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Lot 450
Cricket - Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game. Volumes III. Jan-December 1893. Illustrated. Bound in mauve boards with titles in gilt to spine with red speckled page edges. Wear to boards, browning to page edges otherwise in generally good condition. Sold with further bound volumes for 1890 and 1891, wear and splitting to boards, one lacking title pages, some pages detached etc. Viewing essential, not subject to return
Lot 576
Cricket - J.H. Dodgson. ‘Yorkshire Evening Post’ cartoonist 1900/1920’s. Two satirical original pencil cartoons drawn by Dodgson, using his pseudonym ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire Tyke’. ‘The Annual dual between the Red and White Roses has begun’ featuring the Yorkshire and Lancashire roses duelling with swords and ‘A correspondent that players & umpires would be keener to re-commence the game after rain if they made to sit or stand among the spectators instead of remaining in comfortable pavilions’ showing two players, one of whom appears to be Lord Hawke, seated with legs in stocks. One cartoon signed ‘Kester’. Each cartoon is drawn on pages measuring approx 5”x9”. Odd nicks and folds otherwise in good condition Dodgson, using his pseudonym ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire Tyke’ giving a forthright commentary on local affairs for twenty five years in the Yorkshire Evening Post making ‘Kester’ a well known figure in the Leeds area. Dodgson died in 1953, aged 80
Lot 578
Cricket - ‘Bravo! Derby. On Tuesday, July 15th 1919. Derbyshire defeats the Australian I.F. (Imperial Forces) by 36 runs, this being the ‘Aussies’ first defeat by a County’. Large and impressive original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork by artist Amos Ramsbottom. The cartoon depicts the Derbyshire Captain, Leonard Oliver, sitting on a stool with an Australian cricketer over his knees with a cricket stump raised in the air and about to spank him. The cartoon, signed by Amos and dated 1919, measures 11”x15”. Mounted. Excellent image. Good condition Derbyshire beat the Australians by 36 runs. For Derbyshire, Southern top scored in the 2nd innings with 43, Horsley taking 12 and Morton 7 wickets in the game. For the Australians, Trenerry top scored with 69, Murray 54 and Gregory took 9 wickets in the match Amos Ramsbottom, 1889-1967, applies his artistic talent to produce cartoons and caricatures representing sporting incidents 1910-1930. His work was published in the “Evening Chronicle” amongst other publications
Lot 579
Cricket - ‘The Match that was Given Away. Surrey: The match is of no use to me. Read the telegram & you’ll see why. Light your pipe, old boy and puff to the success of the South for if that wire had been late in reaching me i’de have used the match myself & then where would the South have been?’. The decision of the Middlesex v Surrey match on Tuesday August 31st 1920 was very open to suspicion’. Large and impressive original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork by artist Amos Ramsbottom. The cartoon depicts the Surrey man (Hitch?) handing Patsy Hendren a match box with one match protruding and a telegram announcing that Lancashire had won their game, both man holding pipes. The cartoon, signed by Amos and dated 1920, measures 10.5”x15”. Mounted, framed and glazed. Excellent image. Good condition Middlesex beat Surrey by 55 runs to win the County Championship, Surrey came third. For Middlesex, Skeet and Lee both scored centuries, Stevens took six wickets in the match. For Surrey, Sandham made 167 & 68 and Fender took five wickets in the match. Lancashire beat Worcestershire by nine wickets to come second
Lot 766
Of sporting interest. A large printed cotton kerchief c.1840`s `To The Admirers Of The Noble Game Of Cricket` The central panel with images of famous British cricketers of the day including W. Dennison Esq. Clark, Martingell, Pilch, Lillywhite, N. Felix Esq. Guy, Hillyer O C. Pell Esq. Dorrington, A Mynn Esq. Sewell and Dean. The border with cartouches of various cricketing stances, play, forward, leg half volley, home block, the draw and the cut. Also four cartouches containing texts of cricketing rules, the central panel surmounted with an image of a cricketer riding a flying bat. Framed and glazed. approx 90x104cm. Provenance: From the estate of the late Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
Lot 483
Hoyle (Edmond). Mr. Hoyle’s Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Backgammon, Complete. To which is now first added two new cases at Whist, never before printed. Also the new laws of the game at Whist, as played at White’s and Saunder’s Chocolate Houses, [12th ed., c. 1765?], half title, 204 pp., light spotting to endpapers, contemporary red half calf gilt, a little rubbed, 12mo. Unsigned pirated copy? Advertisement to title verso states ‘No copies of this Book are genuine, but what are signed by us, Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne.’ (1).
Lot 621
Maxwell (Right Hon. Sir Herbert, ed.). Fishing at Home & Abroad, pub. London & Counties Press Assocation Ltd., 1913, photogravure port. frontis., tipped-in col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. brown morocco, lettered and blocked in gilt, a little rubbed, thick 4to (limited edition 78/750), together with Jordan (Starr and Evermann, Barton Warren), American Food and Game Fishes. A Popular Account of all the Species Found in America North of the Equator, London, 1902, with another edition of the same work, New York, 1905, col. plts. with tissue guards, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth, rubbed, 4to, and others of fishing interest (3 shelves).
Lot 116
Jardine (Sir William). The Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, vols. 1-4, 9, 10, 12, and 14, Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1833-43, all with eng. frontis. and addn. eng. title (latter mostly hand-col.), 196 hand-col. eng. plts., letterpress illusts. and diagrams, some vols. with pubs. ads. at rear, stitching strained in places, and somes leaves detached, orig. brown cloth gilt, except Games-Birds which is bound in contemp. half calf gilt (rubbed), spines faded and with some minor fraying at ends, vol. 3 worn, 8vo, together with The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie, 2 vols., 1841. Comprising: Humming Birds, parts I (34 plates) and II (30 plates); Gallinaceous Birds, parts I (lacking plates) and II Game-Birds (30 plates, close-trimmed); Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, parts I Birds of Prey (34 plates), II Incessores (3 plates of eggs only), III Rasores and Grallatores (34 plates), IV Natatores (31 plates). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (10).
Lot 117
Jardine (Sir William). The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols., pub. Hardwicke and Bogue, c.1885, uncoloured eng. portrait frontis. and addn. half title to each vol., some pencil doodles to title page of vol. 4, 129 eng. plts. with contemp. hand colouring, vol. 4 with one plt. and pps. 295-298 detached, occ. slight spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. calf with gilt dec. spines, boards a little stained, spines faded, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., 12mo, together with The Naturalist’s Library, vol. 11, Ornithology, Birds of Western Africa, part 1, c.1850, addn. half title with eng. vignette with contemp. hand colouring, eng. b & w portrait frontis., thirty-two engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, 12mo, with The Natural History of Game-Birds, 1834, addn. half title with eng. vignette with contemp. hand colouring, eng. b & w portrait frontis., thirty engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, some toning and offsetting throughout, a.e.g. contemp. blind stamped morocco, rubbed at extrems., 12mo, plus The Naturalist’s Library, Vols. 1 & 24, Mammalia and Ornithology. British Birds part 1st., 1843, addn. half title with eng. vignette, portrait frontis., thirty and thirty-four eng. plts. respectively, all with contemp. hand colouring, slight offsetting, t.e.g., matching contemp. speckled calf with gilt dec. spines, 12mo. (8).
Lot 138
Ward (Rowland). The English Angler in Florida, with some Descriptive Notes of the Game Animals and Birds, 1st ed., 1898, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, spotting front and rear, bookplate, original red cloth, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing them and Practical Experiences of their Use, by Frederic M. Halford, 1st ed., 1910, portrait frontispiece, colour charts and illustrations of flies, photogravure plates, a few light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus James G. Bertram’s The Harvest of the Sea. A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes, 1865. (3).
Lot 845
TWO CHINESE CARVED BONE MAH JONG SETS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Comprising a very fine Mah Jong set with five drawers contained in a brass decorated wood case. With seven tile trays. Box length 9.25 inches (23.5 cm), height 6.5 inches (16.5 cm), depth 6.5 inches (16.5 cm). Tray length 16 inches (40.5 cm). The second Mah Jong set with carved bone and bamboo tiles and game pieces, contained in five drawers. The case decorated with bronze medallions of dragons. Case length 10 inches (25.5 cm), height 6.75 inches (17 cm), depth 7.5 inches (19 cm).
Lot 129
TAXIDERMY - TWO SETS OF MOUNTED HORNS. each mounted on a wooden shield, the first, a pair of American Pronghorn Antelope antlers on a cast plaster part skull, with inscription `American Pronghorn Antelope., Wyoming., H. W. Seton Karr.`, 40cm high approx.; the second, a pair of Somali Gerenuk horns also on a cast plaster part skull, with inscription ` Somali Gerenuk, H. W. Seton Karr., 1893.`, 44cm high approx. (2). Note: Heywood Walter Seton-Karr (1859-1938) was a famous game hunter and part-time explorer who discovered evidence of the Stone Age man in tropical Africa. For his contributions to archaeology he was awarded the Galileo gold medal by the University of Florence.
Lot 150
BERLIN STYLE WOOLWORK PANEL. depicting an exotic bird within a floral cartouche, in a glazed frame, 77x 94cm overall; together with a VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE, depicting game birds as a hunting trophy, in a glazed giltwood frame, 44 x 46cm overall; a further WOOLWORK PICTURE, depicting birds amongst foliage, in a glazed giltwood frame, 60.5 x 53.5 cm; and TWO SILK EMBROIDERED PICTURES, depicting flower sprays, in oval glazed giltwood frames, 47cm and 43cm (5).
Lot 607
PERCUSSION 12 BORE SINGLE BARREL SPORTING SHOTGUN. CIRCA 1830. the top flat of the re-browned three stage barrel signed `Beckwith London`, with a walnut half stock with a chequered grip, with silver fore end cap, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, engraved with a pineapple finial and a game dog to the trigger guard, engraved barrel tang, stepped flat lock plate with engraved game bird, replacement brass tipped ram rod. barrel 84cm long.
Lot 563
A Cricketing Miscellany : Bedser A.: Twin Ambitions; Lemmon D. : History of Surrey County Cricket Club; Cardus N. : The Noblest Game - A Book of Cricket Prints; Frindall B.: England test Cricketers - The Complete Record from 1877. Together with 5 other related titles. CONDITION REPORT: Condition : Generally vg.
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