£600
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair | 683
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Bird-Life of the Borders. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, Abel Chapman's own bookplate to paste-down endpaper and his signature to free-endpaper verso: ""Last Copy." Abel Chapman, April 14. 1899", original blue cloth gilt; and another copy with bookplate of Charles R. Robinson; [Idem] Wild Spain... London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; [Idem] First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, neat ownership signature to adverts; [Idem] Wild Norway. London: Edward Arnold, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Idem] On Safari. Big-game hunting in British East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth gilt with elephant motif to upper cover, ownership signature to front free-endpaper; [Idem] Savage Sudan... London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth with gilt warthog motif, bookplate; [Idem] The Borders and Beyond: Arctic...Cheviot...Tropic. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1924. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, neat blindstamp to front free-endpaper; [Idem] Retrospect. Reminiscences and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in the Continents 1851-1928. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket with a few tears; [Idem] Memories of Fourscope Years less Two 1851-1829. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1930. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket with a few tears (10)