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Veitch (James Herbert) Hortus Veitchii, 50 plates, hinges cracked, Chelsea, 1906 § Guenther (Konrad) A Naturalist in Brazil, plates and text illustrations, 1931 § Farrer (Reginald) The Dolomites, colour plates by E. Harrison Compton, 1913 § Ward (F. Kingdon) Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World, plates, 1974 § Lyte (Charles) Frank Kingdon-Ward. The Last of the Great Plant Hunters, maps and plates, 1989, third mentioned modern half morocco, rest original cloth, fourth and fifth mentioned dust-jackets; and 63 others, Plant Hunting, some duplicates including 10 other copies of the fifth mentioned, 4to & 8vo (68).
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A HUNTING CASED DRESS POCKET WATCH BY PATEK & CO. White enamel dial with black Roman numerals. Signed inner case and numbered 1715. Both outer cases with gold and niello decoration To one side a hunting scene with two hounds and a boar amongst foliage with salamander, to the other a grotesque mask to the centre of a similar decoration. With watch key (2) ++Cracked dial
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Peter Marshall, Queensferry, early 19th century oak long case clock with a swan neck moulded cornice, arched painted dial with a deer hunting scene above a cream enamel dial with floral spandrels, subsidiary second and date dial, eight day movement, flanked by fluted columns, the trunk with arched door and fluted quarter columns
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Mills (John) The Sportsman's Library, xxviii, 431pp., half-title, lithographed portrait frontispiece, plates, a little very light damp-staining to some plates, original red cloth, light soiling, spine faded, 8vo, Edinburgh, William Paterson, n.d., [?1845]. *** This edition has been called 'very scarce'; it may or may not have preceded that listed in Westwood and Satchell, p.152, which was published by W. Tait, Edinburgh. This edition does however have "Printed by William Tait, 107, Prince's Street" on the final page. The difference between the 2 editions seems to have been that the Tait had printed illustrations whereas the Paterson contained lithographs. Contains sections on hunting, shooting, game, sporting dogs and angling.
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Morgan (George) The New Complete Sportsman; or, the Town and Country Gentleman's Recreation, iv, 302pp., [2pp.], engraved frontispiece, 2pp. advertisements at end, browning and a little light foxing, contemporary ink inscription and a couple of ink spots to title, wormhole throughout with a little loss of text, lacking rear free endpaper, upper hinge a little weak, contemporary calf, rebacked with small piece of spine label remaining, slightly rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.153], 12mo, for Alex. Hogg, n.d. [?c.1785]. *** Westwood & Satchell write "Identical with Fairfax's 'Complete Sportsman' but with some revision and correction." Angling is included pp.1-44, along with "The breeding and managing game cocks ... , horse-racing, fox-hunting, hare-hunting ... shooting ... " and more.
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O'Connor (R.) An Introduction to the Field Sports of France. Being a Practical View of Hunting, Shooting and Fishing, first edition, xx, 304pp., 16pp., half-title, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations, 16pp. advertisements at end, original green cloth, gilt, spine faded, [Westwood & Satchell p.161], 8vo, London and Paris, John Murray and Stassin et Xavier, 1846. *** The third part, pp.225-298, deals with many types of fishing in various parts of France.
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Oppianus.- De Piscibus Libri V. Eiusdem de Venatione Libri IIII, (Graece), translated by Laurentius Lippius, woodcut printer's device on title, text in Greek and Latin, corner of front free endpaper with small tear, lacking one leaf (N7 or N8), hinges weak, contemporary vellum, a few small tears and holes to spine, light soiling, [Adams O200; Schwerdt II p.50; Westwood & Satchell p.163], 8vo, Venice, Aldus, 1517. *** Rare: the first Aldine edition. Brunet states that this edition is "Rare et recherche", although the text is thought to be less accurate than that of 1515. Contains Oppianus' poem on fishes in five books, his poem on hunting in three books, and Lippius' Latin translation of the former. Includes the first edition of the poem "de venatione".
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Pollok (Colonel) Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel, first edition, viii, 427pp., half-title with contemporary ink ownership inscription, plates, original cloth, spine a little faded, extremities very slightly rubbed, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1894. *** Hunting and shooting experiences in India, Syria and other parts of Asia, with a chapter on West Africa.
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Slaughter (Frances E., editor) The Sportswoman's Library, 2 vol., xiv, 415pp., xiv, 393pp., plates and illustrations, ex-library copy with bookplates of The Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, Connecticut, hinges a little weak, original decorative cloth, gilt spines, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Westminster and New York, Archibald Constable & Co. and Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. *** Contains chapters on skating, driving, archery, otter, fox and hare hunting, shooting, golf, croquet, fishing for tarpon, salmon fishing, trout and coarse fishing and fly-fishing.
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[Surtees (Robert Smith)] The Analysis of the Hunting Field ... of the Season 1845-6, xii, 323pp., title printed in red and black, colour plates by Henry Alken, contemporary red cloth, head and foot of spine chipped, light soiling and a little very light damp-staining, 8vo, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1904. *** Based on the first edition published in 1846.
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Turberville (George) Turbervile's Booke of Hunting, 1576, [xiv], 250pp., [4pp.], facsimile reprint of the Bodleian Library copy of the black-letter edition of 1576, half-title, woodcut illustrations, 4pp. music at end, bookplate of Edward Bensly, ink inscriptions to front pastedown, a little very light spotting to half-title and title, original parchment boards, yapp edges, chipped and some tears, lightly browned, 8vo, Henry Froude at the Clarendon Press, 1908.
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Alderson (Maj.-Gen. E.A.H.) Pink & Scarlet or Hunting as a School for Soldiering, 1913 ~ Ogilvie (Will H.) Galloping Shoes, 1922; A Handful of Leather, 1928 ~ Edwards (Lionel) Seen from the Saddle, 1937, all with plates and/or illustrations by Lionel Edwards, some colour and tipped in, some foxing, original cloth, the first two pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, the first and third with faded spines; and 2 others illustrated by Edwards, 4to & oblong 8vo (6).
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MASON (G.FINCH) SPORTING SKETCHES, fourth edition, n.d.; Country Sketches, n.d. ~ [Surtees (R.S.)] Handley Cross, hand-coloured plates by John Leech, n.d. ~ Wilmot ( Sir John E.Eardley) Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq., [c.1862] ~ Aldin (Cecil) Scarlet to M.F.H., 1933 ~ Reynard (Capt. Frank H., editor ) Hunting Notes from Holderness, [c.1914] ~ Cuming (E.D. editor ) Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography, reprint, 1926 ~ Smith (Thomas) The Life of a Fox..., 1920 ~ Birkett ( Lady, editor) Hunting Lays and Hunting Ways, 1924, plates and illustrations, some colour, some spotting, the first two in original cloth-backed pictorial boards (loose), the rest original cloth, rubbed; and 9 others, hunting, v.s. (18).
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A collection of Victorian and later jewellery, comprising; an early 20th century gold regimental bar brooch for the Sherwood Foresters, two pietra dura round brooches decorated with flowers, an oval reverse crystal intaglio depicting lilly of the valley, a graduated coral bead necklace, a pair of Victorian turquoise matrix pendent earrings, each with an applied enamelled ladybird and a matching pendant later suspended from a gold brooch, a hunting horn brooch, a 22ct gold wedding band, Birmingham 1892, three pairs of 9ct gold oval cufflinks, Birmingham 1907, 1949 & Chester 1928, 20.2g, a silver round brooch and a single matching earring, a Victoria jubilee brooch, an enamelled 'feather' brooch, various stock pins and other items (most imperfect)
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