Sports & Pastimes
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The Gun at Home and Abroad.
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 £1,800.00| /One of only 500 copies. The work comprises: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa & Europe; Th...
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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 £57,500.00| /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.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /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.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /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 spor...
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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 £17,500.00| /'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.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /Very rare first issue with fine double provenance. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated...
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Delineations of British Field Sports, together with the various methods of poaching
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 £15,000.00| /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, w...
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The Meltonian:
[RAWLINS, T.J.].Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /The Schwerdt-Gloucester copy. The Schwerdt-Gloucester copy of a magnificent and elaborate album of hunting watercolours made for Sir Edward Smythe,...
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Scenes during the Snow Storm, December 1836.
POLLARD, James.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /James Pollard's scarce series of prints commemorating the exceptionally severe snow of December 1836. The Spectator reported that 'snow continued ...
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Beaufort Hunt,
HODGES, Walter Parry (artist); ALKEN, Henry Thomas (engraver).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Beaufort Hunt is a masterful work on fox-hunting collaboration between Alken and Hodges. Published as a set of eight in 1833 with the ninth issued...
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Hunting, or six hour's sport,
ALKEN, Henry Thomas.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Henry Alken's rare set of hunting plates, well drawn and coloured, representing Cockney Londoners in various amusing sporting difficulties. The wo...
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[Horses & Their Pedigrees].
SPENCER, Thomas.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /A fine and 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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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 £3,000.00| /Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was 'One o...
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The great and small game of India,
LYDEKKER, Richard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /'A sumptuous rendering of south Asia's wild game species in art and text. Lydekker describes more than seventy varieties of game with attendant no...
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The Seven Ages of the Horse.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Alken's echoing of Shakespeare's seven ages of man. This reworking of The High Mettled Racer depicts the horse as foal, colt, race horse, hunter, ...
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Indispensable accomplishments
FRANKLAND, Richard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A scarce pirated edition. A fine series of plates illustrating correct horsemanship in riding to hounds. The plates are captioned: "Going along a ...
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Life of the Race Horse.
DOYLE, John.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Rare. The complete series of lithographs for John Doyle's Life of the Race Horse, published between 1822 and 1823. John Doyle (1797-1868), an Iris...
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Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing.
MILES, Henry Downes.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Second edition; 3 vols, thick 8vo (230 x 170 mm); vol. I: xvi, 507pp, frontis. & 29 full-page illustrations, with many illustrations in the te...
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[Scores and Biographies Volumes I-XV).
LILLYWHITE, Frederick; HAYGARTH, Arthur.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /A complete set of this important work, rarely found thus and in such good condition, especially since volume xiv is particularly scarce.17vols; 8v...
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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 £1,650.00| /From 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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Traite sur la Cavalerie.
DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector (Comte de).Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| /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 ...
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Hermit by Newminster out of Seclusion, Winner of the Derby 1867, trained by Bloss, Ridden by Daly,
[ANON.]Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £6,000.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00| /A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.
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Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.
GAYOT, Eugène; Hippolyte Lalaisse (artist).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £4,750.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /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 -...
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[Sammelband of three works]: Türkischer Pferdsaufbuz [sic]; [Pferderassen]; [Die Fangarten der wilden Thiere].
RIDINGER, Johann Elias.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £19,500.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| /The first work is a fine series of four richly caparisoned Turkish horses, based on drawings by Baron Gudenus prepared in Constantinople. As state...
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