 William Blackwood edition being the first. xvi prelims, 382 pages, 6 black and white illustrations and a large folding map of Rhodesia at the rear. CONDITION DETAILS: A lightly used copy. Bookseller label on the front paste down. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1974 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 349
Shaw, Barnabas Memorials of South Africa (De luxe edition) 222mm x 143mm This is the 34th volume in the Africana Collectanea series. Copy number 36 of only 50 copies in the de luxe leather binding The total print run of this edition is 1,000 copies, including the standard edition. Most of the titles in this series are facsimiles of the early first edition Africana rarities, but according to the publisher, this title is NOT a facsimile of the 1820 London edition, but the 2nd impression of the 1820 edition. Original brown leather spine and corners with a green title label on the spine with gilt titling and the publisher`s device on the upper board. Frontis portrait of the author,xvii prelims, 289 pages. CONDITION DETAILS: The binding has a few scuff marks, the paper has some toning, especially the first and last few pages and there is a bookseller label on the free front end paper. A clean copy Cape Town C. Struik 1970 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lot 522
GLEN ELGIN 1900-2000 CENTENARY BOTTLING Limited edition single Speyside malt Scotch whisky. Bottled to celebrate the first distillation on the 1st May 1900. Aged 19 years, bottle no. 542 of 750 bottles. 70cl, 60.0% volume. GLEN ELGIN WHITE HORSE N.A.S Single Speyside malt Scotch whisky. Distilled & bottled by White Horse Distillers, Glasgow. 70cl, 43% volume. In carton. 2 bottles No damage to bottle
Lot 541
BRUICHLADDICH OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASE Limited Edition Single Islay Malt Whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1928. 70cl, 46% volume. BRUICHLADDICH OCTOMORE FUTURES FIRST RELEASE Limited Edition Single Islay Malt Whisky, distilled in October 2002 and bottled in April 2008. Phenol level: 80.5ppm. Bottle number 1935. 70cl, 46% volume. 2 bottles High fill, overall condition good.
Lot 700A
MACALLAN 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CORONATION(1953-2013) Limited edition single Highland malt Scotch whisky. Bottles to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II, comprising of two 350ml bottles, the first featuring a picture by Cecil Beaton of The Queen in 1953 and the second a photo by Julian Calder of The Queen in present day. One of 1953 released. 350ml, 55.7% volume, 350ml, 58.1% volume. In presentation box with booklet.
Lot 730
AUCHENTOSHAN/ BOWMORE/ GLEN GARIOCH 8 YEAR OLD Pure malt Scotch whisky, a `marriage` of Auchentoshan, Bowmore and Glen Garioch single malts. Celebration edition of 200 bottles marking the occasion of Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd. being awarded the first ever I.W.S.C `Distiller of the year` trophy in 1995. No capacity or strength stated. In wooden presentation box. No damage
Lot 750
GLENFARCLAS 58 YEAR OLD WEALTH SOLUTIONS Limited edition, cask strength single Speyside malt whisky, distilled in November 1953, matured in first fill Sherry butts and bottled for Polish export in February 2012. Number 248 of 400 bottles taken from cask 1674. 70cl, 47.2% volume. In wooden presentation case, with accompanying book. No damage
Lot 839
MACALLAN 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CORONATION(1953-2013) Limited edition single Highland malt Scotch whisky. Bottles to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II, comprising of two 350ml bottles, the first featuring a picture by Cecil Beaton of The Queen in 1953 and the second a photo by Julian Calder of The Queen in present day. One of 1953 released. 350ml, 55.7% volume, 350ml, 58.1% volume. In presentation box with booklet. No damage
Lot 883
CRAIGELLACHIE 1978 FIRST CASK Limited edition single Speyside malt Scotch whisky. Distilled 11th October 1978, aged for 16 years. Cask no. 7704, bottle no.406. 70cl, 46% volume. AUCHENTOSHAN 21 YEAR OLD Single Lowland malt Scotch whisky. 700ml, 43% volume. In presentation box. 2 bottles Craigellachie label is weathered
Lot 7
General horological reference - twenty two volumes: Cescinsky, Herbert and Webster, Malcolm R. ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS Spring Books, facsimile of the 1913 edition, London 1969, dj; Rose, Ronald E. ENGLISH DIAL CLOCKS Antique Collectors` Club, Woodbridge 1978, dj; Edwards, Ernest E. The Grandfather Clock John Sherratt and Son Ltd, Altrincham, third edition 1971, dj; Palmer, Brooks THE BOOK OF AMERICAN CLOCKS The Macmillan Company, New York, eleventh edition 1972, dj; Guye, Samuel and Michel, Henri TIME & SPACE Measuring Instruments from the 15th to the 19th Century Pall Mall Press, London 1971, dj; Beeson, C.F.C. English Church Clocks Phillimore, London and Chichester 1971, dj; Bruton, Eric Clocks & Watches 1400-1900 Arthur Barker Limited, London 1967, dj; Thorpe, Nicholas M. The French Marble Clock N.A.G. Press, Colchester, signed by the author 1990, dj; Dombay, Philip and Bernard FRENCH ANTIQUE CLOCKS selling exhibition catalogue, undated, softbound; Shenton, Alan and Rita The PRICE GUIDE to CLOCKS 1840-1940 Antique Collectors` Club, Woodbridge 1977, dj (without later price supplement); Wenham, Edward OLD CLOCKS Spring Books, London 1965, dj; Shenton, Rita CHRISTOPHER PINCHBECK and his Family Brant Wright Associates Limited, London 1976; Carle, Donald D. CLOCKS AND THEIR VALUE With a unique chart of Thomas Tompion clocks N.A.G. Press Limited, London 1968, dj; Britten, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS S.R. Publishers Limited, facsimile of the 1932 edition, Wakefield 1971, dj; Curtis, Tony (ed.) ANTIQUES AND THEIR VALUES, CLOCKS & WATCHES Lyle Publications, Glenmayne 1976; Lloyd, Alan H. THE COLLECTOR`S DICTIONARY OF CLOCKS Country Life Limited, London 1964, dj; Bruton, Eric CLOCKS & WATCHES Paul Hamlyn, Feltham 1968, dj; Tyler E.J. Clocks & Watches Sampson Low, Maidenhead 1975, dj; Camerer Cuss, T.P. The Country Life Book of WATCHES Country Life, London 1967, dj; Cumhaill, P.W. INVESTING IN CLOCKS AND WATCHES Barrie and Rockliff, London, (two copies) first impression 1967 and third impression 1970, each with dj and a copy of Britten, F.J. OLD ENGLISH CLOCKS, THE WETHERFIELD COLLECTION numbered 397 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, The Antique Collectors` Club, Woodbridge 1908, (22).
Lot 116
Cornwall Ancient Crosses and other antiquities in the West of Cornwall first edition 1856 numerous bw illustrations with two pp of list of subscribers original blue cloth boards a little rubbed but otherwise a good copy together with A Geography of Cornwall 1854 a little water damaged but with complete folding map intact
Lot 570
India – Account of Maharajah Ranjit Singh’s Court Physician. Fine leather bound first edition of ‘Thirty Five Years in the East’ by Dr Martin Honigberger London 1852. Engraved frontispiece tinted lithographed folding panorama of Lahore 46 engraved plates and a map full leather with original gilt label on spine pp. xxix 206 xi 448 8vo (2 volumes in one). Plates include portraits of all the prominent members of the Lahore Durbar including his wife Jinda and son Duleep Singh. Scarce. Honigberger was Personal Physician to Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Khushwant Singh’s History of the Sikhs Princeton N.J. 1963-1966 describes him as the Hungarian doctor Honigberger who mixed gunpowder for the artillery and distilled brandy for the Maharajah. He was in fact from the town of Kronstadt Central Romania.
Lot 571
India – Punjab – Zafarnama Ranjit-Singh Fine first edition of Zafarnama-i-Ranjit Singh of Diwan Amar Nath edited with notes by Sita Ram Kohli Lahore 1928. Original card covers spine worn and chipped. Text in English and Persian. Diwan Amar Nath was a scholar in the court of Lahore from 1833 and wrote many of the Maharaja’s Fatehnama and zafarnamas.
Lot 579
India & Punjab – Sikh Wars Book. A fine two volume first edition of A YEAR ON THE PUNJAB FRONTIER by Herbert Edwardes 1851 first edition of Edwardes’ classic account of the 1848 Punjab rebellion with three colour plates heightened in gold plans lithographic views facsimile letter and a large folding linen backed map outlined in colour handsomely bound in bound in fine 3/4tan leather with gilting on spine and titles. In 1848 on the Punjab frontier an “insurrection rapidly grew into a national movement by the Sikhs against the English occupation”. That spring following the murder of officers Agnew and Anderson at Multan by order of the Sikh Governor Mulraj the young Lt. Edwardes who had arrived in India as a cadet in 1841 “raised a body of armed tribesmen and rapidly formed a fairly disciplined and faithful force… He routed the rebel troops at Kineyri… and inflicted on the enemy a second defeat at Sadusam in front of Multan…Young alone untrained in military science and unversed in active war [Edwardes] had organized victory and rolled back rebellion” (DNB). “For his services he received the thanks of both houses of parliament was promoted major by brevet and created C.B. by special statute of the order… After the conclusion of peace Major Edwardes returned to England… and wrote and published his fascinating account of the scenes in which he had been engaged.
Lot 244
Poole pottery, a Dolphin charger, number 471 from a limited edition of 1000, retaining original label and with printed factory marks, complete with certificate, 41cm diameter Footnote: This charger was created to commemorate the moving of Poole's main factory from its site on the Quay, first established in 1873, to the new premises within the Borough of Poole. The design shows a dolphin, the sign of both Poole Pottery and the Borough of Poole, and the sea to signify the harbour of Poole where the pottery was first created
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