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Lot 243
THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES INCLUDING MONOGRAPHS WILLIAMS, C.B. "Insect Migration" 1958, with a review note from Collins for Robin Mere, To Whom the Book has been sent IMMS, A.D. "Insect Natural History" 1947 BRISTOWE, W.S. "The World of Spiders" 19 58 ROTHSCHILD, M. and CLAY, T. "Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos" 1957, reprint, TINBERGEV, N. "The Herring Gull's World" 1953 MELLANBY, K. "The Mole" 1973, reprint NEAL, E. "The Badger" 1948, NICHOLSON, C.M. "Birds and Men" 1951, VESEY-FITZGERALD, B. "B ritish Game" 1946, all with dust wrappers and for E.B. "Moths" 1955 and "Butterflies" 1945 (11 volumes total)
Lot 10
Africa.- Big Game.- Chapman (Abel) On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, ink inscription to front pastedown, 1908; Savage Sudan, previous owners ink inscription, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, 1921, first editions, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and bumped [Czech p.35]; and another by the same, 8vo (3)
Lot 11
Africa.- Big Game.- Lyell (Denis D.) The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, bookplate of William Heneage Wynne Finch, original buckram, spine a little browned (as usual), slight bumping to corners, 1929; African Adventure. Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates (1 misbound), occasional spotting, modern half morocco, gilt, 1935; Memories of an African Hunter, frontispiece, plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1924, [Czech pp.102-103]; and another copy of the second, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ "Lyell provides the rules for hunting big game, as well as chapters dealing with rifle selection and tracking game ... An essential work aimed at a generation of new hunters visiting Africa at the time." Czech p.102
Lot 12
NO RESERVE Africa.- Big Game.- McCutcheon (John T.) In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country, first edition, one of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author, frontispiece, plates, one detached, illustrations, broken upper hinge, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, [Czech p.111], 8vo, Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1910.
Lot 13
Africa.- Big Game.- Madeira (Percy C.) Hunting in British East Africa, first edition, cracked hinges, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.105], Philadelphia & London, 1909 § Kittenberger (Kálmán) Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa 1903-1926, first English edition, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, tears, small areas of loss, rubbed and worn, [Czech pp.89-90], 1929 § Bennet (E.) Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa, first edition, occasional spotting, ink signature to chapter 1, [Czech p.16], 1914, frontispieces, plates, folding maps, original cloth; and 8 others, East Africa, 8vo (11)
Lot 15
Africa.- Big Game.- Schillings (C. G.) With Flashlight and Rifle, 2 vol., 1906; In Wildest Africa, 2 vol., 1907, first English editions, half-titles, portrait frontispieces, photographic plates and illustrations, the second with strengthened hinges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [Czech pp.142-143], § Lydekker (Richard) The Game Animals of Africa, second edition, plates and illustrations, ink inscription and illustration to half-title, strengthened hinges, original cloth, rubbed and worn, split to spine foot, 1926; and 12 others, Big Game, 8vo (17)
Lot 16
Africa.- Big Game.- Selous (Frederick Courteney) Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate, facsimile image of Selous' son tipped-in, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech pp.145-146, Hosken p.180], 8vo, 1893; Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 1 folding map, occasional spotting, original pictorial buckram, browned as usual, slight bumping to extremities, [Hosken p.180], 1896; African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, first edition, frontispiece, plates, cracked hinges, bookplate and signature of Will H. Ogilvie, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, [Czech p.146], 1908; and 3 others on or by the same, 8vo (6)
Lot 17
Africa.- Big Game.- Sutherland (James) The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations, some full-page, advertisement leaf at end, neat ink inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, gilt, small loss to spine foot, otherwise an excellent copy, [Czech p.160], 8vo, 1912.⁂ "One of the true classic of African big-game hunting ... Sutherland's little terrier, Whiskey, survived being thrown into the bush by an enraged pachyderm". Czech
Lot 18
Africa.- Big Game.- Ward (Rowland) A Naturalist's Life Study in the Art of Taxidermy, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.170; Hosken p.214], 1913; Records of Big Game, fifth edition, portrait frontispiece, occasional pencil markings, contemporary cloth, monogram and coronet of the Marquis of Tweeddale to upper cover, a little rubbed, 1907; and 2 others, also Records of Big Game, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ "A rare work written by the famous London taxidermist and publisher for private circulation to his friends and clients." (Czech, p.170)
Lot 34
Africa.- Big Game.- Jessen (Burchard Heinrich) W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end (2 small tears to folds), ink name-stamp of Major H. Twyford to endpapers and blank margin of p.193, original cloth, gilt, light fading to spine and upper cover, [Czech p.84], 8vo, privately printed, 1906.⁂ Scarce. Jessen, a Norwegian, writes about four hunting expeditions to Africa, taken with the McMillans of St. Louis, Missouri.
Lot 39
Africa.- Lydekker (Richard) & Wilhelm Kuhnert, Animal Portraiture, half-title, vignette title, 50 mounted colour plates after Kuhnert, tissue-guards, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, rubbed and worn, chipping and small loss to corners and spine extremities, 1912; The Game Animals of Africa, illustrations, some full-page, occasional pencil corrections, zebra endpapers, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, [Czech pp.100-101], 1908, first editions; sm. folio & 8vo (2)
Lot 5
Africa.- Big Game.- Bell (W.D.M.) The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate of Gervas Clay, original buckram backed boards, slightly rubbed, [Czech p.15], 1923; Bell of Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1960, 4to (2)
Lot 50
Africa.- Schulz (Aurel) & August Hammar, The New Africa: a Journey up the Chobe and Down the Okovanga Rivers, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 4 tinted plates, 1 folding map, illustrations, unopened, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, small loss to spine head, New York, 1897 § Pitman (Captain C. R. S.) A Game Warden Takes Stock, first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, ex-W.H.Smith library with bookplate, abrasion mark to title, original cloth, a little rubbed, [Czech p.131], 1942 § Wardenburg (Fred A.) Operation Safari, first edition, one of 250 copies, ink inscription to title, privately printed, 1948; Safari Encore, first edition, one of 400 copies, privately printed, 1950, inscribed and signed by author, frontispiece, illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original cloth; and others, Africa, v.s. (sm.qty)
Lot 57
Africa.- Big Game.- Stigand (Capt. C.H.) & D. D. Lyell, Central African Game and its Spoor, first edition, half-title, errata bound in, plates (2 folding) and illustrations, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, previous owners ink signature to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.157, Hosken p.191], 1906; The Game of British East Africa, first edition, plates, occasional spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.156], 1909; and another by the same, 4to & 8vo (3)
Lot 58
Africa.- Swayne (Capt. H.G.C.) Seventeen Trips through Somáliland: a Record of Exploration & Big Game Shooting, 1885 to 1893, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map bound at end, ink signatures, fore-edges discreetly strengthened (pp.125-128), contemporary cloth, slightly bumped, [Czech pp.161-162], 1895 § Drake-Brockman (R. E.) The Mammals of Somaliland, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, [Czech p.52], 1910 § Collins (Douglas) A Tear for Somalia, signed and inscribed by Collins, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight chipping to extremities, 1960; and 2 others, Somaliland, 8vo (5)
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Lot 6
Africa.- Big Game.- Bennet (E[dward]) Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps in pocket at end, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, browned spine, a little rubbed, [Czech p.16], 1914 § Maxwell (Marius) Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, first edition, one of 550 copies signed by the author, half-title, double-page frontispiece, plates (1 double-page), tissue-guards, occasional faint marginal spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, [Hosken p.138], 1924; and 4 others, similar, v.s. (6)
Lot 7
Africa.- Big Game.- Blunt (Cdr. David Enderby) Elephant, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, related advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, [Hosken p.20], 8vo, 1933.⁂ The author was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika. The American edition was published in the same year.
Lot 8
NO RESERVE Africa.- Big Game.- Brocklehurst (Capt. H. C.) Game Animals of the Sudan: Their Habits and Distribution, first edition, colour frontispiece, 25 plates, 11 colour with tissue-guards, folding map at end, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, scattered spotting, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to extremities, one or two small tears, repaired, [Czech p.22], 8vo, 1931.
Lot 9
Africa.- Big Game.- Bryden (H. Anderson) Great and Small Game of Africa, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the publisher, 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, small paper label to front pastedown, original cloth, a little rubbed, small tear to spine head, [Czech pp.25-26, Hosken p.30], 4to, Rowland Ward, 1899.
Lot 75
A canteen containing an 82 piece set of George V silver cutlery and flatware with 24 additions, by Mappin and Webb, Sheffield 1933/5 jubilee marked, pattern reference MWE10, with flared stem and stacked tip, comprising six table forks, six table knives with composite handles, six table spoons, six pairs of fruit eaters with mother of pearl handles, six dessert forks, five dessert spoons, six pairs of fish eaters with composite handles and silver blades (one fork lacking), six soup spoons, six cheese knives with composite handles, six tea spoons, four egg spoons, a pair of meat carvers, a pair of game carvers, a pair of sugar tongs, a butter knife and two sauce ladles and in addition six matching pastry forks, Sheffield 1948, twelve items of matching silver plated cutlery and six knives with composite handles, all encased in a wooden table top canteen with lift up lid and single drawer, lined in brown felt, 80ozt weighable (106)
Lot 5124
Angling interest: Ten books on Angling to include: "Dick Walkers Trout Fishing" by Richard Walker: "Still Water Flies and how to tie them" by John Goddard: "Trout & Salmon Flies" Sutherland & Chance: "The Great Salmon Rivers of Scotland" by John Ashley Cooper: "The Trout LOchs of Scotland" by Bruce Sandison: "Sea Trout Fishing" by Hugh Falkus: "The Salmon Rivers of Scotand" by Mills & Graessar: "Catching Salmon" by Richard Waddington: "500 Fly Dressings in colour": "The Fishermans Guide to Game Fishing" (10)
Lot 128
2Early 20th Century Malachite and Onyx Chess Set Complete with Board and Game Pieces in Holder. Board measures 11" x 11" , holders measures 3-1/2" H x 2-1/2" W. Condition: Losses to game pieces, board has a small nick and crack to surface. Domestic Shipping: $88.00 Min Est. $50.00 Max Est. $100.00 Relist Upaid relist 9.12.18 #237
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