Sales catalogue 548: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1930

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/96

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 548: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Sports and Pastimes: Cockfighting—continued. Oa Tucker (Rev. Dr.). An Ernest and Affectionate Address to the Gommon People of England Concerning Their Usual Recreation on Shrove Tuesday. (On the Barbarous Custom of Cock-Fighting). 10 pp., 24mo, full morocco, g. e. London, Circa 1780. £8 15s With note on the inside of the original cover :— “Written by the Rev. Dr. Tucker, Dean of Gloucester and given me by hig widow. April 2nd, 1811. J. B. Cheston.’’ 1838 CRICKET. Lambert (William). Instructions and Rules for Playing the Noble Game of Cricket, as practised by the Most Eminent Players; containing a variety of directions little known to Players in general. Wath folding frontispiece. SECOND EDITION, with Additions and Corrections. 12mo, boards. London, N.D. £3 10s 1839 CYNECETICUS OF THE YOUNGER XENOPHON, transiated from the Greek, with Classical and Practical Annctations, and a brief sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author, To which is added an Appendix, containing Some Account of the Canes Venatici of Classical Antiquity. By a Graduate of Medicine. With Embellishments from the Antique. Royal 8vo, orzginal cloth, uncut. London, 1831. £1 1s 1840 DEERSTALKING. Crealock (Henry Hope). JDeer-Stalking in The Highlands of Scotland, by the late Lieut.-General Henry Hope Crealock, CoB orn. Edited by his brother, Major-General John North Crealock, C.B. 40 full-page plates and numerous illustrations in the text, reproduced from drawings by the Author. Folio, orzginal cloth gilt, uncut, ¢t. e. g. London, 18092. £18 18s One of 250 copies only. . 1841 Shirley (E. P.). Some Account of English Decr Parks, with Notes on the Management of Deer. Woodcuts. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original cloth, uncut.

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