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WHYTE MELVILLE,G.J. 'Digby Grand, An Autobiography' Parker, 1853, 1st edn. 2 vols. 8vo. 1/2 leather bd. glt.tooled spines. Tog.with 'Rosine' by same, 1877. Ill. Miriam KERNS, Plus 'Riding Recollections', 1878, Plus BEAUFORT & MORRIS, 'Hunting' 1885, Plus WEIR & BROWN, 'Riding & Polo', 1891. similarly bound in 1/2 leather tooled spines. 6 (see illustrations)
SMITH,Thomas,'The Life of A Fox Written by Himself and Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman' G.H.Jalland, T.e.g. lacks front endpp. 1/2 vellum. Tog.with CLAPHAM, Richard 'Foxes Foxhound and Fox-Hunting' Heath Cranton, nd. Lionel Edwards. Frontis cl. bumped. Plus 'CECIL', 'Hunting Tours' Allan, 1924, 2nd edn. T.e.g. glt.cl. Plus MILLS, John 'The Life of A Foxhound' Allan, 1921. 5th edn. Ill. John Leech. Plus 2 other similar interest. 6
FOX RUSSELL, 'In Scarlet & Silk, Hunting and Steeplechasing' Bellairs, 1896. Ill. Finch Mason, Tog.with GLADTONE,Hugh,S, 'Shooting with Surtees', Witherby, 1927. Cold.frontis, 4 cold. plts. glt.cl. Plus BECKFORD, Peter, 'Thoughts on Hunting' Methuen, 1904. 2nd. edn. Glt. cl. bumped, plus others. 9
HOADLEY,Munro, David, 'The Grand National 1839-1931' Heinemann, 1931. Cold. frontis, 4to. Dec.cl. worn. Tog.with HIEOVER, Harry 'The Pocket and The Stud', Longman, 1848. 8vo. Frontis browned. 1/4 leather scuffed with loss to spine, plus 'The Hunting-Field' by same, 1850. Plus ANDERSON,E.L. 'Vice in the Horse' Edinburgh, 1886. 1/2 leather, slim 8vo. Plus 5 similar interest. 8
WYNDHAM,Hon. Mrs. Percy (Ill) 'The Ballad of Mr. Rook' by G.W. Smith Elder, 1901. lge.fo. 6 cold.plts pp shaken, cl.worn. tog.with LEECH, John (Ill) 'The Noble Science John Leech in The Hunting Field' by Thomas BODKIN, Collins, 1948, plus DENHOLM ARMOUR,G. (Ill) 'Hunts with Jorrocks' by Robert Surtees, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, 2nd.edn. cold.plts a.c.f. glt.cl scuffed. 3
A fine Meissen pierced cabinet plate circa 1860-80 painted with a hunting scene set in a italicized landscape after the Dutch 17th century painter Wouwerman, within an elaborate gilt rocaille frame against a pink ground, the pierced and shaped borders with scrolling flowers crossed swords in underglaze-blue, impressed 14 and 79 and incised No:63, inscribed Wouvermann in black script 25.3cm., 10in. Philip Wouwerman (1619-1668) was a student of Frans Hals before moving to Hamburg in 1638 where he studied with Evert Decker. After his return to Holland he devoted. himself to genre paintings. At this time, already a very successful painter, he was able to leave his daughter the large amount of 20.000 guilders for her dowry. The painters of Hollands 'Golden Century' proved a popular subject in the second half of the 19th century when many of the most famous paintings of the era were copied to porcelain plaques and plates.
*India. Souvenir of Gwalior, 1906, an album containing 108 silver gelatine prints by Hertzog and Higgins of Mhow (Central India), including twenty-six large photos. (210. x 290. mm), two panoramas (both defective), and the remainder small photos. mounted, five to a page, many with printed captions at foot of album pages, much waterstaining and wear (mostly to the smaller format photographs), orig. maroon morocco gilt, worn and spine deficient, oblong folio. Sold with all faults, not subject to return An album recording the visit of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) on a hunting expedition during his 1905-1906 tour of India. The photographs include the Sipri Palace, Raipur Camp, Tiger Shooting at Singhpur and Kuleth, the shooting party with tigers and leopards, etc., Jai Bilas Palace, Gwalior, Durbar Hall, Jai Bilas Palace, Moti Mahal Palace, Gwalior Fort and Sas Bahu Temple. (1)
[Surtees, R. S.]. Handley Cross: Or, The Spa Hunt. A Sporting Tale, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1843, half-title to vols. 2 & 3 (not called for in vol. 1), minor tear to lower corner of p. 173 in vol. 1, not affecting text, t.e.g., modern hunting-pink, half-morocco by Bayntun, Bath, gilt dec. spines with raised bands, contained in purpose-made fleece-lined drop-over book box, 8vo, together with Lear (Edward), Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, (Third Thousand), 1871, b & w plts. and illusts., gutta-percha perished with contents working loose, orig. cloth-backed boards, rubbed and marked, upper joint worn, modern slipcase, 4to, with Laughable Lyrics, a Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music etc., R.J. Bush, 1877, b & w plts. and illusts., gutta-percha entirely perished and contents loose, orig. pict. cloth gilt, some wear, chipped at spine etc., 4to (3)
Ward (Capt. F. Kingdon). The Romance of Plant Hunting, 1st ed., 1924, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a little chipped at head and foot of spine, together with Veitch (James), A Manual of the Coniferae, wood engs., some folding, orig. gilt dec. cloth, minor wear to head and foot of spine, both 8vo, with other misc. natural history and gardening (3 shelves)
An interesting continental hunting hanger, plain SE blade 19”, elaborate copper gilt chiselled crosspiece with strung bugles centre panel, foliate arms and ram’s head finials, turn down guard with goats heads and applied goat couchant, fluted ebony grip, gilt pommel with radial oak leaf cap. GC, the gilt good, (2 small chips to grip and minor cracks, blade lightly abraded) Plate 8

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