Lot: 121
Clegg’s Commercial Directory of Rochdale, James Clegg, 1916, original printed cloth, faded; spotting to folding street plan, few pages with small pencil marks in margin o/w VG.
Lot: 122
Marius Maxwell Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, The Century Co., 1924, folio, large paper copy, No.402 of 550, signed by the author on limitation page; quarter cloth, gilt, VG; fine internally with all photo-plates.
Lot: 123
Gerald Portal The British Mission to Uganda in 1893, Edward Arnold, 1894, 1st Edn; and Samuel Baker Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Macmillan, 1874, 1st Edn, 2 vols; complete with all plates & maps, the latter with few plates remounted; some scattered foxing to Ismailia; all nicely rebound with modern gilt leather titles. (3)
Lot: 124
John Roscoe Twenty-Five Years in East Africa, 1921; Henry M. Stanley My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories, 1893; Flinders Petrie Ten Years Digging in Egypt, 1892; W.P.Taylor African Treasures, 1932; Worthington Inland Waters of Africa, 1933; and 4 other African titles; mostly first editions, original cloth, a few recased, fair to fine. (9)
Lot: 125
Frederick Boyle To The Cape For Diamonds, Chapman & Hall, 1873, First Edn, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, the spine repaired with the gilt backstrip relaid; fine internally, folding map, 415pp
Lot: 126
The Marquis of Lorne A Trip to the Tropics, 1867, gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, fine internally; Madame de Genlis Manuel du Voyageur, 1816, rebound in modern leather, two leaves damaged; James Best Forest Life in India, 1935; The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen, 1970; Freya Stark autobiographical works (4), etc. Varied condition. (13)
Lot: 127
Marchioness of Londonderry A Journal of a Three Months’ Tour In Portugal, Spain, Africa &c. London, 1843, octavo, original gilt cloth, faded, front panel slightly scuffed; fine internally with four lithographed plates including frontispiece portrait, two plates tipped in; 94pp including preface and list of subscribers.
Lot: 128
R.C. F. Schomberg Unknown Karakoram, Martin Hopkinson, 1936, First Edn., original gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers; fine folding map in rear pocket; 244pp plus photo-plates.
Lot: 129
Equestrian titles including Thormanby Kings of the Turf; Charles Morton My Sixty Years of the Turf; Sidney Galtrey Memoirs of a Racing Journalist; cloth bound volumes of Tattersall’s Sales Catalogues for 1926, 1927 and 1929; etc. Good to Fine. (9)
Lot: 130
Works on country sports and dogs including Izaak Walton The Complete Angler, Allan Bell, 1836 (title label heavily toned); Alexander Shand Shooting, 1902; Geoffrey Sparrow The Terrier’s Vocation, 1949, in chipped d/jkt, signed by the author; McMichan The Greyhound, 1941, faded cloth; William Youatt The Dog, 1854, rebacked, backstrip relaid; and other 19th/early 20th Century titles. Fair to fine. (10)
Lot: 131
Harry Judd Records of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt, Glasgow, 1921; quarto, original gilt cloth, VG; light foxing to prelims, occasional spotting elsewhere; 23 fine photo-plates.
Lot: 132
P.G.H. Fender The Turn of the Wheel: M.C.C. Team, Australia, 1928-1929, Faber & Faber, 1929, 1st Edn; original gilt cloth, VG; top side red, uncut at fore-edge; endpapers browned, slight spotting to prelims o/w fine internally; 32 photo-plates; 384pp
Lot: 133
Willie Smith Match-Winning Billiards, Mills & Boon, 1924, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; minor tone marks largely confined to endpapers o/w fine internally with 7 b/w plates and many diagrams. 215pp
Lot: 134
Joseph Bennett Billiards, Thos. De La Rue, 1873, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth over bevelled boards, repair to foot of spine, gilt edged, VG; errata slip facing p.1; fine internally with plates and diagrams.
Lot: 135
Collection of 17 VG/VF Wills & Players sets in 2 albums including Film Stars 2nd series, Kings & Queens of England, Aviary & Cage Birds, Curious Beaks, Military Uniforms (2 sets), Railway Engines, Historic Events, etc, plus a further album with many 100s of mixed condition odds & part-sets both cigarette & trade cards from a wide range of issuers.
Lot: 136
Collection of 28 Gallaher, Wills & Player sets in 2 albums including Gallaher Stars of Stage & Screen and Film Partners; Wills The Coronation Series and Safety First; and Player’s Film Stars 1st, Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, Motor Cars 2nd series, Army, Corps & Divisional Signs 2nd series, Cricketers 1938, Dogs by Wardle, etc. Mostly VG/VF (28 sets)
Lot: 137
Godfrey Phillips and Carreras sets in album including Phillips Bird Painting; Carreras School Emblems (small), Old Staffordshire Figures and Sport Fish; plus Cavanders Foreign Birds (some worn corners). Mainly fine (13 sets)
Lot: 138
Album of 14 Cigarette & Trade Card sets, all fine/VF, including R.J. Lea English Birds (glossy), Stephen Mitchell Stars of Screen & History, various Barratt/Bassett issues, Horniman etc.
Lot: 139
Collection of 24 Cigarette & Trade cards sets in two albums, plus some odds; including Players Film Stars 3rd Series, Ships’ Figureheads, Tennis, Cries of London 1st Series, and Cycling; Kane Products 1956 Cricketers 1st and 2nd Series; etc. Largely VG/VF
Lot: 140
Album of 4 fine sets comprising Carreras Flowers and History of Naval Uniforms, Wix Builders of Empire, and Ardath Silver Jubilee. Fine lot (4 sets)