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Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards
Auctioneer: Tennants Auctioneers Location: The Auction Centre, Leyburn
Contact: Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281
Date: 3rd August 2011 Time: 12:00PM
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Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm
Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am
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Auction Lots - Page 4
151
Lydekker (R.)
The Great and Small Game of India, Burma, & Tibet, 1900, 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 250, signed by the publisher Rowland Ward, 9 colour plates, t.e.g., half morocco by Bayntun £600 - 1000
152
Walton (Izaak)
The Compleat Angler .., 1930, Eyre & Spottiswoode, folio, illustrated by Frank Adams, numbered ltd. edition signed by the artist, t.e.g., original quarter vellum £40 - 60
153
Snaffles
More Bandobast, 1936, 4to., tipped-in colour plates, dust wrapper; Armour (G.D.), Pastime with Good Company, nd., 4to., tipped-in plates, original quarter cloth; Smith (James Edward), The English Flora, 1828-30, 4 vols., Joseph Pease's bookplates, half calf (worn); Dawson (Lucy), Dogs as I See Them, 1936, colour plates, dust wrapper; Pollard (H.B.C.), The Gun Room Guide, 1930, 4to., cloth (stained); with a quantity of others (qty) £200 - 400
154
Crombie (Charles)
The Rules of Golf Illustrated, nd., oblong folio, 24 colour plates, Perrier adverts to verso, original cloth-backed boards (loosening, some wear) £300 - 500
155
Horse Racing, Race Horses and Breeding
A collection, comprising;
The General Stud Book, containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c., From the earliest Accounts to the Year 1826 (1831), inclusive, in three volumes, 1827-32, Weatherby, 3 vols., third, second, second editions, contemporary calf (worn, remnant backstrips).
Weatherby (Edward) & (James), The Racing Calendar for the Year 1811 to 1817, 1812-18, 7 vols., contemporary calf (worn, some boards detached).
Bull (Phil), The Best Horses of 1944 (2 copies) and 1945, 3 vols., original cloth.
Timeform, Racehorses of; 1953,1954, 1956 to 1960, 1964 to 1972, 16 vols., original cloth.
The Sporting Life, Ruff's Guide to the Turf and the Sporting Life Annual, 1959 to 1965, 1967 to 1969, 1971 to 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983 to 1985, 24 vols. including 2 duplicates, original cloth.
Livingstone-Learmonth (David), Seth-Smith (Michael), et al., The British Racehorse, Vol. 1 No. 1 - Vol. 32, No 5, The European Racehorse (incorporating the British Racehorse), Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 7 No 4, 1949 - 1987, a good run of this periodical in 39 original binders.
Cope (Alfred), Cope's Racegoer's Encyclopaedia, 1953, 1954, 1956 to 1961, 10 vols. including 2 duplicates, original cloth.
Bloodstock, The Bloodstock Breeders' Annual Review, Vols. 22, 25, 30, 41, 48, 54, 56 to 65, 1933 to 1976, 16 vols., half leather (15), cloth (1);
with three others (qty) £100 - 200
156
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
A run of Annuals, from the 28th to the 86th issue, 1920 - 1984, 59 vols., cloth bound except 1983 & 1984; Wisden, Cricketers' Almanack, 1951, 52, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 77, 9 vols., mixed bindings (68) £100 - 200
157
Edwards (Lionel)
My Hunting Sketch Book, Volume Two, 1930, 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 185 copies, signed by the author, 12 colour and 9 plain plates as called for, t.e.g., original quarter vellum £100 - 200
158
B.B. [Watkins-Pitchford (D.)]
The Fisherman's Bedside Book, 1945, deluxe first edition, original publisher's red sheep; id., The Shooting Man's Bedside Book, 1948, deluxe first edition, original publisher's ox-blood sheep (2) £100 - 150
159
Pritt (T.E.)
North-Country Flies, 1886, 12 plates (11 hand-coloured), original cloth (some wear to spine) £100 - 200
160
de Biase (Achille)
The Development of Successful Thoroughbred Sire Lines in England and Wales, 1961, original ring binder;
Prior (F.M.), 'H.-B.' Stud-Book, A Register of the Pedigrees and Performances of the best-known Racehorses ...ineligible for entry in the General Stud-book, Vols. I, III, V to VIII, 1914-1972, 6 vols., original cloth;
Suffolk & Berkshire (The Earl of), Peek (Hedley) & Aflalo (F.G.), The Encyclopaedia of Sport, 1897, in the original 20 parts, engraved plates, original wraps (worn);
with 22 copies of Baily's Monthly Magazine, 19th century, original wraps (49) £50 - 100
161
Beckford (Peter)
Thoughts on Hunting ..., [1820], engraved title, frontis, folding plate, calf gilt; 'Castor', A Century of Foxhunting with the Warwickshire Hounds ..., 1891, original cloth; 'A Sportsman', Random Recollections of the Belvoir Hunt, nd., [1897], plates, original cloth; with eleven others (14) £100 - 200
162
Joseland (Howard)
Angling in Australia and Elsewhere, 1921, first edition, (lacking frontis and leaves prior to title page), plates as called for, original cloth-backed printed boards £50 - 100
163
Croquet
Locock (C.D.), Modern Croquet Tactics, Together with the Laws (1912), nd. [1912], 63 (+1) colour plates, original cloth; Lillie (Arthur), Croquet, Its History, Rules, and Secrets, 1897, 4 plates (one loose with tape stains), original cloth (worn); Tollemache (Lord), Croquet, 1914, dampstained, lacking plan, original cloth; with nine others on the game (12) £100 - 200
164
Tull (Jethro)
The Horse Hoeing Husbandry .., 1822, plate, half calf; Cobbett (William), The Woodlands: or, A Treatise ..., 1825, half calf; Thompson (Robert), The Gardener's Assistant, Practical and Scientific .., nd., Blackie, 12 coloured plates, original cloth; with ten others (13) £100 - 200
165
Deery (Patsy)
Irish Mayflies, A Fly-Fisher's Guide, 2007, 2 vols., numbered 'hors commerce' deluxe edition of 65 copies, signed by the author, second volume containing 30 specimen flies tied by Patsy Deery, Paul Cantillon and Frankie McPhillips, mounted on 6 sunken mounts, specimen volume signed by each tyer, morocco, slipcase £600 - 800
166
Watson (John)
Angling With the Fly, Flies and Anglers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, 2008, 2 vols., 4to., numbered deluxe edition of 60 copies, signed by the author, second volume containing 36 specimen flies tied by Tim Thorpe, mounted on 6 sunken mounts, 3 signed and numbered ltd. edition prints in card folder, morocco, solander box £500 - 700

NATURAL HISTORY

167
Millais (J.G.)
The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904-6, 3 vols., large 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 1025, plates, t.e.g., original cloth £100 - 200
168
Thorburn (A.)
British Birds, Vol I - IV 1917-18, 4 vols., 4to., 82 colour plates, t.e.g., half morocco by Sotheran £150 - 200
169
New Naturalist Series
Berry (R.J.) & Johnston (J.L.), The Natural History of Shetland, 1980, New Naturalist 64, first edition, dust wrapper (not price-clipped) £60 - 100
170
New Naturalist Series
Berry (R.J.), The Natural History of Orkney, 1985, New Naturalist 70, first edition, second state, dust wrapper (not price-clipped) £300 - 500
171
New Naturalist Series
Condry (William M.), The Natural History of Wales, 1981, New Naturalist 66, first edition, dust wrapper (not price-clipped); Frazer (Deryk), Reptiles and Amphibians in Britain, 1983, New Naturalist 69, first edition, dust wrapper (not price-clipped); Matthews (L. Harrison), Mammals in the British Isles, 1982, New Naturalist 68, first edition, dust wrapper (not price-clipped, tear to rear); Lousley (J.E.) Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone, 1950, New Naturalist 16, first edition, dust wrapper (not price-clipped); Simms (Eric), British Thrushes, 1978, New Naturalist 63, first edition, dust wrapper (price-clipped); with four reprints in dust wrappers (nos. 10, 65, 66 & 67, 3 price-clipped) and a further twelve volumes without dust wrappers, including 6 first editions (21) £100 - 200
172
Thorburn (A.)
British Birds, 1915-16, 4 vols, 4to., first edition, t.e.g., 80 colour plates, original cloth £100 - 200
173
Perrin (Mrs Henry) & Boulger (Prof.)
British Flowering Plants, 1914, 4 vols., numbered ltd. edition of 1000, colour plates, original cloth. £50 - 100
174
Thorburn (A.)
British Mammals, 1920-1, 2 vols., 50 colour plates, t.e.g., publisher's half morocco £100 - 200
175
Thorburn (A.)
A Naturalist's Sketch Book 1919, 4to., first edition, 60 plates (colour and collotype), foxing, t.e.g., original cloth £80 - 120
176
Thorburn (A.)
Game Birds and Wild-Fowl, 1923, 4to., first edition, 30 colour plates, foxing to pages and some plate margins, t.e.g., original cloth (faded) £100 - 200
177
Morris (F.O.)
A History of British Birds, volumes 1-3, 5-6, 1870, 5 vols. (of 6), 302 hand-coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt (bindings loosening); id., A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 1867, 3 vols., 225 hand-coloured plates as called for (1 torn, several plates and pages loose, bindings weak), original cloth gilt (8) £100 - 200
178
An Album of Sea Weeds
an interesting 4to. album, comprising frontis of ms. verse surrounded by a garland of botanical specimens; a title page, the title Zoophytes 1867-8, composed of specimens, followed by 15 pages of individually mounted specimens; a further specimen-formed title, Algae 1867-8, followed by 20 pages of individually mounted specimens, the majority of specimens identified in ms., morocco-backed wraps contained within half morocco boards, the upper board entitled 'Sea Weed' £50 - 100
179
Horwood (Arthur Reginald) & Gainsborough (Earl of)
The Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1933, 36 plates and maps as called for, including two folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth (hinge weak between flyleaf and half title) £50 - 100
180
Jones (Paul) & Blunt (Wilfrid)
Flora Magnifica, 1976, Tryon Gallery, folio, numbered ltd. edition of 506, signed by the artist, 16 colour plates, t.e.g., original half vellum, cloth slipcase £100 - 200
181
Jones (Paul) & Blunt (Wilfrid)
Flora Superba, 1976, Tryon Gallery, folio, numbered ltd. edition of 406, signed by the artist, 16 colour plates, t.e.g., original half vellum, cloth slipcase £100 - 200
182
Seebohm (Henry)
Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, 1896, portrait frontis, 60 chromolitho. plates, original cloth £50 - 80
183
Nicholls (George J.)
Bacon and Hams, 1917, frontis is a colour anatomical model of the pig with overlaid sheets, plates as called for, original cloth (boards damp-stained) £100 - 150
184
Houghton (W.)
British Fresh-Water Fishes, nd. [1879], Mackenzie, folio, 41 chromolitho plates, quarter leather (badly perished, boards and prelims. detached, reference library bookplate to pastedown) £100 - 200
185
Harris (Moise) [Moses]
L'Aurelien ou Histoire Naturelle des Chenilles, Chrysalides, Phalenes et Papillons Anglois .., 1794, folio, hand-coloured title page in French, English and French text, coloured diagrammatic plate, 44 hand-coloured plates (repaired tear to plate 35), a.e.g., morocco gilt [Lisney 234] £2000 - 4000
186
Houghton (W.)
British Fresh-Water Fishes, nd. [1879], 2 vols, folio, 41 chromolitho plates, a.e.g., original cloth gilt £300 - 500
187
Hussey (T.J.)
Illustrations of British Mycology .., 1855, second series, 4to., 50 hand-coloured litho plates, half morocco (rubbed, front endpaper partially eaten) £200 - 300
188
Lowe (E.J.)
Beautiful Leaved Plants .., 1868, 60 coloured plates, original cloth (spine faded and worn); id., Our Native Ferns .., 1867, 2 vols., 79 colour plates, original cloth; Thompson (Robert), The Gardener's Assistant .., 1881, 12 colour and 20 plain plates, original cloth; Astley (Hubert D.), My Birds in Freedom & Captivity, 1900, numbered ltd. large paper edition of 100, photogravure plates, original cloth; with a quantity of others (qty) £200 - 300
189
Morris (F.O.)
A History of British Birds, nd., 8 vols., Groombridge, 358 hand-coloured plates (1 torn at margin), t.e.g., original red cloth £200 - 300
190
Reichenow (Ant.)
Die Vogel, Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, 1894, Berlin, over 100 text illustrations of birds, by Anna Held, 44 with hand-colouring as issued, cloth-backed boards; Kirby (Mary and Elizabeth), Beautiful Birds in Far-Off Lands .., 1872, 16 chromolitho. plates, a.e.g., original cloth gilt £200 - 400

MISCELLANEOUS

191
Atkinson (J.C.),
A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, 1868, original cloth; Clough (Robert T.), The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales, 1962, 4to., numbered ltd. edition of 1000, signed, dust wrapper; Atkinson (J.C.), A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, 1868, original cloth; Hedger (Thomas), On Sea and Shore, 1891, frontis, a.e.g., original cloth; Hardy (Thomas), Satires of Circumstance .., 1914, original cloth; with eleven others including a large illustrated broadside promoting Crandall's John Gilpin (15) £100 - 200
192
Ball (Richard)
Astrology Improv'd: or, A Compendium of the Whole Art of that most Noble Science ..., 1723, 2nd edition much enlarged, 12mo., annotation in early hand to margins of pages iv-v, later paper wraps £100 - 200
193
Mathematical Papers
A collection of 45 early nineteenth century mathematical papers, various authors including Poisson, Cauchy, Liouville, Chasles, Tchebicheff and Crell, bound in one volume, binding broken, preserved in recent slipcase £100 - 200
194
Newton (Isaac)
Newton (Isaaco), Optice: Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis Libri Tres, 1740, Lausanne & Genevae, Bousquet, 4to., portrait frontis, 12 folding plates, (lacking half-title), half calf (some wear) (Wallis 182) £400 - 800
195
Streete (Tho.)
Astronomia Carolina: A New Theory of the Celestial Motions ..., 1710, 4to., ex Macclesfield Library, irregular pagination; [8], 2, 31-84, 83-48, 85-86, 83-114, 97-104, 123-137, [125], [2], 9-56, 53-70 identical to Cambridge copy, recent replacement of lower margins to leaves Oo1-3 affecting text, ink stains and tanning to some pages, some early annotation, final 2 leaves of appendix in facsimile (K1-2), early calf (re-backed) £200 - 300
196
Flamsteed (John)
Atlas Celeste de Flamsteed, 1795, Paris, third edition, 30 double page star charts, quarter sheep (re-backed) £800 - 1200
197
Holy Bible
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ..., 1815, 4to., 3 vols., with 2 engraved title pages and 29 engraved plates by Charles Heath from the designs of Richard Westall, (underlining at Matth. 26-7), a.e.g., morocco; The Holy Bible According to the Authorized Version .., 1823, Cambridge, with The Book of Common Prayer .., 1822, Oxford, 3 vols., 4to., calf (spines chewed) (6) £100 - 200
198
Norie (J.W.)
A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation, 1822, engraved frontis and title bound after preface, 8 engraved plates including frontis, later leather; Peary (Robert E.), The North Pole, 1910, Hodder & Stoughton, folding map, plates, original cloth (backstrip torn); Verne (Jules), From the Earth to the Moon, 1886, author's illustrated edition, original cloth (3) £50 - 100
199
Wells (Edward)
An Historical Geography of the New Testament, 1708, 2 parts in 1, 16 plates and 2 folding maps as called for, contemporary calf (worn, functional re-back); Waldo (Peter), An Essay on the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, 1792, contemporary half sheep (worn); [Smythies (Mrs Gordon)], A Warning to Wives: or The Platonic Lover, 1858, half roan (worn); with two others (5) £100 - 200
200
Hutchinson (Walter)
Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia, nd., 3 vols., colour plates, dust wrappers (edges worn, damp stained) £100 - 200
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
Books, Maps, Artwork, Photographs & Postcards
Auctioneer: Tennants Auctioneers Location: The Auction Centre, Leyburn
Contact: Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281
Date: 3rd August 2011 Time: 12:00PM
Details: Viewing:
Tuesday 2nd August 10 am to 4 pm
Wednesday 3rd August 9 am to 11.30 am
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