4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 122
 

122

A Veteran Sportsman (pseud.) [Taplin, William] The Sportsman's Cabinet, or, a Correct...

A Veteran Sportsman (pseud.) [Taplin, William]
The Sportsman's Cabinet, or, a Correct Delineation of the Various Dogs Used in the Sports of the Field. Printed for the Proprietors by J. Cundee, 1804. 4to (2 vols). Full contemporary diced calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in two and at foot with date, others with others with gilt stag tool, gilt ruled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; add. eng. tit and frontis. in both, 12 engraved plates in each volume, decorative tail-pieces by Bewick; provenance: the Schwerdt copy (decorative bookplate to ffep). First ed.

Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 4th Dec, 2019

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