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28 alKEn, henry thomas (1785-1851). Symptoms of Being Amused. London: Thomas McLean, 1822.
Oblong 4to (260 x 360 mm). Hand-colored etched title and numerous lithographic plates, many on paper watermarked “J Whatman Turkey Mill” 1821-1822. (Approximately 33 mm. tear on one text leaf, spotting and offsetting.) Modern half red morocco, gilt (dampstaining to upper cover, edges worn with associated losses, boards and spine faded). The plates depict riders and sportsmen caught in every variety of attitude.
$300-400
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30 [aPPERlEy, charles James (1777-1843).] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton… by Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835.
8vo (209 x 133 mm). Aquatint frontispiece, 11 hand-colored aquatint plates. (Some minor browning). Publisher’s brown gold-stamped cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine, some light wear); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of “a most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as ‘a biography of a real man that reads like a work of fiction’” (Tooley).
Provenance: H.W. Selby Lowndes (1813-1885) English sportsman (bookplate); Alfred Barmore Maclay (1871-1944) American equestrian (bookplate); Sold Christie’s, 23 May 1997, lot 178. 29 alKEn, henry (1785-1851). [Ideas, Accidental and Incidental to Hunting, and other Sports; Caught in Leicestershire, &c. Imprint: London: Thomas M’Lean, 1826-1830, but later].
Seven parts in one volume, oblong folio (325 x 480 mm). 42 uncolored etched plates tipped to black sheets, tissue guards, on unwatermarked wove paper. (A few plates with very minor spotting mostly to margins or verso, a few soft creases.) Later red half morocco (minor dampstain to upper cover, some light rubbing). Presumed later edition of uncolored restrikes, complete list with imprint dates available on request.
$500-700
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31 [aPPERlEy, charles James (1777-1843).] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton… by Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837.
8vo (237 x 150 mm). Engraved title, 18 hand-colored engraved plates by Henry Alken and Rawlins. (Prudish erasure to caption of plate facing p.127.) 19th-century red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (rebacked preserving original spine); original cloth bound in at end. Second edition, including 6 more plates than the first edition. Schwerdt I, 38; Abbey Life 385.
Provenance: Sir David Salomons Bart. (armorial bookplate); James E. Gowen (his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 20 October 1977, lot 14); sold Christie’s, 23 May 1997, Lot 179.
$300-400
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32 [aPPERlEy, charles James (1778-1843)]. nIMRod. The Life of a Sportsman. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1842.
8vo (232 x 151 mm). 36 hand-colored aquatint plates after Henry Alken (including frontispiece and title). (Some very minor spotting, otherwise, coloring very bold.) Contemporary maroon morocco gilt, spine gilt, edges gilt (some light wear, upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the four mounted plates, and “The Tandem” opposite p.348. Apperley’s work, with illustrations by Alken, is “considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century” (Tooley). Schwerdt I, p.38; Tooley 67.
Provenance: Richard Philip Hart Durkee (bookplate) gifted to; F. Gray Griswold (1854-1937) American sportsman (bookplate, letter) gifted to; William Forbes Morgan (bookplate).
$600-800
34 BRoWn, Jim. A Treasury of Reels. Manchester: The American Museum of Fly Fishing, 1990.
Oblong 4to (215 x 276 mm). Numerous illustrations including photographs taken by Bob O’Shaughnessy. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, original pictorial dust jacket (small tears and chipping to dust jacket). Catalogue detailing the art of fishing reels throughout the ages from Ancient Egypt to modern time.
$150-250
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33 BaRloW, francis (ca 1626-1704). Livre de plusieurs Animaux Inventez par Barlou. [Paris:] Chez De Poilly [ca 1675].
Oblong 4to (249 x 170 mm). Etched title and 10 etched plates, a few signed with Barlow’s monogram, the rest unsigned, numbered 66-78 (skipping 69 and 77) in contemporary brown ink. (Plate [8] with three-inch tear entering image neatly repaired, a few other small marginal tears or repairs occasionally touching plates.) Modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece on upper cover. The plates depict: dogs with stag trophy (title-page); lions; cows; wolves; leopards; elephant with dromedary and monkeys; bears; dogs and cats; dogs hunting; stags with squirrels, rabbits and birds; and wild boar with donkeys. See Thiébaud 56.
Provenance: Abeille[ge?] (signature in contemporary brown ink to verso of each plate); sold Sotheby’s London, 22 June 1989, lot 99; Anthony N.B. Garvan (his sale, Christie’s New York, 5 June 1993, lot 7).
$1,500-2,500
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cuMIng, Edward William dirom (1862-1941). -- aRMouR,
george denholm, illustrator. British Sport Past and Present. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
4to (296 x 226 mm). 31 color plates tipped to mounts. (Minor spotting.) Publisher’s brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (wear to joints and head of spine, corners rubbed). LIMITED EDITION, number 322 of 500, SIGNED BY ARMOUR.
Provenance: Walter W. Bourne (?) (signature).
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38 36 doughty, John and thomas (1793-1856). The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Philadelphia: Published by J. Doughty 1830-32-33.
3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 251 mm). 3 engraved titles, 2 engraved portraits, and 57 mostly lithographic plates after Thomas Doughty and others (comprising 53 hand-colored lithographs, one colored etching, 2 uncolored engravings and one uncolored wood-engraving), 17 in-text wood engravings, index leaves printed on blue paper trimmed, mounted, and bound into vol.III. (Some offsetting or minor spotting.) Contemporary red half morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt (some light wear, upper cover to vol.III detached).
FIRST EDITION OF “THE FIRST COLOR-PLATE SPORTING BOOK PRINTED IN AMERICA’ (Grolier/Henderson). According to Bennett, Volume III is perhaps the most difficult of all American sport items to find...Artistically Vol. 1 is much the most important, for it contains the original plates by Thos. Doughty, famous painter and founding-father of the Hudson River School.” Bennett, p. 35; Grolier/Henderson, p. 40; Howes D-433; Reese Stamped with a National Character 12.
Provenance: Edward Hine Johnson (bookplate); Daniel Webster Evans (bookplate); sold Christie’s New York, 29 October 1993, lot 30.
$2,000-3,000
37 EdWaRds, lionel. The Passing Seasons. London: London Country Life, Ltd., [1927].
Folio (440 x 330 mm). Half-title with printed vignette, title printed in green and black, 18 mounted color plates SIGNED BY EDWARDS in lower margin of mount, numerous illustrations. (Some mostly marginal spotting, some minor offsetting, a few leaves dampstained in the foremargin.) Original cloth, gold-printed cloth label to upper cover (spine and portion of upper cover slightly sunned, hinges reinforced). LIMITED EDITION, number 54 of 150 copies for sale in England of a total edition of 250.
$500-700
38 [foREIgn fIEld sPoRts]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. -Field Sports...of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales. London: Edward Orme, 1814, 1813.
4to (270 x 225 mm). Half-title, 109 (of 110, lacking frontispiece?) hand-colored aquatint plates, watermarked 1811, supplement with separate title-page. (Some light spotting or minor offsetting, a few short mostly marginal tears with old repairs.) Later half green morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt (some light wear, particularly to corners). FIRST EDITION, including illustrations depicting sport around the world, including Europe, the Americas, India and Africa, and including depictions of whale hunting and bull fighting. From the Library of Château du Bois Boudran, an estate acquired by Count Greffulhe in the 19th century to establish hunting grounds. The estate was a well-known location for hunting and shooting with a renowned hunting library, which sold in 1937 to Galerie Charpentier. Abbey Travel 2.
Provenance: Count Jean-Henry-Louis-Greffulhe (1774-1820) French banker and politician (bookplate of the library of Château du Bois Boudran, initials on spine).
$1,500-2,500
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lE VERRIER dE la contERIE, Jean Baptiste
Jacques (1718-1783). Venerie Normande, ou l’Ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants. Rouen: Nicolas and Richard Lallemant, 1763.
2 parts in one volume, 8vo (200 x 122 mm). 23 woodcut plates (of which 13 folding, 7 printed on two sides), 14pp. engraved music. Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, spine gilt, edges red (joints starting, some overall wear, covers slightly bowed). FIRST EDITION of a work which Schwerdt ranks “with the classics on hunting,” and including woodcut plates depicting deer, wolves, foxes, and other animals. Schwerdt I, p.313.
Provenance: Prytanée Bibliothèque (library stamp on titlepage); Olivier du Clésieux (small bookplate).
$400-600
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lE VERRIER dE la contERIE, Jean Baptiste
Jacques (1718-1783). Venerie Normande, ou l’Ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants. Rouen: Laurent Dumesnil, 1778.
8vo (195 x 121 mm). Half-title, 27 woodcuts (including 17 folding and 8 printed on both sides, 5 plates to face p.164 all printed on one folding sheet in this copy rather than on three separate sheets), 14pp. engraved music. (Some spotting, light dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving original spine, some overall light wear). Second augmented edition, including woodcuts from the first edition and adding 3 others. Schwerdt I, p.313.
Provenance: Théodore Warée (early letterpress bookplate); Nogent-sur-Vernisson (bookplate pasted to half-title); James Fagan Scharnberg (sporting author) (bookplate).
$800-1,200
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lE VERRIER dE la contERIE, Jean Baptiste
Jacques (1718-1783). Venerie Normande, ou l’Ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants. Rouen: Laurent Dumesnil, 1778.
8vo (192 x 119 mm). Half-title, 27 woodcuts (including 16 folding and 8 printed on both sides), 14pp. engraved music. (Dampstained, some spotting, short tears to folding plates, lacking blank pp.447/448 as usual.) Modern half calf, marbled boards. Second augmented edition. Schwerdt I, p.313.
$800-1,200
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42 RaIMondI, Eugenio. Le Caccie fiere armate e disarmate. Venice: Francesco Locatelli, 1785.
8vo (190 x 115 mm). 7 engraved plates. (Some minor spotting, small losses to lower corners of a few leaves). CONTEMPORARY BOARDS, manuscript title to spine (some overall wear and staining). Fifth edition, with engravings depicting snares, and hunting.
Provenance: Luigi di Canosa Can. (letterpress bookplate).
$200-300
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(1742-1823). The English Dance of Death. London: J. Diggens, 1815.
2 volumes, 8vo (231 x 141 mm). Numerous hand-colored engraved plates. (Lacking frontispiece and additional title, spotting and offsetting throughout). Contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards (joints rubbed, worn). FIRST EDITION, Rowlandson’s illustrations represent “the only series on the subject since Holbein’s to rival that master” (Ray).
$400-600 42A
RoWlandson, thomas, illustrator -- MaXWEll,
Marmaduke, pseudonym. Advice to Sportsmen, Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates or Grown Persons; with anecdotes of the most renowned shots of the day. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809.
12mo (175 x 107). Half-title, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece, 15 hand-colored lithographic plates after Rowlandson. Contemporary blue paper-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut (short splits to joints and spine, old spine repairs); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN BOARDS. “An attractive book with humorous plates by the foremost caricaturist of this date. Rare in good condition, and with plates in contemporary colouring” (Schwerdt II, pp.14-15). Tooley 407.
$800-1,200
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coMBE (1742-1823). Doctor Syntax in London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. London: J. Johnson, 1820.
8vo (231 x 144 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, hand-colored aquatint title-page (lacking letterpress title), 18 hand-colored aquatint plates. (Some minor browning or offsetting as usual.) 20th century red morocco gilt, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed by Bayntun (some light rubbing or wear, particularly to joints). FIRST EDITION. Tooley 434.
Provenance: William E. Fiske, American Bibliophile (signature dated August 1972 with note “Quarter Minus”; sold Sotheby’s New York, 7 December 1994, lot 54).
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coMBE (1742-1823). Doctor Syntax in Paris, or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque. London: For W. Wright, 1820.
8vo (231 x 138 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, hand-colored aquatint title-page (lacking letterpress title), 16 hand-colored aquatint plates. (Scant spotting.). 20th century red straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, stamp-signed by Bayntun (tiny scuff to upper cover); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Tooley 432.
Provenance: William E. Fiske, American Bibliophile (signature dated 11 February 1965 with note “Quarter Minus”; sold Sotheby’s New York, 7 December 1994, lot 54).
$300-500
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coMBE (1742-1823). The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. -The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of Consolation. -The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife. London: R. Ackermann, [1812]-20-[21].
3 volumes, 8vo (224 x 138 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece to each volume, hand-colored aquatint titles to vols.I and III (lacking letterpress titles those volumes only), 75 hand-colored engraved plates. (Some minor browning as usual, a few titles or plates trimmed touching imprint.) Uniformly bound in red straight-grained morocco gilt, spines gilt, edges gilt (some light wear to joints or extremities, otherwise bright). FIRST EDITIONS.
$300-400
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47 [sPoRtIng]. American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. Volumes I-V, Nos. 1-12. Baltimore: J.S. Skinner, 1830-1834.
5 (of 15) volumes, 8vo (224 x 135 mm). Numerous engraved plates, woodcut and engraved general title-pages. (Spotting and offsetting throughout.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt (worn, spines chipping). An early publication providing an inside look into the breeding and performances of thoroughbred horses in America.
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LEECH, John. Picture’s of Life and Character. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1887. 2 volumes. Provenance: Alexander B. Coxe (bookplate). -- ROE, F. Gordon. Sporting Prints of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927. FIRST EDITION. -- SIMKIN, Colin, editor. Currier and Ives’ America. New York: Bonanza Books, n.d. -- SPARROW, Walter Shaw. Henry Alken. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1927. LIMITED EDITION, number 169 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY COOK. The first volume of the series The Sport of Our Fathers with an introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. -- Condition generally fine.
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50 49 suRtEEs, Robert smith (1803-1864). [SPORTING NOVELS]. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. -- Ask Mamma. -- “Plain or Ringlets?” -- Mr. Romford’s Hounds. -- Hawbuck Grange. London: Bradbury, Agnew [ca 1880].
5 volumes, 8vo (220 x 146 mm). Profusely illustrated with hand-colored steel-engraved plates and in-text woodcut illustrations by John Leech and H.K. Browne. (Scant spotting.) Uniformly bound in half red morocco, marbled boards, two volumes with red lettering-pieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered in two, the rest with central horse, saddle, hound, and boot and glove tools gilt, edges gilt (some very minor wear to edges); original cloth covers bound in.
Provenance: Yankton College Library, South Dakota (discreet blind stamp to title-pages, bookplates on pastedowns).
$400-600
50 WalKER, John and charles. Hobson’s Fox-Hunting Atlas. London: J. and C. Walker, [ca 1868-1871].
Folio (368 x 242 mm). 42 engraved or lithographic doublepage maps hand-colored in outline, hunts stamped in blue on the image, text leaves and maps mounted on stubs. (Some minor browning or staining.) Contemporary half red straight grained morocco, gilt-stamped red cloth-covered boards (some overall staining and wear, upper hinge broken). FIRST EDITION.
$300-500
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Walton, Izaak (1593-1683), charles cotton (1630-
1687), and harris nIcolas, editor. The Compleat Angler. London: William Pickering, 1836.
2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 61 steel engravings IN TWO STATES, many printed on india paper. (Some scant spotting.) Contemporary green morocco, wide borders gilt, fish tool cornerpieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, fish tool gilt in the rest, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY HERING (some light wear, spines slightly darkened, hinges starting).
First Nicolas edition. “One of the best, possibly the very best of...[the 146 editions of The Compleat Angler published between 1836 and 1901] was the superb edition edited by Sir Harris Nicolas for Pickering with engravings after Stothard, Inskipp and others” (Percy Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, 1971, p.21). A FINE COPY, EXTRAILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF A SECOND SUITE OF PLATES, nearly all printed on india paper and mounted on thick sheets. Keynes p.94.
Provenance: William George Prescott (1800-1865) British banker (bookplate); Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922) British newspaper and publishing magnate (bookplate).
$1,500-2,500
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52 WIllIaMson, thomas (1790-1815) and samuel hoWItt (?1755-1822). Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East. London: William Bulmer and Co. for Edward Orme, [1805-]1807.
Oblong folio (454 x 580 mm). Additional color-stencilled title, 40 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Merke, J. Hamble and Viveres after Howitt and Williamson, on paper watermarked “E&P 1804”. (A few plates with minor mostly marginal repairs, a few text leaves with short marginal tears, slight spotting, minor offsetting.) Contemporary brown morocco, covers with elaborate Greek-key border gilt surrounding gilt and blind center lozenge enclosing gilt armorial device, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, gilt animal motifs in the rest (some scuffing, joints starting, front endpaper loose).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with plate 31 captioned “Hunting Jackalls.” A fine copy of “the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence” (Schwerdt). “The book is not only a mine of information as to the manners, customs, scenery, and costume of India, but contains one of the finest series of sporting plates ever published” (Hardie). Abbey Travel 427; Hardie English Coloured Books 135-36; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, pp. 297298; Tooley 508.
Provenance: Sold Sotheby’s New York, 1 June 1995, lot 359.
$10,000-15,000
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Hunters Going out in the Morning (Plate I) -- Driving Elephants into a Keddah (Plate VIII) -- Chasing a Tiger Across a River (Plate XVI) -- The Tiger at Bay (Plate XVII) -- Hunting an Old Buffalo (Plate XXV) -- Death of the Bear (Plate XXIX) -- Dooreahs or Dog Keepers Leading out Dogs (Plate XXXVII) From Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East. London, [1805-]1807 (but plates watermarked 1815-1818). 7 aquatint plates with hand-coloring, plates approximately 15 1/2 x 19 in, sheets approximately 18 7/8 x 23 1/8 in, mat burn, overall browning, some light spotting, a few nicks or tiny holes.
$400-600
