17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Natural History & Taxidermy

 
  Lot 189
 

189

Natural History Books: A Group of Hunting Related Books, from Kilberry Castle, Scotland, to include - two volumes of "The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes", dated 1894 & 1895, one titled "Fishing", the second copy titled "Big Game Shooting", one copy of "My Sporting Memories, Reminiscences of Big Game Shooting In India" 1922, by Major General NigelWoodyatt, one copy of "Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting, A Complete Account For the Sportsmen-And Others", 1923, by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Bart, one copy of "Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All that Relates to Guns & SHooting", 1921, by LT-Col.P. Hawker, Edited with an introduction by Eric Parker, one copy of "The Sport of Shooting", 1911, Owen Jones, one copy "The Grouse In Health And Disease", 1912, popular edition, Smith. Elder & Co, (7), all previously the property of John Campbell, Kilberry Castle, Scotland, each copy with hand written anotation within front covers

Sold for £110
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 17th Apr, 2024

This April, Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to have been instructed to sell the Taxidermy Collection of Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke, businessman, British Army officer, botanist, naturalist, ornithologist, horticulturist, art collector and landowner. The majority of the 61 lots are specimens taken by Stephenson Clarke on four hunting trips to Africa between 1909 and 1924 and were mounted by the renowned Rowland Ward Ltd of Piccadilly, London. Several of the lots are recorded in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game (View Press Release). 

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