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HAMILTON, A. The Red Deer of Exmoor 1st.ed. 1907, London, 8vo orig. gt. dec. cl. plus a box on hunting etc.

A good collection of 19th Century framed and glazed etchings of hunting interest after Johann Elias Ridinger, each picture depicting different animals from Boars to Stags. Measures:  41cm high x 33cm deep.

A collection of three framed and glazed Anglo Indian watercolour painting on silks to include Moguls, hunting scenes etc please refer to images.

2 cased vintage sets of stainless steel Danish hunting - toddy drinking cups of graduating form set to burnished red leather hide cases.

INDIAN WHITE METAL BALUSTER BOWL or jardiniere, the banded decoration with relief scenic panels of figures at work, hunting, dancing, tigers, elephants and mythical dragons. Etched peacock to the base. Tests as low grade silver, weight: 43 Troy ozs.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Rather worn and a bit tired in places, tarnished overall, dinks and dents commensurate with age. Rather grubby and scuffed to the interior.

A Royal Crown Derby model, of a Barn Owl, naturalistically modelled, printed mark; a set of four Poole Hunting plates;; etc

A Royal Doulton relief moulded hunting scene tea pot; other stoneware tea pots and barrel; Books- Prayers written at Vailina, The Wonder Book of Railways, Railway Wonders of the World etc; The Avengers comics No.2 1973 onwards

A set of six graduated Scottish silver collared horn beakers by William Dunningham & Co., Edinburgh 1934, the collars plain, the tapered bodies applied with vacant shields, 12.8cm (5in) high and smaller, in a leather hunting case

A RAPHAEL TUCK WOODEN MILITARY REVIEW JIGSAW PUZZLE, A VICTORY PLYWOOD JIGSAW PUZZLE, HUNTING SCENE, AND OTHER WOODEN JIGSAW PUZZLES

CARROLL (L), THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, FIRST EDITION, TEBBUTT'S GUIDE OR COMPANION TO THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY, 1840, LAURENCE WHISTLER, ARMED OCTOBER AND OTHER POEMS 1932, W. W. GIBSON, BATTLE, WRAPPERS, 1916 AND ONE OTHER (6)

FOUR SHELVES OF BOOKS, TO INCLUDE SNAFFLES' OSSES AND OBSTACLES, BEERBOHM'S A SURVEY 1ST EDITION, TWO COPIES OF LEAR'S A BOOK OF NONSENSE (30TH & 33RD ED), BEDE'S FORGOTTEN SHRINES, A THREE VOLUME SET OF 'L'HOMME DETROMPE' DE BALTAZAR GRACIAN (PRINTED IN GENEVA, 1725), A SIGNED BOOK BY ADLARD COLES, AND OTHER HUNTING, SAILING, NAPOLEON AND ROYAL NAVY RELATED TITLES.

A Royal Doulton stoneware mug, with relief moulded stag hunting and toping scenes, with EP mount inscribed J R S F High Jump Faster 1919, 10cm high,.two similar mugs, one with a greyhound handle and impressed TOM, a tapering stoneware mug, 13cm high, a Doulton Lambeth barrel shaped jar and cover with stag hunting toping characters and windmill, and another stoneware jar, (6).

A Doulton Lambeth stoneware two tone jug, with stag hunting and toping scenes in relief, three smaller similar jugs, and a teapot stand, (5).

A vintage brass and copper military bugle complete with braided grip cord and tassels. Together with a bras and coppers hunting horn.

Peter J Greenhill, hunting scene, oil on canvas, signed, framed and with certificate.

Pink glass vase with applied bisque model of a child wearing hat, Doulton Burslem green and yellow charger plate depicting a dog hunting hares, 37.5cm, Doulton figurine Sairey Gamp, set of six drinking glasses, a glass beer stein with pewter lid and other items of porcelain including Royal Crown Derby. Provenance: part of The Stephen Furniss Collection

JAMES WRIGHT, pair of signed hunting oils on canvas "The Chase" 15" x 23.5" WITHDRAWN BY VENDOR

SILVER PILL BOX with hunting scene, Huntsman on Horse with Hound

A '9ct' hunting horn brooch, a fox and horn pin etc.

A set of four 19th century hunting prints, 25 x 35cm

Barbara Webb Limited edition (12/30) etching of truffle hunting, approximately 19 x 48cm

A album of postcards, mainly complete sets including hunting, flowers, dogs (Maud West Watson, Norah Drummond and C Reichart), French trains, military art oilette sets by Harry Payne nos 9994, 9884, 9993, 8635, 8890, 8625, 9885, Victoria Cross, Dickens, Scottish Clans, 1911 Coronation, express trains - GB and foreign, early aeroplanes, White Star Line including Titanic and Olympic, Cunard Line including Lusitania and Mauretania, 433 cards in total

A hunting bowler hat by Battersby, London, approximate size 7

Retro Midwinter Madeira pattern coffee set and a Sadler teapot decorated with hunting scenes

Coromandel wood box, prayer books, Leonardo figures, Jan Hagara figures, hunting prints, and a brass plaque of a galleon

Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting by E. Somerville, 1 vol, Longman's, Green and Co, 1903 (complete).

Sporting interest books, to include; In Scarlet and Silk by Fox Russell, 1896; Bailey's Hunting Directory 1954-5; Reynard the Fox by John Masefield, reprint 1923; and various others. (9)

An African lion hunting sword in animal skin bound scabbard.

Hohberg (Wolfgang Helmhard von) Georgica Curiosa, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, additional engraved titles, printed titles in red and black, numerous engraved illustrations, 9 engraved plates only (of 10) of parterres, errata leaf present at end of each vol., a couple of leaves misbound, vol.1 lacks 3F4 and 3G3, corner of O4 in vol.1 and 5K1 in vol.2 torn away with considerable loss of text, some browning, modern vellum, [Schwerdt I, p.246], folio, Nuremberg, Michael und Johann Friedrich Endters seel. Erben, 1687.⁂ Schwerdt's copy of the second edition of this famous and monumental compendium of domestic and agronomic matters: includes hunting, fishing, falconry, viticulture, coffee, tea, farriery, medical and household management. "An interesting book on country life, published some years before Florin's "Oeconomus," and Coler's "Oeconomia ruralis."" (Schwerdt). Provenance: Christophor Sigismund Amman (bookplate dated 1710); Schwerdt (bookplate).

Crescentiis (Petrus de) Ruralia commoda, first edition, collation: [a-s10 t12 v-x10], 210 leaves (of 212, lacking the two last blanks, with blank leaf x8 present), text in single column, 35 lines, type 1:117G, fine 8-line penwork initial in blue and red, each book opened by a penwork initial in green and red, with extension, numerous initials painted in red in text, many with extension in preliminary leaves, rubricated throughout, copiously annotated in three different hands, the earliest annotating German names of plants and fruits quoted in the work, upper margin of first leaf partially restored, not affecting text but slightly encroaching on wisps of the red extension to initial, occasional finger-soiling and light foxing, a couple of minor marginal repairs or restorations, generally crisp and clean with wide margins, 19th-century red morocco, executed and signed by the Milanese binder Binda for the Marquis Girolamo d'Adda, covers within borders of blind fillets and friezes, d'Adda coat of arms in blind at centre of both covers, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments decorated with blind fleur-de-lys, title and imprint lettered in gilt, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, inner gilt dentelles, marbled and gilt edges, folio (292x208 mm.), [Augsburg], Johann Schuessler, about 16 February 1471.⁂ A superb copy, with a highly distinguished provenance, of the first edition of Crescenzi's Opus ruralium commodorum [The Advantages of Country-Living], the first printed book on agriculture. The Bolognese nobleman Pietro de' Crescenzi, a retired lawyer and himself a country landowner living at Villa d'Olmo near Bologna, composed his treatise between 1304 and 1309. Following the tradition of ancient Roman agricultural writers, he wrote in Latin, and divided the work into 12 sections, each of which is devoted to a specific topic. The work is considered the most important source on agricultural practices, husbandry and horticulture in the Middle Ages, and includes hunting, fishing, wine-making, the use of medicinal plants, animal diseases, and a montly calendar of duties and tasks. The Ruralia commoda enjoyed a lasting popularity during the Renaissance and was frequently reprinted in the 15th and 16th century, translated into vernacular languages, such as Italian (see lots 6 and 12), French and German, and supplemented with woodcuts (see lot 13). Like the earlier manuscripts circulating, the first edition of 1471, issued by Johann Schüssler, the second printer active in Augsburg, after Gunther Zainer, is not illustrated. The work was widely used as a practical handbook, as early annotations frequently found in copies show, as here. "The contents of Crescenzi's book provided anyone who worked on the land with a well-organized manual of procedure" (F. J. Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals, New York 1997, p. 67).The Rothamsted copy is very fine and was once owned by one of the most refined Italian collectors, the Milanese marchese Girolamo d'Adda - the morocco binding bearing his arms. Later the book found its way to England and into the library of another great name in book collecting, Charles Fairfax Murray, who had acquired d'Adda's library en bloc. Provenance: lower margin of recto of final leaf with ownership inscription in a German hand dated 1780 ('Ex libris ... à Felsenheim die 21 [?] 1780'); Marquis Girolamo d'Adda (1815-1881); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919; see Catalogue of a Magnificent Collection of Rare Early printed German Books... Forming the First Portion of the Library of C. Fairfax Murray, Esq. : ... sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, London 1917, lot 136, "The Marquis D'Adda's copy"). Rothamsted acquisition date 1923. Literature: ISTC ic00965000; HC 5828*; GW 7820; ; BMC II 328; Bod-inc C-477; IGI VI 3260-A; Goff C-965; Klebs 310.6; Stillwell 615; B.IN.G 578; Simon Bibliotheca Bacchica 1.32.

Liger (Louis) Oeconomie Generale de la Campagne, ou Nouvelle Maison Rustique, 2 vol., first edition, titles in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut illustrations, contemporary calf, spines gilt, foot of spines repaired, [Schwerdt I, p.316; Vicaire 520], 4to, Paris, Chez Charles de Sercy, 1700.⁂ The Schwerdt copy (with bookplate) of this widely popular and successful work, covering all matters rustic and many domestic. As well as extensive coverage of vines, wines and viticulture and cider-making, there are also chapters on bees, ponds, rivers, orchards, forestry, much on cookery - meats, poultry, vegetables, jams, preserves and patisserie - and 9 chapters on hunting.

Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: or, a Dictionary of all Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing, double column, woodcut illustrations, occasional browning, worming towards end affecting some text, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached, [British Bee Books 71; Fussell pp.95-96; Goldsmiths' 4047; Perkins 408; Schwerdt I p.50], 8vo, for A. and J. Churchill , 1704.⁂ A re-issue of the first edition of the same year with a new title-page. The work is one of the earliest attempts at a comprehensive country dictionary, variously attributed to Nathan Bailey and John Worlidge. 'A Catalogue of Some of the Books made use of in this work' lists around 60 books on agriculture, gardening, forestry and animal husandry. Included in the main work are entries on fruit-trees, birds, horses, hunting and hawking, fishing, bees, the making of wines and other liquors, gunpowder and the manufacturing in the various counties of England.

Liger (Louis) Le Nouveau Theatre d'Agriculture et Menage des Champs, first edition, title in red and black, 29 engraved plates, engraved musical notation relating to the horn in hunting, woodcut illustrations, some light browning, contemporary calf, gilt arms of Boyer de Cremilles on covers, spine gilt in compartments, ends repaired, [Schwerdt I, p.316], 4to, Paris, Chez Damien Beugnie, 1713.⁂ The Schwerdt copy (with bookplate).

Field Sports.- [Cox (Nicholas)] The Gentleman's Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing...whereto is added, a perfect Abstract of the Forest Laws..., sixth edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, one large (torn and repaired), some soiling, later calf, gilt, by Lloyd, spine gilt, g.e., 1721 § Game Law (The): or, a Collection of the Laws and Statutes, 3pp. advertisements at end, G6 torn, contemporary sheep, a little worn, 1705; and a defective 1706 edition of the first, 8vo et infra (3)

Chomel (Noel) Dictionaire Oeconomique: or The Family Dictionary, edited by R. Bradley, 2 vol., first edition in English, variant issue with titles not in red and black and slightly different imprint, double column, woodcut illustrations, 5K & 5L bound in wrong order, final leaf in each volume pasted down obscuring advertisements on verso but no loss of text, a good clean copy, contemporary calf, rubbed, spines a little worn, joints split, [Bitting pp.87-88; Cagle 602; Fussell I p.109; Kress 3591; Goldsmiths' 6345; Maclean p.27; Oxford p.57], folio, for D. Midwinter, at the Crowns in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1725. ⁂ With much on food & drink, including distillation; hunting and trapping; agriculture and gardening, including vines and fruit-trees; preserving; veterinary matters; and the manufacture of soaps and perfumes. Bradley has added material to the cookery section.

Bibliography.- Kreysig (George Christoph) Bibliotheca scriptorum venaticorum, first edition, title with woodcut vignette, browned, slight worming to head of title and following couple of leaves, contemporary vellum, soiled, Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1750 § Lastri (Marco) Bibliotheca Georgica ossia Catalogo Ragionato degli Scrittori di Agricoltura, Veterinaria, Agrimensura, Meteorologia, Economia Pubblica, Caccia, Pesca ec. Spettanti all'Italia, signed presentation copy from the author to André Naville inscribed on front pastedown, attractive contemporary pastepaper boards, spine a little rubbed and faded, Florence, Moücke, 1787 § Re (Filippo) Saggio di Bibliografia Georgica, errata leaf at end, title slightly frayed at fore-edge (repaired), library cloth, uncut, Venice, 1802, the last two not from the Berio/Ward libraries, 4to & 8vo (3)⁂ The first is the first bibliography of hunting, including falconry and angling.

Magnus (Olaus) Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali ...nuovamente tradotta in lingua Toscana, collation: *4 a-b8 c6 A-MM8 NN6, Roman letter, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., full-page engraved map of Scandinavia, with partial early hand-colouring, numerous charming woodcuts within text, little marginal worming to first and last few ff., occasional water-staining or spotting, 20th century half vellum, folio (320 x 212mm.), Venice, Domenico Nicolini for the heirs of Luc'antonio Giunti, 1565. ⁂ First illustrated Italian edition and second overall Italian edition of Magnus's important ethnographical and geographical survey of Scandinavia. He discusses warfare, trades and occupations, animals and hunting, amongst many other aspects of Scandinavian life. The work earns its place in Simon for its discussion of wines, mead, bees, agriculture, bread-making, and the flora and fauna used for food.Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1931.Literature: Simon, BB xx, 479; Simon, BG 1117; Schwerdt II, 4; Camerini, Giunti, 689; Mortimer, Italian, 270; EDIT 16 CNCE 27290.

Schwerdt copy.- Heresbach (Conrad) Rei rusticae libri quatuor, universam rusticam disciplinam complectentes, collation: *8 A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Ggg8, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut diagram at end, sig. Kk misbound, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, ?later gilt, rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip, rubbed, 8vo (157 x 99mm.), Cologne, Johann Birckmann, 1571.⁂ The Schwerdt copy of the second edition of this work on country pursuits and rural life, including falconry, hunting and fishing. Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1939.Literature: Adams H333: Schwerdt I, p.240.

Gallo (Agostino) Secrets de la vraye Agriculture, et honestes Plaisirs qu'on recoit en la mesnagerie des champs, collation: a4 e2 a8 b-z A-Z Aa-Ee4 Ff2, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations and decorations, some water-staining, title soiled, later half calf, head of spine torn, 4to (232 x 140mm.), Paris, Chez Nicolas Chesneau, 1572.⁂ The Andre Simon copy of the second French edition of this translation, which originally appeared a year earlier. The translator was Francois de Belleforest. The book is divided into 20 "journees" covering a variety of aspects of rural life - the 3rd and 4th deal with wine and viticulture whilst the 19th covers hunting and falconry.Provenance: Andre Simon (bookplate). Rothamsted acquisition date 1932.Literature: Not in Simon BG; Thiébaud 441.

Crescentiis (Petrus de) Ruralia commoda, collation: A8 B-Q6 R8 S-Z6 a-b6 j4, 158 leaves (complete with blank b6), text in 2 columns, 53 lines, type: 13:80G, 19:155G, 313 woodcuts in text, a few coloured by a contemporary hand, German names for plants described in an early hand in margins and near woodcuts, woodcuts numbered also in an early hand, some foxing, stains and soiling, final leaf with a couple of minor repairs, modern limp vellum with green silk ties (1 lacking), spine lettered in black, folio (262 x 185mm.), Speyer, Peter Drach, [c.1490-95].⁂ The rare first illustrated edition of Crescenzi's popular work, enhanced with over 300 woodcuts. One of the most attractive illustrated 15th-century books on natural history, and "its text and numerous cuts are a wonderful storehouse of country lore" (A. M. Hind, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut, p. 347).The edition was issued anonymously, without indication of printer, place and date, but the printing is assigned to Peter Drach, and generally dated to between 1490 and 1495. The Speyer printer also published (1st October 1493) the first translation into German of the Ruralia commoda, illustrating the text with the same woodblocks. The fine vignettes are in different sizes and depict husbandry and hunting scenes, plants, animals, and rightly famous are the woodcuts depicting winemaking. A group of illustrations shows the re-use of the woodblocks executed by the so-called 'Hausbuchmeister' for one of the most famous illustrated German books of the incunable age, the Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnis (Speculum humanae salvationis), likewise printed by Drach in 1496. Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1922Literature: ISTC ic00969000; HCR 5826; GW 7825; BMC II 499; Bod-inc C-482; IGI 3265; Goff C-969; Klebs 310.6; Nissen BBI, 421; Simon Bibliotheca Bacchica, 36; Great Flower Books, p. 83.

Forestry.- Manwood (John) A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest, first published edition, title within woodcut ornamental border, black letter, lacking blank Z8, damp-staining throughout, neat ink ownership inscription to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; STC 17291], small 4to, Thomas Wright and Bonham Norton, 1598.⁂ The author was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn and gamekeeper of Waltham Forest who, in 1592, issued privately a work entitled A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest... This was later revised, enlarged and published as the present work, and thereafter in many editions, remaining the standard work on forest law until at least the nineteenth century. It includes sections on hunting and hawking.Provenance: Ex Libri Asini (ink inscription to title). Rothamsted acquisition date 1916.

Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liébault. Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme...also a short collection of the hunting of the Hart, wilde Bore, Hare, Foxe, Gray, Conie; of Birds and Faulconrie..., translated by Richard Surflet, first edition in English, lacking A1 (blank but for signature "A1"), woodcut device on title, ornaments, initials and illustrations, some full-page including 20 of knot gardens, title lightly soiled and with small ink stains, water-staining to some leaves but otherwise a good copy, E2 and O3 with tear to outer margin, contemporary and later ink manuscript notes to endpapers (remedy "to fasten loose teeth", recipe for "a salve" etc.), later panelled calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, [STC 10547; Fussell I p.13], 4to, by Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton, 1600.⁂ Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1915.

Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault. L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique, 2 parts in 1, first title in red and black, both titles with woodcut devices, large woodcuts within text, occasional staining, some spotting, bookplate of Bibliotheca Lucini Passalaova, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, lightly soiled, Rouen, Jean Osmont, 1608; and 4 others, 17th Lyon and Rouen editions of the same, 4to (5)⁂ The second part is on the hunting of wolves. Provenance: first mentioned Rothamsted acquisition date 1920.

Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault. Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, translated by Richard Surflet, edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, third edition in English, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces, lacking final blank, 2A6 neatly repaired and supplied from another copy, 17th century calf, spine worn at head, [Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Poynter 31.1.; Schwerdt I, 166 (first English edition); Simon, BG, 610 (note); STC 10549; Vicaire 345 (French editions)], folio, Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull , 1616.⁂ The first edition edited by Markham. As well as discussing the principles of farming and the layout and surveying of farms it includes chapters on herbs, vegetables, bread, distillation, wines, cider, hunting and falconry.Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1915.

Raimondi (Eugenio) Delle caccie, libri quattro aggiuntovi in questa nuova impressione il quinto libro della villa, second edition, engraved pictorial title and full-page illustrations, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, a few poorly repaired tears within text or illustrations, some staining, lightly browned, later limp marbled boards, [Schwerdt I, p.123; BING 1596 ], small 4to, [Naples], [Lazaro Scoriggio], 1626.⁂ An important Italian work on hunting, which also includes sections on managing estates, including vineyards. Includes hawking, fishing and fowling.Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1919.

Stevenson (Matthew) The Twelve Moneths, first edition, one engraved plate and 11 full-page engraved illustrations, soiled, lower corner of sig.I1 restored, just touching a couple of words of text, a few other marginal repairs, later crushed red morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, [Wing S5510; Fussell I, pp.72-73; Schwerdt II, p.225], small 4to, Printed by M.S. for Thomas Jenner, 1661.⁂ Scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated work which not only covers husbandry and gardening but also "Recreations, as Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Coursing, Cockfighting." As well as the engravings depicting the rural activities, there is also a list of "The Principall Fairs in England and Wales" for each month.Rothamsted acquisition date 1922.

A lacquered Ganjifa Playing Card, illuminated painting on papier-mâché card [Mughal India (probably Rajasthan), c. 1820 AD] Single circular papier-mâché card, depicting a Raja on horseback, possibly hunting with a small deer in the foreground, framed within red and gold geometric border, simple copper circular device to centre of verso, with gold and copper border, lacquer cracked with age, with slight loss to paint on verso, extremities a little rubbed, 56mm. in diameter This attractive token is used to play an ancient card game, said to have originated in Persia and then been popularised in India under the Mughal Emperors from the sixteenth century onwards. Sets produced for such courts were often opulent with cards made from materials such as inlaid or painted ivory or tortoise shell, and then later on in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were painted on papier-mâché cards like the present example. The Victoria and Albert Museum have other examples from the nineteenth century, their 01316&A/(IS), and others have appeared on the market in Christie's, 11 April 2014, lot 215.

Ɵ  Valerius Probus, De notis romanis, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy, mid-fifteenth century]  9 leaves, a single complete gathering (the last leaf once a cancelled blank), wanting a single leaf at beginning, else complete, entries in 2 columns: abbreviations followed by expanded text, all in professional humanist script (approximately 21 lines in each column), entries arranged alphabetically, each entry headed by an ornamental Roman capital, watermark of a hunting horn with central band and elephant-trunk like lips to mouthpiece (close to Briquet 7686 and many others, from a wide distribution across fifteenth-century Italy), first leaf beginning with last two lines of prologue of text, some old waterstains (without substantial affect to text), a few later scribbles in margin, overall in fair and presentable condition, 198 by 135mm.; stitched into card binding, probably nineteenth-century This is the only surviving work securely attributed to the Roman Grammarian, Valerius Probus (Marcus Valerius Probus, c. 20/30-105 AD.), who rose to prominence during the reign of Nero. What survives is most probably only part of the original text. Abbreviations, and excessive use of them, were as much of a problem for Ancient readers as they were for medieval, Renaissance and modern students of manuscripts. Isidore of Seville notes that some frowned on their usage, and Justinian expressly forbid their use in legal texts and set punitive penalties for anyone using or selling such a book. Probus’ text championed a more permissive approach to their employment by copyists, offering the reader an easy reference tool for their decipherment. Copies are extremely rare on the market, and the Schoenberg database lists only a single manuscript as having been offered for sale, that in a Renaissance compendium sold by Laurence Witten in his cat. for 1964, no. 313 (now Beinecke, Yale). Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 24% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT). 

A porcelain Group of two Ladies wearing Hunting Attire German (Bisque), "The Ladies of Llangollen," together with a blue two handled Vase with coloured print transfer of the "Ladies of Llangollen," unusual and rare. (2)* The Ladies of Llangollen were Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, both upper class Irish women who scandalized their contemporaries as a result of their relationship.

Three late 19th Century red Hunting Tail Coats, with brass 'KHC' buttons for Kildare Hunting Club, and a variety of hunting trousers. (3)Provenance: The Mansfield Family, formerly of Morristown Lattin, Naas, Co. Kildare.

A German bayonet in sheathe, together with a hunting knife stamped 'William Rodgers. I Cut My Way'. (2)

A group of modern hunting and military style knives.

After Sutherland et alEquestrian Prints: A collection of 7 coloured Prints including Epsom (running); Ascot Heath (preparing to start); Newmarket (training); and the "Fox Hunting" series (4 plates), all framed, as a lot, w.a.f. (7)

An 18 piece blue and white Dinner Service, with hunting, shooting and carriage scene by Leicester (S.H.& S.) including tureens and covers, and graduating service platters, as a lot, w.a.f. (1)Provenance: Martin Family, Albert House, Sligo.

A Chantilly trembleuse saucer: painted in the Kakiemmon palette with two floral sprays and scattered insects, hunting horn mark, circa 1740-50, 11.5 cm diameter.Provenance: Paper label for the Tryhorn Collection, sold in these rooms 29/1/2013.

Two hunting prints, "Throwing off...Not so easy" and "Going home...Apology for damage done", two prints from "A quiet game at nap" series, (4)

Set of 4 coloured engraved hunting prints in the manner of Alken, 2 Chinese equine prints,2 further prints

Two double sided Mughal manuscript pages, one showing a hunting scene with text to verso, the other showing a fishing scene with text to verso, 25 x 16cm (2)

A vintage Merrythough made for Harrods soft toy modelled as a standing fox in hunting attire on a wooden push along horse

MDINA STUDIO GLASS CIRCULAR BOWL, 8" DIAMETER, CUT GLASS SPIRIT DECANTER AND A LARGE BROWN GLAZED POTTERY HUNTING JUG, 9" HIGH (3)