Game Shooting rare books and prints

First edition. Small 8vo, x, 214 pp., four pages ads dated May 1852 at end, frontispiece map, original red printed boards lettered in black, rebacked red calf, an excellent copy.

8vo (223 x 160 mm); 12 hand-coloured plates by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe, title-page printed in red and black with illustrated vignette; early 20th century half morocco over cloth gilt, top edge gilt, original cloth covers bound in, mild mark to upper board, rubbed at corners, otherwise very good.

First edition; 8vo; 15 fine, hand-coloured aquatints by Rawlins, a few marks and light spotting to early pages and tissue guards (not affecting plates), otherwise bright; publisher's full green morocco gilt, errata slip, toned, spot to upper cover, a few scratches to rear one, otherwise very good, modern cloth box, a very good copy.

Landscape folio (45.1 x 56.9 cm), [4], ii, [2], 146, [4] pp., with 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates; a few short marginal tears, tear to plate I repaired, occasional light dust-staining and spotting; contemporary red straight-grained morocco, borders and lozenge roll-tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, all edges gilt; neatly rebacked and recornered, a little worn at extremities, corners bumped, nonetheless a very good copy.

8vo., first edition thus illustrated, hand-coloured plates by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe, original red vertical-ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind.

First, first, second, & third editions; 4 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, The Horse & The Hound with frontipiece, 4 plates, 6 full-page illustrations & further illustrations in the text, uniformly bound in red half morocco for Hatchards, gilt ornaments on spines, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, spines slightly sunned / darkened, scattered light foxing, particularly to endpapers, some light waterstaining to preliminaries of Nimrod Abroad vol. I, very light waterstain to margin of titlepage of Northern Tour; light waterstain to margin of final pages of The Horse & the Hound; none-the-less a very attractive set. xvi, 598; ix, [1], 285, vii, 306; [ii], 427, [1], [4](index];

First edition, later issue, 8vo, xxxiii, 532, 12(ads)pp., frontispiece, 91 illustrations, large coloured folding map (loose), later red cloth gilt, to style, with distinctive Roland Ward endpapers and binders ticket Jarvis, Thanet to rear pastedown, a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo., xx, 386 pp., frontispiece, 7 plates, 2 folding maps, text illustrations, modern dark blue half calf gilt, an excellent copy.

First edition. 8vo, xviii, [i], 324 pp., later brown half morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

Third edition; lge. 8vo (25 x 16 cm); engraved, hand-coloured frontispiece a further 9 engraved plates, three of which hand-coloured, near-contemporary ink inscription, dated 2nd April 1829 to half-title, slight staining to top edge with resultant weeping to top margin of early leaves but only prominent on margin to plate opposite p49, not affecting image or text, some very random, light spotting to a few pages, otherwise very clean and bright; near-contemporary diced calf gilt, speckled edges, rubbing to boards, else very handsome; xxii, 470pp.