Sales catalogue 567: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/112
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 567: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1823 1824 1825 1826 1828 1829 RACING. Touchstone (S. F.). Race Horses. Pedigree, Description, History, translated from the French by C. B. Pitman. With 60 coloured plates of famous Horses and 134 vignettes. Oblong 4to, half morocco, t. e. g. London, 1890. £5 5s Wildrake. Cracks of the Day. With 65 steel plates of Famous Racehorses, together with woodcuts. FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo, half morocco gilt, g. e. London, N.D. £4 15s RAWSTORNE (L.). Gamonia; or, The Art of Preserving Game; and an improved method of making Plantations and Covers, explained and illustrated. Weth 15 finely coloured aquatint plates of Sporting Sketches after J]. I. Rawlings by Banks and Reeve. Royal 8vo, 2m the original green morocco gilt, g. é. London, R. Ackerman, 1837. £45 RICE (William). Tiger Shooting in India; being an account of Hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana during the hot seasons from 1850 to 1854. With 12 tinted lithographs. Imperial 8vo, ovzgznal cloth, uncut. London, 1857. £6 6s ST. JOHN (Charles). Natural History and Sport in Moray. With 40 dlustrations. Imperial 8vo, ovzgznal cloth, uncut, ¢t. e. g. Edinburgh, 1882. £2 5s Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the High- lands. With 70 illustrations by Harrim Weir, Charles Whymper and others. Crown 8vo, original cloth. London, 1878. £1 SCHWERDT (C. F. G. R.). Hunting, Hawking, Shooting. Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings. With numerous coloured and other illustrations, facsimiles, title-pages, etc. 3 vols., 4to, full nzger morocco, uncut, t. e. g. London, Privately printed for the Author, 1928. £100 One of 300 copies only. The finest work on this extensive and interesting subject.
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