Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
7 May 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/737
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    107 Peacham (H.) The Compleat Gentleman . .. to which is added the Gentlemans Exercise .. . as well for drawing . . . as for making Colours . . . the third impression, engraved title and armorial woodcuts, the last four leaves shghtly defectwe and repmred, half calf 1661 108 [SKkercHiey (W.)] The Cocker: humbly inscribed to those Gentlemen who are Amateurs of the Game Cock, FIRST EDITION, some of the leaves at end (ruled and lettered for account keeping but otherwise blank) have been cut away, old boards, roughly rebacked 4io. Newark: Printed for the Author ... 1793 *™* HXTREMELY RARE. This copy was sold at Wellington Street in May, 1903. It belonged to Frank Archer of Kegworth, a famous Leicestershire cocker in the early part of last century, and has many MS. notes and cocking information on the fly-leaves and blanks at end. i109 Swan Marks. Swan Marks of the Nobility and various Eeclesiastical Bodies, Manuscrrpr on VELLUM, 10 ll. un- bound (84 un. by 58 1m.). EARLY XVII CENT. 110 ‘Tarleton (Sir B.) A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America, fold- mg map and plans, contemporary calf 18% 111 Tully (R.) Narrative of Ten Years’ Residence at Tripoli in Africa, map and coloured plates, diced calf 1817 112 Waterton (C.) Wanderings in South America, frontispiece, buckram, 1825—Morier (James) A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, maps and plates, calf gilt, 1812 (2) 113 Williamson (Capt. T.) and 8. Howitt. Oriental Field Sports, 2 vol. plates (plain), half red morocco 1808 FOLIO. 114 Aken (H.) Tue Nationa, Sports or Great BRITAIN. WitH DESCRIPTIONS, in ENGLISH AND FRENCH, FIRST EDITION, 50 coloured plates, green morocco gilt, edges rubbed, g.e. A FINE COPY (187 in. by 124 in.) T. McLean, 1821 115 Armstrong (Sir W.) Turner, edition on special paper with a duplicate set of the plates on Japanese vellum in portfolio, buckram 1902 116 Breese (W.) A MonograrH oF THE PHEASANTS, 4 vol. one of 600 copies, plain and coloured plates, cloth 1918-22
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