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Lot 448
RICHARD LYDEKKER: A HAND-BOOK TO THE MARSUPIALIA AND MONOTREMATA – A HAND-BOOK TO THE BRITISH MAMMALIA, 1896, 1986, orig qtr cf worn + HENRY O FORBES: A HAND-BOOK TO THE PRIMATES, 1896-97, 2 vols, orig qtr cf + W R OGILVIE GRANT: A HAND-BOOK TO THE GAME-BIRDS, 1896-97, 2 vols, orig qtr cf worn, all Lloyd’s Natural History Series + 3 others same series (9)
Lot 454
ERIC SIMMS: WOODLAND BIRDS, 1971, 1st edn, New Naturalist Series No 52, orig cl d/w + BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD: BRITISH GAME, 1946, reprint, New Naturalist Series No 2, orig cl d/w, ex lib + ERIC AND DAVID HOSKING: ERIC HOSKING’S BIRDS OF PREY OF THE WORLD, 1987, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + LESLIE BROWN: BIRDS OF PREY, 1976, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + 1 other (5)
Lot 9
Cooch Behar (Nripendra Narayana Bhupa, Maharaja of). Thirty-Seven Years of Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar, The Duars, and Assam. A Rough Diary by the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, 1st ed., London & Bombay, 1908, num. b & w illusts. from photos, correct as list plus two unlisted illusts. between pages 96 & 97, a few minor wormholes to gutter margin of prelims., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, 4to. (1)
Lot 15
[Dunkin, Robert]. Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West, by 'Snaffle', 1st ed., 1894, b & w illusts. by Henry Dixon, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed on spine, together with Adair (Captain F.E.S.), A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh, with An Appendix on Central Asian Trade, by Captain S.H. Godfrey, 1st ed., 1899, b & w illusts. from photos. and drawings, folding map at rear, orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and somewhat soiled, plus Ronaldshay (Earl of), Sport and the Politics Under an Eastern Sky, 1st ed., 1902, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., large folding map, errata slip before page 1, orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, and others on big game hunting, all 8vo. (9)
Lot 18
Ferrars (Max & Bertha). Burma, 1st ed., 1900, num. b & w illusts. from photos., ex-lib. copy with indelible ink stamp to margins and paper labels to endpapers, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed on spine, 4to, together with Peacock (E.H.), A Game-Book for Burma & Adjoining Territories. The Types, Distribution and Habits of Large and Small Game ..., 1st ed., pub. Witherby, 1933, b & w illusts. from photos., folding map, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed on spine, 8vo, and five others related (7)
Lot 45
Marshall (Captain G.F.L.). Birds' Nesting in India. A Calendar of the Breeding Seasons, and a Popular Guide to the Habits and Haunts of Birds, 1st ed., Calcutta, 1877, thirteen uncol. litho. plts., correct as list, together with Murray (James A.), The Edible and Game Birds of British India, with its Dependencies and Ceylon/The Avifauna of the Island of Ceylon, pub. London & Bombay, 1889 & 1890, hand-col. litho. plts. and other illusts., a few pages chipped at edges, plus Baker (Lieut.-Col. H.R. and Inglis, Chas. M.), The Birds of Southern India, Including Madras, Malabar, Trevancore, Cochin, Coorg and Mysore, pub. Madras, 1930, num. col. illusts., all orig. cloth gilt, some a little frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo. (4)
Lot 58
Simson (Frank B.). Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal, 1st ed., 1886, ten tinted litho. plts., correct as list, 8 pp. publishers' ads. at rear, recent crimson half morocco gilt, together with Kinloch (Brigadier-General Alexander A.), Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India, 3rd ed., revised and enlarged, Calcutta, 1892, thirty-six b & w illusts. from illusts., folding map and 16 pp. publisher's illustrated catalogue at rear, some spotting of prelims., orig. dec. cloth, rubbed (upper cover stamped in gilt 'Royal Artillery Library, Shoeburyness'), both 4to. (2)
Lot 97
[Carleton, John William]. Recreations in Shooting: with some account of the Game of the Brisish Islands. By Craven, 1st ed., 1846, 8 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional light spotting, original cloth gilt, spine faded and chipped, 8vo, together with Crawfurd, Oswald A Year of Sport and Natural History, Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry and Fishing, 1895, half tone plates and illustrations, hinges a little weak, original cloth gilt, some edge wear, t.e.g., 4to, plus a small quantity of other sporting books, including the Country Life Library's Shooting, 2 vols., 1913; 3 vols. of Fur, Feather & Fin series (Wild-Fowl, The Grouse & The Partridge), 1893-1912, Badminton Library, Big Game Shooting, 2 vols., 1894, and Frank Barton's Pheasants in Covert and Aviary, 1912 (34)
Lot 207
*Fishing in India and Ireland. An original typescript fishing diary written by Brigadier Frederick George Gillies, relating to fishing trips to India, the Pyrenees, Devon and Ireland, in 1911, 1925-36, and typed up in 1939, 118 neatly typed pages with a few related insertions, approx. sixty mostly small-format b & w good quality snapshots pasted and captioned on seven card leaves at rear, fish caught in India and Kashmir including bamin, brown trout, mahseer (72 lbs), chiru, tengra, calabanse, murral, etc., and in Britain, salmon (18.5 lbs), various trout, pike (30.25 lbs) and perch, together with an original 300-page unpublished typescript in 2 volumes by the same author, entitled 'Fishing Notes', contents, sketches and all with neat manuscript corrections, contained in contemp. ring-leaf cloth binders, 4to, plus a manuscript game book kept by the same author, listing duck and game shooting expeditions in Britain and India between 1896 and 1925, approx. thirty completed leaves, orig. morocco notebook with tongued flap, rubbed, oblong 8vo, plus a group of fifty of the author's captioned b & w photo negatives relating to his fishing expeditions in India and Ireland (all 1930s), (full set of recent b & w photo prints from the negatives supplied with the lot), plus a group of family photos and papers, incl. Gillies' passport, a commission signed by Queen Victoria appointing him to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, pensions correspondence, etc. Brigadier Frederick George Gillies C.B., O.B.E., (1881-1955) was educated at Tonbridge and after attending Sandhurst he was gazetted in 1900. His first Regiment was the 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army, and later he served in the Poona Horse and the Royal Garhwal Rifles. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, in 1913 and during World War One took part in the campaign in Mesopotamia, being mentioned twice in Dispatches. He was also mentioned in Dispatches for his services in Southern Persia in 1918 and in Waziristan in 1919 for which he was appointed O.B.E. Later he commanded the Royal Garhwal Rifles and then held command of the Ambala Brigade from 1932 to 1934. Copyright for the Diary, Fishing Notes and photographs transfers to the buyer of this lot. (a carton)
Lot 512
Billiards prints. Braun & Schneider (pub.), 'Cine Partie Billard', late 19th century, humorous hand coloured wood engraving showing a beetle and a grasshopper playing billiards, 440 x 338 mm, together with Hursh (Hal), Three Edwardian colour prints of a lady being seduced over a game of billiards, each 270 x 400 mm, framed and glazed, plus other billiards related prints including a small 18th century engraving entitled 'Le Billard' (80 x 115 mm), an uncoloured lithograph entitled 'Les Plaisirs d'ete', a brightly coloured poster for Rocola shirts showing two gents playing a game, six modern reproduction prints after Thackeray, etc., mostly mounted (approx. 16)
Lot 514
Crawley (Captain Rawdon). The Billiard Book, 1st ed., 1866, wood engraved frontis. and plates, without advert leaf at rear, later full buckram gilt, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Roberts (John), Modern Billiards, 3rd ed., 1910, photo. portrait frontis. and numerous illusts., one leaf loose, inner hinges cracking, orig. green cloth gilt, 8vo, and Hoyle (Edmond), Hoyle's Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, viz. Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards, new ed., 1786, two engraved billiards plates, tear to title, 19th century marbled paper wrappers, 12mo, plus Locock (C.D.), Side and Screw being Notes on the Theory and Practice of the Game of Billiards, 1901, wood engraved diagrams, publishers advert leaf to rear, orig. green cloth, rubbed and marked, 8vo, and others books on billiards, all 19th century or early 20th century (27)
Lot 515
Kentfield (Edwin, of Brighton). The Game of Billiards: Scientifically Explained, and Practically Set Forth, in a series of Novel and Extraordinary Strokes; and Illustrated by Numerous Appropriate Diagrams. To which is added the Rules and Regulations which Govern the Numerous Games as they are Played at the Present Day, 1st ed., 1839, folding litho. frontis. with some splits to folds and subsequent tape repairs, 93 uncoloured engraved plates, final engraved advert leaf torn with loss, some light staining and marks, modern green cloth with spine label, folio (1)
Lot 517
Mardon (Edward Russell). Billiards: Game, 500 Up. An Account of the Above Game, with Diagrams showing the Position of the Balls for the Last Nine Breaks; also One Hundred and Eleven other Diagrams well Adapted for Practice. General Observations, and Advice Respecting the Advantage of Playing with Good Strengths, 2nd ed., 1849, 120 uncoloured full-page litho. diagrams, newspaper cuttings stuck onto verso of title, a.e.g., contemp. blindstamped red cloth gilt, modern reback, 8vo. (1)
Lot 518
Mingaud (Francois). The Noble Game of Billiards Wherein are exhibited Extraordinary & surprising Strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the Sovereigns of Europe...Translated & Published by John Thurston, 3rd ed., 1836, folding aquatint frontis., engraved title and forty engraved plates, one plate loose, engraved advert leaf and 2 pp. letterpress publishers adverts to rear, orig. half sheep with marbled boards and paper label to upper cover, heavily rubbed with recent reback, folio (1)
Lot 528
Prints. Storer (J.), The Charter House, London, pub. 1 August, 1804, uncoloured engraving with a cricket game in the foreground, image size 132 x 193 mm, together with Hanhart (M. & N., pub.), 'Forward!', 19th century hand coloured litho., approx. 190 x 150 mm, and Pyne (W.H.), Archery and Cricket, pub. October, 1805, uncoloured aquatint, approx. 220 x 290 mm, and others including a double-page wood engraved portrait of W.G. Grace from the Illustrated London News, two stipple engraved portraits of cricketers by Joseph Brown, four wood engraved cricket scenes, etc., some mounted (approx. 13)
Lot 531
Prints. Ince (J.M., after), The Walks [Cambridge], pub. 1 August, 1838, uncoloured engraving by W.B. Cooke with a cricket game in the foreground, approx. 200 x 270 mm, together with Some Heroes of the Great Cricket Matches between England and Australia, c.1900, photographic print showing the Sydney Association Club Ground surrounded by sixteen portraits of players, approx. 230 x 390 mm, and 'Famous English Cricketers.-1880', chromo. print from the Boys Own, approx. 275 x 390 mm, laid down onto paper with a few closed tears, plus others including wood engravings, photographs, an interesting colour litho. of a game of pelota, a cricket related full page cocoa advert from the Sphere, an original pen and ink humourous cartoon by Harry Hargreaves, etc., a few framed or mounted (approx. 20)
Lot 534
Wanostrocht (Nicholas). Felix on the Bat, being a Scientific Inquiry into the Use of the Cricket Bat, together with the History and Use of the Catapulta ... also the Laws of the Game as Revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, [2nd ed.], Baily Brothers, 1850, half-title, hand-col. litho. frontis. (detached but present), six col. and three b&w litho. plts., illusts. to text, occasional spotting, pencil sketch to rear pastedown, contents a little shaken, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped cloth, rubbed, torn at foot of spine, some wear to lower board and joints, 4to. Padwick 397. The first cricket book to be illustrated with coloured lithographs. (1)
Lot 585
Darwin (Bernard). Green Memories, 1st ed., 1928, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed on spine and minor wear to extrems., 8vo, (Donovan & Murdoch 14090), together with Massy (Arnaud), Golf, 4th ed., 1927, b & w illusts. from photos., diags. to text, 8pp. pubs. ads. at rear, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth, lettered and blocked in black, slightly faded on spine, 8vo, plus Stark (Lieut. A.), Physical Training for Golfers. Improve your Game by 'Jerks'! Forewards by J. Taylor and Hector Thomson, Preface by Jack McLean, 1st ed., St. Andrews, [c. 1937], two anatomical illusts., 5pp. ads. at rear, orig. pict. stiff wrappers, a little soiled and slightly creased, 8vo, and others (approx. 30)
Lot 587
Forgan (Robert). The Golfer's Handbook, including History of the Game, Hints to Beginners, the Feats of Champion Golfers, Lists of Leading Clubs and their Office-Bearers, etc., 1st ed., pub. John Innes, Cupar, Scotland, 1881, 83pp., four wood eng. plts. plus illusts. to texts, ads. both front and rear, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to prelims., orig. linen-backed printed boards, a little soiled and corners bumped, slim 8vo. Donovan & Murdoch 1230. A good copy of the rare first edition of the first golf book to be successful in sales. Robert Forgan (1824-1900) was apprenticed as a joiner and carpenter and in 1852 joined his uncle, Hugh Philp, in the clubmaking business. Four years later, on the death of his uncle, Robert took over the business and was soon joined by his younger brother, James. Forgan, who was a shrewd businessman, successfully set about supplying all the needs of golfers from under the same roof: in 1881 his staff numbered about 12 and by 1895, the number had grown to about 50. Forgan gained a reputation for a very high standard of workmanship and his clubs are prized by collectors for the quality of their shafts, as straight today as they were more than 100 years ago. (1)
Lot 611
Prints. Bateman (H.M., 1887-1970), The Debutante, colour print, signed by Bateman in ink, image size 246 x 363 mm, together with Watkiss (Christopher D.), Two colour prints of Edwardian tennis games, each signed in pencil, each limited to 750 copies, image size approx. 300 x 425 mm, and other tennis related including an uncoloured 18th century engraving entitled 'The High Borne Prince James Duke of Yorke borne October the 13 1633' (image size 178 x 123 mm), a b & w photograph on photographers card inscribed in ink to verso 'Open Tennis Tournament August 12th-16th - Mr Hurd of Seattle playing Mr Foulkes of Victoria for Championship of the Pacific North West. Tacoma, Washington', size 188 x 237 mm, and a 1960s pastel drawing of a tennis game, plus other prints including signed limited editions, etc. (approx. 15)
Lot 92
new Naturalist Series: Fisher (J.) The Fulmar, 1952 1st ed, dw. (top edge a little frayed); Simms (E.) British Thrushes, 1978, 1st ed, dw; Murton (R.K.) The Wood Pigeon, 1965, 1st ed, dw; Vesey-Fitzgerald (B.) British Game, 1946, 1st ed, dw; with Nicholson (E.M.) Birds and Men, 1951, 1st ed, dw. (5)
Lot 125
bulmer (T.) History, Topography and Directory of Cumberland, 1901 lge. 8vo, hf. cf. (rubbed, little split); Cumberland County Annual and Diary, 2 copies, 1920, 1923, pict. wraps (1923 cellotaped, both scuffed, torn at edges); Cock-Fighting and Game Fowl from the Notebooks of Herbert Atkinson of Ewelme and Life and Letters of John Harris, Cornish Cocker, Spur Pub. 1977, 1st ed, 4to, cl. dw. (price-clipped) (4)
Lot 110
A Wedgwood drabware game dish of conventional form with fruiting vine and game bird decoration to body, with similar detail to cover with rabbit finial, impressed marks; together with a similar drabware vegetable dish, with fruiting vine decoration to body and cauliflower finial, with impressed marks (2) each 21cm wide
Lot 1
A coramandel and brass inlaid games compendium by Asprey, circa 1900, inscribed 'The Royal Cabinet of Games', with a satinwood lined and fitted interior, the hinged lid containing a folding coromandel and ivory inlaid chess and backgammon board, the front opening to reveal a stained ivory Staunton style chess set (king is 7 cm high), with two central removable trays containing two ivory dice shakers, ivory chequers, a coramandel and ivory inlaid cribbage scorer, markers, dice, cards, whist, various turned chips and markers, satinwood chip trays and a lead horse racing game, 39 cm x 28 cm x 21 cm. Illustrated.
Lot 392
A Box containing: MCC Bi-Centenary Cricket ephemera including Official Souvenir Programme, Score Card, MCC versus Rest of World, August 1987, Lords Cricket Ground, Eve of Match Dinner Invitation Card to I M Fushill, Two MCC Menu Cards (one with signatures including Dennis Compton, Gubby Allen, Jim Swanton, Imran Khan, Phil Edmunds) + Coloured Photograph of Members at Lords 12” x 10” + a Book by Neville Cardus and John Arlott “The Noblest Game – Fine Cricket Prints”
Lot 26
Coalbrookdale style flower encrusted vase painted with a panel of game birds and a panel of flowers, on scrolling gilt highlighted base, 29cm high, and ewer with a blue ground and painted with a single panel of a landscape scene, with gilt highlights, on square base, 31cm high, (2), (both restored)
Lot 136
A Group of Five Relief Moulded Jugs, unknown factory, circa 1860, comprising three similar graduated moulded with Bacchanalian infants (one with Britannia metal cover), and impressed mark "J&MP Bell & Co", a similar example, and a large "game bird" jug with greyhound handle, the largest 30cm high
Lot 825
Siberian Roe (Capreolus capreolus), Chinese Turkestan 1907, by Rowland Ward, and exhibited at the International Big Game Exhibition in Berlin 1937, by Lt Col J W Price, Henley Hall, Ludlow, together with gold medal, head mount, 6 point antlers, length of antlers R35.5cm, L39.5cm, on ebonised shield with inscribed cartouche, and original label on the reverse inscribed "Tian Shan Mts, Chinese Turkestan, 15 1/2 inches, 3 1/2 inches, 14 inches" See illustration
Lot 826
Roebuck (Capreolus capreolus), full shoulder mount, the antlers 21.5cm long, upon rustic cone carved wood shield, together with an award medal of the Lowveld Hunters and Game Conservation Association 2001 (Best in the Class) ; and Nine Roe Antlers, on frontlets, including five big 6 point bucks, three abnormal bucks, and one normal 6 point buck, maximum length 24.5cm, all on carved wood shields (all Scottish in origin)
Lot 833
Red Deer (Cervus elaphus hippelaphus), skull and large antlers, 14 points, length of antlers, R110cm, L118cm to longest point, 12kg, 226 CIC points, gold medal of International Safari Club, and Lowveld Hunters and Game Conservation Association See illustration Shot by Jurgen Jösch on his 30th birthday, 27th September 1964, in the Crimean Peninsula, Russia, in the former hunting area of the Russian Czars. Further details of specimen appears in Jurgen Josch's book Hirschfieber, pages 63-73.
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