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A SPECTACULAR COMPENDIUM OF USEFUL INFORMATION
1) ANONYMOUS. Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades: Or, Approved Directions, from The Best Artists, for The Various Methods of Engraving on Brass, Copper, or Steel; Of the Composition of Metals; Of the Compostion of Varnishes; Of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-Wax, &c. &c.; Of the Glass Manufactory. Various Imitations of Precious Stones, and French Paste; Of colours and Painting, Useful for Carriage Painters; Of Painting on Paper; Of Compositions for Limners; Of Transparent Colours; Colours to Dye Skins or Gloves; To Colour or Varnish Copper-Plate Prints; Of Painting on Glass; Of Colours of All Sorts, for Oil, Water, and Crayons; Of Preparing the Lapis Lazuli to Make Ultramarine; Of the Art of Gilding; The Art of Dying Woods, Bones, &c.; The Art of Casting in Moulds; Of Making Useful sorts of Ink; The Art of Making Wines; Of the Compositions of Vinegars; Of Liquors, Essential Oils, &c.; Of the Confectionary Business; The Art of comparing Snuffs; Of taking out Spots and Stains; Art of Fishing, Angling, Bird-Catching, &c.; And subjects Curious, Entertaining, and Useful. Containing upwards of One Thousand approved Receipts relative to Arts and Trades. Dublin, by James Williams, 1778. £528

Later sprinkled calf (in “the old style”, over marbled boards, with slightly raised bands, spine gilt in 5 compartments, 4 with a centrally-placed gilt flower-head emblem, the fifth with a burgundy calf label titled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges yellow; xxvii + pp. 312; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out, bar occasional light markings, leaving this a splendid copy of a wonderful early Irish “printed commonplace book”.

First edition. Loosely-inserted is a 1952 ALS by the bookdealer, W.D. John of Newport, Monmouth, to a “Mrs. Bertram K. Liddle of Brookline, Mass.”, discussing a 1688 edition of a work entitled “The Arts Treasure of Rarities and Curious Inventions”, possibly seen as an earlier form of this work? In the “Preface” to this edition, “The Editor” describes the book as having a French route: “It is but of a late date since those arts and trades which constitute the wealth and the commerce of Great Britain, were overlooked, despised, and ranked as inferior conditions. Through the gloom of ignorance, they now begin to increase their lustre, economical order, and necessary distribution, in this great kingdom.”

Interestingly, loosely-inserted in this copy is a 1952 ALS by the bookdealer, “W.D. John of Newport, Monmouth”, to a “Mrs. Bertram K. Liddle of Brookline, Mass.”, discussing a 1688 edition of a work entitled “The Arts Treasure of Rarities and Curious Inventions”, possibly seen as an earlier form of this work?

PRIVATELY PRINTED FACSIMILE ANGLING GEM
2) BERNERS, Dame Juliana. A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth and Angle. Edited by “Piscator” [Thomas Pike LATHY]. Edinburgh, Privately Printed [for] “Bibliotheca Curiosa”, 1885 £228

Small 8vo. Original tissue-covered printed wrappers, in a specially-created green felt-lined blue cloth box, with a blue leather label titled in gilt; viii + pp. 36, with its Title Page printed in red and black; mint condition inside and out.
Privately-Printed edition, one of 275 copies only, printed on fine paper. This famous early work on Fishing was Originally Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1486. There were 75 Large Paper Copies printed of this edition. Dame Julana Berners is The Author of “The Book of St. Albans” (1486), The Original Compendium of Hunting, Hawking and Fishing. She has been described as A Noblewoman, as well as The Prioress of Sopwell Nunnery, near St. Albans. Above all, she is considered The First Published Woman Writer.
cf. Westwood & Satchell p. 24 [et opp. cit.]


RARE LIMITED EDITION SPORTING CLASSICS, PRODUCED IN THE 19TH CENTURY
3) BEWICK, Thomas, Joseph CRAWHALL, Gervase MARKHAM, & Edwin PEARSON. The Angler’s Garland, and Fisher’s Delight, for 1871. [and] The Young Angler’s Instuctor [c.1597]. Westminster, Bickers & Son, 1871 £247

4to. Original wrappers, titled in black on upper wrapper, with a centrally-placed wood-engraved cartouche, showing a centrally-placed Bewick woodcut of a fish, inside a trailing floriate cartouche, accompanied by the motto: “A Right Merrie Wreath of Rare Old Songs”, the lower wrapper with a collection of other Bewick items “currently available” from the same publisher, the whole contained in a green fall-down-back box, with crimson calf spine label, titled in gilt; pp. 24, with a fine wood-engraved frontispiece reprinting 2 of Bewick’s woodcuts for “The Fisher’s Garland” of 1824, and 1826 respectively, the title with a woodcut of a garlanded fish, announcing “A Right Merrie Wreath of Rare Old Songs, Secrets and Suggestions in The Art of Angling”, both pages with patterned borders, blocked in crimson, 9 woodcuts in text, the majority after Bewick; some slight chipping to lower border of upper wrapper, but otherwise this is good and solid copy of an essential purchase for both Angler, and Bewick Collector..
Second, enlarged edition (The first to include The Markham - See above) “Only 350 Copies Printed for The Curious. Embellished with a Few “Canny” Woodcuts by That Lover of Tyneside, Thomas Bewick”. W & S: “Selections mainly from The Newcastle Garlands with Impressions from Bewick. The Second number [issue] contains a reprint of “The Young Sportsman’s Instructor” [by Markham].
Westwood & Satchell p. 167.

A FAMOUS SPORTING WORK, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
4) [BEWICKESQUE] SOMERVILE [SOMERVILLE], William. “The Chase”; To Which is Annexed “Field Sports”. With A Sketch of The Author’s Life, including A Preface, Critical and Explanatory, and Some Annotations on The Text and Nature of The Poem by Edward Topham. Albion Press, by James Cundee, for T. Hurst, 1804. £328

12mo. Contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, flat spine ruled in 6 compartments, titled in one; [vi] + xxxx + pp. 135, with a fine engraved addional title, 8 vignette illustrations, and 4 full-page plates, and 4 engraved sectional title pages with vignette illustrations
(The Artwork on These 8 Plates is by John Sartorius; some of the [Woodcut] Vignettes are signed “Austin”, while others are “Bewickesque”; minimal rubbing to extremities of calf, and to marbled boards, while internally, a bookplate has been neatly removed from the front pastedown, and there is minimal damp-staining to upper outer margins at rear, but overall, this is A Delightful Little Leather-bound Copy of An Acknowledged Red-Coat Classic.

First edition, with this imprint. Schwerdt: “The Engravings in This Edition are Very Artistic and Full of Vigour.” Prefatory note to the “Essay”: “A Passion for The Chase Has Been Observable in Every Age and Country. It Has Existed in The Earliest Days, and Still Continues to The Present Statte of Civilisation; and Will, In All Probability, Remain as Long as Society Itself Endures ...”. “The Chase", A Long Poem In Praise of Hunting, was First Printed in 1735 while "Field Sports", on Hawking, was First Published in 1742. William Somerville (1675-1742) Lived on His Estate in Worcestershire and Field Sports Provided The Primary Subjects for His Poetry. Contemporary ownership inscription of “O. Lloyd, (?)Rockvill[e]”.

Schwerdt II p. 167.

5) BLAKEY, Robert. Angling; Or, How to Angle, and Where to Go. Geo. Routledge & Co., 1854 £228

8vo. 20th century green half morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with the original tinted lithographed title tipped in from the “Books for The Country” series; [iv] + pp. 187, with a fine wood-engraved frontispiece by B. [? Birket] Foster, of An Angler in The River, attempting to Land a Hooked Fish, and 7 wood-engraved plates, 2 comprising Fishing Equipment, 4 Detailed plates of Different Fish Species, and A Fascinating plate showing a Table-Top Salmon Farm; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, bar slight uniform fading to spine, and spotting to rear blank endpapers, leaving this a handsome copy of a useful book for budding anglers.
First edition. On the potential for Salmon Farming: “[Once] the Young Fry have got entirely rid of The Umbilical Bag, The Greater Part have Left The Breeding Boxes and Taken to Pond, and it is extremely difficult to retain them even there, as They Seek Out [sic] at The Sluice, evidently Bent on Reachng The River ... As yet, No Food Has Been Given to them. Up to this date, The Experiment has been Eminently Successful.”
Westwood & Satchell p. 34.

Provenance: Lord Glenconner, with his armorial bookplate.


EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROYAL SPORT IN INDIA, AND HARE HUNTING IN ENGLAND
6) BLANE, William. An Account of The Hunting [Big and Small Game, with Hawk, Cheetah, and Elephant] Excursions of Asoph Ul Doulah* [sic], Vizier of The Mogul Empire**,
and Nabob of Oude.*** By William Blane, Esq. Who Attended in These Excursions in The Years 1785 and 1786.

[contained within]

Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting: containing An Account of Hare Hunting and Coursing of The Ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian: - A Philosophical Enquiry into The Nature and Properties of The Scent: - Remarks on Different Kinds of Hounds, with The Manner of Training Them - Directions for The Choice of A Hunter: - The Qualifications Requisite for A Huntsman: - And Other General Rules to be Observed in Every Contingency Incident to The Chace [sic] ... To Which is Added, “The Chace” [sic] A Poem. By William Somervile, Esq. For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1788 £327

8vo. Near-Contemporary Burgundy Half Calf, over Marbled Boards, spine gilt in 6 compartments with slightly raised bands, one compartment with A Green Calf Label, titled in gilt: “Essays on Sporting in England and India”, the others with centrally-placed gilt floriate curlicues. ; [viii] + pp. 292 (bound without advertisement leaves at rear), with A Superb Engraved Frontispiece of A Tiger Leaping on The Head of An Elephant, as The Mahout in The Howdah Attempts to Fend Him Off with His Spear, as Another Tiger Skulks off Stage Right, as Other Elephants Join The Fray with Their Tusks, and An Engraved Additional Title with An Excellent Vignette showing The Dismounted Huntsman in A Clearing, Retrieving The Dead Fox, from A Ring of Excited Hounds, as Three Other Riders Come up, One Blowing His Horn, Another Mopping His Brow; some light rubbing to the marbled boards, and slight marking to endpapers, but internally the book is in immaculate nd fine original condition, leaving this A Highly Desirable Early Sporting Work on Two Continents.
New edition, with A Previously-Unissued Frontispiece and Half Title (see above). Czech: “The Author Describes Hunting Adventures in Moghul India, using Hawks, Cheetahs, and Elephants in Pursuit of Tiger, Buffalo, and Rhinoceros. Most of The Descriptions Centre on The Nabob’s Hunting Trips that were Grand, Colourful Forays with Little Thought for Game Conservation.” Chute: “This Covers Ancient Methods of Hare Hunting, with 4 Further Essays and Six Letters on The Subject.”

Czech (Asia), p. 28; Chute 52.

*Asaf-Ud-Dowlah was renowned for Moving The Capital of Oude from Faizabad to Lucknow in 1775, where he became Renowned for His Architectural Skills.

**The Mughal (or Mogul) Empire had ruled most of India and Pakistan in The 16th and 17th Centuries.

***At that time in Hindustan. Now called Awadh, in Uttar Pradesh.


“TWENTY THREE GERMAN RECIPES FOR COOKING FRESH-WATER FISH”
7) BOCCIUS, Gottlieb. A Treatise on The Management of Fresh-Water Fish, with A View to Making Them A Source of Profit to Landed Proprietors. John Van Voorst, 1841 £228

8vo. Original moire sea-green moire cloth, the upper cover with a centrally-placed white label, with engraved borders and ribboned cornerpieces, titled in black, yellow endpapers, contained in a specially-constructed green fall-down back box, with a crimson calf label, titled in gilt, above an embossed gilt piscatorial emblem; vi + pp. 38, with a fine wood-engraved title vignette of “A Spiegel or Mirror Carp”; well-nigh immaculate inside and out.

First edition. Preface: “Fresh-Water Fish are Equally Nutritious with Those of The Sea; They are Much Lighter as Food, and Therefore Easier of Digestion; and were it not owing to the neglected state of ponds, which, on the old system, cause the fish to be Muddy, Earthy or Weedy, there is no doubt that Fresh-Water Fish would be in Greater Repute and Request ...” The Various Recipes for Cooking them include the one for “Carp with Oyster Force-Meat”, including The Instructions: “Take One and a Half Dozen Oysters with The Flesh of Another Carp, and Mince Them Together, add Bread Soaked in Milk, 5 Eggs, Butter, Chopped Lemon Peel, Onion and Parsley ... Place Your Fish in [The Oven] and Bake to a Nice Brown.”

Westwood & Satchell p. 333; not traced in any Cooking Bibliography. Rare.

BASKERVILLE TYPE IN AN 18TH CENTURY ANGLING CLASSIC
8) BOWLKER, Charles. The Art of Angling, and Compleat Fly-Fishing. Describing The Different Kinds of Fish, Their Places of Feeding and Retirement. With an Account of The Generation of Fishes, and Observations on The Breeding of Carps, Together with Directions How to Regulate Pools or Ponds. Also, The Various Kinds of Baits Adapted to Each Particular Kind of Fish; and The Great Diversity of Flies that Nature Produces
in a Wonderful, yet Regular Succession. Illustrated with Many New Improvements in The Art of Angling. To Which are Added, Directions for Making Artificial Flies, in Such a Manner as to have The Nearest Resemblance to The Natural. Birmingham, by and for Swinney and Evetts, and London, G. Robinson [1782] £297

Small 8vo. Contemporary sheep, rebacked with a new calf spine in 6 compartments with slightly raised bands, ruled in blind; viii + pp. 116, with A Delightful Engraved Frontispiece showing a Fisherman on The Riverbank, in a Tricorn Hat, Hooking out a Fish in a Landscape, complete with Creel, and Another Angler in The Background; contemporary ownership inscription excised from head of title, not affecting text, and a contemporary ink stain affecting the extreme lower corner of the final 25 leaves, but these faults apart, this is a very clean and crisp copy of a classic 18th century angling book, handsomely printed.
Third edition. W. & S.: “The first edition appeared in the name of Richard Bowlker, but in the second, Charles Bowlker seems to lay claim to the work. He says in the preface: “I have been a practioner in this art near 26 years and according to my practice and experience, have contrived, considered and fitted this for publication.” [Charles] was considered The Most Finished Fly-Fisher of His Day.”

Westwood & Satchell p. 41; Straws & Dent 166.

Provenance: R.A.G. Festing, with his armorial bookplate. Festing was one of “Our Men” in The Ceylon Civil Service, where he wrote the seminal “Trout and Other Fishing in Ceylon”.


A SOUGHT AFTER HERBAL AND ANALYSIS OF EDIBLE PLANTS AND FLOWERS
9) BRYANT, Charles (“of Norwich”). “Flora Diatetica”, or History of Esculent Plants, both Domestic and Foreign. In which They are Accurately Described, and Reduced to Their Linnaean Generic and Specific Names. With Their English Names Annexed and Ranged under Eleven General Heads, viz. 1) Roots; 2) Shoots, Stalks, &c.; 3) Leaves; 4) Flowers; 5) Berries; 6) Stone-Fruit; 7) Apples; 8) Legumens; 9) Grain; 10) Nuts; 11) Funguses. And a Particular Account of The Manner of Using Them; Their Native Places of Growth; Their Several Varieties, and Physical Properties: Together with Whatever is otherwise Curious, or Very Remarkable in Each Species. For B. White, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet Street, 1783. £598

8vo. Contemporary black half morocco, over marbled boards, with a later spine, entitled at head: “Bryant’s Esculent Plants”; xvi + pp. 379 (+ pp. 12 “indexes” of Latin and English Names at rear); neatly rebacked with a flat black calf spine, ruled in gilt in 6 compartments, and titled in the top one, while internally immaculate, leaving this an extremely desirable copy of one of the rarer works on comestibles come from the ground, and how to exploit them.

First edition. Preface: “Whether we view Mankind in a natural or civilised state, we shall find that the principal part of his daily food, and also most of the articles necessary to his comfortable enjoyment of Life, are drawn from the vegetable kingdom; every endeavour therefore to point out with precision and accuracy the Species of Plants, immediately adapted to teh use of man, must carry with ait its own recommendation.” Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Duke. “Johannes Salberg’s rather cursory Latin thesis on food plants [“Fructus Esculenti”(1763)] and the prodding of a pharmacist friend [Rose] motivated Charles Bryant to work on a detailed, authoritative work for Gardeners, Cooks, and Gourmets ... The Fruit Chapters in his “Flora Diatetica” ... describe many species and some cultivars often at length, and comment on their taste” (cf. Janson, “Pomona’s Harvest”, p. 199).
Pritzel 1301; Stafleu & Cowan 858; BMNH I, 273; NOT IN HUNT.

10) BULPIN, T.V. The Hunter is Death [Big Game Hunting in Tanganyika and South Africa]. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1962.
£227

8vo. Original two-coloured grey cloth, the upper cover blocked with A Stalking Lion, the spine with Two Vultures Circling Over Their Prey and the title in grey at head, with The Superb Full Colour Original Dust-Jacket by C.T. Astley Maberly, showing A Roaring Male Lion Standing Over The Body of a Native, while The Eyes of Other Lions Glow in The Trees Behind; viii + pp. 348, with Copious Wood-Engraved Illustrations throughout by Astley Maberley; some slight fraying to the dust-jacket, but otherwise Mint Condition Inside and Out, making this An Excellent Copy of An Exciting Tale from The Twilight of Big Game Hunting Golden Age in Africa.

First edition. Preface: “Here, For The First Time, Are The Authentic Details of An Animalism, A Lycanthropy and Black Magic almost beyond belief - The Hyena Cult of The Mbugwe People, The Fearsome Lion-Men of The Singida District, and the 22 Man-Eaters fo The Njombe District, who Killed and Ate Well Over 1000 Human Beings before Nemesis Brought Them One by One to Their Own Deaths in The Solitude of The Bush ... George Rushby, whose story this is, Went to South Africa, in search of A New Life [Eventually, it was] As A Game Ranger of Tanganyika, [that] He Faced and Defeated The Dread Man-Eaters of The Njombe District.”

11) BURTON, Brigadier-General R.G. Sport & Wild Life in The Deccan; An Account of Big-Game Hunting During Nearly 40 Years of Service in India, with Much Interesting Information on The Habits of The Wild Animals of That Country. Seeley, Service & Co., Limited. 1928 £327

8vo. Original orange cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper cover with A Centrally-Placed Gilt Roaring Tiger, taken from The Rare Dust-Jacket, Here Present, titled in white at head of the upper wrapper, over The Head of a Roaring Tiger in the Undergrowth, the spine titled in gilt, above 3 vignettes of Leopard, Hog and Buffalo, the lower wrapper with detailed precis of various individual “Seeley’s New Books of Travel, etc.”; pp. 282 (+ 14pp. detailed publisher’s booklist at rear), with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece (“Leopard and Kill”), 12 excellent photographic plates and sketches, all put in context by the author beneath (“The Leopard Often Preys on Young Buffaloes, and Not Infrequently on Human Beings”, etc.), a wood-engraved plate of “A Hooded Cheetah, or Hunting Leopard, and Keeper in Cart”, a “Plan of Assaye” in text, and a large folding map at rear (“Hyderabad State including Berar”);
with only the usual slight browning to front pastedown, from the jacket; leaving this A Very Good Copy of arguably the most sought-after of Burton’s Indian Accounts.

First edition. Czech: “Tiger Hunting vignettes abound [“But Hark! The Sound of a Heavy though Velvet Footfall breaks upon The Listening Ear - A Great Beast Trampling on The Dead Leaves that Lie Thick upon The Ground. Now The Heavy Breathing can be Heard. Be still, Oh, Beating Heart! Seady Oh, Trembling Hand, or All Your Labour will have Been In Vain! The Tiger Emerges and Stands for a moment, Gleaming Golden in The Sunlight. Then with A Gruff Roar He Comes On.” (p.118)], with Additional Chapters on Panther, Bear, Buffalo, Antelope, various Deer species, and the like.”
Czech p. 37.


12) BUTE, John (Fourth Marquis of). Moorish Recipes [Text in English and Arabic: Food from Mauretania, Morocco, Syria, Tetuan (Spanish Morocco), etc]. Edinburgh & London, Oliver and Boyd, 1955 £227

8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt, with The Rare Pale Blue Dust-Jacket, the upper wrapper covered with Associated Culinary Emblems, with a centrally-placed yellow roundel containing the title in dark blue; xxiv + pp. 79, with Copious Accurate Wood-Engraved Illustrations of Food and Necessary Equipment; mimimal loss to foot of dust-jacket spine, but otherwise immaculate condition inside and out.
First “Trade” Edition (85 identical copies, with an inserted sheet signed by the author, made up the so-called “Private Circulation” edition). Text in English and Arabic on alternate leaves. Preface: “It is Remarkable that There Seems to be

No Similarity Between The Cooking of Spain and that of North Africa. Not only are The Sweetmeats of The Two Countries Different, but Kuskus [sic] is Unknown in Spain, and whereas In That Country Almost All Cooking is Done with Oil or Lard- Butter in the South being never used - In Morocco nearly One Quarter of The More Important Dishes are Made with Butter...”

A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE COPY

13) CARTER, Susannah. (“of Clerkenwell”). The Frugal Housewife or Complete Woman Cook. Wherein The Art of Dressing All Sorts of Viands, with Cleanliness, Decency, and Elegance, is

Explained in 500 Approved Receipts, in Roasting, Boiling, Frying, Broiling, Gravies, Sauces, Stews, Hashes, Soups, Fricassees, Ragouts, Pasties, Pies, Tarts, Cakes, Puddings, Syllabubs, Creams, Flummery, Jellies, Giams [sic], and Custards. Together with The Best Methods of Potting, Collaring, Preserving, Drying, Candying, Pickling, and Making of English Wines. To which are added 12 New Prints, Exhibiting a Proper Arrangement of Dinners, 2 Courses, for Every Month in The Year. With Various Bills of Fare. For F. Newbery, 1805 £498

Large 12mo. Later calf-backed marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, with slightly raised bands, and a crimson morocco label at head, titled in gilt; [viii (index and “Bill of Fare for Every Month of The Year” - comprising what makes up each meal) + pp. 180 (+ “Twelve Bills of Fare, disposed in The Order The Dishes are to stand upon The Table” [with keys]), with An Engraved Frontispiece, showing How Rabbit, Goose, and Duck, Should Be Trussed, Prior to Cooking; minimal rubbing to extremities, while internally, light stain to outer margin of frontispiece, and mark to verso of H12; A6 cropped at outer margin, not affecting text, and later endpapers, but nevertheless, this remains An Extremely Attractive Little Cookery Book in Good and Solid Condition.
New edition (first published in 1772). “When Your Snipes and Woodcocks are Ready, Take About A Pint of The Liquor They Are Boiled in, and Put Two Spoonfuls of Red Wine to The Guts and A Lump of Butter Rolled in Flour, As Big As A Walnut; Set Them On The Fire in A Saucepan ...” (cf. p. 22-3: “To Boil Woodcocks or Snipes.”)
cf. Bitting pp. 78-79; Cagle 594.


VERY RARE IN ANY EDITION
14) “CHOTA MEM” (pseud.). The English Bride in India. Hints on Housekeeping. Madras, Higginbotham & Co., 1909 £427
Small 8vo. Recent crimson half morocco, spine in 6 compartments, ruled in black, and with raised bands, 5 compartments with gilt curlicues, titled in gilt at head, and dated at foot (“Madras 1909”); a very scarce little work on The Indian Working Routine, Written to Aid “The Memsahib.”
Second edition “Enlarged and Rewritten” (see “Preface to 2nd Edition”). Preface to The First edition: “I Started Housekeeping as A Subaltern’s Wife, so Had To Be As Economical As Possible, and After The Experience of Many Months of Worry, I Found In Doing Things in The Most Methodical Way, One’s Worries Ended and All Went Smoothly ... In This Little Book, I will Endeavour to Show My Reader The Easiest Way to Manage Servants, and General House-Keeping in A Small Indian Bungalow.” There are Chapters on Daily Routine, Keeping Accounts, Furniture to Hire, Food Suggestions, The Store Room or Godawn, The Servants, Kitchen Equipment, Mali (or Gardener), as well as A Chapter of General Household Hints.

Not in Attar. Rare.



WITH THE RARE DUST-JACKET

15) CHEESMAN, Major R.E. Lake Tana and The Blue Nile: An Abyssinian Quest. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936 £595

8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt, the upper cover with a centrally-placed gilt vignette of A Native Canoe, and The Rare Original Cream Dust-jacket, showing A Photographic Panorama of “The Blue Nile at Tisisat [Ethiopia], 1934”; xiv + pp. 400, with a folding photographic frontispiece, 48 other fine photographic plates on 24 leaves, and 2 folding coloured lithographed maps at rear by Cheesman of “Lake Tana” and “The Abbai [“The Father of The Waters” as The Abyssinians call The Blue Nile]”; this is a very good copy, well-nigh immaculate inside and out.

First edition. Preface: “On Christmas Eve in the year 1934 a motor-car packed with suit-cases was stolen by highwaymen. This did not take place in Abnyssinia, but in a London street in broad daylight. At the bottom was typed script of “Lake Tana and The Blue Nile” ...” Amazingly, The Author was able to reconstruct it from notes he had made. Extract: “It was not until 1930 that The First Aeroplane was To Fly Over The Blue Nile Valley … As for The First Car, [The Governor’s] Progress made An Impressive Cavalcade as He was Escorted by Hosts of Cavalry Galloping on Each Side of Him. When Countrymen Met It on the way, They Flung Themselves Face-Downwards on The Ground on The Roadside, Clawing The Earth with Their Fingers, with Mouths Wide Open and Expressions of Abject Terror.” Cheesman was Consul in North-West Abyssinia, and Led This Surveying Expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which He Became The First European to Visit All The Islands on Lake Tana. He also made The First Journey from the Lake down the Blue Nile through Entirely Unexplored Country to The Furthest Point Reached by Expeditions which Had Entered Abyssinia from the Sudan.

ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED
16) CODY, Colonel William F. Life and Adventures of “Buffalo Bill”. Illustrated with Many Rare Engravings. Golden, Colorado, [Privately Printed by] Mrs. “Johnny” Baker, 1939 £227

8vo. Original crimson cloth, spine titled in gilt, with The Splendid Red and White Checked Dust-Jacket (spine evenly faded, and slightly chipped at head, but repaired), with A Title Panel on The Upper Wrapper, Blocked in Blue, surmounting A Photographic Portrait of Buffalo Bill; pp. 352, with A Fine Collotype Frontispiece of “Buffalo Bill. The Scout”, On Horseback, after The Painting by “Pappacena, 1892”, and Copious Wood-Engraved Plates and Illustrations Throughout; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out, bar some fingering to the front free-endpaper, four spots to the verso of The Frontispiece, leaving this A Very Good Copy of A Gripping Autobiography by This Famous Adventurer.

First edition. Association Copy, Inscribed in Pen and Ink on The Front Free-Endpaper: “Mrs. “Johnny” Baker, Foster Daughter-in-Law of “Buffalo Bill”, alongside A Neatly-Placed Inkstamp: “Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum and Tomb. Alt. 7375 Ft. Lookout Mt. Colorado”. Much Vivid Description: “The Buffaloes Came Rushing Past Me Not 100 Yards Distant. Now, Thought I, Is “The Time to Get My Work In” As They Say ...” (p. 110). Preface: “This Thrilling Autobiography tells in Colonel Cody’s Own Graphic Language, The Wonderful Story of His Long, Eventful and Heroic Career and is Supplemented with A Chapter by A Loving, Life-Long Friend [William Lightfoot Visscher] Covering His Last Days, Death and Burial”.
Not in Heller.

HOW TO TELL WHICH MUSHROOMS TO EAT!

17) COOKE, Mordecai Cubitt. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat and What to Avoid. SPCK, 1894 £248

Sm. 8vo. Original grey cloth, the upper cover and spine blocked with multiple images of mushrooms, in full colour, titled in crimson on the upper cover, contained in a specially-constructed green fall-down-back box, with 2 crimson calf labels titled in gilt; viii + pp. 126 (+ 8pp. publisher’s booklist at rear), with 18 fine high-tone chromolithographed plates, illustrating 40 species; some fading to spine title, and light rubbing to corners, while internally immaculate, this remains a very good copy of this essential guide.

First edition. Preface: “There are certainly some 70 or 80 common species to be found in this country which may be eaten with safety, but if only 10 or 12 of these are well-known, they will furnish all the variety which an ordinary person will require ... We have ourselves eaten of more than 60 different species ... Persistent fungus-eaters Never experiment on unknown species.” This is a fascinating and handsomely-produced little guide, by a renowned expert in the field.

Freeman 801.

TIGER TO MAHSEER;
TIGER FISH TO LION
18) CROWE, Philip. Journeys in Asia and Africa. [Privately Printed in] Barre, Massachussetts], 1966 £227

8vo. Original olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, with the original tan dust-jacket, blocked with polychrome wood-engraved vignettes of sporting animals; xii + pp.183, with 16 full-page photographic plates on 8 leaves; mint condition inside and out, bar tiny tears to the dust-jacket, leaving this An Excellent Copy of a Handsome Book from The Twilight of The “Colonial” Sporting Era.


First edition. Numbered and Limited Edition. Czech (Asia): “Crowe, US Ambassador to Ceylon in The 1950s, Enjoyed Considerable Sport both in Ceylon and Southern India. He hunted Bison in The Rangoon Hills and Tiger near The Chambal River in Indore.” African sections include “Big Game in Bechuanaland” (Elephant and Plains Game), and Lion in Natal.

Czech (Asia) p. 55.

AN IMPORTANT GUIDE TO WINES AND SPIRITS
19) DAVIES, John. The Inkeeper and Butler’s Guide, or A Directory for Making and Managing British Wines; with Directions for The Managing, Colouring, and Flavouring of Foreign Wines and Spirits, and for Making British Compounds, Peppermint, Annis Seed, Shrub, etc. [Privately] Printed for and Sold by R. Davies, [n.d. but c. 1820]. £298

Large 12mo. Contemporary burgundy half calf, over marbled boards, flat spine ruled in gilt in 4 compartments, titled in one “The Butler’s Guide”; [iv] + pp. 199; some light rubbing to extremities of binding, and uniform light browning internally, but overall, despite this remains a very good and solid little copy of this fascinating book.

15th edition “Revised and Enlarged by His Son”. A Recipe book for making Inebriating Liquors! The part devoted to wine is divided into English and Foreign Wines. In the “English” section there are Recipes for Claret, Champagne, Port Sack, Raisin, Currant, Orange and Many Domestic Fruit Wines. The “Foreign” section includes Directions on the Managing of a Wine Vault; How to Correct Coloration, and Acidity, including "A Remedy for Claret that drinks foul." Sections on Beer and Cider making. Pages 182-191 contain "The Necessaries always wanted in Wine and Spirit Vaults and Gentlemen’s Cellars".

cf. Gabler p. 71; cf. Bitting p. 117 (8th edition only). Rare.

20) DAVIS, Eugene N. Shooting The Rapids with A Cinnamon Bear [in New England]. [Privately Printed at] Hartland, Vermont, Solitarian Press, 1928. £297

Small 4to. Original pale green wrappers, stitched, titled on upper wrapper, contained in a black fall down back box, with crimson calf labels, titled in gilt; pp. 14; slight fading and marking to upper wrapper, but otherwise fine condition, this is an exceptionally rare and fragile sporting curio, norw protected for the next gereration.

First edition. “The Bear had Already Broken away from His Captors Two or Three times, at last Killing One of The Attendants and Two Horses ... The News of The Bear’s Ferocity Served to Excite The Interest and Curiosity of The Public ...”

Not in Heller or Phillips; extremely rare.

A SPECTACULAR COPY IN FULL PURPLE MOROCCO
21) [DIAMONDS, ETC.] KUNZ, George Frederick. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones: Being a Description of Their Sentiments and Folk Lore, Superstitions, Symbolism, Mysticism, Use in Medicine, Protection, Prevention, Religion, and Divination. Crystal gazing, Birthstones, Lucky Stones and Talismans, Astral, Zodiacal, and Planetary. Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913 £427

8vo. Contemporary full purple morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt, covers ruled in gilt, the spine in 6 compartments, titled in 2, and with raised bands, the covers enhanced with gilt shamrock emblems, matching silk-faced pastedowns, and marbled endpapers, double gilt fillet borders; top edge richly gilt; xiv + pp. 406, with a fine high-tone coloured frontispiece on fine paper, showing multiple stones and settings, 5 other similar coloured plates, and 80 illustrations in doubletone and line in text; mint condition inside and out, bar a dint to the top gilt edges, there cannot be a more handsome copy in the current market.

First edition. During his lifetime, Kunz was recognized as a leading authority on gems and antique jewelry. The Author helped many institutions to set up Collections of Precious Stones including the fabulous Morgan-Bement Collection at the American Museum of Natural History.

A CLASSIC BOLIVIAN NARRATIVE, WITH THE RARE DUST-JACKET

22) DUGUID, Julian. Green Hell: A Chronicle of Travels in The Forests of Eastern Bolivia. George Newnes, [1930] £228

8vo. Original grass-green cloth, spine titled in black, with the vivid original dust-jacket, printed in green, black and white, showing a Pair of Horsemen in Sombreros in an Intimidating Jungle Landscape; pp. 253; spine slightly faded and marked, but internally well-nigh immaculate bar slight browning to endpapers, this remains a handsome copy of a famously gripping narrative.
First “Book Club” Edition. Duguid Writes With Bravura Style: “We Agonise Under Festering Stings, The Cracking Drought of Throat and Lips, The Misery of Tropical Rain. We Exult in The Cool Relief of A Vivifying Pool. The Soft Treading Indians March With Us Threateningly On Either Side of The Jungle-Path.
We Actually Hear Their Bull-Frog War Cry”. The First American Edition was Printed in 1931. A Vivid Description of The Author’s Travels Through The Rain Forests and Jungles of The Bolivian Chaco: The Wildlife, Indigenous Peoples, Villages, Travel Conditions, Customs, Rivers, Mountains, and The Bolivian Andes.

cf. Heller 85 (this title not mentioned). Rare.

WHITE-SLAVE NARRATIVE
23) DUMONT, Pierre Joseph. Narrative of Thirty-Four Years Slavery and Travels. By P.D. Dumont. Collected from The Account Delivered by Himself, by J.S. Quesne. [G. Sidney] for Sir Richard Phillips, 1819. £298

Tall 8vo. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, in “the old style”, flat spine ruled in gilt in 6 compartments, one compartment with a crimson calf label, titled in gilt: “Dumont’s Slavery”; iv + [i] + pp. 6-46, with an excellent engraved frontispiece of the author, chained as a slave, his hand resting on a hoe in an African landscape, backed by mountains, with a native village behind him, palm trees, and figures, mint condition inside and out, bar 2 small neatly applied library stamps at the head of the title, and the foot of final leaf only, leaving this an extremely solid and handsome little copy of a fascinating work.
First English edition (the original Paris edition came out earlier the same year). Dumont (b. 1768) was Shipwrecked off The Algerian Coast in 1782, while serving under The Comte de Montmery. The Ship’s Survivors were Captured by Barbary Pirates, and Dumont Spent The Next 34 Years in Captivity. He was Eventually Freed, during The Joint British-Dutch Asssult on Algiers in 1816 and for a time Served as An Emanuensis to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith. The Narrative, edited by Jacques Quesne, contains Much on Contemporary Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco and The Activities of The Barbary Corsairs.

“A SCARCE EARLY WORK ON HUNTING IN THE HIMALAYAS” (CZECH)
24) DUNLOP, R.H.W. Hunting in The Himalaya. With Notices of Customs and Countries from The Elephant Haunts of The Dehra Doon, to The Bunchowr Tracks in Eternal Snow. Richard Bentley, 1860 £397

8vo. Contemporary calf, covers with double gilt-ruled borders, neatly rebacked in calf, with old spine laid down and a later morocco label entitled: “Dunlop’s Hunting in The Himalaya”, all edges marbled; viii + pp. 318, with A Fine Tinted Lithographed Frontispiece by The Renowned Artist, Joseph Wolf (“Bunchowr Brought To Bay”), 4 other plates, comprising 3 More Captioned Tinted lithographs by Wolf, An Engraved Plate (Comprising 6 Vignettes of An Elephant’s Skull, and Where to Place your Bullet), A Folding Engraved

“Sketch Map of The Himalaya from The Sutledge [River] to The Surjoo [River]” and A Couple of Engraved Illustrations; aside from the reback mentioned above, there are a couple of stains to I1-2, and I7-8, (both facing pages), and some fraying to the edges of F6-7, but these minor flaws aside, this remains a very good and solid copy of A Himalayan Sporting Classic.
First edition. Czech: “Chapters on Hunting Elephants and Tigers in The Dehra Doon Highlight This Work of Sporting Adventures. Besides Additional Hunts for Sambur and Other Game, Dunlop Notes that Few Sportsmen are Aware of How Often They Miss Altogether in Such Shooting, unless They Try The Experiment of Counting Every Shot They Fired. He Pinpoints One Offier Expending 90 Shots for 5 Head of Game! On The Frontiers of Tibet, He Passed Through The Chor Hoti Ghat where He Hunted Yak and Burhel, Then Collected Bunchowr Near Gartok. A Scarce Work on Early Hunting in The Himalayas.” Contemporary pen and ink ownership inscription to front-free end-paper: “Lidderdale, Castle Douglas, Scotland”.
Czech p. 66.

A VERY GOOD COPY
25) EDWARDS, Lionel. My Scottish Sketch Book. Country Life Ltd, [1929] £297

4to. Original grey hessian boards, the upper cover with a paper label at head, titled in black, lilac endpapers, original dust-jacket; pp. 32, with 16 Superb mounted coloured plates by Edwards, 2 of Fishing Scenes, and Copious Illustrations by The Artist Throughout; minimal fraying of dust-jacket, some creasing to rear endpaper, and infinitesimal spotting to half title, but otherwise a very good copy of a sought-after classic.
First edition. Artist’s Preface: “In Gastronomic Terms, “Scotch Collops” [Traditional Scottish Delicacy, Comprising Various Minced Meats, Mixed with Suet and Spices] Would Be A More Appropriate Title, Since With One Exception, These Sketches Have Not Been Previously Published, and Therefore Resemble The Dish in Being Composed Entirely of Fresh Meat.” Sports Illustrated Include Deerstalking, Grouse Shooting, and Salmon Fishing, as well as The Usual Fox Hunting Scenes.
cf. Robinson Bibliography (1994).

26) ELLIOTT, Major-General J.G. Field Sports in India 1800-1947; With Two Chapters on Pig-Sticking by Brigadier C.R. Templer. Gentry Books Ltd., 1973 £98
8vo. Original tan cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover, dust-jacket titled in black, incorporating A Full-Colour Superb Pig-Sticking Plate from Col. Williamson’s “Oriental Field Sports”; pp. 223, with copious plates and illustrations throughout; immaculate condition.
First edition. Preface: ““Field Sports in India” - and there was a wide variety to choose from - offered the necessary relief from The Circumscribed Social Round, whether in Cantonments, Civil Station, or On Leave. Over the period of 200 odd years, there were many who sought this releif, and for those who did, it became part of their lives.” This is the perfect introduction to the Literature of Asian Big Game Hunting.

(?) UNIQUE, AND PRIVATELY PRINTED

27) [EMIRATES COOKERY] TARBUTTON, Hilda [and Others]. Favourite Recipes of Ras al Ham[ra] [Ras al Khaimah?]. [United Arab Emirates]. [Privately Printed (?) in The UEA], c.1945. £298


4to. Original pink wrappers, title printed boldly on the upper wrapper in black, incorporating A Substantial Black Vignette of Two Camels Tethered Beneath a Pair of Palm Trees, Fronting A Sand Dune, Beneath A Burning Sun, now contained in a specially-constructed black cloth fall-down-back box, with a crimson leather label to the spine, titled in gilt: “Emirates Cookery/Ras al Hamra”, and impressed: “Privately Printed”; pp. 226 (printed typescript on one side only), with A Splendid Lithographed Additional Title Caricature by An Unidentified Artist, showing A Camel in A Chef’s Hat, Sitting Cross-Legged and Stirring A Cooking Pot, while Reading A Cook Book, and Five Other Lithographs of The Camel Chef, each Similarly Fronting The Various “Chapters” (“Soups and Appetizers”, “Main Courses”, “Desserts”, “Miscellaneous” and “Menus”) - The “Miscellaneous” section, which is actually featured in the book, before the “Menus”, changing the sequence of the “Contents” leaf, is simply A Further Collection of Both Savoury and Sweet Dishes, Some with The Addition of Alcohol (!); some fraying and abbrasion to the upper wrapper, affecting the final 2 letters of the title and the fore-edge, and a sprinkling of spots to the upper part, and minimal loss at the head of the spine, though the block is holding firm, leaving this what must be An Extremely Rare and Impromptu Selection of Recipes Collected at A Very Specific Time and Place.

First and Only edition. This would appear to be a collection of personal recipes collated from a truly international group of westerners “On Station” in The Middle East. The only fully-identified major contributor is the above Hilda Tarbutton, coming from South Texas. Others are simply surnames and initials, but occasionally a clue will be added to the recipes, identifying the nationalities of French “Galibert”, Dutch “Oosterbaan” and “de Boehmler”. A Complete “Mexican Dinner Menu” is donated by Tarbutton; a “Maltese Friday Lent Lunch” comes from “L. Naudi”; even A Regional British Recipe, “Stargazy Pie” from “J. Dart” - apparently A Piscine Speciality from Cornwall: “Traditionally The Heads of The Fish are Left On, hence Stargazy”!

COPIOUS FINE PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUNG PAKISTAN
28) ENDICOTT, Wendell. The Saga of The Tented Cities [After Tiger and Boar in an Excellent Photographic Tour of Pakistan]. Norwood, Mass., Privately Printed at The Plimpton Press, 1952 £247

8vo. Original pale green cloth, gitlted in gilt on spine and upper cover, the upper cover with a gilt vignette of an Elequant at foot; xv + pp. 237, with an excellent and vivid photographic frontispiece of “Karachi-Pakistan”, and 79 other equally vivid photographic plates and illustrations throughout, all with captions, contained in a specially-constructed fall-down-back box, with 2 crimson calf labels, titled in gilt: “Sport and Photography in Pakistan”; some fading to gilt title on spine, with has a small dint at foot, but internally immaculate, this is a splendidly-illustrated record of a “young country”, viewed at its outset, alongside its rich cultural heritage.

First edition. Printed on fine paper. Presentation copy, inscribed by The Author on the front free-endpaper: “To Hannah and Sam. Just another of The Old Man’s Tales to be inflicted on his two good friends. Jan. 1953.”. Chapters include: “On The Jhils of Sind”; “The Tiger Hunt”; “The Ancient World of Shah Jehan”; “The Hunt for Wild Boar”; “The Tented City of Wam Tangi”, concluding with a chapter, written by Lady Victoria Noon, recording her “Personal Account of a Keddah” [The Coralling of Wild Elephants]. Czech: “Hunting Tiger, Panther and Wild Boar.”

Czech p. 72.



EXTREMELY RARE ETON COLLEGE ETCHINGS, ON INDIA PAPER
29) [ETON] BURROW, Edwin J. (Engraver). The Eton Portfolio: Twelve Etchings. Cheltenham, W.H. Beynon & Co., 1895 £750
Oblong folio [184 x 270 mm.]. Original vellum-backed pale blue boards, titled in black on the upper cover; 12 Superb Original Etchings, on India Paper, mounted, by Burrows, each signed in pencil beneath; both covers externally affected by flecks of discolouration, but internally immaculate, this is a very rare and beautifully-produced set of engravings of this important school, and its Environs.
First and only edition. The 12 Plates comprise: “College from Barnes Bridge”; “Keate’s Lane/College Entrance”; “School Yard”; “Chapel (Interior)”; “Pump and Hall Steps, South Cloisters/Sheep’s Bridge”; “Hall (Interior)”; “Oriel Window in Brewhouse Yard/Lupton Chapel”; “College from The Thames”; “Chapel from Brewhouse Yard”; “College from Island”; “Windsor Castle from The Brocas”, and “Boveney Lock”.

“PRIMARILY DESCRIBES SNIPE HUNTING” (CZECH)
30) FORTY, Lieut.-Col. C.H. Bangkok: Its Life and Sport [Snipe, Buffalo and Rhinoceros]; With Some Account of Siam’s Coastal and Island Game Areas. H.F. & G. Witherby, [1929] £327

8vo. Original orange cloth, spine gilt, with The Rare Pictorial Dust-Jacket, titled in white on spine and upper cover, over a Wrap-Around Photograph of A Siamese Temple Compound, reprised as the frontispiece image; pp. 206 (+ 1p. publishers’ booklist at rear), with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of “The Courtyard of A Siamese Wat (Temple)”, and 9 other photographic plates on 5 leaves; section of dust-jacket torn off at head, and neatly replaced, and with slight fraying to the upper joint, minimal darkening to the top of the upper cover where exposed in the past, while internally, there is some occasional light spotting, leaving this a very good copy of a scarce work on the sport of the region, Important to Wildfowling Enthusiasts.
First edition. Preface: “Patsey O’Halloran, The Famous Professional Snipe-Shot, Used A Gun that was Very Short in The Stock; but There Are Exceptions to Every Rule. This Unique Performer also made use of a Pistol Grip. This is A Grip Well Worth The Sportsman’s Attention for Walking Up Game in The Tropics. It Enables The Hand, which is Often Wet with Sweat, to Get a Better Hold on The Stock ...” Czech: “Forty primarily discusses Snipe Hunting, including Where to Hunt and Necessary Gear. There is [also] mention of Big Game, such as Buffalo and Rhinoceros ...”
Czech p. 82.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, ANNOTATED BY THE ASSOCIATED INSCRIPTEE, AND RARE “ALLAHABAD” IMPRINT
31) FREETH, Captain C.J.D. Automatic Rifles [for] United Service Institution of India. Allahabad, The Pioneer Press [for The United Service Insitution of India], 1912 £228

8vo. Original light blue wrappers, titled in black on the upper wrapper inside a panel blocked in black with floriate cornerpieces, contained in a specially-constructed black cloth flapcase, with silk ties, and a centrally-placed crimson calf label to the upper cover; pp. 15; minimal fraying to spine and extremities, but otherwise a very good copy of an extremely rare offprint, not found in any institutions, with fascinating amendments.
First edition. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the upper wrapper: “E.A. Reavitt, with The Author’s Compliments. C.F. 17/11/12.” The inscriptee is described on p. 15 as being “The Principal Draughtsman of The Royal Small Arms Factory, to whom I am indebted for the drawings that appear in this article, as well as for much other valuable assistance” - for whatever reason, these “drawings” were NOT transferred in the end printed, and are NOT found in the text. However, Reavitt, HAS made several neat corrections to the text, in the margin, such as: “The Browning Pistol is NOT toggle-jointed. The pistol so arranged is The Bucharest-Langer.”
Untraced in COPAC, but The Author can be found as A Contributor on Firearms Matters to various Indian Army Journals.

32) GORE, Frederick St. John. Lights and Shades of The Hill Life in The Afghan and Hindu Highlands of The Punjab: A Contrast. John Murray, 1895 £240

8vo. Contemporary burgundy calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with slightly raised bands, with a mustard calf label titled in gilt, covers ruled in gilt, with a centrally-placed gilt emblem to upper and lower covers, marbled endpapers; xx + pp. 269 (+ 2pp. adverts at rear), with a fine photographic frontispiece of “Our Camp above Pulga (10, 200 feet)”, and no fewer than 72 other superb photographic plates of The Region, 21 illustrations in text “kindly contributed by Count Ferdinand Harrach and K.M. Bernard”, and 2 folding lithographed Sketch Maps, of Kulu, and Kuram, both showing The Author’s Route in red; joints split, but holding, and with minimalfading to boards, but internally pristine, bar a sprinkling of spotting to the maps, This is a Superb Photographic Representation of The Region.
First edition. Gore travelled to Kulu with His Brother Colonel St. George Corbett Gore, in charge of The Himalayan Survey Party and then with W. Merk, The Political Officer responsible for The Troublesome Kurram Valley. Czech: “Though more of A Record of Travel and Observation in The Hill Regions of The Punjab, Gore does include A Hunt after Tiger from Elephant Back in The Dehra Doon.”
Czech p. 88.


“HOLD THEM UP BY THE LOWER BEAK…”
33) HIGHAM, Mary. Household Cookery for South Africa. With 30 Illustrations and A Chapter on Practical Dietetics. South Africa, Central News Agency, Ltd., 1947 £127

8vo. Original burgundy cloth, titled in black on spine and upper cover, with the original white dust-jacket, similarly titled in red; xi + pp. 366, with 31 photographic plates, several to a page, some printed recto and verso; bar a dint to the top edge, and a slight repair to the dust-jacket, mint condition inside and out.
Eleventh Edition. Preface: “In This Post-War Edition, A New Chapter has been Added at The End, under the name PRACTICAL DIETETICS. The War seems to have altered the views of many thinking people on the subject of food. People realise as never before What Knowledge of The Proper Balancing of Meals Should Be. I find to-day that The Enlightened Housekeeper Wants to Know Not Only HOW to COOK, but WHAT to COOK.” On Game: “Generally Speaking it will be found that The Smaller The Animal The Better the Venison, The Meat of The Larger Buck being Frequently Coarse. good test for Game Birds of The Smaller Kinds is to Hold Them Up By The Lower Beak. If It Snaps It Shows They are Young and Tender, and May Be Roasted - If It Holds, They Are Old and May Be Relegated to The Stock Pot or Stew Pan ...”



EDIBLE WILD MUSHROOMS
AND THEIR RECIPES – RARE
34) HOGG, Robert & George W. JOHNSON. A Selection of Eatable Funguses of Great Britain. Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener Office, [1866] £427

8vo. Contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, with slightly raised bands, gilt, with a green moroco label at head, titled in gilt; vii + [pp. 48 (unpaginated)], with 24 superb delicately hand-coloured lithographed plates, finished with gum arabic highlights, and most with multiple images; lower joint with a split at head neatly restored, while internally affected by a sprinkling of spots, mainly to the preliminary text, leaving this a very good copy of
An Extremely Rare Work on Edible Mushrooms, written by One of The Most Sought-After of Authors in The Field of English Fruit and Vegetable Propagation.
First edition. Praface: “There are Many Other Fungi besides Those That Are Figured in This Work that are Considered Edible by Some, while they are regarded By Others as Suspicious. The Species, therefore, that are Included in This Work have been Selected with Every Consideration of Caution, and None have been Admitted, Except What are Known to be Not Only Not Deleterious but Eatable and Nutritious.”*
Not in Bitting, or Patten. Rare.

* The Orange Milk Mushroom: “The Flesh of this Agaric is Firm, Juicy, and Nutritious. Mr. Sowerby says of it: - “I had one dressed; it was very luscious-eating, full of rich gravy, with a little of the flavours of mussels;” and Sir James Smith Adds His Testimony - “The Agaricus Deliciosus Really Deserves Its Name, being The Most Delicious Mushroom Known.” Dr. Badham Cautions Us against Mistaking a Poisonous Ally for This Delicious Agaric, and Carefully Explains The Difference: “The Milk of The Lactarius Deliciosus is Red, and Subsequently Turns Green …That of The Lactarius Torminosus (The Poisonous One) is White and Unchangeable…”

35) HOWARD, George, The 7th EARL OF CARLISLE. Diary of Turkish and Greek Waters. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 £327

8vo. Contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, spine gilt in 5 compartments, with contrasting burgundy and calf labels, titled in gilt, 4 of the slightly raised bands with intricate floriate decoration, all edges marbled; [x] + pp. 353; minimal spotting to the title and last few leaves, but otherwise A Fine Copy of This Rare Diary, Set in An Ever-Controversial Environ.
First edition. Carlisle’s Travels took place in 1853-54. He was a Liberal Politician of A Mildly Reforming Bent. He Resigned in 1852 when He Failed to Obtain Cabinet Position in The Incoming “Peelite-Liberal” Coalition, “In Consequence of This He Believed that He Had Failed in Politics … and Spent Most of The Next 12 Months Travelling On The Continent.” (ODNB) The Author Writes in Quite Informal in Loquacious Diary Form, Blackmer Notes His Gossipy Entries on Life in Athens - but There is also Some Useful Material: “Nothing Can Exceed The Neglected and Squalid Condition of These Interesting Buildings; The Temple of The Winds Was Undergoing A Systematic Pelting from The Ingenuous Boyhood of Athens. It Can Hardly Have Been Worse in Turkish Times, and It Certainly Continues to Afford The Best Justification to Lord Elgin.” On His Travels, He Visited Turkey, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, Eqypt, Corfu, Malta, Italy and Switzerland.
Blackmer Collection 835.

HOW TO EAT LIKE A KING ON A BUDGET, AND A GUIDE TO “MEN AND MANNERS”

36) “IGNOTUS”, pseud. [A. HUNTER]. Culina Famulatrix Medicinae: Or, Receipts in Modern Cookery; with A Medical Commentary, written by “Ignotus”, and Revised by A. Hunter. York, by T. Wilson and R. Spence. 1807 £247
8vo. Recent half calf over cloth boards, flat spine ruled in gilt with a crimson label at head, entitled “Hunter’s Culina”; pp. 310 (+ index of “Contents” + 22pp. Treatise at rear on “Men and Manners”), with An Engraved Frontispiece by “Barker, York” of “A Roman Stewpan from The Cabinet of Mons. Boisot”; externally immaculate, while internally there is offsetting from the engraved frontispiece onto the title, and some undeniable spotting throughout, but over all, the book is a good tight copy, of A Stirring Little Guide to Food and Conduct.

Fifth edition, “Considerably Enlarged”. Oxford: “The Book is Dedicated to “Those Gentlemen who Freely Give 2 Guineas for a Turtle Dinner at The Tavern, when They might have A More Wholesome One at Home for 10 Shillings””!

Simon 871; Vicaire p. 239; cf. Bitting p. 238; cf. Oxford p. 133.

BEIRUT IMPRINT COOKERY BOOK
37) KHAYAT, Marie Karam & Margaret Clark KEATINGE. Food from The Arab World [Recipes from The East]. BEIRUT, [The Catholic Press], 1965 £78

Tall 8vo. Original light grey cloth, spine titled in gilt, with the scarce original dust-jacket; [xii] + pp. 163, title and introduction printed in red and black, with copious wood-engraved illustrations by Sa’ud Ayoubee and John Carswell; slight tear to the dust-jacklet, repaired, but this aside this is a lovely bright copy of an important collection of Middle Eastern Recipes.
Third edition. Preface: “The Arab Cuisine depends to a great extent on oil. Food is cooked in it or dressed with it for serving. The choice of cooking fat often identaifies the country from which the recipe originates. The Lebanese like to use their own fresh olive oil, or a clarifed butter called “Samneh”. The Turks use olive oil, vegeable shortening or butter, while in Saudi Arabia, the preferred fat is ghee, usually obtained from Goat or Sheep Milk. Olives, Nuts, Raisins, Salted Chick Peas, Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, are always on hand as appetizers. Pickles made from Turnips, Beets, Onions, Green Cauliflower and Cucumbers are relished along with fresh Greens. Bread is very important to the diet. The Arabs like to spread their bread with Olive Oil, or with Soft White Cheese, or to dip into the delicious oily purees which they make from Chick Peas, Broiled Eggplant or Parsley flavoured with Pungent Sesame Seed Oil ...”

LOVELY TREE CALF BINDING
38) KINGSLEY, George Henry. Notes on Sport and Travel [Chamois-Hunting in The Tyrol, Bighorn and Grizzly in The Americas, and Salmon-Fishing in Scotland]. With a Memoir by His Daughter, Mary H. Kingsley. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900 £148

8vo. Contemporary full tree calf, spine richly gilt in 6 compartments, with a green morocco label in one, titled in gilt, slightly raised bands, covers with floriate gilt borders, marbled endpapers; vii + 544 (inc. index), with a fine photographic portrait frontispiece of The Author, with tissue-guard; immaculate condition inside and out, bar light rubbing to joints, leaving this a lovely copy of this elegant memoir.

First edition. Heller: “Moose-Calling and Trout Fishing on the Canadian side of Lake Superior, and Elk and Deer Hunting in Nebraska, and Hunting Grizzly and Bighorn Sheep in The Rockies. In the latter part, there is one Chapter on Ice-Fishing with numerous references to The U.S. and Canada.”

Heller 128; Bruns K-50 (“scarce”); Phillips p. 212.

FANTASTIC WRITING! AN AUTHOR WITH OUTSPOKEN VIEWS
39) [KITCHINER, William]. The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c., and Peptic Precepts Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion and To Regulate and Strengthen The Action of The Stomach and Bowels. By The Author of “The Cook’s Oracle”, &c., For Hurst, Robinson, and Co, 1821 £247

12mo. Later half sheep, over grey boards, with a burgundy label at head of spine, marbled endpapers; pp. 276; externally well-nigh immaculate, while internally only affected by a handful of spots, this is A Tight and Clean Copy of A Fascinating and Dogmatic Series of Health Principles.
Second edition. Kitchiner was A Wealthy Physician, whose Lifetime Aim was To Produce A Way of Life - AND A Way of Eating - that is “Nourishing without being Inflamatory, and Savoury without being Surfeiting”.
Attar: “The Author’s Style is Prescriptive to The Point of Bullying”. As An Aid, The Author Reproduces “A Moral and Physical Thermometer; or, A Scale of The Progress of Temperance and Intemperance” by John Coakley Lettsom, listing “Liquors, with Their Effects, in Their Usual Order”, starting at the bottom with “Water”, equated with “Heath, Wealth and Serenity of Mind”, and ending with The Oblivion of “Rum and Whisky in The Morning”, The Effects of Which Can Be “Burning in The Palms of The Hands and Soles of The Feet”, Resulting Ultimately in “Punishments”, The Least of which is “Debt”, Passing Through “Poor House” and “Whipping”, and Potentially, after Extreme “Intemperance”: [Slave Labour on] “The Hulks”, [Transportation to] “Botany Bay”, or “DEATH”. The Vitality of The Writing to be found in this book Needs to be Experienced to be Properly Appreciated!

cf. Bitting p. 262; Oxford p. 146; cf. Attar p. 149.

INSCRIBED AND UNRECORDED –
SPORT IN OUR NORTHERN ISLES
40) KNEESHAW, Captain W.S. Big Game in British Waters. [Pritately Printed in] Bangor, Jarvis & Potter, c. 1935 £228

Small 4to. Original light blue wrappers, titled in black on the upper wrapper, surmounting an onlaid photographic plate of a pair of “bagged” Seals, contained in a specially-constructed green cloth flapcase, with silk ties, and a crimson calf label, titled in gilt; pp. 24, with a vivid photographic frontispiece of “N. Morrison with [His] Sturgeon”, 4 other photographic plates in text, and a Marksman’s collotype Diagram of Target Points on a Seal; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out, bar slight rusting at staples, leaving this a very good copy of an extremely rare little Sporting Gem.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the titled page: “With The Author’s Compliments. Wilfred S. Kneeshaw.” Preface: “I have often thought that many of the amusements which used formerly to cause us to spend a great deal of money abroad, could, with a little ingenuity, be turned to good account in these waters ... We have 2 or 3 varieties of Seal and occasional Walrus Haunting Our Most Remote Isles, while Basking Shark, Porpoise, and Tunny reach our coast at several points. Whales occur, to a limited extent, off The Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands and even The Dreaded Killer [Whale] or Grampus is by no means an unknown quantity ...”

cf. Fitzgerald Hampton p. 58 - A different fishing title listed. This work unrecorded. Rare.

ARAB INFLUENCE: A PIVOTAL WORK
41) LE BON, Gustave. La Civilisation des Arabes. Ouvrage Illustre de 10 Chromolithographes, 4 Cartes et 366 Gravures dont 70 Grandes Planches, d’Apres Les Photographies de L’Auteur
ou d’Apres Les Documents Les Plus Authentiques. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1884 £397

Royal 8vo. (28.8 x 20 cm.). Original Lavishly-Decorated Brown Morocco-Backed Cloth Boards, both cover and spine titled at head in gilt, and Covered in Elaborate Arabesque Panels and Emblems, Crimson Gilt Endpapers, All Edges Gilt; xv + pp. 705, with A Fine High-Tone Chromolithograph of “Table de Bronze Incruste d’Argent de Sultan Mahommed del Kaloum”, 9 Other Similar Chromolithographed Plates, 3 Double-Page Collotypes, One Plate incorporating A Map, Highlighted in Colour, and Copious Other Illustrations in text, Many Full-Page; binding neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, some heavy rubbing to corners, while internally, pp. 299-300 has a piece torn out of the outer margin, now neatly repaired, there is also there is occasional spotting and soiling, and some light marginal water-staining affecting some upper margins, but overall, this remains a good and solid copy of A Comprehensive, Heavy, and Handsome Survey of Arab Influence.

First edition. This is The First Appearance of This Important Work on Arab Art and Culture. Included are Chapters or Sections on Arabia, The Arabs Prior to Mohammed, Mohammed and The Birth of The Arab Empire, The Koran, Arab Conquests, The Arabs in Syria, Bagdad, Persia, India, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, France, Sicily, Italy, The Crusades, Arab Nomads and Settled Arabs, Their Political and Social Institutions, Women, Religion, Language, Philosophy, History and Literature, The History of Mathematics and Astronomy, Geography, Physical Science, Natural Science, Medicine, Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts, Architecture, Commerce, Arab Influences in European Civilization and Vice Versa, Causes of Arab Greatness and Decadence, and Finally, The Author’s Own Opinion of The State of Islamic Civilization in His Own Time.

A SPLENDID COLLATION OF TINCTURES

42) LEYEL, Mrs. C. Summer Drinks and Winter Cordials. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., [1926] £227

8vo. Original Olive-Green Cloth, titled in crimson on spine and upper cover, with The Delightful Original Dust-Jacket by Fallows Stanfield, showing An Elegant Deco-Dressed Lady, Seated by A Table, with Decanter, Fruit Bowl, and Flower Vase, surmounted by the title in black; viii + pp. 88; dust-jacket spine lacking, and 3 individual light spots to index at rear, but otherwise A Splendid Little Collation of Contemporary Tinctures.
First edition. Preface: “The Drinks, If Made With Good Materials, Need No Apology Even as An Accompaniment to French Dinner. The Book Gives All The Newest American Drinks, as well as The Good Old-Fashioned English Ones. Good Claret Cup, and Cups Made of Other French Wines Cost To-Day Less Than Good Beer ...” Recipes include those for “Apple Bloom Punch”, “Flip Flap”, “Maiden’s Blush”, “Marjoram Sherbet”, and “Blackberry Vinegar - A Creole Concoction.”

cf. Bitting p. 287

43) LOCKE, Lt.-Col. Arthur. The Tigers of Trengannu [Tiger Hunting in North-Eastern Malaya]. Museum Press, 1954. £127

8vo. Original black cloth, spine titled in gilt on a crimson tailpiece, upper cover with a centrally-placed gilt vignette of a roaring tiger; xiv + pp. 191, with a vivid photographic frontispiece of an “Adult Male Tiger”, 37 other photographic plates on 12 leaves, printed both sides, and 2 maps, of “The Malay Peninsula”, and of “The Kamaman and Dungun Districts off Trengganu”; minimal fraying to the edges of the pictorial dust-jacket, and a sprinkling of spots to the fore-edges, but overall this remains a very good copy of an exciting late colonial sporting saga.

Second impression. Czech only has the first American edition. Preface by Right Hon. Malcolm Macdonald: “I do not know any more effective piece of writing in Sporting Literature than his undorned, bare and yet thrillingly exciting description of his encounter with The Jerangau Man-Eater ... [The Author] recognises that his tale is so enthralling in itself that it needs no literary tricks or embroidery to enhance it; and so he never overstates his case.”

Czech p. 127.

WITH THE RARE DUST-JACKET: “AN EXCELLENT WORK” (CZECH)
44) LYDEKKER, Richard. The Game Animals of Africa. Revised by J.G. Dollman, B.A. Rowland Ward, Limited, “The Jungle”, 167 Piccadilly, W., 1926 £697

4to. Original black cloth-backed hessian boards, spine titled in gilt, upper cover titled in black at head, with the extremely rare original dust-jacket, incorporating a centrally-placed photographic vignette of Buffalo Horns, “zebra-skin endpapers”; xiv + pp. 484 (+ 5pp. Publisher’s adverts. at rear), with 30 collotype plates, comparing different heads, each with multiple images, and 34 illustrations in text; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, bar skilful repairs to the dust-jacket at foot of spine and lower wrapper, and a sprinkling of spots to the fore-edges, and endpapers, leaving this a very handsome copy of the most “up to date” edition of the era.

“Second edition, Revised”: “In the present volume, it has been found necessary to revise The Nomenclature and to include the Various Species and Subspecies described since the Publication of The Last Edition and Supplement. J.G. Dollman. 1926.” Czech: “An excellent work that covers the natural history of both large and small game animals of
Africa. Lydekker utilised segments of text he had written for “The Great and Small Game of Africa”, edited by H.A. Bryden, with Much New Material Added. Especially interesting are the Hunting Vignettes related by Numerous Sportsmen such as Selous, Neumann, Powell-Cotton, and others in Books and Journal Articles.”

Czech p. 101.

BIG GAME MEMOIR WRITTEN FROM MEMORY IN
A PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP
45) LYNN-ALLEN, Major E.H. Leaves from A Game Book. Illustrated by “The Master of Elphinstone”. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1946 £228

8vo. Original grass-green cloth, spine titled in gilt inside a gilt panel, with the original dust-jacket, depicting both Trout and Goose, while the spine has The Rod and Rifle; pp. 176, with a collotype frontispiece of a Red Grouse, calling “Go-Back!”, and 4 other collotype plates after originals by “The Master of Elphinstone”; mint condition inside and out, this could not be a nicer copy of a delightful work, with a marvelous inscription.

First edition. Association copy, inscribed on the front free-endpaper: “To Richard: remembering the many pleasant excurstions made together in search of game. From bagging “The Brigadier’s Bird” to the “out-of-season” killing of a Goose!”, above a superb pen-and-ink sketch of a Careering Jeep, with Hunters loosing off their Guns, aimlessly, at a Hapless Goose: “Quick, the other gun - He’s tiring!”. Preface: “Little mention will be found in this book of notable bags obtained. [More] those treasured days when we went forth alone, or with but one of two friends, to the achievement of a small triumph, or to the gaining of experience by defeat.” The most extraordinary fact recorded in the preface is this: “This book was written in various prison-camps in Germany”! Chute: “Reminiscences of Shooting in Malaya, Ireland, England, France, Egypt, and Scotland.” Czech: “Chapters on Hunting Tiger in Malaya and in India’s Central Provinces.”

Czech (Asia) p. 130; Chute 40.



46) [MARCH, J.] The Jolly Angler; or Water Side Companion. Containing An Account of All The Best Places for Angling, as well as The Tackle, Baits, & other Requisites to Form an Expert Angler: wtih A Correct Description of Tying Hooks, Making Artificial Flies, Repairing Tackle, &c. Also An Appendix, Descriptive of The Most Successful Means Used in Sea-Fishing at The Different Watering Places. The While Illustrated with 80 Wood Engravings. Printed, and Published, by J. March, Effingham Wilson, and B. Steill, [c. 1840] £248


Tall 12mo. Recent calf-backed hessian boards, titled in gilt along the flat spine; pp. 106, with A Fine Woodcut Frontispiece of “Carthagena Weir (Near Broxbourne Herts)”, with, in the foreground A Fisherman with a Bite, holding the “Landing Net” in His Left Hand, and The Straining Rod in His Right, a wood-engraved Title Vignette of Rod, Creel, and Net, and copious accurate wood-engraved vignettes of Fish Species and Equipment; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, bar a slight crease to the outer margin of F3-6, leaving this an excellent survival of a fragile little angling classic.
Third edition. Preface: “The sale of upwards of 1000 copies, without the assistance of a single advertisement, or, to my knowledge, a solitary criticism, has convinced me that such a work was wanted ... I think that The Reader will here find Every Thing connected wth The Art of Angling as Clearly Explained as if he read through 3 or 4 of The Most Costly Works on The Subject.”
Westwood & Satchell p. 143-4

A LOVELY COPY
47) “MARKSMAN” (pseud.). The Dead Shot, or Sportsman’s Complete Guide; Being A Treatise on The Use of The Gun, with Rudimentary and Finishing Lessons in The Art of Shooting Game of All Kinds; Pigeon-Shooting; Dog-Breaking, Etc. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 £227

Small 8vo. Original burgundy straight-grained morocco-backed olive-cloth boards by Edmonds and Remnants (with their ticket) on behalf of the publishers, titled in gilt on the upper cover; xii + pp. 226) (+ 24pp. detailed publishers’ adverts. at rear), with A Fine Lithographed Frontispiece of An Elegant Sportsman in A Standing Firing Position (“Firing Attitude, No. 1”), and 5 other Similar Lithographed Plates, showing The Same Individual in Various Captioned Poses; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, this is A Delightfully Untampered-With Little Guide, in Fine Original Condition.

First edition. Preface: “[I hope] to lead my pupils on, step by step, to the summit of the science, in the hope of teaching them to hit, with unerring certainty, swiftly flying objects ...” Chute: “The Contents of This Detailed Work are Divided as Follows: - Guns; Rudimentary Lessons on Shooting*; Finishing Lessons; A Few Stray Hints; Pigeon Shooting and Dog-Breaking. He Describes Breechloaders Disparagingly in The Text, but Illustrates Muzzle-Loaders”.

Chute 431.

*Interestingly, on page 18, A Previous Reader Disagrees with “Marksman” - where the latter has written “Generally Speaking, After A Day’s Shooting, A Gun Needs Cleaning”, the former has neatly crossed out the first two words, inserting the words “A Thorough” before the word “Cleaning”, commenting in the margin: “A Cap Snapped Will Rust A Gun”.

ASSOCIATION COPY OF “AN ESSENTIAL TITLE” (CZECH)
48) MAYDON, Major H.C. (Editor). Big Game Shooting in Africa. Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, [1932] £227

8vo. Original tan cloth, spine titled in gilt, in the original tan dust-jacket, titled in crimson, and incorporating 2 black and white mounted photographs to spine and upper cover, of A Rhino and An Elephant; pp. 145, with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of A Rampant Bull Elephant, indicating “Vital Shots” to Bring Him Down, and No Fewer Than 137 Other Captioned Photographic Images on 55 leaves; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, this is A Very Good Copy of An Essential Part of The Sporting Library.
First edition. Association Copy, with A 2pp. ALS tipped in, dated Longonot Farm, Naivasha, 1/4/57, by “J”, to “Ken”: “Many Thanks for The Delicious Drinks and The Ride to The Game Park”, with A Manuscript Map on the verso, showing The Route from Naivasha Town Around The Lake. Czech: “An Essential Title in The African Big Game Library, This Work Calls on The Talents of Numerous African Sportsmen as Contributors, Describing The Hunting Regions of The Continent with Attendant Analysis of Game Animals and Hunting Methods.”
Czech p. 110.

ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO A MEMBER OF THE PAYNE-GALLWEY FAMILY
49) MILLAIS, John Guille. Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, Illustrating The Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and The Hybrids & Varieties That Occur Amongst Them. Henry Sotheran & Co., 1894 £297

Square 8vo. Contemporary tan half morocco by A. Webster & Co., of Piccadilly, spine gilt in 6 compartments with slightly raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; xii + pp. 72, with A Fine Collotype Frontisiece of Thomas Bewick by John Everett Millais, 18 Full-Page Collotypes in text after The Author, and copious other illustrations in text, some photographic; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, bar a crease to the upper corner of pp. 137/8, on The Grouse, where sometime folded, slightly affecting contiguous pages, leaving this A Handsome Copy of A Classic on The Subject.
First “8vo.” edition. Association Copy, with The Engraved Armorial Bookplate of Arthur V.H. Vaughn-Lee, who then passed the book down to A Member of The Payne-Gallwey Family [“A.P. Payne-Gallwey from A.W. Vaughan-Lee” (pen and ink inscription the latter’s bookplate)], who produced the iconic work, “The Book of Duck Decoys: Their Construction, Management, and History” (1886), amongst others. Preface: “In Sending Forth The Second Edition of These Shooting Sketches, The Author Has Not Found It Necessary To Make Any Material Alterations Beyond The Withdrawal of The Coloured Plates That Were Found in The First


[Large 4to] Edition.” Chute: “Notes on The Life History and Sporting [History] of Each of The Four Species Covered - Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan.”
cf. Chute 450.

GRIPPING AFRICAN SPORT –
SUPERB WRITING
50) MONSON, Ronald A. Across Africa on Foot [Big Game Hunting South to North in Africa]. Photographs by J. Hunter Wilson. Elkin Mathews & Marot, 1931 £327

8vo. Original orange cloth, spine titled in black, with The Rare and Splendid Coloured Pictorial Dust-Jacket; xiv + pp. 386, with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of The Author, and His Partner On The Trek, J.H. Wilson, in “Tropical Kit”, including Plus Fours, and Pith Helmet, no fewer than 92 Other Excellent Captioned Photographic Plates on 46 leaves and 5 Maps, including “Map of Cape to Cairo Walk. 7628 Miles”; bar some light spotting to endpaperrs, very tight and bright, with a neatly repaired dust-jacket, making that is immaculate internally, leaving this A Very Good Copy of This Gripping Travel Narrative.
First edition. Czech: “Australian Monson, Joined by South African, J. Hunter Wilson, Trekked from Cape Town to Cairo Without Mention of The Famous Grogan-Sharp Expedition [cf. GROGAN: “From The Cape to Cairo” (1900)] of Nearly 3 Decades Earlier. There are Various Sporting Incidents including Hunting Oryx, Roan and Rhinoceros in Kenya, The Latter Bagged from The Safety of A Tree, as The Author Was Only Armed with A .30-30 Marlin. There is Also A Hair-Raising Experience with a Rogue Elephant in The Congo”*
Czech p. 117.

* “Up Went His Trunk into The air, His Mighty Ears Swept Forward, and Giving Vent to An Ear-Piercing Scream, He Charged. For a Fraction of A Second, I Held My Ground, but As The Madly Trumpeting Beast Came On ... Mighty Feet Thundering Behind Me, Staccato Trumpeting Shattering The Silence of The Bush, Told Me That The Brute Was On Me, and That A Horrible Death Was Imminent ...” (p. 188).

BOUND BY ASPREY

51) MORRIS, F.O. A History of British Birds. Groombridge & Sons, [c.1863-67] £650

8vo. 8 vols. Later burgundy half morocco by Asprey, over red cloth boards, spines gilt in 6 compartments, titled in 2, and with slightly raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edgse gilt; 358 fine plates, coloured from woodblocks, and finished by hand, also with gum arabic varnish highlights and a tissue-guard; some light scuffing to extremities, but internally immaculate, this is a lovely set of one of the most “popular” series in the nineteenth century.

First “cabinet” edition. Wood: “A popular account of British birds gathered from various sources. Mullens and Swann record three reissues of the first edition, four revised editions, and two cabinet editions which goes to prove how very popular the work must have been at the time, especially with amateur ornithologists and taxidermists who identified their finds by means of the coloured plates ... The copy in hand contains 358 plates,
the extra one being that of the Mottled Owl, a bird of which there was no record when the first [6 volume] edition was published.”

Wood p. 472.

52) MORSE, Ira H. Big Game Hunting in Africa: Seven Months in The Veldt [British East Africa]. Warren, New Hampshire, [Privately Printed], c. 1936 £228

8vo. Originial Cream Wrappers, the upper wrapper ruled in black with A Centrally-Placed Photographic Plate of The Morse Museum, Warren, New Hampshire, duplicated as the additional title inside, the whole contained in a black cloth fall-down back box, with a crimson leather label entitled “Big Game Hunting in Africa. Privately Printed. c. 1936”; pp. 59 [48 lines of text per page], with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of Philip and Ira Morse “In Front of Their Tent while On Safari: Philip Admiring His First Lion”, and 19 other captioned photographic plates in text; upper wrapper slightly creased, while internally, a light stain affects the upper outer margin of pp. 1-17, but otherwise immaculate inside and out, leaving this a fine copy of an extremely rare slight, yet detailed little African Sporting Reminiscence.
First edition. “A Rhino Snorted and Whirled into View, Peering with His Short-Sighted Eyes ... Waller shouted, “If you can see him good, shoot.” But My Gunbearer Shouted, “Be Careful, Don’t Shoot. There are 3 of them.” I Heard A Loud Snort To My Left, and To My Horror A Big Bull Rhino with An Enormous Long Horn was Charging at Me ...” (p. 22). Czech: “This Little Work details Morse’s 1934 Safari to British East Africa, Bagging Lions, Elephants, Zebra and The Like. One of Sevaral Hunting Pamphlets Printed by Morse for Distribution at his Warren New Hampshire Museum.”
Czech p 118.

53) MORSE, Ira H. Big Game Hunting in Africa: Seven Months in The Veldt. Warren, New Hampshire, [Privately Printed], c. 1936 £228
8vo. Originial Cream Wrappers, The Upper Wrapper Ruled in Black with A Centrally-Placed Photographic Plate of The Morse Museum, Warren, New Hampshire laid down, duplicated as the additional title inside, the whole contained in a black cloth fall-down back box, with a crimson leather label entitled “Big Game Hunting in Africa. Privately Printed. c. 1936”; pp. 59, with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of Philip and Ira Morse “In Front of Their Tent while On Safari: Philip Admiring His First Lion”, and 19 Other Captioned Photographic Plates in text; upper wrapper slightly creased, while internally, a light stain affects the upper outer margin of pp. 1-17, but otherwise immaculate inside and out, leaving this a fine copy of An Extremely Rare African Sporting Reminiscence.
First edition. Czech: “This Little Work details Morse’s 1934 Safari to British East Africa, Bagging Lions, Elephants, Zebra and The Like. One of Several Hunting Pamphlets Printed by Morse for Distribution at his Warren New Hampshire Museum.”
Czech p. 118.

A POWERFUL ATTACK ON OPIUM, PRINTED IN CALCUTTA
54) [OPIUM] ANON. The Consumption of Opium in India. A Critique of The Memorandum Presented by Sir William Roberts, M.D., F.R.S., as Medical Member of The Late Royal Commission on Opium. Calcutta: Office of the Indian Medical Record, 150 Dharamtala Street, 1895 £395

Large 12mo. Original turquoise stapled wrappers, titled printed in black, contained in a specially-constructed black cloth fall-down-back box, with crimson calf label, titled in gilt: “Opium in India”, and dated in gilt at foot: “Calcutta 1895”; pp. 51; infinitesimal rubbing and wrinkling to wrappers, but internally immaculate, this is an excellent survival of a controversial little pamphlet on the subject.

First separately printed edition, “Reprinted, after Revision, from “The Indian Medical Record”.” This is a powerful and lucid rebuttal of any attempt to downplay the deleterious effects of Opium Consumption. It had been implied that Opium had a similar effect to Tea or Coffee drinking; the editor here begs to differ: “It is a striking instance in point that China, an Opium Consuming Nation, falls defeated and demoralised before Japan, an anti-opium nation, numerically seven times its inferior!”

PEN AND INK INDIAN SPORTING ILLUSTRATIONS FROM “THE NORTH WEST PROVINCES”
55) D’OYLY, Sir Charles (In the Style of). SEVEN ORIGINAL PEN AND INK INDIAN SPORTING SKETCHES, from an unknown work, showing Scenes in “THE NORTH WESTERN PROVINCES” [including “Purrundpur” [sic] ([?] Puranpur, now in UTTAR PRADESH)], several numbered in the left-hand corner (2, 4, 5, 8 - this last corrected to 7). [NoPlace],[c.1840] £597
Oblong 4to. 7 same-size sheets of thick paper [approx. 10 x 6.5 in. (22 x 15 cm.)], with sample drawings in pen, ink and wash, by an unknown but talented hand, to illustrate an as-yet-unidentified Indian Sporting Work. .
The “Captioned” images comprise: a) “In Suspense” [A witty allusion to the fact that The Sportsmen are in A Machan, above A Dead Buffalo as Bait, waiting for Three Tigers which are Approaching from the right]; b) “A Village Tragedy”
[A Tiger, Prowling The Village at Night, is being Held off its Native Victim on The Ground by A Friend Waving A Flaming Torch, as The White Hunter Runs Up with His Rifle and Dog at His Heels]; c) “My First Black Buck” [The Hunter and His Shikari Hide Behind a Rock, while the former aims at The Plain, Teeming with Game]; d) “A Mysterious Sanctuary” [The Hunter is Concealed inside A Hollow Tree,
Having Escaped There from A Furious Buffalo. He Tosses (?) Money to His Prostrate Shikari at The Foot of The Tree (?) in order To Summon Help, while The Buffalo is Distracted by His Barking Dog in The Background]; e) “A Choice of Evils” [Our Hero Dangles from A Cliff, while The Buffalo Tries to Dislodge Him from The Edge, as His Dog and Another Hunter Approaches]; f) “The Rogue Elephant of Purrundpur [sic] (“North West Provinces”, now Puranpur, Uttar Pradesh), Manajee in A Fix” [The Elephant, in The Forest, Towers over The Cowering Native, while 2 White Hunters Attempt to Bring Him Down with Volleys from Two Directions]; and a final unfinished image, showing: g) [Three White Hunters in A Rolling Landscape, Draw a Bead, from Behind A Mound, on A Herd of (?) Antelopes].*
*The images are clearly intened as preliminary sketches for finished engravings, and have been assessed at some point by an editor, who has made several comments in pencil on 2 of them regarding revisions, such as: “Too Short”, “Design of Bison Too Small and Too Far”.

RARE ALDERSHOT IMPRINTED POLO, COME FROM INDIA
56) [POLO] RAMSEY, Colonel-Commandant F.W. (“5th Quetta Infantry Brigade”). Polo Pony Training; With Some Hints on the Game. Aldershot, London, and Portsmouth, Gale & Polden Ltd., 1928. £128

Tall 8vo. Original light blue cloth, titled in black on upper cover, surmountng a vignette in black of A Player and His Pony, contained in a specially constructed black cloth fall-down-back box, with crimson calf label at head, titled in gilt, and with “Aldershot 1928”, blocked at foot; pp. 38 (+ 5pp. adverts. at front and rear for Turnbull & Asser “Sporting Hosers and Shirtmakers” of Jermyn Street, W1, “The Hack-a-More Polo Practice Bridle”, purchaseable at Owen & Co., 2 Duke St., Grosvenor Square, W1, and a 1p. “List of Useful [Associated] Books” printed by The Publisher), with a handsome photographic frontispiece of “A Good Type of Young Pony”: “Chestnut Australian Gelding, “Red Diamond” by “Jewelstone“, with His Turbanned Groom, and 13 other detailed photographic plates, illustrating Various Moves, etc., on 7 leaves; lower outer corner of the upper cover slightly bumped, and light rubbing to joints, but otherwise this remains a very good copy of A Crucial little Polo Guide, now Well-Protected for Future Generations.
First edition. Preface (written from Quetta): “I have written this pamphlet solely as a Guide to Young Infantry Officers who have Little Knowledge of Equitation, but who are Anxious to Learn, and who Aspire to Become Polo Players, but who cannot affort to pay the price of “Made” Ponies ...” “Thacker, Calcutta” booksellers label at rear.

57) POTOUS, Paul. No Tears for The Crocodile [Hunting in Nyasaland (Malawi)]. Hutchinson, [1956]. £228

8vo. Original olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, with The Original Dust-Jacket, Titled on The Spine and Upper Wrapper in Crimson and White, incorporating Several Photographic Vignettes of Crocodiles, and One of
The Author; pp. 188, with a photographic portrait frontispiece of The Author,“Taken Against A Wall of His Grass Hut on The Banks of The Chia”, 27 Other Fine Photographic Plates on 14 leaves, and A Double-Page Map of The Region, Printed on The Endpapers, “Showing The Area In Which The Author Operates in Nyasaland”; immaculate condition inside and out, with only slight rubbing to the extremities of the dust-jacket, this is A Very Good Copy of A Fascinating and Unusual tale.

First edition. “[The Author’s] Expeditions Are Mainly Nocturnal, for Crocodiles Lose Their Fear of Man at Night, and On Them He Faces Constant Danger, Not Only From The “Croc” Himself, but Also From The Hippopotamus, Who Hates Being Disturbed, and Will Sometimes Wreak His Revenge by Coming Up Underneath The Flat-Bottomed Boat. Despite – Or, Because of - These Risks, The Author Finds Compensations for His Hard and Hazardous Life, and In This Account of His Adventures, He Communicates Something of The Excitement and Sense of Freedom It Gives Him ... No One Can Fail To Be Intrigued by His Descriptions of Hunting Expeditions, The More Thrilling Because They Are So Clearly Authentic.”

A LUXURY BINDING ON A DECADENT CLASSIC
58) QUINCEY, Sir Thomas de. The Confessions of An English Opium-Eater. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1853. £597

12mo. Near-Contemporary Full Blue Calf by Root, flat gilt spine ruled with multiple fillets in 6 compartments, 5 containing A Centrally-Placed Individual Gilt Flower, covers ruled in gilt, Hand-Printed Multi-Coloured Floriate Endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, all edges richly gilt; iv + pp. 176; minimal light rubbing to extremities, and a light sprinkling of spots at front and back of text, but overall, this is a stunning little “gift copy” of this most notorious and renowned account of drug addiction in English Literature.
This is an early edition in book form of The Most Famous Account of Drug Addiction in English Literature. De Quincey’s autobiographiccal account records The Euphoria of His Early Experiences with Opium and goes on to document The Darkness and The Nightmares Suffered during The Later Stages of His Addiction. There are some Eloquent Descriptions of The Psychological Effects of The Drug: “”. The “Confessions” was first published in “London Magazine” in October and November, 1821, and The First Edition in book form was in 1822.
Norman 619; Waring 593 (2nd Edition, 1823).

*The Appendix to this volume comprises A Tabulation of De Quincey’s Opium Consumption during The Time when He was Attempting to Reduce His Dependency. De Quincey remained An “Opium Eater” throughout his life,
but Managed To Control His Addiction with Some Success. From 1844 Until His Death in 1859, He Maintained Himself on A Dose of 6 grams (approx 390 mg) per day.


EXTREMELY RARE, GREAT WRITING, DUST-JACKET

59) RAINIER, Peter W. My Vanished Africa [His White Hunter, Taught by Selous, Describes His Elephant Hunting in Portuguese Mozambique, and Rhodesia]. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1940 £497

8vo. Original olive-green cloth, titled in burgundy on spine and upper cover, with The Dust-Jacket, with A Vivid Scene in Full Colour of The White Hunter and Natives, Crouched by A Campfire At Night, in front of A Grass Hut Village; [x] + pp. 308 (inc. Index and “Glossary”), with Several Detailed Maps in Text, and A “Freehand” Map of The Region, Printed on The Endpapers; apart from some slight tears to the jacket, and losses at head and foot of dust-jacket spine (faded), immaculate condition inside and out.
First edition. Czech: “Relating His Colourful Life, Exploring, Gold Mining and Fighting The Germans in Africa during The Great War, Rainier also Provides A Chapter on Chris Human*, An Elephant Hunter who was Taught The Trade by Frederick Selous. Human, The “Elephant Man”, Describes His Hunts in Portuguese Mozambique.”*
Czech p. 136.

* “In Mozambique again, near The Pungwe River, I was Transport Riding Then beween Beira and Salisbury. I Camped on The Pungwe Flats for A Week; Two Frenchmen were Camped Near Me - Rich Sports, Big Game Hunting for Fun, Poor Innocents. One of Them Rushed into My Camp One Night, Frantic. A Lion had Jumped His Brother and Dragged Him into A Patch of Fern. He wanted me to Go with Him, After The Lion in The Dark, but I Refused. Instead We Went at Daybreak. He Persisted in Following The Spoor into The Fern, in Spite of All I Could Do. I Had Wanted to Smoke The Lion out. I Followed Him with My Rifle Ready, A Light .303 Lee-Enfield. The Lion Growled Somewhere Ahead of Us. Then He Sprang. I Fired. He Landed on The Frenchman. There were Two Frenchmen Lying Dead and The Lion On Top of One. I Had Got The Lion Between The Eyes, but The Bullet was Too Light to Stop Him. That’s When I Learned to Use a Heavier Bore Rifle.” (p. 57)

SPORT IN INDIA, IN A WODEHOUSIAN STYLE, AND WITH A STUNNING DUST-JACKET!

60) RAMSDEN, A.R. Assam Planter: Tea Planting and Hunting in The Assam Jungle. John Gifford Limited, 1945 £227

Tall 8vo. Original brick-red cloth, titled in gilt along the spine, with The Stunning Original Dust-Jacket, titled in black and white on spine, the upper wrapper blocked in yellow, black, white, showing both The View in The Background, Seen from An Open Verandah, of The Pickers in The Teafields, and Also from Our Perspective, in the foreground, Seen Inside The Room,
There is A Tiger’s Head Trophy Mounted on The Wall Above The Gun Case, Containing 2 Rifles and A Shotgun; pp. 159; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out, bar a couple of neat repairs to the dust-jacket,
making this An Excellent Copy of Scarce Little Book on The Region, Written in A Sparkling Style, and With The Ever-Rare Dust-jacket..
First and (?) only edition. Preface: "After Serving On Three Fronts and In Eight Countries, where I Had Met and Fought Alongside Men from All The Dominions ... I Resigned My Commission in 1922, with An Uncontrollable Desire to ... Penetrate The Wilds Somewhere with A Rifle and A Dog - Anything To Get Away from Man in The Mass. It Was To Be Hoped that A Certain Black-Haired Beauty with Eyes of Jacqueranda [sic] Blue Would Accompany me ..." Czech: “Hunting Bison, Tiger, Leopard, Crocodile, and even “Driven Snipe”. He includes other adventures as well , such as Facing A Knife-Wielding Madman, and Suffering from Blackwater Fever.”
Czech p. 168.

“A LITTLE KNOWN WORK WITH CONSIDERABLE HUNTING” (CZECH)
61) ROBERTSON, Wilfrid. Zambezi Days [Copious Big Game Hunting in Rhodesia]. Edward Arnold, 1911 £397

8vo. Original tan cloth, with titled in black on spine and upper cover, and The Rare Pictorial Dust-Jacket, the Upper Cover with A Fine and Detailed Wood-Engraved Scene of Two Antelopes in The Foreground of A River Valley, while Away in The Background Are A Hunting Group, Approaching, The Spine with A Detailed Wood-Engraved Vignette of A Lioness Coming Down To A River-Bank, both images by Renowned Engraver, Joan Kiddell-Monroe; v[i] + pp. 196, with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of The Chewori River, and 15 Other Photographic Plates, All Captioned Beneath; neat repair to the upper joint, and some light staining to the upper cover, which is slightly bubbled, but otherwise in very good orginal condition, this is An Extreme Rarity of African Hunting Literature, Found Here with Its Dust-Jacket.
First edition. Czech: “A Little-Known Work with Consideably Big-Game Hunting Content. The Author Travelled Through The Zambezi Valley, Hunting Elephant and Leopard near The Chewori River. “Deep in The Heart of Elephant Country, There Was A Wonderful Fascination in Lying Awake at Night Listening to The Movements of The Great Beasts in The Surrounding Bush, and By The Sounds, Visualising Their Progress Through The Dim Aisles of The Trees ... Branches Broken as The Animals Fed, Rang Like Pistol Shots Through The Night ...” He Canoed Along Seveal Stretches of The Zambezi with Stops to Bag Buffalo and Lion. There is Also An Excellent Chapter on His Views on Rifle Calibres, Bullet Choice and Sights.”
Czech p. 138.

A “MOST BEGUILING” WORK ON PALMISTRY IN RARE FIRST EDITION

62) ROTHMANN, Johann. “Keipomantia”: Or, The Art Of Divining By Lines and Signatures Engraven in the Hand of Man, By the Hand of Nature, Theorically [sic], Practically. Wherein You have The Secret Concordance, and Harmony Betwixt It, and Astrology, Made Evident in 19 Genitures. Together with A Learned Philosophical Discourse of The Soule of The World and The Universall Spirit Thereof. By J.G. for Nathanial Brooke, 1652
£1200

Small 8vo. Contemporary blind-ruled speckled calf; [xii “Epistle Dedicatory by The Translater, George Wharton to His Patron, Elias Ashmole” (see below)] + pp. 167, with A Detailed Engraved Frontispiece of “The Palm”, and Its Various “Influences”; and 18 Large Woodcut Diagrams Incorporating The Palm, in text; in Excellent Untouched Original State, only with a couple of rust-spots affecting a few individual letters, leaving this A Very Good Copy of The Rare First Edition of This Important Early Work on Palmistry.

First edition. “Only Five books on Palmistry were Published in The English Language between 1500 and 1700, Three of Them Translations. This is One of The Most Beguiling...” (Fitzherbert, “Palmist's Companion”, [1992]). The Dictionary of National Biography calls The Translator, George Wharton, “A Constant and Thorough Paced Royalist, A Good Companion, A Witty Droll, and A Waggish Poet.” (DNB). Nothing is known about The Original Author, Rothmann, Except that He was A Mathematician and Physician who Practiced in The State of Saschen-Anhalt in Germany. He had Published his “Chiromantiae Theorica Practica” in 1595 - An Attempt to Bring Chiromancy and Astrology Together into One Discipline: “The Highly Abstruse and Theoretical Astrology would Benefit by Being Tied Down to So Worldly A Thing as Flesh and Blood, While Palmistry, Already Struggling in A Tightly Fixed Symbolism, Would be Given More Freedom by Its Association with An Art which Followed A Prolix Individual Reading for Any One Symbol.” [Gettings, “Book of the Hand”, p. 179.] More Controversial is The Life of Its Translator, Sir George Wharton (1617-1681), First Baronet, Astrologer and Royalist. (see below*)

Wing W1538; ESTC 222290; Gardner, Astrologica, 454; Sabbatini 548: "raro"; Fitzherbert “Palmist's Companion”, 336.

*Sir George Wharton, 1617-1681, First Baronet, Astrologer and Royalist: “He pursued His Astrological Studies at Oxford with Much Industry... On 22 March 1644-1645 He Made, at Oxford, The Acquaintance of Elias Ashmole
[This Work’s Dedicatee], Whom He First Instructed in Alchemy and Astrology. Ashmole and Wharton remained Friends for Life ...” (DNB)*

**In fact,] Wharton [later] Involved Himself in Embittered Controversy with Rival Astrologers who were Politically Opposed to Him. He Attacked with Especial Rancour William Lilly, John Partridge, and John Booker, and for many years He Maintained Against Them A War of Vituperation. Wharton's Almanac for 1644, which He Printed at Oxford Under The Name of “Naworth”, “with His Maiesties command,” was Severely Assailed by Booker in His Pamphlet entitled 'Mercurius Celius.' Wharton Retorted in 'Mercurio-Celicio-Mastix; or, an Anti-Caveat to All Such, as Have (Heretofore) Had The Misfortune To Be Cheated and Deluded by That Grand and Traiterous [sic] Impostor of this Rebellious Age, John Booker: Printed Anno Dom. 1644.'

In Wharton's Almanac for Next Year He First Supplied His Own Name On The Title-Page and Described Himself as Student in 'The Mathematicks.' In The Preface, He Denounced Booker as 'That Clubfisted Fellow,' and Booker's friend Partridge as ‘That Blood Hound.' 'An Astrologicall Judgement upon his Majesties Present March: Begun from Oxford May 7, 1645. ¼ By George Wharton,' was published at Oxford by H. Hall in the same year. At the same time Lilly, in his ‘Starry Messenger,' denounced Wharton as a man of 'no worth' (a pun on Naworth), and charged him with plagiarism. After the surrender of Oxford in 1646, Wharton 'was put to his shifts and lived as opportunity served.' He was in Yorkshire in September 1646, when he wrote 'Bellum Hybernicale: or Irelands Warre. Astrologically demonstrated, from the late Celestiall congresse of the two Malevolent planets Saturne and Mars in Taurus, the Ascendent of that Kingdome' (1646-7, 4to). Shortly afterwards he renewed his attack on Lilly in 'Merlini Anglici Errata.' Subsequently he removed to his native place in Westmorland. In August 1647 he was ill of the plague. On his recovery he took part in publishing a quarto sheet week by week in London under the title 'Mercurius Elenchicus.' There he venomously satirised the proceedings of the parliament. On 12 March 1648-9 he was arrested and sent to Newgate by order of the parliament. On 26 Aug. he escaped from the prison, and remained in concealment until 21 Nov. 1649, when he was recaptured and committed to The Gatehouse, Westminster. In the autumn of 1650 Ashmole, who befriended him throughout his troubles, learned that John Bradshaw, the president of the council of state, had resolved to have him hanged. Ashmole appealed to Lilly to use his interest with his patron, Bulstrode Whitelocke, so as to procure Wharton's release. In the result Wharton was discharged from prison after engaging to write nothing thenceforth 'against the parliament or state.'
On regaining his liberty he was quite destitute, and Ashmole generously invited him and his family to occupy his house at Bradfield in Berkshire. For a time Wharton acted as Ashmole's agent on the estate, but he chiefly occupied himself with his almanacs. In 1657 and three following years he gave them the new title of 'Calendarium Ecclesiasticum,' and added under the title of 'Gesta Britannorum' a useful chronological table of the leading events in English History from 1600.

63) SALTER, Thomas Frederick. The Angler’s Guide, Abridged for The Use of Young Anglers: Containing Bottom, or Float-Fishing; The Art of Trolling for Jack and Pike; Fly-Fishing; and Trimmer-Angling: with Directions how to Plumb The Depth; To Bait The Hooks; To Make Paste; To Lay Night-Lines; and The Best Method of Making Ground-Bait, &c. James Maynard, [(?) 1841] £228

12mo. Original printed boards, titled in black on spine and upper cover, surmounting on the cover a wood-engraved vignette of A Pike, the lower cover with publisher’s adverts. for 2 other Angling Books by Salter, one “The Angler’s Guide” - the 8th edition produced for “Adults”, and the other being the 2nd edition of “The Troller’s Guide”, the whole contained in a specially-constructed black cloth fall-down-back box, titled on the spine in gilt; iv + pp. 86, with no fewer than 33 fine woodcuts in text, of Species, Equipment, and Fishermen in The Field; spine title faded, and some other rubbing to extremities, but overall this remains a fine and solid copy of an extremely rare little angling gem.
Fifth edition “With The Author’s Last Additions and Corrections. Embellished with Thirty-Three Cuts”. Preface: “The Author’s chief motive for publishing this “Abridgement” is to enable The Fishing Tackle Dealers to sell at a small price to The Novice in Angling, a Work of Real Practical Information on the Art of Taking Fish, instead of the Numerous Catch-Penny Pamphlets on Angling with which Their Shops have been Inundated for Many Years.” Provenance: “G.W. Gent, Esq. Moyns Park, Halsted [Suffolk]” (Address Label/Bookplate).
Westwood and Satchell p. 187

SUPERB RHINOCEROS PLATES BY JOSEPH WOLF
64) SCLATER, Philip Lutley. On The Rhinoceroses Lately Living in The [Zoological] Society’s Menagerie.* London, R.Z.S., 1875
£1,200

Royal 4to. Recent dark brown half calf, over marbled boards, covers ruled in gilt with floriate curlicues in blind, flat spine ruled in gilt in 4 compartments, 3 containing gilt emblems, the fourth titled in gilt: “Sclater: Rhinoceroses”; pp. 16, with 5 Magnificently Hand-Coloured Lithographed Plates by Renowned Artist, Joseph Wolf**, of Different Species of Rhinoceros in Their Appropriate Jungle Settings (Also Hand-Coloured***), the whole Highlighted with Gum Arabic Varnish, and 9 Accurate Wood-Engraved Illustrations in Text; mint condition externally, and affected only internally by light uniform browning to “p. 645”, this is A Very Rare Series, and Arguably The Finest Depictions of These Huge Big Game Animals Ever Acheived.
First edition. Prefatory Notes by Sclater: “The Main Object of My Remarks is to Illustrate The Very Beautiful Drawings by Mr. Wolf Now Before Us ... It has been thought that The Present Opportunity of Obtaining Correct Outlines of The External Form of The Five Species in Our Gardens Should Not Be Passed By ...” The Accuracy and Drama of These Lithographs Amply Rewards Sclater’s Confidence in The Artist’s Abilities!
*Extracted from “The Proceedings of The Zoological Society”.

**Joseph Wolf had Recently Become Known as The Artist of The Birds Of Prey in John Gould’s Masterpiece, “The Birds of Great Britain” (1873).

**Other Animals in Sclater’s Series had Uncoloured Backgrounds.

65) SCOTT, Robert L. Between The Elephant’s Eyes! [Big Game Hunting in Kenya]. Longmans, Green & Co., [1955] £127
8vo. Original pale green cloth, spine titled in gilt lengthwise inside a broad dark green panel, with The Superb Dust-Jacket by Ley Kenyon of A Trumpeting Tusker Charging The Hunter, who is Depicted on The Spine, Drawing A Bead; [viii] + pp. 180, with 8 Fine Captioned Photographic Plates, printed recto and verso; some uniform fading to spine, but gilt title bright, and spotting to text on pages opposite the plates, but otherwise, this remains A Handsome Copy of One of The Last Hunting Sagas from East Africa’s Golden Age.
First edition. Preface: “Ever Since He was A Boy in Georgia, Robert Scott Had Yearned for The Wilds of Africa. His Dream was To Hunt The Great Samburu Elephant, The Largest in The World, to Track Him over The Veldt and Through The Jungles. [He Set off, Accompanied by] The Incomparable Gholo, [His] Gunbearer, and Pitcairn Holmes, The White Hunter ...”

HOW TO COOK HUMAN FLESH, AND
HOW IT TASTES
66) SEABROOK, William B. Jungle Ways [Witchcraft and Cannibalism in French West Africa (Ivory Coast and Mali)]. George G. Harrap & Co., Limited, [1931] £247

8vo. Original black textured cloth, spine titled in gilt, the upper cover in blind, surmounting a centrally-placed blind vignette of A Native Hut, with The Rare Original Bright Green Dust-Jacket, Titled in Red, The Central Image on The Upper Cover Being A Native Giant, Balancing Another Native on His Forehead, The Spine with An Elaborately-Dressed Witch Doctor; pp. 308, with 32 full-page photographic plates, and a wood-engraved Map, showing The Author’s Routes Through The Territory of The Yafouba Tribes, Gere Cannibals, Mossi Tribes, and Habbe Cliff Dwellers; dust-jacket torn with slight loss, with slight fading to its spine, but these minor defects aside, this is An Excellent Copy of A Controversial Work.

First edition. There is A Shocking Chapter where The Author Partakes in A Roast of Human Flesh: “I Took A Good Big Swallow Of Wine, A Helping of Rice, and Thoughtfully Ate Half The Steak. And As I Ate, I Knew With Increasing Conviction and Certainty Exactly What It Was Like. It Was Like Good, Fully Developed Veal, Not Young, But Not Yet Beef. It Was A Mild, Good Meat, With No Other Sharply Defined or Highly Characteristic Taste, Such As, For Instance, Goat, High Game or Pork Have. The Steak Was Slightly Tougher Than Prime Veal, A Little Stringy, But Agreeably Edible. As For The “Long Pig” Legend, Repeated In A Thousand Stories, It Was Totally, Completely False.” (p. 172-173). Superb writing!


67) SHERIDAN, Clare. Arab Interlude [An Aristocratic Lady Goes “Native” in The Sahara]. Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1936. £228

8vo. Original russet cloth, upper cover and spine with wave design blocked in blind, spine titled in green, with The Bicolour Textured Original Dust-Jacket, the title blocked in black on spine and upper cover, and incorporating The Colour Plate image of The Author in Arab Dress, mounted at head; pp. 384, with A Fine Colour Photographic Frontispiece of The Author in Native Head-Dress, and 17 Other Plates, printed recto and verso, on 8 leaves; well-nigh imaculate condition inside and out, bar light fraying to the edges of the plate, and a couple of spots to the fore-edges, leaving this A Very Good Copy of A Fascinating Record of Intrepid Female Travel.

First edition. In Her Life, English Writer and Sculptor, Clare Sheridan Challenged Convention and Crossed Many Social Boundaries. In Her Art, She Also Bridged Ideologies: She Sketched Mussolini, and Sculpted Busts of Gandhi, Lenin, and Trotsky, as well as Her Cousin, Sir Winston Churchill, whose Politics She Had Come to Appreciate just as He Respected Her Creativity, as can be seen from
This Post-War Quotation of his: ‘Yes, My Dear, We Had To Fight Those Nazis, It Would Have Been Too Terrible Had We Failed. But In The End You Have Your Art. The Empire I Believed in Has Gone.

PROOF COPY MALAYAN SAFARI
68) SHUTTLEWORTH, Charles. Malayan Safari. Phoenix House, [1965] £227
8vo. Original olive-green wrappers, with the original dust-jacket, blocked in colours, showing A Tiger Moving Carefully Through Thick Undergrowth; pp. 156, with A Fine Collotype Frontispiece and 4 Other Plates, printed recto and verso; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out.

Proof copy of The First English Edition. The Book was Originally Published in Singapore. The English edition appeared 2 years later in 1967. Czech: “An outfitter in Malaya, Shuttleworth describes numerous animal encounters in the jungles with mentions of Stalking Tiger and Rogue Elephant.”

Czech p.186.

A FAMOUS SPORTING WORK, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
69) SOMERVILE [SOMERVILLE], William. “The Chase”; To Which is Annexed “Field Sports”. With A Sketch of The Author’s Life, including A Preface, Critical and Explanatory, and Some Annotations on The Text and Nature of The Poem by Edward Topham. Albion Press, by James Cundee, for T. Hurst, 1804.
£328

12mo. Contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, flat spine ruled in 6 compartments, titled in one; [vi] + xxxx + pp. 135, with a fine engraved addional title, 8 vignette illustrations, and 4 full-page plates, and 4 engraved sectional title pages with vignette illustrations (the artwork on these 8 plates is by John Sartorius; some of the [woodcut] vignettes are signed “Austin”, while others are “Bewickesque”; minimal rubbing to extremities of calf, and to marbled boards, while internally, a bookplate has been neatly removed from the front pastedown, and minimal damp-staining to upper outer margins at rear, but otherrwise, this is A Delightful Copy.

First edition, with this imprint. Schwerdt: “The Engravings in This Edition Are Very Artistic and Full of Vigour.” Prefatory note to the “Essay”: “A Passion for The Chase Has Been Observable in Every Age and Country. It Has Existed in The Earliest Days, and Still Continues to The Present State of Civilisation; and Will, In All Probability, Remain As Long As Society Itself Endures ...”. “The Chase", a long poem in praise of Hunting, was printed in 1735 while “Field Sports”, on Hawking, was published in 1742. William Somerville (1675-1742) lived on His Estate in Worcestershire and field sports provided the primary subjects for his poetry. Contemporary ownership inscription of “O. Lloyd, (?)Rockvill[e]”.

Schwerdt II p. 167.


SIGNED AND PRIVATELY PRINTED BIG GAME SAGA: “VERY RARE IN THIS EDITION”
70) STARK, Loren D. Big Game Hunting on Three Continents, [Privately Printed in] Houston, The Venture Press,1971.
£228

4to. Original textured brown cloth, the upper cover with 3 gilt vignettes of A Wild Sheep, A Water Buffalo, and A Tiger, each super-imposed on A Map of Their Corresponding Continents; xii + pp. 281, with A Photographic Portrait Frontispiece, additional title, copying the upper cover design, at least 50 Full-Page Plates by The Author’s Daughter, “E. Stark”, and copious other illustrations in text; immaculate condition inside and out, bar minimal marking to dust-jacket, leaving this An Excellent Copy of the scarce signed limited edition.

First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper: “Loren D. Stark, Nov. 1975.” On Safari to Somalia, 2 Safaris to Mozambique, another to Kenya, after Elephant, Lion, and Others; to India for Tiger and Leopard, and to Iran, for Ibex, Urial, and Armenian Sheep, while closer to home, in North America, after Dall Sheep, Moose, Polar, and Brown Bear. Heller: “A 7 page account of The Author’s Hunting Trip to Alaska for Ovis Dalli.”

Heller 372.

PACKED WITH SPORT IN KASHMIR, LADAKH, UPPER BURMA, AND INDIA

71) STOCKLEY, Lieut.-Colonel C.H. “Shikar!” : Being Tales Told by A Sportsman in India. Constable and Company Ltd., 1928
£248

8vo. Recent dark green calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt in 6 compartements, ruled in gilt, each raised band tooled in blind, matching marbled endpapers; ; viii + pp. 192, with a fine photographic frontispiece of a Ram’s Head Trophy, “The Big Bharal”, and 35 other photographic plates on 23 leaves; mint condition inside and out, this is a well-nigh pristine copy, and an untouched bookblock, waiting to be broached.

First edition. Czech: “Travelling into Kishtwar in Eastern Kashmir, The Author successfully stalked Goral and Tahr, though He had some Hair-Raising Experiences in Scaling the Cliffs to get in Shooting Range. Stockley continued into The Nilgherry Hills where he bagged additional Tahr and Sambur. During a journey to Upper Burma, he collected Tsine. While in Ladakh near The Shyok River, He Hunted Burhel, then bagged Markhor near The Headwaters of The Indus River. The Good Colonel also Hunted Ibex during 2 Sporting Trips into Sind.”

Czech p. 203.

ARTIST LOSES HIS ARM TO A TIGER, RETRAINS, AND THEN ILLUSTRATES THIS BOOK WITH THE OTHER!
72) STRACHAN, Arthur W. Mauled by A Tiger; Encounters in The Indian Jungle. Illustrated in Colour from Miniature Paintings on Ivory by The Author. Edinburgh & London, The Moray Press, 1933 £397

8vo. Original Crimson Cloth, Spine Titled in White, with The Rare Grey Original Dust-Jacket, incorporating A Centrally-Placed Laid-Down Portrait of A Tiger by Strachan, surmounted by the title in burgundy; xi + pp. 279 (+ 4pp. detailed publisher’s adverts. at reare), with A Fine Coloured-Plate Frontispiece by Strachan, of A Tiger, Laid Down on Heavy Grey Paper, 7 Other Equally-Fine Coloured Plates, Also Laid Down, and 10 fine photographic plates on 8 leaves; a small repair to the head of the spine, and correspondingly to the dust-jacket, which also has a couple of tapemarks, but internally immaculate This is An Excellent Copy of A Highly Sought-After and Gripping Asian Sporting Book.

First edition. Editor's Preface: “This Is A Book As Exciting As Any Fiction ... [The Author's] Graphic Description of Following A Wounded Tiger Through The Jungle and The Ultimate Encounter In Which He Lost An Arm and A Leg Makes Thrilling Reading.” The Extraordinary Aspect of This Tale is that The Artist Lost His Miniature-Painting Right Hand During That Final Confrontation, and Had to Paint All The Illustrations for This Book with His Left Hand! Czech: “Strachan Hunted Numerous Tigers in The Grass Jungles of Assam, both while On Foot and from Machans. On one occasion, He Trailed A Wounded Tigress, Only To Have The Feline Charge and Maul Him. Though He Succeeded in Killing The Cat, His Wounds Were So Extensive that An Arm and Leg Had to be Amputated. The Author Also Includes Episodes of Hunting Leopard, Wild Boar, and Bear.”

Czech p. 206; cf. Elliott - "Field Sports in India 1800-1947", London, 1973, pp. 89-104 (Tigers).

PRIVATELY PRINTED “EMIRATES COOKERY”
73) TARBUTTON, Hilda [and Others]. Favourite Recipes of Ras al Ham[ra] [Ras al Khaimah?]. [United Arab Emirates]. [Privately Printed (?) in The UEA], c.1945. £298

4to. Original pink wrappers, title printed boldly on the upper wrapper in black, incorporating a substantial black vignette of 2 Camels tethered beneath a Pair of Palm Trees, fronting a Sand Dune, beneath a Burning Sun, now contained in a specially-constructed black cloth fall-down-back box, with a crimson leather label to the spine, titled in gilt: “Emirates Cookery/Ras al Hamra”, and impressed: “Privately Printed”; pp. 226 (printed typescript on one side only), with a splendid lithographed additional title caricature by an unidentified artist, showing A Camel in a Chef’s Hat, sitting Cross-Legged and Stirring a Cooking Pot, while reading a Cook Book, and 5 others, each similarly fronting the various “Chapters” (“Soups and Appetizers”, “Main Courses”, “Desserts”, “Miscellaneous” and “Menus” - the “Miscellaneous” section, which is actually featured in the book, before the “Menus”, changing the sequence of the “Contents” leaf, is simply a further collection of both savoury and sweet dishes, some with the addition of alcohol(!); some fraying and abbrasion to the upper wrapper, affecting the final 2 letters of the title and the fore-edge, and a sprinkling of spots to the upper part, and minimal loss at the head of the spine, though the block is holding firm, leaving this what must be an extremely rare and impromptu selection of recipes collected at a very specific time and place.


A FAMOUS EARLY CHILDREN’S BOOK
74) [TRIMMER, Sarah]. Fabulous Histories; Or, The History of The Robins, Designed for The Instruction of Children, Respecting Their Treatment of Animals. For N. Hailes, London Museum, Piccadilly, 1818 £247

Large 12mo. Contemporary full marbled sheep, spine ruled in gilt; viii + pp. 164, with An Engraved Title Vignette of The Robins’ Nest, and 18 Woodcut Plates; some heavy rubbing to the binding, and with one compartment of the calf spine lacking, the stitching is nevertheless holding, and internally it is good and clean, bar some amateur hand-colouring by A Juvenile Hand, affecting 2 early woodcuts, leaving this a fragile, but solid, little copy of An Early Classic Children’s Book.

Twelfth edition. Osborne: “The Title Page and The Head-Pieces are Engraved in The Bewick Manner.” Originally published in 1786, This Was Sarah Trimmer’s Most Famous Work.. Indeed, The Book remained in print until the beginning of The 20th Century. “Fabulous Histories” tells The Story of Two Families - One Robin and One Human - who Learn to Live Together Harmoniously. Most Importantly, Both The Children and The Baby Robins Learn to Adopt Virtue, and to Shun Vice. For Trimmer, Practicing Kindness to Animals as A Child would Hopefully Lead One to "Universal Benevolence" as An Adult. Fabulous Histories, was Reprinted for at least 133 years.

Osborne I, p. 314.

A LOVELY BRIGHT COPY WITH DUST-JACKET
75) TRINKLER, Dr. Emil. The Stormswept Roof of Asia: By Yak, Camel and Sheep Caravan in Tibet, Chinese Turkistan, and Over The Kara-Koram. Seeley, Service & Co., 1931 £427

8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine titled in gilt, the upper cover with A Centrally-Placed Gilt Vignette of A Ceremonial Tiger Mask, with The Original Dust-jacket, Blocked in Crimson on A Cream Background, with the title at head of upper cover and spine, the former surmounting A Vivid Roaring Tiger Mask, with The Karakoram Mountains in The Background, and the latter surmounting A Pair of Heavily Laden Yaks Progressing Slowly Up A Mountain Trail; pp. 311 (+ 8pp. Publishers’ Booklist at rear), with A Fine Photographic Frontispiece of “Mulbekh Monastery” (“This Monasttery Overlooks The Village of Mulbekh which Lies Huddled at Thei Foot of This Spire-Like Rock”), 26 Other Equally Startling Captioned Photographic Plates on 15 leaves, and a folding lithographed “Sketchmap” at the rear, “From Information Supplied by Dr. Emil Trinkler”; slight darkening to spine, and minimal spotting to front free-endpaper and pastedowns, but otherwise this is An Excellent Copy of A Vividly-Described Vertiginous Journey.




First edition. “Before us lay the Indus Valley Bathed in Sunshine. The Air was Fresh and Clear, but Soon The Boulders and Sand Grew So Hot It Seemed To Quiver About Them. The White-Washed Chortens* of The Old Monastic Settlement of Njerma Were So Glaring in The Sunlight that We Had to Put On Our Smoked Glasses ...” (p. 33). This Is A Finely-Wrouight Narrative of The Geologist Author’s Expedition to Central Asia in 1927 and 1928, with Detailed Descriptions of The Peoples, Scenery, Geology, Living Conditions, and Nature of The Region. He Travelled from Srinagar to Kargil to Leh, Kashgar, Kunlun, Through The Taklamakan Desert, Yarkand, and The Karakoram Mountains. Ironically, Having Overcome All The Hardships Herein Described, Trinkler was Killed in A Car Crash in 1931!
Yakushi T102b.

*Architectural Reliquaries, Housing Relics.

TUNNICLIFFE ILLUSTRATIONS, A
RELATED LETTER, AND THE ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET
76) [TUNNICLIFFE, C.F.] REYNOLDS, W.F.R. Angling Conclusions [The Advice of an Experienced Angler - “None Previously Appeared in The Press” (Preface)]. Faber and Faber Ltd., 1947 £227
1
8vo. Original green cloth, spine titled in gilt, with The Original Pale Green Dust-Jacket, titled in red, on spine and upper cover, and including 3 Vignettees by Tunnicliffe, comprising A Leaping and Hooked Salmon, Observed from The Boat; A Distant Fisherman Casting into a Lake, with a Forest Background; and on the spine, A Fisherman Preparing to Cast; pp. 227, with a wood-engraved title vignette, and copious vignettes in the text, by Tunnicliffe, and further Diagrams of Fishing Equipment; extensive and skilful restoration of the dust-jacket, and slight bumping to the lower outer corner of the upper cover, but internally well-nigh immaculate, this is an excellent combination of fine angling advice, and iconic illustration.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by The Author “To E. Launay very sincerely, W. Reynolds. Sept. 1947”, and further, with a 1p. ALS by The Author to Launay, dated Navarreux, Basses Pyrenees, “Sept 26-47”, in which He Cynically Comments: “My illustrations were turned down since The Publishers have a tame A.R.A. [Associate of The Royal Academy] on their staff [in this case, Tunnicliffe!] - or rather, I only suppose that to be the reason ...” Author’s Preface: “Fishing is Not a Mere Hobby; It Affords Unique, Pricelesss Opportunity for Contact with Nature Naked, and Humans Unmasked ...”
cf. Fitzgerald Hampton pp. 77-78.





“THIS MASTER OF ANIMAL PORTRAITURE” (WOOD)
77) WOLF, Joseph (Artist) & Daniel Giraud ELLIOTT. The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, engraved by J.W. & Edward Whymper. With descriptive letter-press by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Alexander Macmillan & Co., 1874
£650

Large folio. Original full crimson morocco, spine titled in gilt, covers with triple gilt fillet borders to central panels with floriate corner pieces, and further ruling in blind, all edges gilt; [x] + pp. 72, with 20 superb and highly evocative natural history adventure plates by Joseph Wolf; well-nigh immaculate condition inside and out, this is a splendid copy of a work illustrated by a renowned natural history artist, who had recently been chosen to illustrate “The Birds of Prey” for John Gould’s masterpiece: “The Birds of Great Britain.” (1873).

Large Paper Edition. Wood: “The Copy In Hand is The Large Paper Edition, and Contains The Last Fine Series of Illustrations Drawn by This Noted Artist.”

Wood p. 633.

A MAGNIFICENT FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK ON HUNTING
78) YORK, Edward (Second Duke of). The Master of Game. The Oldest English Book on Hunting. Edited by Wm. and A. Baillie-Grohman. With A Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1904 £1,200

Large Folio. Original Reversed Calf, flat spine titled in gilt at head, the upper cover with a centrally-placed gilt roundel containing The Coat of Arms of The Author; [lx (Introductory Notes) + pp. 283 (+ “A General Bibliography of Books and Mss. in The Principal European Languages up to The End of The 16th Century” at rear), with A Fine Chromolithographed Facsimile “Leaf of Illuminated Manuscript” Frontispiece (“Produced by 78 Colour-Printings by W. Griggs and Sons”), showing The Author “Gaston Phoebus” [Count Gaston de Foix] Surrounded by Knights and Hounds, and 51 Other Facsimile Photogravure Plates and Monotint Reproductions on 39 leaves, All With Attributed Tissue-Guards; upper joint slightly split, and upper cover slightly bowed, while internally in very good condition, bar some light spotting to title, dedication leaf, and a couple of random leaves of text, leaving this A Very Good Copy of A Legendary Sporting Rarity, Now Made Plain for The Modern Day.


Limited edition, Number 203 of 600 Copies Only, Signed by The Hunter, and Renowned Sporting Book Author, William Baillie-Grohman*. This is A Modern Rendering of The Oldest Book on Hunting in The English Language. The Text has been Taken from The 19 Existing Manuscripts in The British Museum, dating from c. 1420. Much of The Book is Taken from “Livre de Chasse” by Gaston de Foix (“Gaston Phoebus”), of c. 1387, but Edward Then Added Five Original Chapters of His Own, Dealing with English Hunting, Written While He was Imprisoned in Pevensey Castle for Treason, Having Attempted to Murder His Cousin, King Richard II. The Work Can Be Seen as The Prototype for Early Sporting Works, Such As “The Treatise of Fishing with An Angle” by Dame Juliana Berners.

Schwerdt II p. 305.
*The First 10 copies Were Printed On Japanese Hand-Made Vellum Paper. One of These Was Presented by President Theodore Roosevelt to The German Emperor, in 1910, Following A Visit to Berlin, while Three Other Copies of These 10, Were Bought by The Late King Edward VII, The Prince of Wales (The Future King George V) and, Ironically, by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Shortly before His Assassination, which Precipitated The First World War.

ADDENDA

PRIVATELY PRINTED IN PRESTON: HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PHEASANTS, ETC.
a) CANK, T. 40 Years Mingled in Game (Fur and Feathers). Leyland, Preston, [Privately Printed by The Author at] “The Lancashire Pheasantries”, January, 1891 £247

8vo. Original brown cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover inside a blind medallion, heavily entwined with blind floriate decoration, contained in a specially-constructed green cloth fall-down-back box, the spine with a crimson label, titled in gilt; [vi] + pp. 133; externally fine, with only extreme outer corners of pp. 8-10 cropped off, and a crease at the upper outer corner of pp. 99-100 affecting what is otherwise a good and solid copy of A Rare Little Regional Printing.
First edition. A Gamekeeper’s Guide, with Sections on “Rabbit Killing”; “Killing Vermin”, “Foxes on The Low Lands”, and “Beginning Pheasant Rearing”, amongst others. Preface: “Out of These 1275 Eggs, with Some 200 Gathered from Road Sides, etc., I Managed to Bring Up 800 Pheasants My First Season in Lancashire ...”
Chute 71.





“AN EXCELLENT TREATISE” (W & S),
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED
b) “PISCATOR” [HUGHES, William]. The Practical Angler. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1842 £598

8vo. 20th century half-calf, over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, titled in 2 in gilt, with raised bands, top edges gilt; pp. 293, with 6 wood-engraved illustrations, but extra-illustrated by 21 Additonal Plates of Angling Interest, comprising 18th and 19th century prints extracted from various works (see list of subjects below), and inserted by a previous owner; well-nigh immaculate condition, inside and out, this is a uniquely-illustrated copy of a highly-sought after fishing work in its own right.
First edition. W & S: “An Excellent Treatise by William Hughes, Barrister, who also Wrote “A Practical Treatise on The Choice and Cookery of Fish (see item xxx in this catalogue).” Preface: “The Object of My Present Work is To Convey to My Readers All I Know, and Have Been Able to Glean From Others, on This Truly Interesting Subject.” *
Westwood & Satchell p. 171.

*The 10 Tipped-In Steel-Engraved plates comprise:
a) [“A Pair of Anglers by An Unnamed River in a Forest” by “H. Beckwith”]
b) “Wreck Near Black-Gang Chine”,
c) “Matlock”,
d) “Knaresborough from The Banks of The Nydde” [by William Blane, c. 1790]
e) “View of Ullswater, Looking Towards Patterdale”,
f) “Otters” [On A Riverbank],
g) “Trout Fishing: Windermere Lake”,
h) “Westmoreland”,
i) “Plymouth”,
j)“Loweswater, from Water End, Cumberland”,
k) “Perch and Chubb” [Landed, with a Selection of Fishing Equipment],
l) “Wye House Fishing” [An Un-named Waterfall in a Landscape]
n) “The Meeting of The Waters”,
o) “Pike Fishing”
q) “Windermere Lake from The Low Wood Inn”
r) [An Unidentified “Portrait of a Peasant Girl” by Rosmaster in Berlin];


The Two Aquatints:
s) “View of Richmond Bridge Looking Southward”, c. 1790, by An Unknown Artist
t) [“A Charming Scene of A Fisherman on The Riverbank”] (finished by hand)
An Unsigned Woodcut:
u) “View of Kew Bridge” [1790] (Inscribed Above in Pencil, in A Later Hand: “King Charles II Fished from This Bridge”)
A Copper-Engraving
v) [“A Pair of Fishermen in A Small Boat on a Lake in An Unidentified Landscape”], c. 1795, by C. Smith
Two Wood-Engravings
w) [“A Barbel” ] by “W-P” after “B. Day”
x) [“A Fisherman”], by An Unknown Artist.


AMERICAN COOKING IN INDIA: GREAT WRITING!
c) RANKIN, Louise. An American Cookbook for India. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1933 £227

8vo. Original pale blue cloth, titled in dark blue on upper cover, contained in a specially-constructed black fall-down-back box, the spine with a crimson calf label, titled in gilt, with “Calcutta 1933” impressed in gilt at foot.; [viii] + pp. 403, with 13 Captioned “Caricature” Chapter-Heading Vignettes by “R.D. Thompson”; some uniform fading to spine, but otherwise immaculate inside and out.
First edition. Preface: “The Negro is The Last Source of The Greatness of American Cooking. Negroes Are Instinctively Great Cooks and Great Gourmets. They Handle Food Lovingly, Worshipfully. The Terrapin, The Soft-Shell Crab, The Turkey and Wild Rice, They Only Had To See To Know by A Sure Imagination How To Cook ... The Food They Cook is As Well Suited to India as to Southern America. Many of the Recipes in This Book are Southern Ones Adapted to The Indian Table.” Marvellous Writing!
Not in Bitting. Rare.


A LUXURIOUS PRODUCTION - THE GREATEST HUNTERS AND EXPLORERS

d) ROBERTS, John S. (Editor). Africa, and African Travel and Adventure, Including The Life and Travels of Dr. Livingstone. Also, The Discoveries of [Henry Morton] Stanley, Cameron, and The Ancient and Modern Explorers. W.P. Bennett & Co., c. 1890
£597

4to. Original Full Black Morocco, Covers and Spine Elaborately Blocked in Gilt, The Flat Gilt Spine Ruled in 6 Compartments, 5 Filled with Copious Gilt Floriate Ornament, The Sixth Titled in Gilt, while The Upper and Lower Cover have Triple Gilt Fillet Borders around A Magnificent All-Encompassing Stylised Gilt Image, involving Palm Trees, Giraffe, Cobra, Flamingo, Wild Cat, and Various Snakes and Lizards, in A Verdant Jungle Setting, around A Central Gilt Roundel of A Palm-Flanked Townscape with Minarets (“Cairo”) in A Desert Landscape, and titled in gilt at head:“Africa and African Travel ... Livingstone, Stanley, Cameron, Speke and Grant”, and at foot: “African Geography, Natural History, Races, Countries, &c.”, Black Endpapers, All Edges Richly Gilt; pp. 960, with A Chomolithographed Additional Title, with Tissue-Guard, 11 Full-Colour High-Tone Lithographs (See Below), with Tissue-Guards, and 19 Black and White, All Printed on Heavier Paper Stock, A Folding Coloured Map of The Continent at That Date by W. Hughes, and Copious Wood-Engraved Illustrations Throughout; slight splitting to the foot of the lower joint, and other rubbing to extremities, but internally well-nigh immaculate, this remains overall, A Remarkably Bright and Intact Copy Inside and Out of A Massive Assessment of The State of Africa at This Time, Focussing on Its Most Famous Explorers.
First edition. Preface: “The Information Contained in This Volume Has Had To Be Gleaned from Hundreds of Sources, and The Author Believes That It Will Form The Most Complete View of The African Continent Ever Offered to the Public.” The Superb Chromolithographed Plates include Portraits of “[Henry Morton] Stanley”, “Robert Moffatt” [Missionary Hero of The Bechuana Tribes and The Matabele], “Commander [Verney Lovat] Cameron” [Author, and First European to Cross Africa on Foot from Coast to Coast], “Sir Samuel White Baker” and “Sir H. Bartle E. Frere” [Imperial Pioneer, and Indirect Cause of The Boer War], alongside [The Incongruous] View of “Blantyre Mills, Glasgow, at which Livingstone Worked”, “Slaves On Their Way To The Coast”, “The Mamvera Cataract” and “The Zambesi” [whose Idealised Shoreline Brims with Exotic Game]; as well as Rich Visual Depictions of “Famous Events”: “Stanley Just Before Reaching Ugigi [Tanganyika]”, & “Livingstone & Stanley on The Rusizi [River in Burundi]”.




THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S COPY
e) SWEDEN, WILLIAM, PRINCE OF. [Charles William Louis, DUKE OF SODERMANLAND]. Among Pygmies and Gorillas. With The Swedish Zoological Expedition to Central Africa in 1921 [After Gorilla, Copious Lions, and Elephant in Kenya, The Sudan, Rwanda, and On Lake Albert in The Belgian Congo]. Gylendal, 1923 £247

8vo. Original dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover; xvi + pp. 296, with no fewer than 82 evocative photographic plates on on 20 leaves, and 2 folding engraved maps, coloured in outline, entitled “Special Map of The Route” and “General Map of The Route of The Expedition”, both by “Major Max Weiler”, the routes coloured in red; well-nigh immaculate inside and out, bar the usual light browning of the endpapers, leaving this a lovely bright copy, with An Important Provenance.
First edition. Czech: “William and His Scientific Expedition Collected Gorilla in The Highlands of Rwanda Before Descending to The Area South of Lake Edward, where Numerous Lions were Bagged. Near Lake Albert, Elephant was also Collected, and Described in A Chapter by Count Nils Gyldenthorpe.” With The Engraved Armorial Bookplate of Maurice Lippens, Governor General of The Belgian Congo (1921-23).
Czech p. 174.