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Auction No 370, Tag: Shooting

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including "The Astrologer's Magazine"

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £135
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A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including The Astrologer’s Magazine ( formerly The Conjuror’s Magazine) August to December 1793; W. Cockburn The Nature and Cures of Fluxes, 1724; Michael Quin A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 1836, with folding map; Bayle The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, 1743, with frontisp; Marksman’s The Dead Shot, four different editions; and J. Clarke The Wreck of the Orion, 1851, with litho plate. Most have clean text, but The Astrologer’s Magazine suffers from intermittent foxing. (15)

Lt.Col. P. Hawker "Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting"

Lot: 181

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £92
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Lt.Col. P. Hawker Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting, Longman, Rees, Orme, 1833, 7th Edn, fine later three-quarter morocco by Bayntum-Riviere of Bath with raised bands & gilt decoration to the compartments; t.e.g.; fine internally with all engraved plates and woodcuts. 

Nimrod [Charles Apperley] "The Life of a Sportsman", Kegan Paul, 1905, quarto, green gilt cloth, slightly worn

Lot: 184

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Nimrod [Charles Apperley] The Life of a Sportsman, Kegan Paul, 1905, quarto, green gilt cloth, slightly worn, fine internally with 36 hand-coloured plates each with a titled tissue-guard.

Augustus Grimble "More Leaves from My Game Book", London, 1917, half-vellum, darkened, gilt title label,

Lot: 193

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £26
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Augustus Grimble More Leaves from My Game Book, London, 1917, half-vellum, darkened, gilt title label, one of 250 issued; previous owners’ signatures to front endpaper; clean text & illustrations. 270pp

J.J. Manley "Notes on Game Shooting". L. Upcott Gill, The Bazaar Office, London, 1880, original gilt cloth

Lot: 194

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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J.J. Manley Notes on Game Shooting. L. Upcott Gill, The Bazaar Office, London, 1880, original gilt cloth, worn at extremities, corners bumped; foxing to frontispiece and occasional minor spotting elsewhere but largely clean internally with all illustrations; publisher’s 32pp catalogue at rear dated 1885. 

H.C. Folkard "The Wild-Fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical,"

Lot: 195

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £86
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H.C. Folkard The Wild-Fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical, Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1859, First Edn, orig.gilt cloth, tissue-guarded engravings complete, some minor foxing; together with the 3rd Edn of 1875 (published Longmans); and related titles including Payne-Gallwey The Fowler in Ireland 1882 (recased) and Gladstone Record Bags and Shooting Records 1922. Mixed condition. (6)

J. H. Walsh "The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle" 1882-84, two volumes, recased, plus a further Vol. 2 requiring attention;

Lot: 196

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £42
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J. H. Walsh The Modern Sportsman’s Gun and Rifle 1882-84, two volumes, recased, plus a further Vol. 2 requiring attention; “Marksman” The Dead Shot or Sportsman’s Complete Guide, 3rd Edn, 1862; Henry Sharp Modern Sporting Gunnery, 1906; P. Hawker Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting, 10th Edn, 1854; mostly fair to VG, and another title in poor condition. (7)