The New Sporting Magazine, Vol. XVII (17) nos. 99-104, July 1839 - December 1839 & The Racing Calendar 1839 by Nimrod; Surtees; Paddy Blake; Esau; Mr Simpkins; Sylvanus Swanquill; Menander; Charles Waterton; N.W.; Uncle Toby - 1839

Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Bloomsbury, Winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom 1839; The Warrener’s Dog; Fresh Water Fish; Moor Shooters; Deception, Winner of the Oaks Stakes at Epsom 1839; The First of September; Want’s Inn, Broxbourne; October, shooting; Charles XIIth, Winner of the St. Leger Stakes, Doncaster 1839; Heron Hawking; Mr Jorrocks Stacking Winter Provender; Ware Hare (sheep); Death of a Fox at Tutbury Castle. Contents include: July 1839, No. 99: Approaching St . Leger; The Handley Cross Hounds, Mr Jorrock’s Journal; Willowdale Hall Fishing by Charles Willowdale; A Whim of the Winds and Waves; The American Turf and Its Chronicling; Novitia Venatica by Actaeon – On the Accidents and Diseases to which Hounds are subject and their Cures; The Fly-Fisher’s Text-Book; or the Science and Practise of Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout etc.; The Noble Science by F P Delme Radcliffe Esq.; Ascot Heath by a Down-Easter; The British Angler’s Manual by T C Hofland; The Sporting Looker-On and Reflector – Alfred Selborne’s Journal; Varieties; Notes of the Month; Bettings at Tattersall’s; Racing Calendar (bound at rear). August 1939, No. 100: A Song – not yet set to music; On Rabies Canina, or Dog Madness by Actaeon; The Tin of Other Days; The Garrison Races, a Poem; America – Sporting and Other Anecdotes – Capt. Marryatt’s Diary in America; Nemarket July Meeting; Lines to the Memory of Shark and Skim by The Hon. Grantley Berkeley; Terms Made Use of In the Chase of the Fox etc; Spoting in South Africa – Captain Harris and His Rifle; Liverpool July Meeting; Nomination of the Derby and Oakes Stakes 1841. September 1839, No. 101: Answers to Correspondence; The St. Leger Horses; Dropped Horses Picked Up at Tattersall’s; Ghent Races by Sylvanus Swanquill; The Sportsman’s Reveille by George Thodore Manning; The First of September byToho; Random Sketches in Ireland; Goodwood Meeting; Lord Eglington’s Tournament; Letter From James Stubbs, Valet to Lord -, to Richard Snell, Butler at – House; Transatlantic Whims; The Keeper’s Lodge by N.w.; Turfiana; Mr F P Delme Radcliffe; The Angler’s Trysting Tree; The Bloomsbury Case. October 1839, No. 102: The Lord Mayor at Doncaster – From Cowper; Tom Owen, the Bee Hunter; Doncaster Races by the Editor; Bacchanalian Song by George Theodore Manning; Rural Sports – Blaine’s Encyclpedia; Racing at Calcutta; A Marriage in High Life – a Fragment; Last September; The Game Laws; The Holderness Hunt. November 1839, No. 103: A Day’s Wolf Hunting in the Alps by Sylvester Swanquill; Sonnet on Steam; The Almonry, a Fragment of a Legend of the Year 1817; Newmarket First and Second October Meetings; December 1839, No. 104: The Four-Oared Cutter Match between the Champions of the Clyde Struggle and Combe’s Picked Crew of the Thames; Deer Shooting; A Phoenix Caught; Sports in Other Climes - by Cacus – Of the Passage of the Birds – The Quail, The Woodcock and the Grebe – Switzerland; Review of the Racing Season 1839 by Uncle Toby; Newmarket Houghton Meeting; Charborough’ Hunt Races 1839; Index to Racing Calenday; Index. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018121063..