Ogilvie-Grant (W.R. & Millais, J.G., and others). The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game Birds and Wildfowl, published The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1912, portrait photogravure frontispiece of King George V, additional half title, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, limited edition 849/950, bookplate of C. Gordon Booth, t.e.g., remainder uncut, contemporary morocco gilt, spine a little faded, folio, together with, Kirkman (F.B. & Hutchinson Horace G. editors), British Sporting Birds, published T.C. & E.C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1924, additional half title, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, 4to, with, Bowdler Sharpe (R.), Sketch-Book of British Birds, published S.P.C.K., 1898, title page with colour vignette, numerous colour illustrations to text throughout, bookplate of Alan Francis Brooke, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, slight staining, 4to, plus, Collinge (Walter E.), The Food of Some British Wild Birds: A Study of Economic Ornithology, published by The Author, York, 1924 - 27, portrait frontispiece, numerous uncoloured diagrams and illustrations throughout, t.e.g., remainder un-trimmed, near contemporary half morocco gilt, spine faded, 4to (4)
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Bailey (Henry 'Bula N'Zau'). Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and its Big Game Shooting, 1st ed., 1894, folding map, b & w illustrations, scattered spotting and marginal toning, bookplate, original plum cloth, joints and edges a little rubbed, label residue to spine, corners bumped, 8vo Named Bula N'Zau ("The Elephant Smasher") by the local inhabitants, Bailey claims his book to be the first devoted to West African sport. (1)
*Birche (Henry). [Game Keepers, published Benjamin Beale Evans, 1790], colour mezzotint after George Stubbs & Amos Green, trimmed with thread margins and loss of title, some abrasion to margins, 400 x 665 mm, framed and glazed Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Rob Dixon & Tim Clayton. George Stubbs The Complete Engraved Works. Item 88, state 4. (1)
Baker (Samuel White). Wild Beasts and their Ways. Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, 2 vols., 1890, illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, previous owner inkstamp to half titles, original red cloth gilt, spines faded and a little rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia, by Owen Letcher, 1st ed., 1911, folding map, half-tone illustrations, some light toning, bookplate and price-stamp, original red cloth, a few stains, 8vo, with three others: Major G. Burrard's Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet, 1925, Alexander Allan's Hunting the Sea Otter, 1910 and Horace G. Hutchinson's Big Game Shooting, 2 vols., 1905 (7)
Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 4th edition Revised and Corrected by W.B. Tegetmeier, 2 volumes, published John.C. Nimmo, 1895, additional half titles, sixty double page plates (complete as list), uncut, discreet manuscript ownership signatures to front endpaper, book plate of Claud A. Allan, publishers bright decorative cloth gilt, royal 8vo A fine set. (2)
A collection of Asian carved ivory items To include a Chinese carved ivory cup and ball game, a Japanese carved ivory match holder, and a Chinese canton carved ivory brush holder. (3) CONDITION REPORT: Lot 88: Cup and ball - crack to the ball, approx 4cm in length, yellow to the ivory throughout. Match Holder - yellowing to the ivory, small cracks to the interior well. extensive damage to the base with large crack to the base and lower section of the vase, yellowing to the ivory.
Thirteen Pratt pod lids and a similarly transfer decorated jar - Pretty Kettle of Fish (diamond window panes) two examples, 'Bear, Lion and Cock', 'Snap Dragon', 'Garibaldi', 'A Pair', 'Hide and Seek', 'Dr Johnson', 'The Game Bag', 'Country Quarters' two examples, 'Eleanor Cross London', 'The Grand International Building of 1851 For the Exhibition of Art and Industry of all Nations' and a jar decorated with hunting meet [this lot is sold with eight matched pot bases]
A small miscellaneous selection to include a Gloucestershire Regiment Tercentenary 1694-1994 commemorative tankard, a Corgi Toys model of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a quantity of composite dominos, a quantity of vintage glass marbles, a boxed game of Take, a Rubix Cube, a Walnut Whips solitaire board, further similar timber puzzle boards, etc
Vintage games and accessories to include a Reno Series Pin Ball Board, a boxed Jump Jockey Electric Steeple Chasing Model JJ300 by Tri-Ang, a boxed Subbuteo Table Soccer Set, further boxed Subbuteo players, boxed The Merry Game of Floundering, cased draughts sets, boxed Waddington's Lexicon, etc
ASSORTED COLLECTABLES comprising four diecast Dinky model aircraft, including a No.734, Supermarine Swift, and No.736, Hawker Hunter, all unboxed; a Vista-Screen folding 3-D viewer and slides; a Mikado game; a small quantity of matchboxes; and a silver vesta case, on a silver watch chain with a watch fob and drilled coin attached (64g gross).
[BOOKS]. NATURAL HISTORY Seton, Ernest Thompson. Lives of Game Animals. An Account of those Land Animals in America, north of the Mexican Border, which are considered 'Game', either because they have held the Attention of Sportsmen, or received the Protection of Law, four volumes in eight, Branford, Boston, 1953, green buckram, plate and text illustrations, quarto.
Two Victorian and copper brass mounted powder flasks, one decorated with hanging game, a Victorian jelly mould, a brass candlestick, a pair of copper wall pockets and a copper bowl (7). CONDITION REPORT: Powder flasks: Bird decorated example - tarnished and pitted. Action works. Other example - has dents and holes. Action works.
A fine Victorian tortoiseshell and silver card box by Atkin Brothers, the lid inset with a miniature painting on ivory of a living room interior depicting a card game, set under glass and with a silver border, the interior with silver mounts, tow silver bridge markers, one with ivory counters the other tortoiseshell and space for two packs of cards, hallmarked London 1893
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