Lot No: 8124

A collection of ten Sporting titles etc, including 'The Sportsman's Magazine; Or, Chronicle of Games and Pastimes', London, Hodgson, volume 1, August 1823-January 1824, 6 issues in 1, engraved title page, engraved frontis of Otter Hunt at Ewton, folding engraved rowing plate ''The Contest for Doggett's Coat & Badge'' depicting rowing at Blackfriar's Bridge, River Thames (frontis for August 1823), plus 5 other engraved plates (frontises for the other monthly parts), one of which hand coloured entitled ''Billy Winning The Match of Killing 100 Rats in Six Minutes'', depicting Westminster Pit, November 13, 1823, original paper covered boards (worn), printed paper label to spine (worn), rare and short lived magazine with emphasis on pugilism, angling, cocking, hawking, coursing, and more unusually pedestrianism, rowing, aquatic sports etc; Captain L. Fitz-Barnard: 'Fighting Sports', London, Odhams, circa 1921, 1st edition, 5 coloured plates + 11 (of 12) black and white plates, original cloth gilt (worn), backstrip detached (but present); Henry James Pye: 'The Sportsman's Dictionary', London, Stockdale, 1807, 5th edition, 17 engraved plates as called for, 547pp, rebound cloth gilt, new EP's; The Earl of Lonsdale (edited), 4 titles: 'Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore', 1934, volume 3, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Fine Angling for Coarse Fish', 1930, volume 4, original cloth, 'Hounds and Dogs', 1932, volume 13, original cloth, 'Deer, Hare & Otter Hunting', 1936, volume 22, original cloth, dust wrapper; Henry Alken: 'The National Sports of Great Britain', 1903, new edition, original cloth, printed paper label to spine; Robert Surtees: 'History and Antiquities of the County of Durham - Gateshead Section', Sunderland, 1909, pedigrees, large 4to, original quarter cloth; plus one other (10)

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