Hello, We have put 21 items on auction. These deal mainly with hunting and exploration and the Anglo-Boer war.
However the first item listed is an unusual item by the artist Walter Battiss which should be of interest to all interested in South African art. Battiss produced Bank Notes as well as stamps, posters, and no end of related material for his imaginary Fook Island. He even travelled internationally on his own Fook Island 'passport'! Details of the auction are to be found at: http://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 #62 which runs from 5th October at 16.30 GMT until 12th October at 16.30 GMT. The Preview is now open until then. We have the following items on offer: -------------------------------------- Lot 85 #24469 & #24470 Walter Battiss. 2 Aks Fook Island 'Bank Note' with 'Transvaal Kloof' etching. Fook Island 2 Aks Bank Note: Preliminary pencil design on thin card 128mm x 72mm. c.1974? The design features various pictorial elements, and the border is made up of Fooklore wording "Fly to Fook Island on an albatross, come away by dolphin ..." Wording on rear reads "Prof. Walter Battiss. Pretoria" in matching style to that of signature on etching. Transvaal Kloof Etching: 163mm x 149mm impressed onto 203mm x 160mm thin card. Signed W.W. Battiss. An early etching dated 1929. At this time Battiss was probably in Rustenburg. Lot 86 #24506 George McCall Theal. HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 11 volumes C. Struik. facsimile edition. Cape Town 1964. An early definitive history of Southern Africa. Gilt on maroon skivertex boards. Lot 87 #24963 James Sutherland. THE ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER Macmillan. London 1912. 1st edition. One of the true classics of African big-game hunting, this work recounts the author's elephant hunting exploits primarily along the Luwegu River in German East Africa, and the Locheringo River in Portuguese East Africa. Author claims 447 bull elephants to his score. Lot 91 #25775 James Salter-White. A TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA William Pile. Sutton 1892. 1st edition. Author travelled to Cape Town via the Union Steamship Company's 'The Scot'. He journeyed through Matjiesfontein, Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, East London, King William's Town, Pietermaritzburg & finally Durban from whence he returned by 'The Tartar'. He makes observations on the colony and the colonists, the railways, hotels, etc. An interesting, if opinionated, travelogue of the period. Lot 92 #24566 W.K.-L. Dickson. THE BIOGRAPH IN BATTLE. Its Story In The South African War Related With Personal Experiences T. Fisher Unwin. London 1901. 1st edition. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. In 1895 he founded the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company which was the first motion picture company devoted entirely to film production and exhibition. During November 1899 through July 1900 Dickson was in South Africa filming scenes of the Boer War, often at the very front of the action, and including the relief of Ladysmith. Liberally illustrated. Lot 93 #24959 J.H. Patterson. IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA. Further Adventures In British East Africa Macmillan, New York 1909. 1st edition. "In the subsequent pages I have endeavoured to give a plain account of the trials and adventures which befell me on two recent expeditions through the 'nyika', or wilderness, in British East Africa". Written after 'The Man Eaters Of Tsavo' the opening chapter gives an account of several previously unrecorded tales that occurred when building the Uganda Railway. Lot 94 #24349 R. Broom & G.W.H. Schepers. THE SOUTH AFRICAN FOSSIL APE-MEN. The Australopithecinae. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.2. Pretoria, 1946. Preface by J.C. Smuts. Lot 112 #25702 C.L. Harries. THE SACRED BABOONS OF LOMONDO. Hortors, Johannesburg 1929. 1st edition. Author spent 10 years in Vendaland in the Northern Transvaal as a Native Commissioner, and records some of the strange incidents that came his way. Unusual item rarely found. Lot 113 #21343 W.H. Hudson. BIRDS OF LA PLATA. With Twenty-Two Coloured Illustrations By H. Gronvold. Volumes 1 & 2. J.M. Dent & Sons. London 1920. 1st edition. Treats the species of the Plata country, a district of Argentina. One of three thousand copies only. "1500 Copies for England, 1500 copies for United States of America, also a Large Paper edition of 200 copies, and the type then distributed". Lot 114 #6550 William Allen & T.R.H. Thompson. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION SENT BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO THE RIVER NIGER IN 1841. Under The Command Of Captain H.D. Trotter. Volumes 1 & 2 Frank Cass. London 1968. Facsimile 1st edition thus. Cass Library Of African Studies. Travels And Narratives No.35. London 1968. Reprint of the 1848 Richard Bentley edition. Officially known as the African Colonization Expedition, the Niger expedition of 1841 was mounted by British missionary and activist groups in 1841-1842, using three British iron steam vessels to travel to Lokoja, at the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River, in what is now Nigeria. The three vessels, the steamers Albert, Wilberforce, and Soudan, were made by Laird of Liverpool. The British government backed the effort to make treaties with the native peoples, introduce Christianity and promote increased trade. The crews of the boats suffered a high mortality from disease - of the 150 Europeans on the expedition, 42 died quickly. There were 130 fever cases. With such high mortality, the naval commanders called the expedition off, and withdrew to the island of Fernando Po. Other figures given are 55 deaths (out of 159) of Europeans, before the return to England in 1842. Lot 115 #24766 Tant' Alie. TANT' ALIE OF TRANSVAAL. Her Diary 1880-1902. Translated From The Taal By Emily Hobhouse With Preface. George Allen & Unwin. London 1923. 1st edition. Alie Badenhorst tells her story, commencing from some years before the Boer War, as recorded in her diary. Author was held in a concentration camp at Klerksdorp while her husband was also a prisoner of war. Graphically illustrates the suffering during those times. Lot 116 #24722 Henry Kisch & H. St. J. Tugman. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH Described In 64 Pictures from the only complete set of photographs taken during the siege by a resident photographer. (Henry Kisch). George Newnes. London. 1900 1st edition. "The first photographs brought to England after the relief of the town, with descriptions by an eye-witness (H. St. J Tugman)" Lot 126 #24139 Arthur J. Beet & Cyril B. Harris. KIMBERLEY UNDER SIEGE An Illustrated Story Of A Brave Defence Endured By 50,000 Men, Women And Children For 124 Days - A Saga Of A Great Feat Of Arms By 5,000 Troops Against Overwhelming Odds. Kimberley Siege Veterans' (50th Anniversary) Committee. 1950 reprint. An illustrated survey, revised and enlarged. Printed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the siege, Oct.14th 1899 to Feb.15th 1900. Lot 128 #24658 Dudley Kidd. ECHOES FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA Marshall Brothers. London 1900. 1st edition. The South African General Mission served the British forces during the Boer war, providing medical, spiritual, and other assistance. Their story commences with the Jameson Raid, then following chapters dealing with Modder River & Magersfontein, Paardeberg and General Cronje, Kimberley & Bloemfontein, Ladysmith, and mounted missionaries riding among the Cape Mounted Riflemen. Lot 133 #24643 Harold Blore. AN IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSEMAN. Arthur Pearson. London 1900. Colonial Library, 1st edition thus. A novel of the Boer War. [Harold Blore is elsewhere claimed as being a member of the Jameson Raid. Online lists definitely do not list him, neither is he shown in Hugh Marshall Hole's THE JAMESON RAID - the usual source for other listings of participants in the raid]. Lot 138 #24580 Lieutenant B. Moeller. TWO YEARS AT THE FRONT WITH THE MOUNTED INFANTRY. Being The Diary Of Lieutenant B. Moeller With A Memoir By Lieut.-Col. L.R.C. Boyle. Grant Richards, London 1903. 1st edition. This was written as a private diary by Bertie Moeller, intended for his parents alone, and jotted down in the midst of war, in the veld, or in the saddle. With eleven years in the Honourable Artillery Company he received his commission in 1899 and volunteered for the Mounted Infantry in the C.I.V. Regiment. He saw action with the 7th MI at Bethlehem, Naauwpoort Nek, Golden Gate, Cox's Farm, & Heilbron. He was mortally wounded in later action at Holland in the Transvaal at the very end of 1901. Provides an almost day-by-day account of his two years in the saddle. Lot 152 #24951 Prince William of Sweden (with Count Nils Gyldenstolpe). AMONG PYGMIES AND GORILLAS. With The Swedish Zoological Expedition To Central Africa 1921. Gyldendal. London 1923. 1st edition. Records the 1921 expedition to Kenya which proceeded through Uganda, part of the Belgian Congo, then north through the Sudan to Alexandria in Egypt. Incorporates chapters 'Among The Giant Volcanoes' & 'With The Wambute On The Hunting Trail' by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe. Lot 163 #24972 James Dunbar-Brunton. BIG GAME HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA Andrew Melrose. London 1912. 1st edition. Author was resident and hunted in then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. He provides useful information on guns, health, travelling outfit and camp life as well as chapters on shooting arranged according to species. Lot 164 #24957 R.C.F. Maugham. WILD GAME IN ZAMBEZIA. John Murray. London 1914. 1st edition. Describes various types of game and hunting conditions in Mozambique primarily north of the Zambezi River. He includes his own hunts after elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, hippo, and a variety of antelope, with chapters on equipment, game reserves, and the tsetse fly. Lot 165 #24557 Walter D.M. Bell. (Ed. Townsend Whelan). BELL OF AFRICA. With Appendix On Rifles And Shooting. Neville Spearman & The Holland Press. London 1960. 1st edition. Compiled and edited from Bell's own papers. Lot 166 #24950 W.D.M. Bell. KARAMOJO SAFARI Neville Spearman. Suffolk 1984. 1st edition, "This is a true story of a journey into Karamojo some fifty years ago, when it was an unknown part of Africa ... indeed at the time dealt with in this book the author was the first white man seen by the natives". 'Karamojo' Bell was rated as one of the greatest elephant hunters of all time. The author writes of days at the beginning of the 20thC century when there was little or no restriction on the pursuit of big game and when an elephant tusk fetched a tidy sum, when Africa was still largely free from western civilisation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Any additional information, images, assistance, as required in connection with the above items and the bidding process can be provided on request. IMPORTANT: The items are on the auction and no pre-auction offers will be considered. 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