From the library of 1st Viscount Cowdray. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843) was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, who following his marriage ...

Royal copy in fine red morocco. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King ...

A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.

Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...

First edition. A handsome two-volume set of the first edition of Jacob Henry Sarratt's (d.1819) first chess manual, A Treatise on the Games of Ches...

First edition. The first edition of Jacob Henry Sarratt's (d.1819) translation and arrangement of chess studies by the old masters Damiano, Ruy-Lop...

An amusing alphabet, in rhymed couplets, focusing primarily on the misadventures of novice and inept golfers, illustrated with humorous lithograph...

Hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Daniel's classic compendium of field sports, with an additional hand-coloured engraved frontis...

Complete grouping of 36 issues. Publisher's complete grouping of 36 issues of this very obscure bare-knuckle boxing history. This weekly was origin...

The art of horsemanship. The rare Zürich edition of this lavishly illustrated work, first published in 1727. The work opens with a series of 7 attr...

The cornerstone of any Alken collection. 'the size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). One of the...

Biplane numbered Voisin 16, high in flight above bird's eye view of river and townscape.The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events...

This example shows the American Aviator Glenn Curtiss, flying a Curtiss no. 2, as he took first prize in the 1909 Gordon Bennett competition in R...