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REPTON, Humphry.
Fragments on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening. 1816
£17,500
First edition of Repton's last treatise, this copy from the library at High Legh, Cheshire. The Legh family had held substantial property in the Cheshire area since the time of...
Large quarto (339 × 276 mm). Near-contemporary red half morocco, spine with gilt devices between raised bands, gilt-lettered direct in second compartment, pink... Read more
![[Complete set of the novels, comprising:] Dead Cert, Nerve, For Kicks, Odds Against, Flying Finish, Blood Sport, Forfeit, Enquiry, Rat Race, Bonecrack, Smokescreen, Slay-Ride, Knock Down, High Stakes,](/content/store/products/20904/2/24694.jpg)
FRANCIS, Dick.
[Complete set of the novels, comprising:] Dead Cert, Nerve, For Kicks, Odds Against, Flying Finish, Blood Sport, Forfeit, Enquiry, Rat Race, Bonecrack, Smokescreen, Slay-Ride, Knock Down, High Stakes, 1962–2000
£17,500
First editions, first impressions. All copies with presentation inscriptions in the hand of Dick Francis from Dick and Mary to Susan and Roger [Dicey], apart from Dead Cert and Odds...
39 individual works, octavo. Original boards, titles to spines. With the dust jackets. Some minor browning to page edges of first few volumes, dustjackerts on early... Read more
BROOKSHAW, George.
Pomona Britannica, or a collection of the most esteemed fruits at present cultivated in Great Britain; 1817
£17,500
Second edition, in smaller format than the first, of the finest English work on fruit; "one of the finest colour-plate books in existence" (Prideaux); this copy with an additional...
Large quarto. Late 19th-century green half morocco, spine with raised bands decoratively gilt, gilt lettered in two compartments, double gilt rules, gilt border at... Read more
BLOME, Richard.
The Gentleman's Recreation. 1686
£7,500
First edition of the book containing some of the earliest published illustrations of British field sports. Richard Blome (1635–1705) was a London cartographer, arms-painter, and...
Folio (450 × 250 mm). Contemporary panelled brown calf, 6 raised bands, brown morocco label. Engraved frontispiece and 84 plates of which 10 display subscribers'... Read more
MOIVRE, Abraham de.
The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probability of events in play. 1718
£6,250
First edition of de Moivre's early and important contribution to the calculus of games of chance and probability theory. His introduction contains an overview of main concepts such...
Quarto (259 × 204 mm). Contemporary tree calf, skilfully rebacked to style, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved vignette on title page, engraved and woodcut... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. 1852
£5,000
First edition of an early Burton title, nominally a record of the sport of falconry as practiced by the landed gentry in Sindh, but also a significant record of their culture as the...
Large duodecimo. Original brown ribbed cloth, titles to spine gilt, rules to boards in blind. Housed in a quarter red morocco solander box with marbled paper boards.... Read more
TIPPING, H. Avray.
English Homes. 1921–37
£4,750
First editions, first impressions save for volume II of Mediaeval & Early Tudor (early impression dated 1937) and Late Stuart (second impression). Author H. Avray Tipping...
9 volumes, folio. Original blue buckram backed blue cloth, titles to spines and upper boards, gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume and... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on The Great Plains. 1899
£4,750
Signed limited edition of 1000 copies; signed by the author below the portrait frontispiece.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark... Read more
JONES, Bobby.
Flicker books. [1930]
£4,500
Vintage printings in the earliest format. A complete run of the Bobby Jones series. Of great scarcity.
4 volumes. Original orange wrappers printed in black, single wire stitch. Individual custom green morocco-backed slipcases. Staples a trifle rusty, wrappers a little... Read more
HUTCHINSON, Horace G.
British Golf Links. 1897
£4,250
First Edition, First Impression, Large Paper Issue. One of 250 numbered copies printed on the larger paper and published in wrappers in the expectation that purchasers would bind to...
Large quarto. Original japon wrappers, titles to upper wrapper gilt, all edges untrimmed. With the defective original transit box. Illustrated throughout. Some minor... Read more
(SHIELDS, Henry) MEIKLE, James.
Famous Clyde Yachts. 1888
£4,250
First and only edition. The Royal Clyde Yacht Club was the biggest in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, larger even than the Solent Yacht Club, and Clyde yachts were...
Folio. Bound in recent green half morocco, retaining the original green boards, titles and illustration to front board gilt. 31 mounted chromolithographic plates. A... Read more
MAUND, B.
The Botanic Garden: 1825–36
£3,850
First Editions. Complete with The Auctarium ant The Floral Register. The Floral Register, The Auctarium were issued as free supplements to the monthly parts.
11 volumes, octavo. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled paper boards. Bookplates to both front endpapers. Volumes... Read more
HILTON, Harold H., & Garden G. Smith.
The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf. 1912
£3,750
First edition printed for subscribers. One of 900 numbered copies. One of the highspots in all of golfing literature, this sumptuous volume contains a good history of the game,...
Folio. Original red morocco, decoration and titles to upper board and spine gilt. 3 colour plates, 2 photogravures, numerous illustrations in the text. An exceptional... Read more
GREEN, Thomas.
The Universal Herbal; 1816–20
£3,500
First Edition.
2 volumes, quarto. Bound in recent full panelled calf, red and green labels, titles and decoration to spines gilt, red speckled edges. Copiously illustrated with 106... Read more
JONES, Bobby, & Bob Hope.
Original photograph signed by Hope and Jones. 1945
£3,500
A superb photograph showing Hope giving Bobby Jones some help with his grip. Inscribed by both Hope and Jones on the image, "To Lane Bros. Bet your [sic] tired of shooting my kisser...
Original black and white photograph, 10 × 8 inches. Framed and glazed. Fine. Read more
C[HURCHE], R[ooke].
An Olde Thrift newly revived. 1612
£3,500
First and only edition, by Rooke Churche, King's Surveyor, though often erroneously attributed to R. Chambers or Robert Churton. A classic early work of early 17th-century husbandry,...
Small quarto (184 × 139 mm), pp. [6], 108, [4] index; with initial blank [A1]. Old sheep boards, double blind rules, rebacked to style, corners restored. Folding... Read more
JAMES, F. L.
The Unknown Horn of Africa: 1888
£3,000
First edition. "While primarily a work of exploration and adventure in Somaliland, the author does partake in a few hunts for kudu, lion, and assorted antelope near the River Webbe....
Octavo. Original dark olive cloth on bevelled boards, title gilt to spine, brown surface-paper endpapers. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece heightened with gum... Read more
BROOKE, Jocelyn.
The Wild Orchids of Britain. 1950
£2,500
First edition, first impression. One of 40 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator out of a total limited edition of 1,140 copies. With an album of 40 corrected proof...
Tall octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and upper board gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. 40 colour plates, 40 extra unbound proof pulls. Very lightly... Read more
HOUDINI, Harry.
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin. 1908
£2,500
First edition, presentation copy, with the author's inscription to the front free endpaper, "To my friend Milton Halliday [underline] with compliments of the author Harry Houdini...
Octavo. Original light brown pictorial cloth, lettered in white, design to front cover in black and white. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations in the text throughout.... Read more
SLOCUM, Joshua.
Voyage of the Liberdade. Description of a Voyage "Down to the Sea." 1890
£2,500
First edition, this copy inscribed on the first blank, "To Capt. Masson with compts. of Joshua Slocum, New York, May 21st 1890." Slocum's first book, really quite uncommon with just...
Small octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to the upper board, palmette band in blind at head and tail, sepia floral sprigged endpapers, Frontispiece from a... Read more
(TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven.
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry. 1908
£2,500
First edition, one of 500 copies. "A very important work by a falconer who flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century … gives a detailed account of falcons as well as...
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the upper board, top edge gilt.... Read more
WALTON, Izaak, & Charles Cotton.
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, 1836
£2,500
First Pickering edition, large-paper copy. Edited by the noted antiquarian Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas and printed by the younger Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, himself a...
2 volumes, tall octavo (270 × 176 mm). Nineteenth-century green morocco by Riviere, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, covers panelled in gilt with... Read more
DARWIN, Bernard.
Hints On Golf. [1912]
£2,500
First Edition, Sole Printing of Darwin's scarcest book. Produced for marketing purposes by the London outfitters Burberrys' this fantastic little book could not be more redolent of...
Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed buff paper boards, titles to upper boards in black. Illustrated. Ownership rubber stamp of one R. Roller Richardson Commander Medical... Read more
(NEW YORK YACHT CLUB)
Constitution for the Government of the New-York Yacht Club. 1857. 1857
£1,750
First edition. Uncommon, just a handful of copies of these early handbooks to the club have survived. The New York Yacht Club was founded in 1844, probably the third such club -...
Duodecimo (148 × 93 mm). Original red linen over light card wraps, title gilt to upper panel. Folding coloured plate of yacht flags. Ex-Connecticut State Library... Read more
LARKIN, F.A.
Blue-ings. 1890
£1,750
Cruise of the forty-foot steam yacht Riverside in March, 1890, with a crew of five, who are pictured in a wonderful albumen photo showing them lounging in the bow of the yacht. The...
Quarto (289 × 239 mm). Original brown "alligator skin" cloth on card wraps, title gilt to the upper panel, pinkish buff endpapers. Original albumen print (184... Read more
