Fine Binding: British Sports and Sportsmen: Shooting and Dee...

Hammer

£100

Fine Binding: British Sports and Sportsmen: Shooting and Deerstalking, copy no. 303/1,000, London: Sports & Sportsmen Ltd, n.d. [1913], photogravure frontispiece, in-text illustrations, original maroon morocco gilt over bevelled boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, folio (39 x 29.5cm); Pollard (Hugh B.C.), The Gun Room Guide, signed and numbered by the author, copy no. 52/225, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930, tipped-in colour prints, original vellum over cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to; Kempis (Thomas à) & Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall, editor), Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, first edition thus, London: Printed for the Author by William Nicol; Published by William Pickering, and John Major, 1828, frontispiece, contemporary fine post-Regency morocco gilt binding, rubbed, 8vo; Mrs. Jameson's Legends of The Monastic Orders, 1890, illustrated, signed Sotheran fine binding of brown morocco gilt, 4to; female poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Folio Society volume; further antiquarian and general stock, including a first edition of Conan Doyle's Round the Lamp, 1894, ex -circulating library, worn publisher's cloth, with some losses, 8vo; Witherby et al's Handbook of British Birds, five volumes, mixed dates, original publisher's dustjackets over cloth, 8vo; botany and flora; etc