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Lot 27
Roosevelt (Theodore). African Game Trails, an Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, 1st trade edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910, photogravure frontispiece, map, 48 photogravure or half-tone plates, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original tan pictorial cloth gilt, recased, a few marks, tips bumped and worn, 8vo, together with: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains, 1st UK edition, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886, full-page wood-engravings, spotting to half-title, one gathering (pp. 97-112) proud but holding, contemporary bookplate and ownership inscription of Somerville Reid Livingstone-Learmonth (1861-1934), original maroon cloth, slightly marked, spine sunned, tips bumped and worn, 8vo; Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, 1st UK edition, Longmans, Green & Co., 1905, photographic plates, occasional finger-soiling to text-block, Brighton College bookplate, discreet blind stamp to title page, original green pictorial cloth gilt, recased, cloth mottled, 8vo; Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1st UK edition, John Murray, 1914, photogravure frontispiece (spotted), half-tone plates, folding map, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine faded, covers mottled, 8vo; and 3 others on American game hunting Czech, Africa pp. 138-9 for African Game Trails; Howes R-430 for Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. (7)
Lot 279
Europe. Anonymous, Jeu de la Guerre Europ‚enne, 1914 - 1915, French lithographic map game based on a map of Northern Europe, trimmed to image, old folds,510 x 680 mm, together with Pasch (Max), Wenn sie Sieften (booklet), 1917, containing a double page colour photolithographic map of Northern Europe, map size 375 x 520 mm, with Anonymous, L'Europe en 1915. La fin de la Prusse et le D‚membrement de l'Allemagne et l'Autriche-Hongrie, 1915, socio-political map of Northern Europe, 425 x 545 mm, plus Rand McNally (publishers), Summary of the Treaty of Peace, circa 1919, colour photolithographic map of Europe with an explanation of the Treaty above the map, old folds, 645 x 660 mm (4)
Lot 31
Thacker, Spink and Co. (publisher). Useful Hints to Young Shikaris on the Gun & Rifle, by "The Little Old Bear", Papers reprinted from the "Asian", 1st edition in book-form, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1885, frontispiece, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements dated 1890, oroginal brown cloth, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, 8vo, together with: Selous (Frederick Courteney), Sport and Travel, East and West, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900, 16 plates including frontispiece (most photographic), numerous photographic vignettes in text, original green pictorial cloth gilt, slightly mottled, large 8vo; Braddon (Sir Edward), Thirty Years of Shikar, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895, frontispiece, folding colour map, numerous vignettes in text, light spotting to endpapers and half-title, original green cloth, spine rolled, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo; Russell (Charles Edward Mackintosh), Bullet and Shot in India Forest, Plain and Hill, with Hints to Beginners in Indian Shooting, 1st edition, W. Thacker and Co., 1900, small section of paper disruption to upper outer corners of preliminary and initial text leaves, front free endpaper excised, endpapers spotted, bookplate of Percy Bayly Akroyd, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, wear to extremities, 8vo; [Glasfurd, Alexander Inglis Robertson], Leaves from an Indian Jungle, gathered during thirteen years of a Jungle Life in the Central Provincens, the Deccan, and Berar, 1st edition, Bombay: Times Press, 1903, 21 plates including frontispiece, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, corners bumped, 8vo, and 18 others in 19 volumes, all on African or Asian big game hunting, 19th or early 20th century, original cloth, various formats (24)
Lot 358
World. Evans (Smith), The Crystal Palace Game, Voyage round the World, an entertaining excursion in search of knowledge, whereby Geography is made easy, circa 1854, decorative wood engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on later linen, 480 x 680 mm, retaining contemporary cloth gilt cover Scarce. (1)
Lot 499
Beasley (Henry Mountiford). London Bridge and How it is Played, 1st edition, William Heinemann, 1905, spotting to outer leaves, book label to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, 16mo, together with: Contract bridge, The Laws of Bridge and a Guide to the Game by "Boaz" and How to Play Bridge by "Badsworth", 6th edition, Thos De La Rue & Co. Ltd., 1899, decorative title page, a few minor spots, original cloth gilt, 12mo, Coburn (Frederick Simpson, illustrator), The Last Ride Together, by Robert Browning, 1st edition, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 6 sepia gravure plates including frontispiece, colour vignettes in text, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt after a design by Margaret Armstrong, extremities very slightly rubbed, 8vo, Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, colour plates with tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco, slightly rubbed, 4to London Bridge was the first book by Henry Beasley, an Indian Army officer and a leading player of contract bridge during its formative period; four copies in UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford), and one world-wide (State Library of Victoria, Australia). (4)
Lot 500
Beaty-Pownall (S.). The "Queen" Cookery Books, 14 volumes, mixed editions, Horace Cox, 1902-1905, black & white illustrations, original cloth with blocked boards, few slightly rubbed & dust-soiled (mostly to volume 9), 8vo, all contained together in original publisher's presentation box with title in blind to front panel, a little wear to some edges, few marks to lid, overall approximately 180mm x 230mm x 125mm Including volumes for soups, ices, pickles and preserves, entr‚es, meat and game, sweets, breakfast and lunch dishes, salads, sandwiches and savouries, vegetables, bread, cakes and biscuits, fish, and household hints. (1)
Lot 513
Park (William, Junior). The Game of Golf, 1st edition, 1896, illustrations, light spotting, originalgreen pictorial cloth, spine darkened and rubbed at ends, rubbed patches and a few stains to covers, 8vo Donovan and Murdoch 3690. The first book golf book written by a playing professional. (1)
Lot 515
Pickford (William). How to Referee, with numerous diagrams explanatory of the association game of football, 1st edition, E. Hulton, circa 1906, 139 pages, illustrations, advertisements to pastedowns, some toning, library stamps to title and introductory leaf, library manuscript note to title (repeated at head of front cover), original yellow pictorial cloth, spine darkened and a little rubbed, some soiling, 8vo Scarce. William Pickford was an early inovator of the rules of Association Football and the book's aim "is to try and place the problems of the game in a popular form, to be a guide to the Referee and Linesman, to help the beginner, and is hoped to instil a better grasp of essential points in the minds of a class singularly ill-informed upon them - the players." (1)
Lot 556
Watson (Alfred E. T.). King Edward VII. as a Sportsman, 1st and limited edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1911, photogravure frontispiece, numerous colour and half-tone plates after Thorburn and others, some spotting and water-staining, limitation leaf apparently excised, bookplate of Denis Potts-Chatto, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original japon vellum gilt, marked, 4to, one of 255 copies, together with Tegetmeier (W.B.), Pheasants: their natural history and practical management, 2nd edition, 1881, black and white full page illustrations, some light spotting, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, plus Dewar (Douglas), Game Birds, cheap edition, 1932, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, 23 black and white wood engravings, by E. Fitch Daglish, some minor toning, original green cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with loss, 4to, and Blaine (Delabere P.), An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports..., 1840, numerous black and white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, rebound retaining original gilt decorated green cloth boards and spine, boards slightly marked, 8vo, and other late 19th and early 20th century shooting and sporting reference and related, including Badminton Library, 5 volumes, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
Lot 94
Baker (C. Alma). Deep Sea Big Game Fishing Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A Special Article being a rough guide for the uninitiated to these renowned fishing waters, suggested tackle, and fishing methods favoured..., 1st edition, Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation by Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd., 1937, black & white frontispiece and illustrations from photographs, bookplate of P & O liner Narkunda to upper pastedown, original blue cloth gilt with pictorial panel to upper board, spine and head of boards faded, slim 8vo, together with Rollett (F. Carr), Angling in New Zealand, 1st edition, Auckland, Melbourne & London: Whitcombe & Tombs, [1924], black & white plates and illustrations from photographs, advertisements, map endpapers, original green cloth, spine faded, slim 8vo The P & O liner SS Narkunda (Capt. L. Parfitt, D.S.C.), was serving as an auxiliary transport during the Allied landings in French North Africa in November, 1942. She disembarked her troops at Bougie (now called Beja‹a, a Mediterranean Sea port town in north eastern Algeria) and had turned about for home when, toward evening on the 14th, she was bombed and sunk some distance off Bougie. Thirty-one persons were killed. Capt. Parfitt was among the survivors. (2)
Lot 168
Two 19th century caneware game tureen dishes with liners and covers, the largest 29cm long, a Louis Wain jug with decoration of a cat and dog alongside the inscription 'Good Gracious, How you frightened me', 20cm high, a Caughley porcelain lobed waste bowl transfer-printed in the Apple and Damsons pattern, 16cm diameter and small selection of other ceramics
Lot 114
Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st edition, Groombridge and Sons, 1855, 50 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (of 60), tissue-guards, closed marginal tear in plate facing p.15 (Caipercaillie), front inner hinge slightly tender, a few spots to initial blank, title page and first few text leaves, all edges gilt, a few spots to edges occasionally just encroaching on margins, original red half morocco, cloth sides with gilt vignettes, joints and tips rubbed, 4to (31.3 x 24 cm) Nissen IVB 644. (1)
Lot 115
Pollard (Hugh B. C.). A History of Firearms, 1st edition, Geoffrey Bles, 1926, 41 plates including frontispiece, endpapers browned, mild spotting to outer leaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth, spine sunned, slightly rubbed overall, small faded section to head of front board, 4to, together with: Hawker (Peter), Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting, fifth edition, corrected and improved, printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826, half-title, 10 steel-engraved plates, plates spotted and offset, edges untrimmed, modern boards to style, 8vo (22.5 x 13.8 cm); Greener (William Wellington), Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all kinds of Game, 1st edition, Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1876], 3 folding plates (of which 2 in end-pockets), 2 folding tables, full-page wood-engravings in text, toning and staining, original red pictorial cloth gilt, cloth mottled and slightly darkened, front joint split at foot but firm, 8vo, and approximately 35 others, all concerning gunnery and field sports, 19th and early-20th century, original cloth, various formats (approx. 40)
Lot 120
Walsh (John Henry). The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle;including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles, and Revolvers, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Horace Cox, "The Field" office, 1882-4, numerous wood-engraved plates and vignettes, publisher's advertisements to rear of each volume, folding plate facing volume 2 p. 404 tape-repaired verso, inner hinges strengthened, original green cloth gilt over bevelled boards, extremities slightly rubbed, small sections of mottling to volume 2 covers, 8vo, together with: Teasdale-Buckell (George Teasdale), Experts on Guns and Shooting, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, Limited, 1900, photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic and woodcut illustrations, as plates and to the text, 3 folding tables, publisher's advertisements to rear, original cloth, pictorial onlay to front board (rubbed), large 8vo; Muirhead (James Patrick), Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks, 1st edition, John Murray, 1857, wood-engraved frontispiece, 5 plates, spotting, Eton College library plate dated 1881 to front pastedown, presentation plate inscribed 'Jacobus Patricius Muirhead' to front free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth gilt, manuscript shelf-mark in white ink to spine, square 8vo; Tennent (Sir J. Emerson), The Story of the Guns, 1st edition, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, inscribed by the author 'Th. young Esq, from J. Emerson Tennent' on the half-title, original green cloth, slightly rubbed and bumped, some minor wear, 8vo; and approximately 45 others, all concerning gunnery and field sports, 19th and early 20th century, original cloth, various formats (54)
Lot 18
Jessen (B.H.). W.N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa, 1st edition, 1906, portrait frontispiece, large folding map contained in rear pocket, front endpaper a little toned, ex-libris Bournemouth Natural Science Society bookplate and marks to front pastedown, original red cloth, spine and extremities faded, shelf number sticker at fot of spine, small 4to (1)
Lot 772
A quantity of ephemera relating to Elvis Presley, 'The King', to include unopened box sets, jigsaws, Elvis trivia game, checkers and tic-tac-toe, copy bills etc, a boxed 'The King of Pigs', walking, talking, singing hound dog, and five Elvis hound dog cuddly toys in various costumes, various books etc (2).
Lot 100
A collection of KLM Aviation documentation, 1950s onwards To include a KLM calendar dated 1958, KLM Jubilee game dated 1969 with original box of issue, KLM key and hessian sack, luggage labels, flight badges, photograph album containing images of aircraft interiors, crew, passengers boarding, WWII aircrews in front of an airplane, dance bands, air hostesses, aerial photographs of Ringway airport, Royal Airforce Service Release book, plan of Manchester airport etc. A collection of KLM Aviation documentation, 1950s onwards To include a KLM calendar dated 1958, KLM Jubilee game dated 1969 with original box of issue, KLM key and hessian sack, luggage labels, flight badges, photograph album containing images of aircraft interiors, crew, passengers boarding, WWII aircrews in front of an airplane, dance bands, air hostesses, aerial photographs of Ringway airport, Royal Airforce Service Release book, plan of Manchester airport etc.CONDITION REPORTApprox 50 various photos, various documents and sackBadges and other itemsSee photos
Lot 642
Interesting Diorama of Australian Soldiers Playing Crown and Anchor After Evacuation from Gallipoli, interesting and crudely made diorama showing Australian soldiers on deck of a ship playing the well known game “Crown and Anchor”, with officer standing behind. The figures all appear to have been constructed from a paper product with details on the face and uniforms hand painted. To the base is inked, “SINGLE-HANDED DIGGER PROTECTS THE POSSE FROM A HOSTILE FORCE – GLADYS”. Measures 29 ½ x 17 ½ x 14cms approx.
Lot 635
A collection of WWI printed ephemera including a British propaganda pamphlet 'Germany's Dishonoured Army - Additional Records of German Atrocities in France' by Professor J.H. Morgan - Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force', published in 1915 by The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, together with WWI board game To Berlin, printed and published by Valentine and Sons Ltd, with original box containing counters and die, 7.5 by 7.5cm, discharge papers for Second Lieutenant W. G. Headding, Machine Gun Corps, instructions on how to build a Nissen Bow Hut Mark I, Field Almanac 1916, instructions for use of a Stokes' Trench Howitzer 3 inch Mark I, a collection of Ewardian and later greetings cards, and an RFC RAF photograph frame in the form of the end of a propeller, 28.5 by 29.5cm. (q)
Lot 75
A Victorian treen turned fruit wood miniature roulette game, 10.7cm diameter, and two 19th century Bezique markers CONDITION REPORT: If you require further images of this lot or a condition report please contact us with your request as condition reports have not been included in the description
Lot 227
A tub of camera equipment & sundry late twentieth century collectables including vinyl records (ABBA, The Shadows, The Beach Boys etc) A Muppet's Show board game, children's books ETC Condition Report: please request* *Condition is not stated in this type of auction with description and must be obtained by email prior to bidding as items are otherwise are purchased 'as seen'
Lot 132A
A vintage table skittles game, copper log basket, bowl & small rug Condition Report: please request* *Condition is not stated in this type of auction with description and must be obtained by email prior to bidding as items are otherwise are purchased 'as seen'the swing ball and the skittles are present
Lot 1071
Four shooting prints, ''Going Out'', ''Game Foul'', ''Refreshing'' and ''Dogs Brought the Game and Reloading''; two coloured prints on glass titled ''A Steeplechase Plate One'' and ''A Steeplechase Plate Two''; a still life print and a watercolour of a landscape/village scene signed V Clutterbuck (8)
Lot 1015
XIX Century Willow Pattern Meat Plates, XIX Century blue and white drainer (damage), other blue and white plates:- One Box; together with pictures - A. Leach Over the Fences, watercolour, 12.5 x 20.5cm, signed and dated '68, Leblond print The Cherry Seller, game bird print, Tessa Beresford still life of flowers, oil on board, 39 x 49cm, details verso, two oriental prints, Ashikaga, Asaka and Helen Williams examples.
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