Books & Ephemera

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Location: Diss Auction Rooms
Date: 11th February 2021
Starts: 10:00 am

Online deadline: 11th February 2021, 9:30 am
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Lot No: 8121 (zero)

H. Noel Humphreys: 'The Genera of British Moths', London, Paul Jerrard, circa 1860, 2 volumes, 62 hand coloured plates as called for, uniform original...

Sale Price: £210.00

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8122
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Lot No: 8122 (zero)

A manuscript students album of natural history observations and well executed watercolour sketches of flora and fauna dated 1901 and bearing the name Lillian...

Sale Price: £1,400.00

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Lot No: 8123 (zero)

Pax & Knuth: 'Das Pflanzenreich...Primulaceae', Leipzig, 1905, grangerized copy, Ex Libris E.A. Bowles, containing 25 assorted hand coloured botanical plates from Curtis/Sowerby, Loddiges etc,...

Sale Price: £75.00

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8124
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Lot No: 8124 (zero)

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,...

Sale Price: £190.00

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8125
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Lot No: 8125 (zero)

Henry Downes Miles: 'Pugilistica The History of British Boxing', Edinburgh, John Grant, 1906, 1st edition, 3 volumes, half titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, original...

Sale Price: £150.00

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8126
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Lot No: 8126 (zero)

William Henry Scott: 'British Field Sports', London, Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1818, 1st edition, added engraved title page + 34 engraved plates as called...

Sale Price: £55.00

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Lot No: 8127 (zero)

F.G Aflalo: 'Fishermen's Weather, by Upwards of One Hundred Living Anglers', London, 1906, 1st edition 8 coloured plates as called for, original pictorial...

Sale Price: £20.00

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8128
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Lot No: 8128 (zero)

R.S. Surtees, 5 titles: 'Handley Cross'; 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour'; 'Ask Mamma'; 'Plain or Ringlets?'; 'Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds', all illustrated John Leech, all...

Sale Price: £80.00

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8129
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Lot No: 8129 (zero)

Abel Chapman: 'First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling', London, Horace Cox, 1896, 1st edition, folding frontis + 22 full page plates (of which...

Sale Price: £70.00

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8131
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Lot No: 8131 (zero)

D J Watkins-Pitchford ''BB'', collection 17 titles by or relating to him including ''Dark Estuary'', 1953, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, ''The Idle Countryman'',...

Sale Price: £120.00

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8132
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Lot No: 8132 (zero)

A good quantity of books relating to horses, countryside, poaching etc including Ian Niall.

Sale Price: £38.00

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8133
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Lot No: 8133 (zero)

A collection of books on shooting, gamekeeping, poaching, countryside and natural history including Greener: ''The Breech-Loader'', 1899, 8th edition, some contemporary m/s gun/shooting notes...

Sale Price: £95.00

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Lot No: 8134 (zero)

'The Badminton Library', 27 volumes comprising Steel 'Cricket', 1888, 1st edition (2 copies); Sullivan 'Yachting', 1894, 1st edition, 2 volumes; Woodgate 'Boating', 1888, 1st...

Sale Price: £850.00

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8135
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Lot No: 8135 (zero)

A good collection of cockfighting related books etc, including Herbert Atkinson: 'Cock-Fighting and Game Fowl', Bath, George Bayntun, 1938, 1st edition, 10 coloured +...

Sale Price: £650.00

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8136
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Lot No: 8136 (zero)

A good collection of cockfighting related books etc, including A.C. Dingwall: 'Handling and Nursing The Game Cock', Chicago, Dingwall & Paton, circa 1928, 1st...

Sale Price: £600.00

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Lot No: 8137 (zero)

Robert Fulton: 'The Illustrated Book of Pigeons. With Standards for Judging', edited Lewis Wright, Cassell & Company, circa 1881, 50 coloured lithograph plates as...

Sale Price: £290.00

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