Fry Ellerton (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. E.A. Maund; W. Franceys; W. Ellerton Fry (illustrator). First edition. Frederick Courteney Selous recounts eleven years of hunting game and gathering fauna specimens in this first edition of 'Travel and Adventure in South East Africa' A first edition of 'Travel and Adventure in South East Africa', in which Frederick Courteney Selous recounts the eleven years he spent in the region. With 35 in-text illustrations, 22 full page plates, and a folding map, collated and complete. In twenty six chapters, Selous describes his experiences collecting fauna samples, narrates hunting exploits, as well as reminiscing about his travels to the countries of the Mashukulumbwi and Barotsi tribes. Selous was a revered hunter in the 1890s, yet the friend of Theodore Roosevelt and Cecil Rhodes was also a conservationist and encouraged colonial governments to establish game reserves to prevent the extinction of species. Over his life time, Selous donated more than 5000 plant and animal specimens to the natural history section of the British museum. Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, quite rubbed with a little loss of cloth to the top of the back board. Decoration on the front board is faded but visible, as is the lettering on the spine. Bumped to the head and the tail of the spine with some wear to the extremities. Front hinge weak and front endpaper disbound but present. Back hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Good. book.

Reprint. Large landscape 4to. xvi + 175pp. 153 ills., folding map. Light toning, gilt rule edged half leather with gilt ills. cloth boards, minor marking, extremities sl. rubbed. No. 214 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Copies.Originally published as a small number (one dozen plus) of hand made 'albums' with original sepia photographs inserted and handwritten captions by Fry. This reprint contains a biography of Fry, an article on the march into Mashonaland, nominal rolls of the Pioneer Corps and BSAP forming the Column. Fry accompanied the column with his plate camera with the task of recording data for preparatons of accurate maps of the route. This is the only reproduction of his work made, unusual item. US$663.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition. Limited edition. this is number 215. supposedly of 1000 however the scarcity of this book convinces me that the final print run was far lower. smaller format than the original, this is still a heavy volume with additional maps and text.no inscriptions and well bound. the boards are a little rubbed and worn, but not excessively so. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Very heavy folio. Unpaginated (41 stiff card leaves). Illustrated with 154 mounted photographs, all half-plate in size, with 5 panoramas consisting of two plates mounted side-by-side; all photographs have a brief printed caption beneath. Bound in 3/4 black leather with green cloth; gilt stamped. All edges gilt. Although the exact number of the printing is not known, it is generally believed that fewer than 20 copies were published. The photographs were taken by Lieutenant W. Ellerton Fry, who was the official photographer of the Pioneer Column which served as security for the occupation of Mashonaland (now part of Zimbabwe) in 1891 by the British South Africa Company (BSAC). The BSAC was formed by Cecil Rhodes for the purpose of exploiting the mineral wealth (primarily gold) of Mashonaland, and then its colonization. Although Fry considered himself to be an amateur photographer, he was recruited by the famous African big game hunter, F. C. Selous, to be the official photographer to document the progress of the BSAC; Selous served as its guide through territory he knew well. Fry was given the rank of Lieutenant and the post of Intelligence Officer. The photographic record contained in this book is outstanding and showed that Fry was anything but an amateur. This copy was owned by Major Malcolm David Graham, who first served as an officer in the Pioneer Column and then, in 1892, was officially appointed as Magistrate at Umtali in Mashonaland. Graham came from a storied family: his grandfather, Colonel John Graham, founded and gave his name to Grahamstown (South Africa), and his father, the Hon. Robert Graham, was a member of the old Cape Executive and deputy Governor of the Eastern Province of South Africa. Around the third photograph of this book which is captioned "The Police Officers" Graham has lightly written in pencil the names of the officers shown (including himself as "Lt. M. D. Graham, Staff Officer") and placed the taking of the photograph at the "Togue River." Included with the book is a folder of four documents linking the book to Graham: the Official Commission for his appointment as Magistrate at Umtali, dated 30th March, 1892, which is both signed with red Official High Commission stamp affixed; a printed invitation card to "The Grahamstown Centenary Celebration" which was held 14th August 1912, inviting "Major Graham" (written in ink); an article from the Pretoria News dated 3 February 1912 which tells of "Major Graham's Departure" from South Africa along with detailed and interesting biographical detail; and finally, a TLS written on Buckingham Palace letterhead and dated 15th July 1922 acknowledging the receipt of Graham's letter of retirement and stating "I showed your letter to the King, from which His Majesty was sorry to hear that he is losing you as one of his A.D.Cs. You know how much the King appreciates the personal service you rendered to His Majesty while you were at the War Office. . ." It is signed Clive Wigram (who was Secretary to King George V). A truly outstanding association copy. There is some wear at the extremities of the book which is very tight (hinges completely sound) and scattered foxing on the card pages which does not effect the mounted photographs. A very good or better copy of a rare, important book.

London, England . 20th October, 1891." Folio (47 x 30 cm). 154 Original-Photographien auf 41 starken Albumblättern, jedes Photo mit montierter gedruckter Beschriftung. Goldschnitt. Die Größe der Photos ist meist 14 x 19 cm, ausgenommen die 5 Panorama-Photos, welche 14 x 38 cm messen. Original-Halblederband (leicht berieben), vereinzelt am Rand etwas stockfleckig, ein schönes, dekoratives Album mit hervorragenden Photographien. One of approximately 12 albums believed to have been assembled, of Fry's self-published photograph album, which serves as a remarkable photographic record of British colonial ambitions.The carbon prints depict the landscape and events along the line of march of the Mashonaland Pioneer Column, a military force in the service of Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company, whose aim was to annex Mashonaland and Matebeleland. Fry was this group's official photographer. [With:] Green morocco gilt 4to album (296 x 241mm.), containing cuttings from various newspaper reports on the Matabele Revolt, dated 1896-1907, mounted recto and verso on 19 stiff card mounts, one further newspaper cutting, and loosely inserted photograph on card mount. PROVENANCE: Lieutenant R. Beal (one of the officers in the handwritten list); given to Annie Beal: Annie Beal's ownership inscription to front free endpaper ofOccupation, dated 1 June 1892, and with Beal's Certificate of Discharge from her occupation as a nurse aboard HMSCenturion, dated 31 October 1898, loosely inserted in album of newspaper cuttings; thence by descent. Eines von nur etwa 12 Exemplaren, die Fry zusammenstellte. Eine Raritä! Ein wundervolles Dokument afrikanischer Geschichte! ? Enthalten sind die ersten Photographien der Ruinen von Zimbabwe, die ersten Aufnahmen von der Entstehung von Fort Salisbury, dem heutigen Harare, zahlreichen Aufnahmen der Gebiete zwischen Mafeking und dem heutigen Harare, zwischen Limpopo und Zambesi. Die Dokumentation zeigt aber auch zahlreiche Abbildungen von Einheimischen und ihren Dörfern, sie zeigt auch die Ausmaße des Kolonialtrupps sowie das Leben der Beteiligten. Looking for 'a few paying gold reefs' and with a concession granting him rights to minerals, Cecil J. Rhodes formed the British South Africa Company which sent its heavily guarded Pioneer Column north to exploit the land between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers in 1890. The Column, consisting of 192 prospective miners, with the famous hunter Frederick Courtney Selous as guide, and 500 troopers of the newly formed British South Africa Police Company, established a camp, Fort Salisbury, at the site of present day Harare. 'An album was produced of 154 of W. Ellerton Fry's original whole-plate photographs, which form a comprehensive record of the historic trek of the Pioneer column from Mafeking to Fort Salisbury in 1890.' William Ellerton Fry (British, 1846-1930) was born in Somerset and emigrated to South Africa in 1872. He worked briefly as a farmer, trader, and prospector, before taking a post as secretary and computer at the Royal Observatory in Cape Town. He held the post for nearly twenty years, eventually attaining the position of Assistant Astronomer Royal. When the Mashonaland Pioneer Column was being formed, Fry was was appointed the Chief of Survey Department and Official Photographer of the Pioneer Corps with the rank of Lieutenant. In addition to preparing a detailed map from the Macloustie River to Fort Salisbury, he took the first ever photographs of the ruins of the city Zimbabwe in August 1890.