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Lot 70
AN IMPORTANT ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS DOCUMENTING THE EARLY PERIOD OF BRITISH COLONIAL RULE IN NIGERIA SHOWING THE BUILDING OF THE NIGER BRIDGE AT JEBBA , THE RAILWAYS AT FLORIN, TRIBAL MEETINGS WITH SIR FREDERICK LUGARD ON HIS FIRST VISIT, GAME HUNTING, WOMEN, MILITARY, MINING AND BAUCHI CHIEFS ( APPROX. 350 ITEMS )
Lot 697
BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD: BRITISH GAME, 1946, New Naturalists Series No 2, orig cl gt, d/w + D SUMMERS-SMITH: THE HOUSE SPARROW, New Naturalist Monograph Series No 19, orig cl gt, d/w + JOHN B FREE AND COLIN G BUTLER: BUMBLEBEES, 1968, New Naturalists Series No 40, orig cl gt, d/w + H J FLEURE AND M DAVIES: A NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN IN BRITAIN, 1970, New Naturalists Series No 18, orig cl gt, d/w + SIR E JOHN RUSSELL: THE WORLD OF THE SOIL, 1971, 5th edn, New Naturalists Series No 35, orig cl gt, d/w + COLIN G BUTLER: THE WORLD OF THE HONEYBEE, 1971, New Naturalists Series No 29, orig cl gt, d/w + W E FROST AND M E BROWN: THE TROUT, 1972, New Naturalist Series Monograph Series No 21, orig cl gt, d/w + T T MACAN AND E B WORTHINGTON: LIFE IN LAKES AND RIVERS, 1974, New Naturalists Series No 15, orig cl gt, d/w + J E LOUSLEY: WILD FLOWERS OF CHALK AND LIMESTONE, 1976, New Naturalists Series No 16, orig cl gt, d/w + C M YONGE: THE SEA SHORE, 1976, New Naturalists Series No 12, orig cl gt, d/w + W H PEARSALL: MOUNTAINS AND MOORLANDS, 1977, New Naturalists Series No 11, orig cl gt, d/w (11)
Lot 21
ACCESSORIES: Fine John R Gow & Sons of Dundee canvas/leather trout fishers tackle bag with brass fittings, mesh game bag to rear, canvas lined waterproof interior, removable wicker fish bag, fine, and containing a Wheatley 32 compartment double sided dry fly box with a quantity of flies, a Loch Leven eyed fly box and Gladding line preparation.
Lot 99
REEL: RARE HARDY 9" NARROW DRUM FORTUNA BIG GAME REEL IN SUPERB CONDITION, Monel metal star drag and cross bar handle, twin reverse taper black handles, lock nut with replacement screw, 6 screw correct plated foot saddle, all correct screw nuts to backplate, very clean spool interior, fine condition, little used, Illus. * Ref Hardy Brothers The Men The Masters and their Reels, J. Drewett, notes the 9" Fortuna was produced 1926-39 with only 186 examples manufactured.
Lot 79
A Sunderland Lustre Jug, circa 1830, inscribed A Present for Elizabeth and moulded with huntsmen and dogs within fruiting vine and gadrooned borders, picked out in colours in pink lustre, 14.5cm high; and A Similar Jug, with dogs chasing game, the handle with hound mask, 14.5cm high (2) See illustration
Lot 1185
Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus), pair of full mounts, set naturalistically amongst faux rocks and ferns, in a glazed case, 50.5cm high, 54cm wide; A Similarly Arranged Pair of Black Game (Tetrao tetrix), 43cm high, 60cm wide; Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus), full mounts, lying dead in snow flanked by 12 bore Purdey cartridges, in a glazed case, 27.5cm by 41cm (3)
Lot 1195
African Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), taken by Max-Dietrich Gaudchau, German-East Africa, circa 1933, anterior and posterior horns on prepared and close nailed skin section, anterior horn 60cm, posterior horn 30cm, on ebonised pine oval original shield with taxidermist`s stamp of Paul Etandau Weimar, Rätergasse 10 See illustration CITES Appendix I Annex A (Exempt). Despite being exempt, this horn has a CITES specimen specific licence issued in Darmstadt 23.2.2009, number DE-DA-09022319 Max-Dietrich Gaudchau was born in 1907 in Guthamannshausen, Thuringen. In 1928 he moved to German East Africa to work as a hunting guide, where he planned and organised safaris, mainly for wealthy English sportsmen such as Colonel Tucker (safari in 1937), and Major Evan (safari 1933). Included with this lot is a copy of the small collection of letters concerning this safari that Herr Gaudchau wrote to his father in Germany. In 1930 he opened his own company for trading in taxidermy and big game trophies, as well as offering safari-guidance in Moshi, a small town in Tanzania. In 1935 he bought farmland and built a farmhouse to plant and sell coffee. In 1940 he joined the army and went to the Africa Corp under Feldmarschall Rommel - indeed the vendor (great nephew of Max-Dietrich Gaudchau) still retains his African Corp medals. At the end of World War Two he lost all his private property to the English Government as they overtook the colonies of former German East Africa. However, in the 1950`s he went again to East Africa giving agricultural and environmental support (pest control) on behalf of the German Institute for Botany Protection. Mr Gaudchau died in 1994
Lot 1200
Heath-Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido), Extinct, male, full mount, standing on lichen covered rock effect mounts, in metal edged glazed case with oak plinth, the case 48cm high, 42cm wide, 24.8cm deep See illustration Heath-Hen was a distinctive sub-species of the Greater Prairie-Chicken, a large North American bird in the grouse family, or possibly a distinct species. They inhabited the scrubby heathland barrens of coastal North America. They were extremely common in colonial times, and were extensively hunted by settlers for food. By 1870 all Heath-Hens were lost from the mainland and by the late 1800`s there were only about seventy left. After a final jump in numbers to around six hundred in 1920, the population began its final descent. in 1927 only about a dozen were left - a mere two being females, despite protection. By 1928 only one male survived, lovingly nicknamed Booming Ben. He was last seen on his traditional lekking ground between West Tisbury and today`s Martha`s Vineyard airport on March 11th 1932, and thus presumably died about eight years old of unknown causes. Heath-Hens were one of the first bird species that Americans tried to save from extinction. As early as 1791 a Bill For the Preservation of Heath-Hen and Other Game was introduced in the New York State Legislature.
Lot 334
* Chiromagica. A Chiromagica game by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, c. 1870, a mahogany box with inserted pane of glass with central hand-spinner, onlaid printed instructions and one sheet of answers, together with three double-sided question discs and two further pictorial onlays of answers, a little soiling and a few minor marks, sliding lid with chromo-pictorial design to lid, generally VG condition, approx. 30 x 30 x 5cm. An early trivia game whereby general knowledge questions are magically answered by the hand-spinner. When the question on the centre disc is aligned the magnetic hand-spinner will point to the correct answer printed on the matching overlay. (1)
Lot 429
The Female Aegis; Or, the Duties of Women from Childhood to Old Age, and in Most Situations of Life, Exemplified, printed by Sampson Low for J. Ginger, 1798, eng. frontis., few leaves slightly sprung, contemp. sheep, red morocco title label, joints cracked, slight loss of leather at head & foot, rubbed and some wear, 12mo, together with Staunton (Howard), The Chess-Player’s Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters..., new ed., 1873, chromo frontis. and wood eng. diags. to text, occ. minor spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine with green morocco title label, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian, including odd volumes (8)
Lot 464
Sarratt (J.H.). The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio, on the Game of Chess; Translated and Arranged with Remarks, Observations, and Copious Notes on the Games..., 1813, rough-trimmed, orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, some wear to extrems., 8vo, together with Greco (Gioachino), Chess Made Easy: Or, the Games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian, 1750, eng. frontis., folding plt. (defective), contemp. calf, some wear, 12mo (2)
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Lot 469
[Taylor, Jane & Ann]. Signor Topsy-Turvey’s Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World turned upside down... Illustrated with Twenty-Four Engravings, 1st ed., printed for Tabart & Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1810, pp.71+[1](ads.), eng. frontis. (close-trimmed at top edge clipping image), and twenty-three eng. plts., contents generally browned, and small stain to fore-margin throughout (just clipping edge of images/text in places), a few short edge tears/nicks, mid. 19th c. half calf gilt, lightly rubbed and spine faded, 16mo. Gumuchian 5517; Moon, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, 171(1). Extremely rare. Not in Osborne. A curious and amusing little book, which Marjorie Moon calls “an excellent production”. She adds “the verses are neat, pointed and (as may be expected, considering the authors) easily to be understood by children” and she describes the plates (possibly by Isaac Taylor, junior) as “among the more proficient illustrations in children’s books of the period”. The imaginative engravings and accompanying verse are apparently the result of the Magic Lantern operator’s ineptitude as he shows slides upside down, causing humorous reversals of standard roles, such as: ‘Monkey turned Beau’; ‘The Dunce turned Scholar’; ‘The Boy turned Giant’; ‘The Ass turned Miller’; ‘Game turned Sportsman’; ‘Fish out of Water’; ‘The Moon in the Dumps’; and ‘The Horse turned Driver’. In some cases the ludicrous takes on a rather alarming tone, for example, ‘The Cook Cooked’ shows the cook being roasted on a spit by a hare, ‘The Mare turned Farrier’ shows a horse hammering a nail into the farrier’s foot, and ‘The Hogs Court of Inquiry’ shows a number of bewigged hogs presiding over a butcher with bound limbs. Apart from a partial American reprinting in 1811, the book was never published again, in stark contrast to the rest of the Taylor sister’s oeuvre. This may have been in part because Benjamin Tabart was declared bankrupt in 1810, though it still seems surpring that the work was not taken up by another publisher. It seems probable that, despite the moralistic tone of some of the tales, the over-riding theme of anarchy - more subversive than the standard content of early nineteenth century children’s literature - was just too much for contemporary audiences. (1)
Lot 4
Baldwin (William Charles). African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1852 to 1860, 2nd ed., 1863, port. frontis., folding map, wood engs., spotting, contemp. gilt dec. calf, bound by Seton & MacKenzie, Edinburgh, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, Chapman (Abel), On Safari, Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, 1908, b&w plts. and illusts. throughout, orig. gilt dec. cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (2)
Lot 20
Daly (Marcus). Big Game Hunting and Adventure 1897-1936, 1st ed., 1937, b&w illusts. from photos throughout, small tape mark to front endpaper, orig. gilt dec. cloth, in price clipped d.j., num. tape repairs to verso, some wear to extrems., 8vo, together with Robertson (Wilfrid), Zambezi Days, 1st ed., 1936, num. b&w plts., orig. printed cloth, rubbed, in d.j., spine ends chipped, tape repairs to verso, 8vo (2)
Lot 27
Findlay (Fredrick Roderick Noble). Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa. An Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South-East Africa and in Zululand. With Chapters by Olive Schreiner and S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner, 1st ed., 1903, half-title present, frontis. with tissue guard, small repaired closed tear to margin and slightly frayed to lower edge, folding map with 2 inch tear, num. b&w illusts. from photos, prize bookplate to front endpaper, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo (1)
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