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Cooper, Thomas Sidney. Cattle Subjects, 30 lithographed plates, a few with very minor waterstains, original half morocco boards, shaken, rubbed, oblong folio, London: [E. Gambart & Co.], [c.1845] £200-300
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Costard, George. The History of Astronomy, with its Application to Geography, History, and Chronology; Occasionally Exemplified by the Globes, first edition, 2 engravings printed recto verso on single leaf, wood-engraved diagrams in text, errata leaf at end, some spotting, nineteenth century half calf, lacking spine, boards detached, bookplate of Sir John Francis Davis, 4to, London: James Lister, 1767 £100-150
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Darwin Family. Krause, Ernest. Erasmus Darwin... with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin, inscribed 'V.H. Darwin, From the Author 1879', the free endpaper inscribed by a contemporary hand, 'From C Darwin', portrait frontispiece, original cloth, worn, covers detached, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1879; Galton, Francis. Memories of My Life, third edition, original cloth, 8vo, London: Methuen & Co., 1909 (2) The recipient of this work was Violetta Harriet Darwin (1826-1880), grand-daughter of Erasmus Darwin. Her father was Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786-1859), uncle to Francis Galton and half-uncle to Charles Darwin. £100-150
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De Gray, Thomas. The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, ?first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, Ii4 torn with slight loss to ruled border, occasional rust-marks, front endpaper inscribed 'May 1640 Nicholas Helyar', contemporary calf, worn, lacking, 4to, London: Thomas Harper, 1639 [STC 12206] £100-150
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Dykes, William Rickatson. The Genus Iris, first edition, 48 coloured plates, each stamped in blind 'Bath Public Reference Library', modern cloth, bookplate of Bath Municipal Reference Library, folio, Cambridge: University Press, 1913 £100-150
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Guy's Hospital. Wilks, Samuel and G.T. Bettany. A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital, first edition, ?deluxe issue on large paper, some spotting, original morocco-backed cloth boards gilt, top edge gilt, 4to, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1892; another issue, 1892; A Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Guy Esq., contemporary calf, 8vo, London: Governors of Guy's Hospital, 1815; another edition, facsimile, original cloth, [n.d.], and 36 pamphlets and offprints, many associated with Guy's Hospital, v.s. (40) £60-80
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Guy, Thomas. A Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Guy, Esq., first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, some browning, 8vo, London: John Osborn, 1725, bound with; Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, 8vo, London; John Baskett, 1725, contemporary red morocco, neatly rebacked £30-50
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Hamilton, Hugh. Philosophical Essays on the following Subjects..., folding engraved plate, contemporary calf, rubbed, bookplate of Willm Fitz-Gerald Esq., 8vo, Dublin: W. Sleater, 1766 £100-150
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Harleian The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts..., 8 volumes, first edition, somewhat spotted, contemporary calf, scuffed and rubbed, neatly rebacked, but spines chipped, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, 4to, London: T. Osborne, 1744-1746 £100-150
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Kirby, W.F. The Butterflies and Moths of Europe, 54 coloured plates, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, London: Cassell and Company, [n.d.]; Bright, P.M. A Monograph of the British Aberrations of the Chalk-Hill Blue Butterfly, first edition, plates, original roan, extremities rubbed, 4to, Bournemouth: Richmond Hill Printing Works, 1938; Wilson, Owen S. The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera, 40 coloured plates, tissue guards, some spotting, original cloth, shaken, 4to, London: L. Reeve, 1880 (3) £100-150
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Laurence, John. A New System of Agriculture. Being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, some spotting and superficial soiling of some leaves, contemporary panelled calf, worn, joints cracked, folio, London: Thomas Woodward, 1726 £200-300
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Martin, W. Keble. The Concise British Flora in Colour, number 75 of 150 copies, signed by the artist, coloured plates, original cloth, slipcase, 4to, London: Ebury Press, 1965 £70-90
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Millais, John Guille. British Diving Ducks, 2 volumes, number 157 of 450 copies, 74 plates, 39 in colour, tissue guards, minor spotting, publisher's original buckram, top edges gilt, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913 £200-300
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Miller, Philip. The Gardener's Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower-Garden, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, one shaved, some spotting, a few leaves with superficial soiling, contemporary calf, worn, folio, London: For the Author, 1731 £300-400
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Moore, Thomas. The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley, first edition, 51 nature-printed plates by Henry Bradbury, tissue guards, some spotting, contemporary green full morocco gilt, head of spine chipped, extremities rubbed, all edges gilt, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, Bradbury and Evans, 1855 £1000-1500 See illustration
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Quincy, John. Phyarmacopoeia Officinalis and Extemporanea, or, A Complete English Dispensatory, twelfth edition, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, 8vo, London: Thomas Longman, 1742; Nisbet, William. The New Domestic Medicine, new edition, frontispiece, contemporary calf, upper board detached, 8vo, London: Thomas Kelly, 1814; and 7 others, medicine, mostly 19th century, v.s. (9) £60-80
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Sharp, Samuel. A Critical Enquiry into the Present State of Surgery, first edition, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints cracked, 8vo, London: J and R Tonson, 1750 £100-150
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Sitwell, Sacheverell, and others. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped with loss, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, blindstamps, folio, London: Collins, 1953; and 6 others (7) £50-80
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Snape, Andrew. The Anatomy of an Horse. Containing An Exact and full Description of the Frame, Situation and Connexion of all his Parts (with their Actions and uses) exprest in Forty nine Copper-plates, 2 parts in one volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, 49 engraved plates, some spotting and light browning, a few leaves with minor staining in gutter, contemporary panelled calf, boards loose, folio, London: M. Flesher, 1687 £400-600 See illustration
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Stroud, Dorothy. Capability Brown, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1975; Hussey, Christopher. English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, London: Country Life, 1967; and 25 others on gardens and horticulture, v.s. (27) £50-80
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Tegetmeier, W.B. The Poultry Book, 29 [of 30] chromolithographed plates after Harrison Weir, 2 loose and torn, wood-engravings in text, publisher's original cloth gilt, 4to, London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] £100-150
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Thames Embankment. A group of 42 plans and technical drawings for the construction of the Thames Embankment, including river walls, stairwells and conduits, etc., most with edges torn, stained, 98cm x 67cm, London: Waterlow and Sons, ?c.1880 £100-150
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The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, 9 works bound in 12 volumes, all first editions except volume 9, second edition, somewhat spotted, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, rubbed, 8vo, London: William Pickering, 1834-1836 and 1838 £200-300 See illustration
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Thorburn, Archibald. Game Birds and Wild-fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, number 21 of 155 copies on large paper, 30 mounted coloured plates, tissue guards, some light soiling, publisher's original buckram gilt, soiled, top edge gilt, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1923 £300-400
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Waller, John. A Treatise on the Incubus, or Night-mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams, and Nocturnal Visions, first edition, half-title, some browning and spotting, original publisher's cloth-backed boards, soiled, 8vo, London: E. Cox and Son, 1816 £40-60
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Wilkins, David. Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, a Synodo Verolamiensi A.D. 446 ad Londinensem A.D. 1717; accedunt Constitutiones et alia ad Historiam Ecclesiae Anglicanae spectantia, 4 volumes, first edition, half-titles, contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, rubbed, bookplates of George Kenyon and Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: R. Gosling et al., 1737 £100-150
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Willmott, Ellen. The Genus Rosa, 2 volumes, first edition, 132 chromo-lithographed plates after Alfred Parsons and 15 uncoloured, tissue guards, later full buckram, bookplate of Bath Municipal Reference Library, folio, London: John Murray, 1910-1914 £200-300
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Woodville, William. Medical Botany, volume one [of 3] only, 65 hand-coloured plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, 4to, London: Printed and Sold for the Author, 1790 £70-90 2142-2144. No Lots
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Bobinski, K. and Stefan Zamoyski. Family Tables of Racehorses, 2 volumes, number 291 of an unspecified limited edition, original cloth, in fitted case, folio, London: Waterlow and Sons, 1960 £70-90
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Card Games, bridge, etc. 40 volumes, mostly 20th century, v.s. (40+) £30-50
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Chess. A large collection of books on chess, game strategy, etc., mostly 20th century, but including; Strategems of Chess, fourth edition, original boards, 8vo, London: T and J Allman, 1818; Lewis, William. Chess for Beginners, original cloth, London: Chapman and Hall, 1835; Lowenthal, J. Morphy's Games of Chess, contemporary half calf, 8vo, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1860, and others, v.s. (approx. 250 volumes) £100-200
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Croome, A.C.M., editor. Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools, 2 volumes, half-titles, plates, some spotting, endpapers a little damaged by damp, contemporary full morocco by Chivers, with vellucent panels of the arms of Cambridge and Oxford laid into the upper cover, illuminated gilt, top edge gilt, 4to, London: Walter Southwood, 1913 £120-180
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Fore's Sporting Notes and Sketches, a run from volume 1, number 1 to volume 27, number 108, bound in 27 volumes, plates, illustrations, some light spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, a few volumes a little scuffed, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1884-1910, sold as a periodical, not subject to return £300-500
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The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game Birds and Wildfowl, number 845 of 950 copies, photogravure frontispiece, 35 plates, 26 coloured, tissue guards, publisher's full morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, London: The London and Counties Press Association, 1912 £120-180
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Simpson, Charles. The Harboro' Country, coloured plates, some spotting, original cloth, 4to, London: John Lane, 1927; Curling, B.W.R. British Racecourses, coloured plates after Lionel Edwards, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1951; Lyttelton, R.H., editor. Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools... Eton, Winchester and Harrow, plates, original cloth, faded, London: Walter Southwood & Co., 1922; and seven others, similar (10) £100-150
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[Smith, John] The True Art of Angling, twelfth edition, half-title, advertisement leaf with woodcut of fish and crown, contemporary mottled calf, extremities rubbed, upper joint slightly cracked, 12mo, London: Onesimus Ustonson, 1770 Tipped-in to the front is a single leaf titled 'The Angler's Commandments', laid down, printed Mayo, Newbury. £250-350 See illustration
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Surtees, Robert. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, 13 hand-coloured plates and 43 illustrations in text after Henry Alken, tissue guards, some spotting, contemporary red half morocco gilt by Henry Young and Sons, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Kegan,Paul, Trench and Truber, 1903 £70-90 Michael Callender (b.1939) has led a life marked by adventure. He attended Worth and Downside prior to his National Service when, as a second lieutenant with the Cameronians, he travelled to Bahrain, Kenya, Aden and Jordan. He married in 1966 and relocated to South Africa in 1969 where he spent 40 years with his wife Vivienne. An avid big game hunter, he has pursued game through-out Africa and remote areas in other parts of the world and is the author of two books, Leopard on a Razor Wire (2013) and Roaming with a Rifle (2000).
| The Big Game Library of Michael Callender, Esq. | Michael Callender (b.1939) has led a life marked by adventure. He attended Worth and Downside prior to his National Service when, as a second lieutenant with the Cameronians, he travelled to Bahrain, Kenya, Aden and Jordan. He married in 1966 and relocated to South Africa in 1969 where he spent 40 years with his wife Vivienne. An avid big game hunter, he has pursued game through-out Africa and remote areas in other parts of the world and is the author of two books, Leopard on a Razor Wire (2013) and Roaming with a Rifle (2000).
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Andersson, Charles John. The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure, first edition, half-title, additional engraved title, frontispiece, 15 wood-engraved plates, tissue guards, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting, original cloth, 8vo, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861 £200-300
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Andersson, Charles John. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa, first edition, 17 tinted lithographed plates, some with tissue guards, rather spotted, large folding engraved map, contemporary half morocco by Robertson, rubbed, 8vo, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856 £200-300
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Baker, Samuel White. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 volumes, first edition, lithographed frontispiece, large folding map, wood-engraved illustrations in text, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 8vo, London: Macmillan & Co., 1866 The title pages to both volumes have the 'Right of Translation Reserved' cropped in the lower margin. No other text is affected. £250-300
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Baker, Samuel White. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, 2 volumes, first edition, half-titles, 29 wood-engraved illustrations after Harry Dixon, some spotting, original pictorial cloth gilt, bookplate of Ernest E Testi, untrimmed, 8vo, London: Macmillan & Co., 1890 £100-150
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Baines, Thomas. Explorations in South-West Africa, being An Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls, first edition, half-title, chromo-lithographed frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps, wood-engraved illustrations, including 8 full-page, original cloth, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers, 8vo, London: Longman, Green et al., 1864 £500-800 See illustration
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Baldwin, William Charles. African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacks front free-endpaper, folding engraved map, wood-engraved illustrations, 6 tinted lithographed plates, some spotting, late nineteenth century calf-backed boards, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1863 The tinted lithographed plates are not called for in the list of illustrations for the first edition. £100-150
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Baldwin, William Charles. African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi, third edition, half-title, repaired, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engravings in text, somewhat spotted, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1894 £70-90
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Bell, W.D.M. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, first edition, half-title, plates, original cloth, 4to, London: Country Life, 1923 Walter D.M. Bell (1880-1954) was regarded as the 'greatest of all the old professional elephant hunters'. Loosely inserted is a 2pp. ALs from the author to an unknown recipient, dated 12 Oct 1951, lamenting the passing of the great era of game hunting, 'I love to hear from hunters; they are becoming rare birds I fear, in our sense of the word at any rate.' Included in this lot are two copies of W.D.M. Bell's autobiography, Bell of Africa (1960). £250-300 See illustration
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Blunt, David Enderby. Elephant, first edition, inscribed, 'With the Compliments of the Author, D.E. Blunt', plates, some spotting, original elephant hide cloth gilt, faded, bookplate of Ernest E Testi, 8vo, London: East Africa, 1933 £300-500 See illustration
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Bryden, H. Anderson. Nature and Sport in South Africa, first edition, plates, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1897; Wild Life in South Africa, first edition, plates, original cloth, 8vo, London: George Harrap, 1936; Animals of Africa, first edition, plates, original cloth gilt, 8vo, London; Sands & Co., 1900 (3) £60-80
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Burton, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar, first edition, 4 coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards, 2 engraved maps, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, new endpapers, 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856 This copy has Appendix IV omitted. £1000-1500 See illustration
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Burton, Richard F. The Lake Regions of Central Africa, A Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, first edition, 12 tinted lithographed plates, folding engraved map, some occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, 8vo, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860 £700-900
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