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  • De honesta voluptate et valetudine libri decem.

    PLATINA, Bartolomeo.
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    The 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.
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    Signed 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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  • An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.

    [NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]
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    Hundreds 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.
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    Signed 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.
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    A 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.
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    The 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.
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    One 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.
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    With 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.
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    Presentation 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.
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    The 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.
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    Infiniment 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.
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    Very 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.
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    The 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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  • [Horses & Their Pedigrees].

    SPENCER, Thomas.
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    Fine & very rare set of racing prints. Sparrow notes its rarity in 1922, 'rare no doubt, because so many of the copies have been broken up in o...

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