Lot 77
FIELD SPORTS -- LLOYD, Llewellyn. Field Sports of the North of Europe; comprised in a personal narrative of a residence in Sweden and Norway, in the years 1827-28. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. 2 volumes, 8°. 2 engraved maps (one folding), lithographic plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Original brown cloth, printed spine labels, uncut (extremities faintly rubbed). A FRESH, CRISP COPY OF THIS SCARCE FIRST EDITION. [With:] DALE, Thomas Francis. The History of Belvoir Hunt. Westminster: 1899. LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, NUMBER 54 OF 75 COPIES ONLY, 4°. Photogravure frontispiece and 4 plates (one double-page), large colour folding map at rear, numerous b. & w. plates. Original quarter vellum over blue cloth, top edge gilt, the rest uncut (soiled and lightly rubbed). [With:] [WELBY, John E.] Lays of the Belvoir Hunt ... second edition. Grantham: William Clarke [?1874]. 4°. Colour-printed half-title, plain frontispiece. (Occasional spotting.) Slightly later three-quarter red morocco (extremities faintly rubbed). [With:] BECKFORD, Peter. Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting ... new edition. London: 1796. 8°. Engraved plates. (Light spotting to plates.) Contemporary Russia (rubbed, upper cover detached). Sold with 10 other related volumes. (15)
Closed20 March 2011
Price Realised
GBP 937