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Click here to subscribeMillais British Game Birds ltd.ed. first edition number 31 of 550 copies 18 colour plates all but 4 after Archibald Thorburn 18 other plates all but one photogravure tissue guards original buckram-backed cloth spine and top of upper cover faded spine ends and corners frayed t.e.g. [Nissen IVB 636] folio 1909.
Robjent-The Partridge[& The Pheasant] together 2 vol. numbers 91 & 118 respectively of 300 copies signed by the author and artist and with an original signed sepia sketch mounted colour plates and sepia-printed illustrations by Richard Robjent captioned tissue guards original pictorial blue/red half morocco gilt gilt spines in compartments with bird motifs t.e.g. original pictorial cloth slip-cases 1993 [& 1995]; with portfolios of signed proofs for the 5 game volumes and the volume on sporting wildfowl each limited to 50 copies loose in matching original pictorial half morocco portfolios gilt 1989-99 4to Holt(8) IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Swainson.Birds of Western Africa 2 vol. 63 plates only (of 64 lacking plate 13 in vol.1) 1837; Flycatchers 31 plates 1838 § Jardine (Sir William) Gallinaceous Birds part II: Game-birds 29 plates only (of 30 lacking plate 20) one loose 1834 together 4 vol. all with engraved portrait additional vignette title and plates all but portraits hand-coloured including the backgrounds of the plates ink inscription and bookplate of John W.Trist uniform early 20th century half morocco t.e.g. a little rubbed Edinburgh 8vo(4) ***Vol.7 & 8 10 and 4 of Jardine`s Naturalist`s Library: Ornithology..
Caton (J.D.) The Antelope & Deer of America second edition half-title portrait frontispiece New York 1877 § Ross King (Major W.) The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada half-title chromolithographed frontispiece and plates illustration original pictorial cloth gilt spine repaired corners frayed rubbed 1866 § Shields (G.O. editor) The Big Game of North America plates and illustrations contemporary pictorial morocco gilt rubbed 1890; and 13 others Hunting in America and Canada v.s.(16)
Game Book. The sportsman`s diary 24 leaves engraved with headings and totals in a grid system 29pp. in ms. with places totals of the different game shot and some observations beneath 5pp. of ms obervations on dogs at the beginning contemporary rough calf red leather label by [John] Harding 36 St. James`s St. London with his ticket minor wear oblong 8vo 1803-05. ***”Cato 1 Year old. Bought of Edw. Smith the best young dog ever saw bred by the Earl of Mexborough...”; “the first day I shot to Cato hunted him with Pris(?) & Basto & he made all the Points. I never saw so good a Dog”. Among the locations are Mr. Danby`s Egborough Neswick( or is it Keswick?) Blyth & Womersley..
Butler (Captain H.) South African Sketches first edition additional pictorial lithograph title and 30 lithograph vignettes on 15 plates 16 of the vignettes with modern hand-colouring modern half morocco over marbled boards [Abbey Travel 336; Czech p.29; Mendelssohn p.235; Schwerdt I 90] folio Ackermann 1841. ***Schwerdt: “A pleasing book which shows the manner of hunting Big Game in the first half of the 19th century”..
Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar plates faint water stain at fore-edges of first few leaves some worm-holes to first few leaves more marked towards the end original cloth gilt arms on upper cover neatly rebacked small 4to Bombay 1908; and a group of 16 original photographs of tiger shooting and hunting with elephants included in the book albumen prints eleven c.93 x 132mm. five c.230 x 290mm. some rather pale in conservation mounts some double-sided preserved in a recent drop-back cloth-covered box the book in a fitted recess gilt leather title labels.
Big Game Hunting in India including tiger hunting snipe shooting and trophies 10 albumen and gelatin silver prints 185 x 195mm. to 225 x 285mm. mounted on album leaves some on both sides a few captioned below and 2 military groups in conservation mounts some double-sided preserved in a recent drop-back cloth-covered box gilt leather title labels c.1862-1910
Pollok (Lt.-Col.) Sport in British Burmah 2 vol. first edition half-titles 2 folding maps 10 plates 8 chromolithographed advertisement leaf at end of vol.1 and 32pp. at end of vol.2 later half polished calf gilt edges uncut as issued [Czech 164] 8vo 1879. ***One of the earliest accounts of big-game hunting in Burma..
Militaria, comprising:- two walnut shield shaped plaques, each mounted with a pair of crossed Kukri, within brass and chromium plated copies of Ghurka regimental cap badges; three Indian Kukri, with black scabbards; a fragment of Argentinean shrapnel from the Faulklands War 1982, mounted on a wood plinth; an aluminium and brass 1914-1918 Red Cross collection tin in the form of a shell; a beech shield shape trophy plaque "B" Company 7th Middlesex Home Guard Bn. Miniature Range Competition; an embossed brass portrait plaque of Edward VIII, together with a souvenir book; a First World War Board Game "From the Ranks to Fieldmarshal", with folding chromolithographic board, a die and a tumbler cup.
A 19th Century Percussion Cap Sporting Gun by Mortimer, London, the 85cm steel barrel octagonal at the breech, the lock signed and engraved with game birds, walnut half stock with horn fore-end tip and chequered grip - lacks ramrod; a similar Sporting Gun, the side lock stamped Hinks, walnut half stock and wood ramrod.(2)
An album containing approximately 225 postcards, the majority topographical views, including 12 relating to C. Charlesworth Fish, Poultry and Game Shop in Wolverhampton, a number relating to Roller Skating and photographic postcards titled ‘W.M. Club Unions Jubilee, Heckmondwike, June 22, 1912’ and ‘Royal Visit to Heckmondwike, July 10 1912’.
PHOTOGRAPHS, SPORT & MALTA. An album containing approx 43 photographs, [circa 1910-1925]. Oblong folio (212 x 265mm.) Some mounted, including team photographs captioned ‘Car. Cricket XI 1914’, ‘Malta Soccer XI 1919-20’, ‘Malta Hockey XI. 1920-21’, ‘Malta Cricket XI 1921’, ‘Alex. Soccer XI. 1916-17’ and ‘Malta 1921-22, First Game on Exiles’ Ground’. (Leaves browned, some photographs discoloured). Contemporary cloth (worn, most leaves now loosely inserted).
PHOTOGRAPHS, INDIA. An album containing approximately 100 mounted photographs, most albumen-print, [circa 1885-1900]. Oblong folio (298 x 387mm.) Most views of India, including 3 photographs of big game skins drying on a building, some of military interest and a few of ships and boats, on card leaves. (Some spotting and fading.) Contemporary half-morocco (worn, covers detached and some leaves now loosely inserted). – And one other album of related interest containing 40 photographs (2).
Early 19th century board game `The Royal Game of British Sovereigns...Egbert to Geo.III`, coloured engraved paper panels on linen back, to/w a set of prisoner-of-war work bone spillikins in box, a 19th century game of letters with bone tiles, in mahogany case bearing label for E.C. Spurin of London (3)
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