Books, Maps & Ephemera

Henry Downes Miles: 'Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists', Edinburgh, John Grant, 19...

Collection of ten 19th and early 20th century boxing related books, comprising Anon: 'Pancratia; Or, A History of Pugilism', 1815, new edition, [2...

Bohun Lynch, 2 titles: 'The Prize Ring', London, Country Life, 1925, limited edition (750), numbered, coloured frontis + 40 plates (of which 7 col...

Nat Fleischer, 14 titles including: 'Jack McAuliffe', New York, 1944, 1st edition, illustrations throughout, original pictorial wraps; 'Terrible T...

Nat Fleischer: 'Black Dynamite', New York, The Ring Athletic Library, 1938, 5 volumes, numerous illsutrations throughout as called for, uniform or...

Collection of modern boxing books, approx. 18 hardbacks and 4 softcovers, including Gee 'Up to Scratch'; Cox 'Boxing in Art and Literature'; Reid ...

"An Operator" [i.e. John Badcock]: 'The Fancy, or True Sportsman's Guide', London, J. M'Gowan and Son, 1826, 2 volumes, 2 hand coloured engraved a...

Pierce Egan collection of Boxiana volumes comprising: 'Boxiana', London, G. Smeeton, 1812, 1st edition, 20 plates (of which 4 folding), pp259-262 ...

George Newbold & "Cicero": 'History of the Great International contest Between Heenan and Sayers, at Farnborough, on the 17th April, 1860', London...

Seven Sporting books including [Pierce Egan]: 'Sporting Anecdotes', London, J. Cundee, [1807, 2nd edition], stipple engraved frontis + wood engrav...

A manuscript hunting/gamekeeping account book 1782-1802 entitled 'The Account of the Deer Killed &c at Farmingwoods from 1782 to 1802 - 20 years',...

'Pierce Egan's Book of Sports', London, William Tegg, 1832, 1st edition, illustrated with woodcut vignettes throughout, additional engraved title ...

Pierce Egan: 'Life in London', London, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1821, 1st edition, 1st issue, 36 hand coloured aquatint plates by George & Robert ...

William Henry Scott: 'British Field Sports', London, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1818, 1st edition, added engraved title page + 34 engraved plates as...

Pierce Egan & Theodore Lane: 'Pierce Egan's Anecdotes', London, Knight & Lacey, 1827, 1st edition, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 12 hand-...

Theodore Roosevelt: 'African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist', London, John Murray, November 19...

Lowie Hall: 'Fifty Six Waterloo Cups', E. Hulton, 1922, 1st edition, original cloth gilt + H. Edwardes Clarke: 'The Waterloo Cup 1922-1977',  Spur...

Juliana Berners: 'The Boke of St Albans, Containing treatises on hawking, hunting and cote armour', London, ELliot Stock, 1881, finely produced fa...

'The Badminton Library', 14 volumes comprising Fishing, 2 volumes; Sea Fishing; Hunting; Shooting, 2 volumes; Big Game Shooting, 2 volumes; The Po...

'The Badminton Library', 13 volumes comprising Cricket, 2 volumes; Yachting, 2 volumes; Boating; Swimming; Rowing & Punting; Racing, Tennis, Golf,...

A Len Hutton autograph cricket bat, signed by twelve England cricketers circa 1953, including Len Hutton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Denis Compton, Alec B...

A collection of 140+ football programmes 1956-1969, including Manchester United, Tottenham, Sunderland, Norwich City and many other mainly English...

'Fur, Feather & Fin' series, 12 volumes, (5 first editions, 7 reprints), comprising The Red Deer; The Grouse; The Rabbit; The Salmon; The Trout; P...

S.H. Lewer: 'Wright's Book of Poultry', London, The Waverley Book Co, circa 1914, 30 coloured plates as called for, 4to, original half calf; plus ...

C.B. Jones: 'Live Stock of the Farm', Gresham Publishing Co, 1920, 6 volumes, uniform original cloth gilt (6) ...[more]

'The supplement to the General stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive / by the same author. To which is added, a shor...

Thomas Wallis: 'The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary', London, W. Owen & E. Baker, [nd], 1759 or later, vi,[330]pp, title page with sm...

Gilbert White: 'The Natural History of Selborne',  London, Arch, 1822, new edition, 2 vols, 4 engraved plates (1 hand coloured), as called for, re...

Mrs Henry Perrin: 'British Flowering Plants', London, Bernard Quaritch, 1914, 1st edition, 4 volumes, limited edition (192/1000), numbered, 300 co...

Richard Lydekker (edited): 'The Royal Natural History', London, Warne, 1893-1895, volumes I-IV, 48 coloured plates + black and white plates, ills....

A collection of ten Ornithology titles, mainly association copies, comprising A.F.R. Wollaston: 'Life of Alfred Newton', 1921, 1st edition, 4 page...

A collection of nine Ornithology titles, mainly association copies, comprising E.W. Hendy: 'Here and There with Birds', 1933, 1st edition, signed ...

A collection of nine Ornithology titles, mainly association copies, comprising [William Warde Fowler]: 'A Year with the Birds', Oxford, 1886, (500...

Two articles by Gilbert White, as published in 'The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', 1774 and 1775, 'XXVII. Account of the House-...

Richard & Cherry Kearton, twelve titles: 'Our Rarer British Breeding Birds', 1899, 1st edition, signed by both of the Kearton brothers, pioneers o...

Ronald M. Lockley, eight titles: 'The Way to an Island', 1941 reprint, double sided typed letter signed to Sir William Gavin (1886-1968), agricult...

Edmund Selous, four titles: 'Realities of Bird Life', 1927, 1st edition, copy of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English Novelist and Poet, signed and i...

J. Whitaker: 'Scribblings of a Hedgerow Naturalist', Nottingham, Walter Black & Co, 1904, 1st edition, scarce subscription edition, signed and ins...

[Elizabeth & Sarah Fitton]: 'Conversations on Botany', London, Longmans et al, 1820, 3rd edition enlarged, 21 hand coloured plates (of wich 1 doub...

F.B. Kirkman: 'The British Bird Book', London, 1911-1913, 1st edtion, four volumes, 178 coloured plates + 79 black and white plates + egg plates a...

A small collection of Natural History titles including Bewick 'A History of British Birds', Newcastle, 1832 , 2 volumes, woodcut vignette illustra...

Six Ornithology & Natural History association copies, comprising Eric Hosking & C. Newberry: 'Intimate Sketches from Bird Life', 1940, 1st edition...

Alfred Russel Wallace: 'My Life A Record of Events and Opinions', London, Chapman & Hall, 1905, 1st edition, 2 volumes, signed and inscribed prese...

A folder containing 31 coloured plates circa 1870's-1880's depicting birds of Europe, mainly by J.G. Keulemans, including various buntings, Jays, ...

A collection of Nineteen Norfolk Broads and Norfolk/North Suffolk related titles, including Arthur Henry Patterson: 'Man and Nature on the Broads'...

Henry Rider Haggard, two titles: 'Rural England', London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1902, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 13 maps and 46 illustrations from ph...

Arthur Henry Patterson, 3 titles: 'A Norfolk Naturalist', 1930, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to FFEP, original cloth gilt; 'Nature in Eastern...

Matthew Carter: 'A True Relation of that Honourable, Though Unfortunate Expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester, in 1648.', Colchester, J. Fenno...

Twelve vellum and other documents 1792-1895, relating to property in Westleton, Suffolk, chiefly cottages and an adjoining blacksmith's shop belon...

A collection of eleven East Anglia related titles, including Charles John Palmer (edited): 'A Booke of the Foundacion and Antiquitye of the Towne...

William White: 'History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk', Sheffield, 1836, 1st edition, map not present as usual, comptemporaary calf board,s...

Edmund Farrer, 2 titles: 'A List of Monumental Brasses Remaining in the County of Norfolk, Mdcccxc.', Norwich, 1890, signed to title page, viii,12...

East Anglian bibliography and reference, comprising Tony Copsey, 4 titles: 'Suffolk Writers from the beginning until 1800 - ...who were born betwe...

Mortlock & Roberts: 'The Popular Guide to Norfolk churches', 1981-1985, 1st edition, 3 volumes, original pictorial limp cloth (3) ...[more]

Rev. Alfred Suckling: 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: with Genealogical and Architectural Notices of Its Several Towns and ...

A Framlingham, Suffolk, vellum release of Freehold Property, 1837 ...[more]

Joannis Battely [John Battely]: 'pera posthuma : Viz : Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi, ad annum 1272 perductae', Oxoniae,...

Francis Stone: 'Picturesque Views of the Norfolk Bridges', 1830-1831, in four original parts as issued, engraved title page + 84 lithograph plates...

George Alfred Carthew: 'A History...of the parishes of West and East Bradenham', Norwich, 1883, 9 plates as called for, illustrated by the Reveren...

Six books/booklets on Sudbury and environs, comprising 'The Princess Album of Sudbury, Suffolk.', William Rock & Company of London, circa 1870's, ...