Field Sports Rare Books & Prints
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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Orme's Collection of British Field Sports
HOWITT, Samuel.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00The finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries. Very rare. The first and only edition of the finest and most important sport...
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The National Sports of Great Britain.
ALKEN, Henry Thomas.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Very rare first issue with fine provenance. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated 1820. ...
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The Right Sort.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was...
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Hunting Tours; Nimrod Abroad; Northern Tour; The Horse and the Hound.
APPERLEY, C.J.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £1,650.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00From the library of 1st Viscount Cowdray. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843) was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, who following his marriage ...
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Rural sports.
DANIEL, William Barker.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Daniel's classic compendium of field sports, with an additional hand-coloured engraved frontis...
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National sports of Great Britain.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00The cornerstone of any Alken collection. 'the size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). One of the...
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Hillingdon Hall.
[WILDRAKE, HEATH, & JELLICOE]; SURTEES, Robert Smith.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00'This, one of the best of Mr. Surtees' works, was originally commenced in the New Sporting Magazine, and illustrated by the inimitable artists, Wi...
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Group of four mezzotint hunting plates.
RIDINGER, Johann Elias.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00A fine group showing 2 male and 2 female hunters along with the spoils of the chase. Each plate titled beneath image with lines of appropriate ver...
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Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq.
ALKEN, Henry (illustrator); APPERLEY, Charles James.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.008vo, xii, 234pp., additional engraved title and 18 hand-coloured plates after Alken and Rawlins, contemporary red morocco gilt by McDonald, spine...
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Sporting Idealities.
JONES, T.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Schwerdt / Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester copy. A rare series of humorous designs with impeccable provenance.The titles are: An Essay on Hunting;...
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A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries.
[BROADHURST, J.].Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £1,800.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00First edition; 4to; vi, 155pp., 18 lithographed plates of horses by Gauci and Chalon after Stubbs, Marshall etc. and printed by Hullmandel, all on...
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Falconry in the British Isles.
SALVIN, Francis Henry & BRODRICK, William.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00[falconry] the best English book on falconry. 'First edition of the best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication' (Schwerdt).A c...
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Sporting edited by Nimrod.
[APPERLEY, C.]Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Folio, viii, 144pp., engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page with vignette, 21 full-page engraved plates, vignettes in text, plates ...
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A journey to Katmandu (the capital of Nepaul)
OLIPHANT, Laurence.Original price £480.00 - Original price £480.00Original price £480.00£480.00£480.00 - £480.00Current price £480.00A scarce account of Nepal. In 1851 he accompanied Jang Bahadur on his return to Nepal after his embassy to England. Includes a chapter on the trad...
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