3 BOOKS
If on collation, any named item in this catalogue proves defective in text or illustration, the lot may be returned within 14 days of the sale with the defects stated in writing. This proviso shall not apply to defects stated in the catalogue or announced at the time of sale; nor to the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards or advertisements, damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears or other defects not affecting completeness of text or illustration; nor to drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps or periodicals; nor to books sold not subject to return.
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Aldin (Cecil), The Twins, 24 coloured plates, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, stitching broken, 4to, [1910] - and 4 others illustrated by Aldin including A Dozen Dogs or So, 1928, and Dogs of Character, 1927 (5) £150-200
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[Apperley (Charles)], Nimrod’s Hunting Tours, no. 44 of 50 copies, plates in 2 states, uncoloured and coloured, original quarter vellum, dust-wrapper, 4to, 1903 - and 7 others on hunting, including Paget’s Beagles and Beagling and Smith’s The Life of a Fox (8) £150-250
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Axe (John Wortley, Editor), The Horse, it’s treatment in health and disease, 9 vols., green gilt cloth, some bumping and rubbing, 4to, 1909 (9) £80-120
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Barnes (William), Poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect, 1879 and c.47 books on Dorset and Dorchester, (approx. 47) £80-120
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Beckford (Peter), Thoughts on Hunting, illustrated by Thomas Bewick, later half morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spine with hunting emblems, [1820] - and Mill’s The life of a Foxhound illustrated by Shepherd in vellum (2) £150-200
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Britton (John), The Beauties of Wiltshire 3 vols., engraved titles, folding map & 27 plates, some foxing, later half calf, 1801-25 (3) £100-150
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Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, translated by Henry Boyd, 3 vols., contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, 1802 - and 15 others leatherbound, including a battered set of the Steevens & Chalmers edition of Shakespeare in 10 vols., 1805, 2 spines defective (18) £150-200
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Dickens (Charles) [Works], 12 vols. (only) including Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Bleak House, illustrated, original green cloth, one or two spines faded, Chapman and Hall, (printed Bradbury, Evans and Co.), [1870s?] (12)
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