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Lot 462
A collection of books on country and traditional sports: horses and horsmanship; foxhunting incl. Simpson (C.) Leicestershire and its Hunts, and Baily's Hunting Directories; shooting and gundogs; angling/fishing incl. West The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation; hawking and falconry; with other books on gardening, Derbyshire history, nature, odd Lonsdale Library vols, other miscellaneous subjects with The Library Shakespeare, [1873-75], London, W. Mackenzie, plates (some coloured) and illustrations by Gilbert, Cruikshank, Dudley, 9 slim folio vols. in publisher's original decorative cloth gilt; mostly 8vos and 4tos, some folios, in original 20th century cloth (qty) (twelve boxes)
Lot 264
Hunting & fishing.- Medices (Sebastianus) Tractatus de Venatione, Piscatione, et Aucupio, collation: †8 A-E8, Roman and italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, minor worm traces to outer margins, occasional staining, attractive modern mottled polished calf, gilt, g.e., 8vo (162 x 90mm.), Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1597. ⁂ Literature: Adams M988.
Lot 288
Cant Language.- Dictionary of the cant Language, 18 century poetry and 17 century religious work in a commonplace book, manuscript in several hands, 169pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, another f. torn and repaired with tape, browned, some dampstaining, 19th century buckram, lacks spine, folio, 1650s - 1830s. ⁂ Includes: "Dictionary of the cant Language... Banker a Salesman Servant as what do you buy... Meggs Guineas meet to Spend Money - or Petticoat... Slubble it, hold your tongue... Whibble sad drink Whiddle to tell or discover" [6pp.]; "An Ode to Garrick Upon the Talk of the Town [by Edward Moore]"; "An Epistle from Cambridge"; "Epitaph L.M. 1749 [Mary Leapor]"; "Fox Hunting by Wm. Somerville"; "Lyrics of the East by Mrs. Godwin" etc. Cant language is the jargon or argot of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. Thieves cant was a feature of popular pamphlets and plays particularly between 1590 and 1615, but continued to feature in literature into the nineteenth century.
Lot 338
Plant Hunting in Kashmir.- Howard later Howard-Bury (Kenneth, Captain, army officer, married Lady Emily Alfreda Julia, 1856-1931, youngest daughter of Charles William Bury, third earl of Charleville, father of Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury, mountaineer and army officer, 1883-1963, 1846-85) Letter-book of a journey in northern India, principally Kashmir, autograph manuscript, 47pp. excluding blanks, order in Kasmiri from the Maharajah of Kashmir, "to grant me coolies and supplies" for his expedition, 1p., original envelope loosely inserted, original red moiré cloth, gilt, 8vo, [c. 1874]. ⁂ Contains copies of letters to his parents and sister while on an expedition to Kashmir in 1874. On his travels he sights Nanga Parbat and collects plants on numerous occasions, "The ferns would delight you. I forget how many different sorts I gathered the other day." Among other travellers he meets are Douglas Forsyth (1827-86), and Dr. Henry Bellew (1834-92) on their return from the 1873/4 embassy to Kashgar, Robert Shaw, an explorer turned political agent at Yarkand, and some Russians with whom he went bear hunting "in which we were not successful."
Lot 411
Polar.- Lyon (Capt. George Francis) [A bound collection of proof plates fromrom William Edward Parry's 'Journal of a Second Voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage'], 48 proof plates comprising 23 working proof impressions with duplicate lettered states of 25 of the plates, damp-staining mostly to margins, light surface soiling, upper hinge split, contemporary half calf with calf label to upper cover, upper joint splitting at head, rubbed and worn, oblong folio, [1824]; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Includes images of Inuit hunting and home life.
Lot 63
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) The Hunting of the Snark, first edition, 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, 1p. advertisements, light offsetting, book labels to pastedown, original light tan pictorial cloth, near-fine, original printed dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light toning to panels but a remarkably sharp and excellent example overall, g.e., preserved in custom folding chemise and morocco-backed slip-case, 8vo, 1876. ⁂ A superb example in the excessively rare dust-jacket, we know of only a handful of copies, this dust-jacket may also have been the first to carry advertisements and review blurbs, a practice continued until the present day.
Lot 230
A 20th Century coloured photograph of a portrait of a lady, 37cm x 29cm, a modern abstract print of a flower, indistinctly signed on to the reverse, 25cm x 18.5cm, Louis Duffy (1908-1998) 'Steel Band' Oil on canvas over board Signed lower left Lou Duffy 36.5cm x 49cm , Various hunting related prints, in a folio, unframed (af) and Seven various prints and pictures, three of Ilchester interest
Lot 120
EVERED, Philip - Stag Hunting with the "Devon and Somerset", 1887-1901 - Chatto & Windus 1902, with illustrations by H. M. Lomas tog. w. FORTESCUE, Hon. J. W - The Story of a Red Deer - 1925, with illustrations by G. D. Armour; HAMILTON, Archibald - The Red Deer of Exmoor with notes on those who hunted them from Robert D'Auberville 1070, to Robert Arthur Sanders, 1906 - Horace Cox, 1907, with illustrations and COSS, Fred - Memories of a Stag Harbourer - H. F & G. Witherby, with illustrations (4)
Lot 147
BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, W - Sport: Fox Hunting, Salmon Fishing, Covert Shooting and Deer-Stalking - Chapman & Hall, 1885, with numerous black and white illustrations by Henry Hope Crealock tog. w. B.B - Tide's Ending - Hollis & Carter, 1950, with numerous coloured illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford (2)
Lot 516
An early 20th century autograph book, containing eleven signatures of the 1921 Australian touring cricket team, including Warwick Armstrong, Tommy Andrews, Warren Bardsley, Hanson Carter, Jack Gregory,Edgar Mayne, Bert Oldfield, Nip Pellew and Johnny Taylor, also nine of the Warwickshire team, a very good two page hunting scene watercolour and typical pen and ink drawings, etc
Lot 972
Edwards, Lionel My Hunting Sketch book, 14 tipped in colour plates with monochrome vignettes and inscriptions, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd 1928, fawn cloth with printed paper label 4to to/w Dawson, Lionel and Edwards, Lionel (ill) Sport in War, with six colour and six monochrome plates,. London: Collins 1936 green cloth; Rancher & Edwards, Lionel (ill) Tally Ho Back I, monochrome plates, 1st London: Country Life Ltd 1931, and Farnell, MJ & Snaffles Red Letter Days, seven colour illustrations, 1st, London: Collins 1933 (4)
Lot 686
A late 19th century lace collar with floral sprays and roundels, 163 cm (outside edge) x 29 cm wide, a set of Maltese lace doilies, a set of twenty-two Victorian place mats printed with parlour, hunting and riding scenes each with a written ditty, a shaped dressing table map and set of eleven matching circular mats worked in gold metalised thread and green beetle wings, several other lace-edged mats, seven place mats and matching oval example, printed with knights on horseback etc.
Lot 1081
An early 19th century cutlass, the 62 cm curved blade with double-edged tip, brass hilt with fishskin grip, in brass mounted leather scabbard to/w a Continental hunting sword, the 64 cm fullered blade with 2-edged tip, gilt brass hilt with spiral reeded guard and embossed copper grip (lacks scabbard) and a Sirupate kukri with 62 cm blade (3)
Lot 1084
A 19th century African tribal hardwood hunting axe, the shaft with forked head and fitted with a flared steel axe blade secured by a leather knot, 75 cm long Condition Report good dark patinated surface, natural shrinkage splits overall but not considered as damage, the forked head well rounded at the tips and undamaged, the steel axe head badly chipped and damaged at the top edge to tip but intact and probably original
Lot 174
A large and scarce, Chinese famille rose punch bowl, decorated on the exterior with European hunting scenes; one scene illustrating the fox jumping safely into a tree whilst a horseman blows the hunting horn, 31.5cm diameter, Qianlong; together with: a famille rose tankard; a Samson armorial bowl; and five other pieces of porcelain (8) Condition Report Please note that this is a group lot where condition may vary from item to item. The damage includes areas of cracking, loss, repair, and deterioration.
Lot 194
A pair of Japanese, Kaga vases, dai Nihon Kutani single line inscriptions, each one decorated in akaji-kinga with panels depicting Samurai and kacho-ga; one panel illustrating the famous Samurai, Kato Kiyomasa (1562-1611), tiger hunting during the War in Korea, 1597-98, 33 cm high, Meiji Period (2) Condition Report Please note that there are some areas of gilt and body deterioration or wear to this pair of vases.
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