Lot 158
Sporting books
including Samuel Howitt
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
The British Sportsman. London: Edward Orme, 1812. 4to, additional engraved title frontispiece and 71 engraved plates, later half morocco, a little light marginal dampstaining;
Bromley-Davenport, W. Sport. London: Chapman and Hall, limited, 1885. 4to, copy number 209 of 250 deluxe copies, contemporary red morocco gilt, bookplate;
Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Edward Walker, 1807. Fifth edition, 8vo, later morocco gilt, bookplate;
Speedy, Tom. The Natural History of Sport in Scotland, with rod and gun. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1920. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplate;
Reynardson, C.T.S. Birch. Sports & Anecdotes of Bygone Days. London: Chapman & Hall, limited, 1887. 8vo, colour lithographed frontispiece, title-page and 5 plates, original red cloth gilt, bookplate, paste-down endpaper torn;
St John, Charles. The Wild Sports and Natural History of the Scottish Highlands. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. / Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1888. Popular edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplate;
Taylor, Brook. New Principles of Linear Perspective... London: John Ward, 1749. Third edition, 8vo, 10 plates only (of 12); [bound with] A Description of the Gardens of Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire. Northampton: W. Dicky, 1749. 8vo, 10 plates, contemporary calf;
and two others: Litchfield. History of Furniture, 1907; Larwood. The History of Signboards, 1868