24th Aug, 2023 10:00

Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of Brian and Debbie Watkins
 
Lot 240
 

Iceland. Archive of Fishing for salmon Langa Lodge-Iceland 1873 – 1923

Iceland

[Campbell]

Archive of Fishing for salmon and other species of fish at Langa Lodge-Iceland and other travels, 1873 – 1923

All albums, sketchbooks, maps as originally issued, all in good condition, v.s. (15)

[Not in chronological order]

Campbell (Martin) Langa Fishing Lodge – Iceland 1900 – 1913

To include: 1 page per year, 3 letters from the British Museum, Natural History pamphlet signed by Charles Whitelaw, and some contemporary photographs of the Lodge.

Sketch Book – Langa Foss 1887 – 1901

28 pencil sketches, 1 loose watercolour dated 15.4.87, 3 maps of where to fish and camp.

Photograph Albums (x2) 1900 – 1903

Langa Lodge and surrounding views, 50 in all, notes to inside front cover of each album.

Schedule and cost of sailing to Ice and Tls to Mr Coran Campbell.

Record of Sport 1900 -1914

Together with 3 x negatives, 12 prints (some duplicates) and list of fish caught – 1920 plus 2 contemporary floor plans of Langa Lodge 1914

[Information from the family indicates the original 'Lodge' was built c. 1902/03 in a typical Victorian style.]

Register of Game killed, Broomhouse & Edrom, 1889

Map of Iceland, Sifton, Praed & Co. Ltd, segmented, laid on cloth, 485 x 670mm., n.d.

Map: Thorvald Thoroddsen. Uppdrattur Islands. Large colour-printed topographic map of Iceland, segmented and mounted on original linen backing, housed in contemporary cloth folder, 690 x 1000mm., Copenhagen: Axel E. Aamodt, 1900

Langa Fishing Log 1900 – 1903, 1920, 1922-23,

Total of 73 photographic prints, views of the Western Islands, Faroes & Scotland, plus 2 golfing images of Harry Vardon playing against James Braid Edzell Golf Club, 1902

Sketch and Watercolour Book – 1899

Views in Iceland including Langa, 20 original watercolours and sketches.

Campbell (W.) & Jas. Mackenzie.

A Trip to Norway commenced from Glasgow July 30th., 1873

Original travelogue, 56pp., of narrative and sketches in pencil.

Langa – Photo Album, 1905 Inscribed W.McOran Campbell from D. Legard, 1905

40 prints.

Langa – Photo Album, [1910], 16 prints

Isalnd I Myndum – Through Iceland with a Camera, Reykjavik, 1943

Sold for £1,250

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