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Details of the auction are to be found at: www.antiquarianauctions.com Visit this site for fuller descriptions and images. You need to register to take part in the auction and antiquarianauctions.com will be pleased to assist you with the bidding process - which is actually simplicity in itself. If you can log in, you can bid. This is their auction #58 which runs from 3th April at 16.30 GMT until 20th April at 16.30 GMT. The Preview is now open. We have the following items on offer: Lot 25 #24965 Captain C.H. Stigand. HUNTING THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA. And Other Recollections Of Thirteen Years' Wanderings. Macmillan, London, 1913. $350.00 Reserve Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Chauncey Hugh Stigand was born in France in 1877 while his father was the British Consul there. He demonstrated early academic talents and was exposed to the maturing benefits of foreign travel at a youthful age. His cultured family background influenced the shaping of his career. He opted for the Army and obtained a commission. Later career moves provided considerable opportunities for hunting in East Africa and the Lado Enclave. He wrote many other titles on his experiences in Africa. Lot 26 #24164 Editions Universitaires De Dijon. (Ed. Jeanne-Pierre Durix). COMMONWEALTH ESSAYS AND STUDIES. Special Isssue No. SP3. 1993. J.M. Coetzee. Waiting For The Barbarians. $100.00 Reserve 80pp softcover academic journal with glossy card wraps. Inscribed thus: "To J.M. Coetzee with much admiration for his imaginative powers. Jean-Pierre Durix. 25 October 1999". Durix was then editor of this series. Lot 27 #24967 Count Zsigmond Szechenyi LAND OF ELEPHANTS. Big-Game Hunting In Kenya, Tanganyika And Uganda. Putnam, London, 1935 1st English edition $75.00 Reserve Author's experiences of travel and big game hunting with gun and camera in Kenya, Tanganyika, & Uganda. Original book review newspaper clipping to rear pastedown. Translated from the Hungarian. From late 1932 through to early 1934 the author travelled and hunted, a very readable account of safari-life in those days. Lot 28 #25013 Denis Lyell THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS HUNTERS. Heath Cranton, London, 1924. $400.00 Reserve Author's fourth book on hunting. Denis Lyell, a hunter with a long and practical experience of his subject gained in Nyasaland, North Eastern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa from 1898, has written the classic work on the subject. As well as discussing the elephant per se and elephant hunters themselves, there are interesting pages on ivory as a commodity which include various statistical tables. Lot 29 #24956 Major A. St.H. Gibbons, AFRICA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH MAROTSELAND Volume 1. John Lane, The Bodley Head., London, 1904. $200.00 Reserve 'Author of "Exploration and Hunting in Central Africa". With Numerous Illustrations reproduced from photographs, and Maps. In two Volumes'. Includes 820mm wide x 770mm high linen-backed map entitled 'Map Of The Upper Zambezi Basin showing the distribution of the Tribes under the rule of the Paramount Chief of the Marotse. Principally from Surveys and Explorations by Major A. St.H Gibbons, 1895-96 and 1898-1900. Assisted during the latter Expedition by Major F.C. Quicke and Major J.C. Stevenson-Hamilton. Compiled by the Author from original surveys, with the work of other explorers off his route added from a compilation ...'. The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland. Lot 39 #24970 Denis Lyell WILD LIFE IN CENTRAL AFRICA The Field & Queen (Horace Cox), London, (1913). $500.00 Reserve This was the fourth book on hunting from the pen of Denis Lyell, a hunter with a long and practical experience of his subject gained in Nyasaland, North Eastern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa from 1898. It is chatty in its style and is rich in information on elephants and their habits, hints on hunting them, their ivory, and the dangers generally of hunting elephant and other big game. His advice & fascinating facts are threaded with anecdote in which other renowned hunters are often mentioned. Lot 40 #24845 A Mounted Black (variously attributed to Jock Elliot) CAMPAIGNING IN SOUTH AFRICA Privately Published, (1901). $95 Reserve Includes loose slip "With The Author's Compliments". Author was with the City of London Imperial Volunteers (CIV) and may have been J.A.G Elliot according to several sources. Personal experiences during the campaigns which lasted less than a year (1900). Lot 41 #24634 John Bufton TASMANIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL WAR S.G. Loone, Hobart, Tasmania., 1905. $100.00 Reserve This refers to the (second) Boer War, not the Transvaal War (first Boer War). Particularly noted for extensive photographs of identified individual combatants, the inclusion of various notes, letters, and diaries, list of men and engagements fought, list of decorations and orders awarded. Lot 181 #17113 W.J. Le Roux GROOTE SCHUUR. with 2 x autograph letters signed by and from Tini Vorster. $40.00 Reserve Gilt on white boards. 127pp illustrated colour & b/w. Inside, beneath protective film taped to the front end papers are two original letters from Tini Vorster (wife of J.B. Vorster, then Prime Minister of South Africa) to a Dr Walker (son of author Eric Walker) on notepaper headed 'Libertas, Bryntirion, Pretoria'. In her letter of 24/09/73 Tini Vorster is thanking Dr Walker for some extracts from his memoirs, invites him to visit, and mentions the library at Groote Schoor. In the second on 7/10/73 she is thanking him for sending a signed copy of his father's book 'The Great Trek', is looking forward to his visit, and mentions tapestries sent to Holland for restoration. The book has an inscription by Jean Walker. Any additional information, images, assistance, in connection with the above items and the bidding process provided with pleasure on request. Please note: The items are on the auction, no pre-auction offers will be considered. Items will, if unsold, revert to our previous listed price and no post-auction offers will be considered. If you want the item as auction-level prices, please bid for it. Bidding opens: 13 Apr 16:30 GMT Bidding closes: 20 Apr 16:30 GMT Successful bidding! e&oe. descriptions on antiquarianauctions.com take precedence over the above. Best Regards Ian Balchin end. -- Fables Bookshop (Proprietor: Ian Balchin) Est. 1990 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa. 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