Sporting books
12 works
£404
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Sinigaglia, Leone. Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, 38 plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt doublures over red printed silk endpapers, a little rubbing;
Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. 2 volumes (including Supplementary Appendix), 8vo, frontispiece, single-page map, 2 folding maps including one in rear pocket, 19 plates, folding plan of Quito, with 14 additional plates in the Supplementary volume, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, some dampstaining to supplementary volume;
Ball John. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859-1852. Third edition of volume 1, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover of volume 1 detached, bookplates of Archibald Rogers;
James, David. That Frozen Land. London: The Falcon Press, 1949. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;
Whymper, Edward. Chamonix, and the Range of Mont Blanc. London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;
Haskett Smith, W.P. Climbing in the British Isles. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 12mo, original red cloth gilt;
Wilson, Claude. Mountaineering. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. 12mo, original green cloth;
Barrow, John. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa... London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Volume 1 only, contemporary diced calf, rebacked retaining portions of original spine, repairs to hinges, repair to title-page, bookplates, lacking maps;
Scrope, William. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional title-page and 10 (of 11) coloured lithographs only, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover detached;
Millais, J.G. Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1894. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text, original pictorial cloth;
St. John, Charles. Natural History & Sport in Moray. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, some offsetting from tissue guards;
Rollo, W. Keith. The Art of Fly Fishing. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [1931]. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signatures and blindstamp to endpapers