Sports, Pastimes, Cookery Books
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De honesta voluptate et valetudine libri decem.
PLATINA, Bartolomeo.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00The first printed cookbook. Rare 16th-century Latin edition of the first printed cookbook to be published on a mass scale.Written in c. 1465 by Bar...
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
CHILD, Julia; BECK, Simone.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Signed by Julia Child. The first edition, signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul Child, of the continuation of Mastering the Art of French Cook...
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The Book of the Sword.
BURTON, Richard F.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Richard Burton's classic work on the sword, including its history in Persia and the Middle-East. Burton intended this to be the first part of a co...
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Tempting Kosher Dishes.
GAHR, F.O. et al.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Famous Jewish Passover cookbook. An extremely clean copy of this famous Jewish Passover cookbook.Includes a Jewish holidays calendar for the years ...
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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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The Aga Khan's horses.
LYLE, Robert Charles.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Signed by the Aga Khan. The rare limited edition, signed by the Aga Khan, of the first book on his horses. A beautiful production with fine colour ...
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Epsom.
POLLARD, James.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00A magnificently coloured, uncut set of Pollard's Epsom. The third state with titles and imprints present.Landscape folio (43 x 59 cm); 6 deckle-ed...
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The Royal English and Foreign Confectioner:
FRANCATELLI, Charles Elmé.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli...
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The Gun at Home and Abroad.
[SHOOTING]. OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £0.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00One of only 500 copies. Comprising of four works, entitled: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa &...
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Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the present year inclusive.
HERRING, John Frederick.Original price £57,500.00 - Original price £57,500.00Original price £0.00£57,500.00£57,500.00 - £57,500.00Current price £57,500.00With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...
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Epics of the Fancy.
FARNOL, Jeffrey.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00Presentation copy inscribed by the author. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Capt. Harry Cleveland ...
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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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Recueil de chevaux de tous genres...
VERNET, Carle & Horace.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Infiniment rare, surtout en couleurs' (Thiébaud). A remarkable series of lithographs of horses, beautifully hand-coloured. A group of these plates ...
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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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Delineations of British Field Sports,
ALKEN, Samuel.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00The Schwerdt copy. The coloured issue ranks as one of the rarest sporting books of the period. There is only a record of a second coloured copy, wh...
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