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Click here to subscribeA PAIR OF EARLY 18th CENTURY DELFT PLATES, the central panel decorated with a fruiting urn within a blue painted geometric border, diameter 24cm; together with AN EARLY 18th CENTURY DELFT SHALLOW BOWL with scallop shell rim decorated with blue and yellow tulips and other flowers, the base of the bowl with a blue and yellow bird. Diameter 21cm (3)
A SET OF FOUR 20th CENTURY QUIMPER FAIENCE PLATES, naively decorated with female figures in Continental dress on yellow ground within three blue band border, marked on verso Henriot, Quimper France `94, diameter 15cm; together with a QUIMPER FAIENCE TWIN HANDLED TUREEN decorated with sprays of flowers, marked HB Quimper 487 to underside, 13cm x 21cm (5)
A Masons Ironstone part dinner service decorated in the Regency pattern, comprising a pair of tureens and covers, two tea plates, a small liner/plate, three saucers, twenty-three medium plates, fourteen small saucers, coffee can and saucer, large tea cup, jam pot lacking lid, and condiment stand, together with a Burleighware acorn preserve pot, three piece condiment, sifter and cream jug, and a pixie cream jug and sugar bowl. (56)
A quantity of 1930's pressed amber glass including two cake stands, two large bowls, 22cm diameter, a water jug, 21cm high, a fruit bowl, a rose bowl, vases and glasses, together with quantity of ceramics including five 1930s leaf moulded plates and dishes, a Regal ware lustre dressing table set, 1930s glass light shade, a cake stand, pressed Carnival glass bowl, square Crown Devon bowl, 22cm diameter, and a blue glass rose bowl. (42)
A Johnson Bros blue and white pottery dinner service decorated in the 'Indies' pattern, comprising thirteen dinner, eleven dessert, nine side, and five tea plates, twelve breakfast and six soup bowls, ten tea cups and twelve saucers, four various lidded tea and coffee pots, a water jug, a milk jug and sugar bowl, five egg cups, two sauceboats and liners, three lidded tureens and two extra lids, and three graduated serving plates. (100)
An F. Winkle & Co, Whieldon ware part dinner service, decorated in the 'Wycombe' pattern, comprising three oval serving plates, the largest 47 by 35cm, ten dinner plates, five breakfast plates, eleven tea plates, a lidded tureen with ladle and liner, another ladle and liner, and two larger lidded tureens. (36)
Conder, Josiah A Popular Description of Africa: Geographical, Historical, and Topographical in 3 Volumes (1829) 9.8x15.3cm Hard cover, brown boards, Volume 1: Fold out map of Africa at the frontis + 374 numbered pages, three plates (complete). Boards have separated from text blocks which are still intact. Volume 2: pp. iv + 348, 6 plates (complete). Rear hinges cracked text blocks intact. Volume 3. pp. v + 323, 2 plates (complete), of Cape Town and Bethelsdorp. Front and rear hinges cracked but text blocks intact. Foxing on end papers but text pages in all 3 volumes are clean. Boards rubbed and faded. Fair/Binding copies London James Duncan c1829 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Lander, Richard & John Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger in 2 Volumes (c1832) 10x15cm The Landers were commissioned by the British Colonial Office to complete what had been left undone by the Clapperton expedition to the Niger River. They mapped the Niger from its source to where it emptied into the Bight of Benin. First American Edition, issued the same year as the London edition. The plates and maps are a mix of wood and steel engravings, stipple engravings, etc. In series: `Harper`s family library`. 2 vols. I: frontis + xiii + map + 384 + 2 maps (one fold.). II: frontis + 7pp + 337 + 2pp advertisements + 3 plates. Light wear to boards, spine ends slightly chipped, foxing on first and last pages of each volume and inscriptions on inside front covers, otherwise clean, tightly bound and very good copies. Good+ New York J & J Harper c1832 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Stuart, J A History of The Zulu Rebellion 1906 Hard cover, pp. xvi + 581, illustrated with b&w plates and maps, minor wear to red cloth cover, foxing on first and last pages and occasionally elsewhere, pages bright and clean. Good+ London Macmillan & Co. 1913 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Christopher (J.S.) NATAL, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 8vo (225 x 140 mm) a Grazing, Agricultural, and Cotton-growing country. Comprising descriptions of this well-endowed Colony from the year 1575 to the present time, by Government Officials and Travellers. With a Map of the Colony, and Engravings. With an Appendix, and a Vocabulary of the Natal or Zulu language. 146 pages, folding colour map as frontispiece, neatly repaired at folds (the paper is brittle), 4 tinted lithographic plates, errata slip tipped in opposite page 43, Addenda (pages 145/6) dated September 1850, full black calf with gilt borders and with red title label on the spine A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 523, and volume 5, page 69, Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 336, ‘The author was a staunch believer in the virtue of colonisation as a means of lessening suffering and poverty and he states that he “promoted emigration to Algoa Bay”?There is a short description of the country, with information of every description for the use of the colonists, together with article, contributed by various writers?’ Good London Effingham Wilson; Hatchard and Sons & Trelawny Saunders 1850 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Latrobe (Rev. C.I.) JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA, IN 1815 4to (270 x 220 mm) With Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. 406 pages, folding coloured map as frontispiece with the author?s outward and return journeys outlined in red and blue, 12 fine hand coloured aquatint plates drawn by R. Cocking from sketches by the author, and 4 uncoloured plates, recent quarter blue leather titled and decorated in gilt on the spine, marbled paper sides, fold in title page strengthened with Japanese paper,some light foxing, the plates are crisp and well coloured. `South Africa in Print` comments about Latrobe that `He has left an important volume of travels with illustrations second only to those of Burchell`. Colvin in his introduction to Mendelssohn`s `Bibliography` describes the Journals as `written with much sweet piety and simplicity of spirit, yet (he) shows shrewdness of observation and a fine common sense.` Good London Published by L.B. Seeley 1818 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
Powell-Cotton (Major P.H.G.) IN UNKNOWN AFRICA 8vo (240 x 155 mm) A NARRATIVE OF TWENTY MONTHS` TRAVEL AND SPORT IN UNKNOWN LANDS AND AMONG NEW TRIBES.xxiii + 619 pages, 8vo (240 x 160 mm), 2 colour plates, numerous full-page and other illustrations, 2 folding maps, original dark blue cloth, titled in black on upper cover (with a vignette of a giraffe`s head) and in gilt on the spine, neatly rebacked preserving the original backstrip, edges uncut, a very good copy.Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 ? 1999, (2011) page 226, ?after the success of his sporting trip to Abyssinia, Powell-Cotton was determined to attempt another hunting expedition, this time to British East Africa, not only for sport but also to prove the existence of five-horned giraffe which Sir Harry Johnston had discovered. accompanied by shooting companion F. Cecil Cobb, the author proceeded to the Athi River where he bagged impala, rhinoceros and lion. Crossing the Tana, they spent time with the Kikuyu, then successfully hunted elephant. On the Baringo Plain, trophy kudu was collected as was lion. Powell-Cotton eventually bagged a five-horned giraffe before entering Masai territory where he hunted lion and rhinoceros as well as plains game. additionally elephant were taken after crossing the Etakatok River. Near Nt. Elgon, more lion and elephant were bagged. Additional hunts after hippopotamus and a variety of plains game continued and they approached the Nile.? Very good London Hurst and Blackett, Limited 1904 Click here to view further details and images and to bid
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