Country House Sale

The following 8 lots come from the library of Lionel Salter, who was huntsman to the Buccleuch from 1980-1987 before working in racing for Barry H...

Knutsford (Viscount) The Haunted Hunt, London 1965, with pasted in letter from Viscount Knutsford opposite the introduction and 'Crascredo', Manne...

The late Lord Henry Bentinck on Foxhounds, Goodalls Practice, London, circa 1900; Names for Hounds (two copies), London 1901; 'Sentinel', Hounds; ...

Watson (J.N.P.) British and Irish Hunts and Huntsmen, 1982, two volumes, Batsford 1982 and volume III, Batsford 1986; Berry (M.F.) and Brock (D.W....

Mitchell (S) The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists, Antique Collectors Club 1985; Wilder (F.L.) Sporting Prints, 1974 and sundry volumes il...

Volumes relating to fox hunting, including Beaufort Hunt, biography of Ronnie Wallace, etc.

A large quantity of volumes relating to fox hunting including Leicestershire interest

Keith (A C) A Countryman's Creed, No. 328 of 250 Large Paper copies, signed, 1938. 4to., orig. cloth, coloured plates, Surtees ( R S) Mr. Facey Ro...

Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, fourth edition, 1918. 4to., orig. cloth, 82 colour plates ...

Scott (Peter) Wild Chorus, limited edition, No. 976 of 1200 signed copies, 1938. 4to., orig. cloth gilt, colour plates

The Encyclopaedia of Sport, ed .the Earl of Suffolk, H. Peek and F.G. Aflalo, two volumes., 1877 - 98. Large 8vo., cont. half green morocco by Riv...

Millais (John G) Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, 1892, Folio, cont. half red morocco gilt (covers soiled), colour and plain plates, text illustr...

Rigg (J M) trans. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, illustrations by Louis Chalon, published by Henry F Bumpus, Holborn, 1906

Whistler (James Abbott McNeil) The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, published by William Heinemann, London 1890 ...[more]

A page from a missal, printed on vellum, 50cm x 31cm

A large quantity of various books to include travel books, antique reference books and Who's Who

Barrett (W) A Relation of a Journey Begun, London, 1615 Condition Report: Front and back covers detached. Front cover has title page and pages...

Sundry leather bound books/Provenance: The Down House, Redmarley

Fleming (I) Dr No, book club 1st edition and three others by the same/Provenance: The Down House, Redmarley

Needham (V) The Betrayer and sundry volumes/Provenance: The Down House, Redmarley

Thoms (W J) ed. A Collection of Early Prose Romances, William Pickering, London 1828, three volumes, uniformly bound in full calf with gilt toolin...

Wright (G N) The Rhine, Italy and Greece, Fisher & Son and Co., London and Paris 1841, two volumes/Provenance: Treago Castle, Herefordshire

Greenaway (K) Under the Window, with inscription to Violet Dickinson from Kate Greenaway 1897 on the title paper/Provenance: Treago Castle, Herefo...

Hunt (J H L) Juvenilia, 1802. Cont. mottled calf gilt. engraved frontispiece and one plate, bookplate of Philip Southcote, Esq., Thackeray (W M) ...

Burlington Magazine, 8 vols in 7, 1903 - 06. 4to., orig. cloth gilt. Plates, including coloured tipped in(7)

Sowerby (James) English Botany, 20 vols., 1790 - 1805, with General index to 36 vols, 1814, with 8pp alphabetical index in ms. 8vo., cont. half ca...

Hudson (W H) Works, limited edition, one of 750 sets, 1923, 24 vols., 8vo., orig. green cloth gilt (24)

Mantell (Gideon A) The Wonders of Geology, third edition, 2 vols., 1839, 8vo., cont. half green calf gilt, frontispieces, one hand coloured, text ...

Sweet (Robert) Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, 4 vols., 1820 - 28. 8vo., cont. diced calf gilt (one cover detached, some wear, lacks la...

Moggridge (J Traherne) Contributions to the Flora of Mentone, 1864. 8vo., cont. half calf, 50 hand coloured lithographic plates, with vol 8 of Har...

History, 34 vols., library sets including James, William. The Naval History of Great Britain, New Edition with Additions…by Captain Chamier, 6 vol...

Biography. 21 volumes., including Campbell, (John, Lord), The Lives of the Lord Chancellors…, 7 volumes., 1845 - 47, cont. half green calf gilt (...

Woodville (William) Medical Botany, 4 volumes, including Supplement 1790 - 94. 4to., diced calf gilt (upper joint of vol 1 wormed), 274 hand colo...

Richardson (James) Travels in Morocco, edited by his widow, 2 volumes in one, 8vo.,cont. half calf (lacks one label, scuffed), engraved frontispie...

Capper (John) The Three Presidencies of India, 1853. 8vo., cont. calf gilt, folding map, plates and text illustrations (bookplate damaged)

Curtis (William) The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, volumes 1 - 50, and 52, 1787 - 1825, General Indexes 1828, bound in 31 volum...

Phillips (Sir Richard) New Voyages and Travels…, 9 volumes, n.d. (c. 1823) 8vo., cont. half calf (lacks 5 spine labels), folding engraved maps and...

Jacobs (W W) Novels, 11 volumes, mixed editions, c. 1902, with 4 others similar by Major W.P. Drury. 8vo., uniform illustrated cloth (2 vols with ...

Willmott (Ellen) The Genus Rosa, 2 volumes, 1910 - 14. Folio, cont. half green morocco gilt (rubbed, upper cover soiled), colour plates by Alfred ...

Rudder (Samuel) A New History of Gloucestershire, Cirencester 1779. Folio, later half calf, folding map, 13 folding plates, 2 plans, one full page...

Poetry. 34 leather bound vols., including Pope, (Alexander). The Works, 10 vols., Dublin 1764. 12mo., cont. calf, engraved plates - Butler, Samuel...

Literature, 45 volumes, including Scott, (Sir Walter), Peveril of the Peak, 4 volumes., Edinburgh 1822, 8vo., cont half calf (lacks errata slip), ...

Radcliffe Observatory. Oxford, Astronomical Observations..,. volumes 1 - 24, 1840 - 64 and volumes 27 - 32, 1867 - 72. 8vo., cont. calf gilt (some...

Meilhan, (Gabriel Senac de). L'Emigré. 4 vols., Brunswick 1797. 12mo., orig. blue boards, spines gilt (some wear to spines). Engraved frontispi...

Montesquieu (C L de Secondat) Oeuvres, Nouvelle Edition, 5 vols., Paris 1788. Cont. tree calf gilt, spines gilt with red and blue morocco labels ...

Bucke (Charles) On the Beauties, Harmonies and Sublimities of Nature, 4 volumes., 1821. cont. calf gilt; Howitt (W) The Rural Life of England, 2 v...

Miscellaneous literature, sermons etc., 55 volumes, leather bindings, including British Classics, 14 volumes., 1804, etc., 8vo., cont, red morocc...

Hunter, (Rachel). Letters from Mrs. Palmerstone to her Daughter, second edition, 3 volumes., 1810, 12mo., cont, calf gilt (2 spines scuffed), Boo...

Tipping (H Avray) English Gardens, 1925, Folio, original cloth gilt (spine faded), photographic illustrations; Davids (Arlette) illust. Flowers R...

Cassell, Petter and Galpin, The Holy Bible, n.d. Large 4to., cont. black calf over wooden boards, numerous illustrations, with four others, bibles...

A 'Breeches' bible, Robert Barker, London 1597, lacking title page, calf bound, various inscriptions to front pages

Farmer (Oscar G) Misericords in Fairford Church, a hand written book containing numerous black and white photographs relating to Fairford Church, ...

Leather bindings: including Shakespeare's works, Dickens, etc., approximately 100 volumes

A quantity of 20th Century books, including poetry, art history and exhibition catalogues

Eleven various Victorian photograph albums, most containing photographs to include family portraits and travel photographs around North Africa

All world accumulation of stamps in seven volumes and tins, with 1937 Coronation mint and Postal history, selection of Great Britain commercial ma...

A 17th Century album page from a Persian manuscript, with a late 18th or early 19th Century Mughal watercolour laid down, depicting figures seated...