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SPORTING ANECDOTES; ORIGINAL AND SELECT; INCLUDING CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF EMINENT PERSONS WHO HAVE APPEARED ON THE TURF: WITH AN INTERESTING SELECTION OF THE MORE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS WHICH HAVE TRASPIRED IN THE SPORTING WORLD; A CORRECT DESCRIPTION O
London : Albion Press, ca. 1807. Second printing. 8vo. Full leather binding. 579 pp. plus six pages of advertisements at the rear of the volume. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page each of which has been hand colored. Binding is a fully sewn medium brown calf with five raised bands, tooled into six double gilt ruled compartments one of which contains an onlayed red morroco spine label with titles gilt, small elaborate gilt stamped device of a racing horse with rider about to apply the crop vigorously. Endpapers very lightly toned, else very good plus. Overall quite a nice copy of this scarce work by the noted sporting author Pierce Egan. (more information)
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$650.00
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AMERICAN FIREARMS MAKERS: WHEN, WHERE, AND WHAT THEY MADE FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. 8vo. Cloth. xiii, 146 pp. Illustrated with 7 b/w plates. Dust jacket sun-faded at spine, chipped at head and heel of spine, edgeworn, and price-clipped. Light rubbing to extremities, slight dampstaining to lower right corner of plates. Very good minus in a good dust jacket. (more information)
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$20.00
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A HISTORY OF MOUNTAINEERING IN THE ALPS
London : George Allen & Unwin, 1950. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 296pp. Illustrated with twenty-four black and white photographs. Spine very lightly soiled, lower extremities slightly rubbed, else very good. (more information)
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$45.00
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AS HOUNDS RAN: FOUR CENTURIES OF FOXHUNTING
New York : Huntington Press, 1930. 4to. Red cloth with slipcase. [xxviii] 240 pp. Illustrated with 30 contemporary prints and new drawings by Cecil Aldin & Lionel Edwards. Forewords by John Masefield and Edgar Astley Milne. Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. From an edition limited to 990 copies printed on Leipsig paper; this is an unnumbered Printer’s Copy. Title in gilt on spine. T.e.g. Light rubbing to extremities, else very good plus in a very good lightly soiled slipcase. (more information)
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$150.00
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