Lot 186
Thornhill, R. B.
The Shooting Directory
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, second issue (with 2E4-2F2, pp. 215-220, cancelled), 4to, modern half leather, half-title discarded, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plates (one folding), 3 folding tables, contemporary manuscript annotations to initial blank containing 'Extracts from General George Hanger's ... treatise on sporting, 1814', marginal repair to 2B2 [Chute 532; Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];
Grose, Francis. Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. A New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements. London: T. Egerton, 1801. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary russia, rebacked, volume 2 in 2 parts, engraved title-page to each part, 139 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates 28-9 in second part, 'A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons');
Idem. A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons. London: S. Hooper, 1786. 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered in sheep, engraved frontispiece, title-page and 48 plates (plate 49, mentioned in text, apparently never issued), spotting and browning;
[Magné de Marolles, Gervais-François]. An Essay on Shooting. London: T. Cadell, 1791. Second edition in English, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title, bookplate, a very good copy [ESTC T64643];
Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline ... The Eighth Edition, revised, corrected, and altered to the Present Practice of the Army. London: R. Baldwin [and others], 1759. 8vo, 20th-century half roan, 7 engraved folding plates, imprimatur leaf, ownership inscription of D. Dundas, identified in a laid-in note as General Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), author of The Principles of Military Movement [ESTC T122214];
Montagu, George. The Sportsman's Directory: or, Tractate on Gunpowder, founded on a Series of Experiments, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking frontispiece [ESTC T33010: 4 copies world-wide];
and 3 others including Guillaume Le Blond, A Treatise of Artillery, 1746, first edition in English, 15 engraved plates, lacking final 3 text-leaves and advertisement leaf, and John Muller, A Treatise of Artillery, 1780, third edition (these not collated)