Hello, We have 14 items on this auction. Boer War titles, hunting and travel & adventure.
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. Registration is easy and the site does not ask for too many personal details. Many of these items have been on past auctions but have not sold. We have reduced the price considerably and each and every one is now at a bargain price. This is their auction #67. It is now open for viewing with bidding starting tomorrow Thursday 7th June 2018 at 16.30 GMT and closing one week later on Thursday 14th June 2018 at 16.30 GMT (in both cases that being 6.30 pm local time here in SA). We have the following lots on offer: -------------------------------------- Lot 187 #25667 Eduard Foa. AFTER BIG GAME IN CENTRAL AFRICA. Records Of A Sportsman From August 1894 To November 1897, When Crossing The Dark Continent From The Mouth Of The Zambesi To The French Congo. Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899 1st edition With 71 Illustrations And A Sketch Map Showing Route. (some variant editions were published without this map). From Czech: "Foa, a Frenchman, hunted from coast to coast across central Africa with numerous sporting episodes. After a lengthy dissertation on choosing a rifle and cartridge, the author proceeds to describe his hunts for buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard and other game in the Chiromo district. He continued to hunt elephant and hippopotamus as he travelled westward in 1895 into Barotseland. Entering the Congo, he bagged a wide variety of antelope as well as buffalo, and more elephant. Among his trophies was an enormous elephant sporting tusks at 114.5 pounds each". Lot 188 #25668 Major A. St.H. Gibbons. AFRICA FROM SOUTH TO NORTH THROUGH MAROTSELAND. Volumes 1 & 2. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1904 1st editions. The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland. Aided by grants from the Royal Geographic Society, the British South Africa Chartered Company, and British Military Intelligence, he was able to map fairly accurately the areas of his travels. The object of the expedition were to determine the geographical limits of Lewanika's country, to define the Congo-Zambezi watershed, the discover the main source of the Zambezi, to make a hydrographical and ethnographical survey of Lewanika's territory, to study its resources and industrial possibilities, to ascertain how far the Zambezi and its affluents could be used as navigable waterways and, finally, to furnish Cecil Rhodes with information relative to the selection of a route for a projected trans-continental railway - particularly with reference to the crossing of the Zambezi. Lot 189 #25666 Frederick Roderick Noble Findlay. BIG GAME SHOOTING AND TRAVEL IN SOUTH EAST AFRICA. An Account Of Shooting Trips In The Cheringoma And Gorongoza Divisions Of Portuguese South-East Africa And In Zululand. With Chapters By Olive Schreiner And S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1903. Includes S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner's article 'Trek-Bokken, Or Migratory Springbok', and Olive Schreiner's 'Wasteland In Mashonaland'. Lot 190 #25695 Major Hook WITH SWORD AND STATUTE. On The Cape Of Good Hope Frontier Juta, Cape Town, 1907. 1st edition thus. A personal memoir of a 19thC life in service as a military man, and later as a magistrate, mainly in the Eastern Cape, and including taking part in many military events with the Frontier Armed Mounted Police (FAMP, joined in 1855) and the Cape Mounted Rifles (CMR). This provides interesting insights into the times. He saw and gave service throughout the Eastern Cape, Free State, and Basutoland. Lot 191 #25675 Frederick Courteney Selous. AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. Macmillan. London 1908 1st edition reprint London, 1908 From Czech: "A wide-ranging work that discusses everything from the colouration of African big game to the extinction of some species in South Africa. There are plenty of big-game hunting episodes, which Selous uses to accent his chapters on Cape buffalo, black rhinoceros, and lion, among others. Written at a time when there was a noticeable depletion of the great game herds, he becomes almost lyrical in his longing for the old days: "but no man will ever again sit by a camp fire near one of the little rivers....eating prime pieces of fat elephant's heart, roasted on a forked stick, nor watch the great white rhinoceroses coming to drink just before dark nor lie and listen to herd after herd of elephants drinking and bathing in the river near the camp". Lot 192 #24671 Gerald French. LORD CHELMSFORD AND THE ZULU WAR John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1939 1st edition. Foreword by Sir Bindon Blood. A defense of Lord Chelmsford's actions which led to the battles of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift. Lot 193 #24899 Major Frederick Russell Burnham. SCOUTING ON TWO CONTINENTS Elicited And Arranged By Mary Nixon Everett. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1928. Over half of the book is devoted to his experiences as a scout in the Matabele War of 1893 and the Matabele Rebellion of 1896 but the balance Includes time spent during the Boer War. Regarded as exaggerated and self-promoting, his writings are racy and were well received at the time. Includes chapters on his Boer War experiences at Paardeberg, Modder River, Pietersburg, Brakpan, and Sanna's Post where he was taken prisoner (and subsequently escaped). Lot 194 #24850 Major-General J.F.C. Fuller. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN'S WARS A Subaltern's Journal Of The War In South Africa 1899-1902. Faber. London 1937 1st edition. Author was with the West Kent Mounted Infantry. His duties seem to have avoided any major engagements, but nevertheless are a tale of his experiences and, as he says himself, "In his 'Commando' Deneys Reitz has given us one view of the South African War, and here I give another, not so thrilling, I admit …". Lot 195 #24816 Richard Danes. CASSELL'S HISTORY OF THE BOER WAR 1899-1901 Cassell. London, London, 1901 1st edition. Originally issued in 49 weekly serial issues.A monumental work espousing the colonial view. Lot 196 #24781 George Fleming Gibson. THE STORY OF THE IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902 G. D. & Co. np. 1937 1st edition. Author was intelligence officer in the 1st I.L.H. Appendices giving list of Honours & Mentions, Report on commemorative headstones and obelisks in various cemeteries. Lot 197. #24837 The Earl Of Rosslyn. TWICE CAPTURED A Record Of Adventure During The Boer War. William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1900 1st edition. Author was correspondent to the 'Daily Mail' & the 'Sphere' during the Boer War. He was present at the battle of Pieters Hill and the Relief of Ladysmith, after which a 6-day ride took him through Basutoland via Matatiele, Maseru, and Ladybrand, to Bloemfontein. Lot 198 #24600 General Sir Arthur Thurlow Cunynghame. MY COMMAND IN SOUTH AFRICA 1874-1878. Comprising Experiences Of Travel In The Colonies Of South Africa And The Independent States. Macmillan, London, 1880. 2nd edition. Preferred 2nd edition with the extended Preface. Part 1 is an account of a journey from Cape Town to the Eastern Frontier, the Free State, & Basutoland. Part 2. describes a visit to Pondoland and to Natal. Part 3 describes the threatened rebellion in the Diamond Fields and the expedition sent to check it. Part 4 deals with the annexation of the Transvaal and Part 5 with the 6th Frontier Wars on the Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony. Author was the Lieutenant Governor & Commander Of The Forces in South Africa. Lot 199 #24970 Denis D. Lyell. WILD LIFE IN CENTRAL AFRICA. Illustrated By Photographs And Drawings By The Author. The Field & Queen (Horace Cox), London, 1913. 1st edition. Denis Lyell was 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 200 #25013 Denis D. Lyell. THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS HUNTERS. Heath Cranton, London, 1924. 1st edition. 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. -------------------------------------- Any additional information, images, assistance, as required in connection with the above items and the bidding process can be provided on request - including p&p estimates for overseas clients. IMPORTANT: The items are on the auction and 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 wish to purchase an item at auction-level prices, please bid for it. 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