Lot 406
Sport and Natural History
Finely bound 8vo volumes
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Bewick, Thomas History of British Birds. Newcastle: Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, uncensored vignette in volume 1 p.285, brown morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookplates; Hawker, P., Lt. Col. Instructions to Young Sportsmen. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Third edition, 8vo, hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece and 9 plates (including three hand-coloured), later dark green half morocco gilt; [Idem] Instructions to Young Sportsmen. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition, 8vo, later blue morocco gilt; [Idem] Instructions to Young Sportsmen. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1844. Ninth edition, 8vo, later blue morocco gilt; St. John, Charles Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands. London: John Murray, 1878. 8vo, contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked, Selborne bookplate, ownership inscription; [Idem] Short Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands. London: John Murray, 1846. 8vo, contemporary half calf, bookplate, ownership signature and pencil notes; [Idem] Short Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands. London: John Murray, 1846. 8vo, contemporary half calf; [Maxwell, Richard Hamilton] Wild Sports of the West. London: Richard Bentley, 1832. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked; Bromley-Davenport, W. Sport. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1885. 8vo, 20th century brown half morocco with gilt sporting motifs to spine; Beckford, Peter Thoughts on Hunting. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. Sixth edition, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco with gilt sporting motifs to spine, bookplate (12)