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Auction No 368, Category: Sport

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

William Hale "Treatise on the Comparative Merits of a Rifle Gun and Rotary Rocket

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £125
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William Hale Treatise on the Comparative Merits of a Rifle Gun and Rotary Rocket considered as a mechanical means of ensuring a correct line of flight to a body impelled through space. W. Mitchell, Military Bookseller, 1863, First Edition; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, VG; ownership inscription at top of title page o/w fine internally; 39pp plus folding diagram.

Theodore Roosevelt "African Game Trails", 1910, and "Through the Brazilian Wilderness", 1914,

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Theodore Roosevelt African Game Trails, 1910, and Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914, both John Murray First Editions, latter showing some subtle repair to the cloth binding; uncut two sides; plates and maps complete. VG (2)

                        

Travel and Hunting selection including Foenander "Big Game of Malaya", 1952 in d/jkt;

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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Travel and Hunting selection including Foenander Big Game of Malaya, 1952 in d/jkt; Millais Wanderings and Memories, 1919; P.M.Stewart Tales of Travel and Sport, 1930, rebound; Denis Lyell The African Elephant and its Hunters, 1994 reprint in d/jkt; and related. Good to VF (8)

C. H. Stigand "Hunting the Elephant in Africa, and other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings"

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £145
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C. H. Stigand Hunting the Elephant in Africa, and other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings Macmillan, New York, 1913, First Edition, original gilt cloth, VG; complete with 16pp of photo-plates and folding chart of tusk measurements. 370pp plus prelims. Bookplate of the Society of Writers. 

P.H.G. Powell-Cotton "A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia", Rowland Ward, 1902, First Edition, tall octavo,

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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P.H.G. Powell-Cotton A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, Rowland Ward, 1902, First Edition, tall octavo, later gilt cloth by Jarvis of Thanet, VG; some damp-staining to b/w frontispiece o/w fine internally including coloured folding map; 531pp including plates; publisher’s catalogue at rear. 

"Nimrod's Hunting Tours", Kegan Paul, 1903, tissue-guarded plates, one of 500 issued, VG;

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Kegan Paul, 1903, tissue-guarded plates, one of 500 issued, VG; Cuthbert Bradley Fox-Hunting from Shire to Shire, Routledge, 1912, colour plates, VG; and other fox-hunting titles, mostly early 20th century. Good to VF (9)

Stanislaus Lynch "Hoof-Prints on Parchment: Hunting Poems", Irish Tatler [1952], orig.cloth,

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Stanislaus Lynch Hoof-Prints on Parchment: Hunting Poems, Irish Tatler [1952], orig.cloth, signed & inscribed by the author March 1954; and four other pre-1940 works on fox-hunting, all illustrated. VG (5)

"The Sporting Repository", Kegan Paul, 1904, quarto, decorated gilt cloth, spine a little faded, new endpapers;

Lot: 141

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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The Sporting Repository, Kegan Paul, 1904, quarto, decorated gilt cloth, spine a little faded, new endpapers; complete with 22 fine hand-coloured plates; browning to tissue-guards. 478pp. One of 500 produced. VG

John Jackson "Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia", Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn,

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Jackson Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia, Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; b/w tissue-guarded Frontispiece and 4 other photo-plates. 59pp. [John Jackson was a huntsman with the Holcombe Harriers, 1867-1899]

Lionel Edwards "Huntsmen Past and Present", 1929; Nimrod "My Life and Times", Blackwood, 1927, 194 of 250;

Lot: 143

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £44
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Lionel Edwards Huntsmen Past and Present, 1929; Nimrod My Life and Times, Blackwood, 1927, 194 of 250; George Race Seventy Years a Master, Horace Cox [1911]; David Brock To Hunt the Fox, 1937, in d/jkt; and related titles. Good to Fine. (7)

Hunting, Shooting and Travel selection including E.Bennet "Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa",

Lot: 144

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £175
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Hunting, Shooting and Travel selection including E.Bennet Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa, 1914, original gilt cloth, VG; C.E. Gouldsbury Tiger Slayer by Order, 1916, some foxing; Corbett The Temple Tiger, OUP, 1954 in d/jkt; Willcocks From Kabul to Kumassi, Murray, 1904, worn cloth, maps complete; and others. Fair to VF (10)

Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9),

Lot: 145

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £66
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Football softbacks c.1947-1952, mostly pre-1950, published by Provincial Sports of Southport (9), Grant Hughes (3) and few others; including Football Favourites Books 1 to 5 (plus additional No.1), Soccer Snapshots Nos.1 and 2, Football and Sport Survey 1948, The Cup Naldrett Press 1951, 1947-8 Soccer Highlights, etc. Good to fine. (17)

Pierce Egan "Boxiana" G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition;

Lot: 146

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £155
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Pierce Egan Boxiana G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition; Vols.2 and 3 in 19th Century half-leather, gilt, repaired, with new endpapers; Vol.1 in a fine modern half-leather binding. Most plates intact but 4 folding plates missing from Vol.1, some plates added to Vol.2 (contains 13 instead of 6) and Vol. 3 lacking one of the seven plates. Some damp staining. Also 5 others on boxing. 

Richard Harland "The Hunting Imperative", 2001, and Robert Foran "The Elephant Hunters of the Lado", 2007,

Lot: 147

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £54
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Richard Harland The Hunting Imperative, 2001, and Robert Foran The Elephant Hunters of the Lado, 2007, both VF in d/jkts; Tony Henley Round the Campfire, & Hunting and Wildlife in Botswana, 2002, publisher’s proof copy in gilt cloth binding; and another. (4) VG/VF

[Frank Dowling] "Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles", Bell's Life, London, 1855,

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
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[Frank Dowling] Fights for the Championship; and Celebrated Prize Battles, Bell’s Life, London, 1855, attractive later three-quarter calf rebind by Bayntum-Riviere with gilt boxing motifs in compartments on spine, author’s title label slightly scuffed; backstrip of the original cloth binding laid down on rear endpaper; previous owner’s bookplates on front endpaper. Clean text. pp.iv,410. 

[Sir Richard Clayton] "A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them"

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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[Sir Richard Clayton] A Treatise on Greyhounds with Observations on the Treatment & Disorders of them, T. Godsden, 1825, 2nd Edn, small octavo, contemp. half-leather gilt, over marbled boards, VG; first few pages including frontispiece & title page with some light damp-staining at the fore-edge o/w VG internally; uncut two sides; related newscutting on front pastedown; previous owners’ signatures, one dated 1884, the other of C. Ward-Jackson MP, Boer War & WWI veteran; pp.xiii,122.