Lot 167
Crealock, Henry Hope
Deer-Stalking in the Highlands of Scotland
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First edition, one of 255 copies, large 4to, original green pictorial cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 plates, tissue-guards, ownership inscriptions to initial blank and half-title, pale marks to covers, light spotting to prelims, occasional finger-soiling [Schwerdt I p. 124-5: 'the best book on Scotch deer-stalking as it is now practised'];
Millais, John Guille. British Deer and their Horns. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1897. First edition, large 4to, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt, chromolithographic frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (spotted), marginal tissue-repairs to guards of a few plates;
Idem. The Wildfowler in Scotland. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. First edition, 4to, original half japon, 21 plates, tissue-guards;
Grimble, Augustus. Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1888. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, modern half cloth, 18 plates, half-title browned;
Idem. Highland Sport. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1894. First edition, 4to, later quarter calf, edges untrimmed, 10 plates, spotting to text, stain to lower margins of quires 2H-2K, marginal tears to 2K1 and final leaf 2M2;
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