Ending 13th Nov, 2024 20:00
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED
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SPORTING & HUNTING. 1914 MODERN PIG STICKING FIRST ED
Sporting & hunting interest. 1914 Modern Pig Sticking by Major A. E. Wardrop. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, Captain J. K. Gatacre et al. First edition, publ. Macmillan and Co. Limited, presented in second edition dust wrapper. Publisher's orig full cloth binding in unclipped dust wrapper; some wear to extremities and head & tail of the spine, dust wrapper very worn with losses to extremities, spine near loose from front cover, loss to the tail and extremities, stated second edition to spine. Ownership bookplate to front pastedown, 1970 & 1980s ownership inscriptions to ffep, binding exposed & strained at the title page, occ. spotting internally. A first edition on the wild boar hunts in India, presented in the later 2nd ed. dust wrapper. 8vo.
Sold for £24
Auction: BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED, ending 13th Nov, 2024
Our final specialist Books & Works on Paper sale of the year includes a remarkable fourth edition of Paradise Lost from the library of Master of Revels Charles Killigrew, a beautiful mid 19th century collection of pressed seaweed, an exceptionally scarce first edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and beyond that an impressive, smart and diverse collection of modern first editions, antiquarian titles, ephemera, and a specialist map section.
We invite & look forward to welcoming interested bidders to view on Wednesday 13th November from 10am until 5pm, ahead of the sale finishing from 8pm on the 13th.
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