11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 237
 

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Chapman, Capt. F. Gun, Rod and Rifle. Eastbourne: V.T. Sumfield, 1908. 8vo, org. red cloth; all...

Chapman, Capt. F.
Gun, Rod and Rifle. Eastbourne: V.T. Sumfield, 1908. 8vo, org. red cloth; all plates as called for inc. 2 folding colour plates of flies. First ed.
Scarce sporting work by one of the best shots in England, a noted huntsman and Master of the Wensleydale Hunt, and a keen fisherman. Chapman was a country gent of the old school, hardy and adventurous and, like many others, when he could no longer do, he wrote.
With idem
Reminiscences of the Wensleydale Hounds. Eastbourne: V.T. Sumfield, [1907]. 8vo, org. red cloth; all plates as called for (frontis. and last loose but present). First ed.
Both contain armorial bookplates for the Chapman-Purchas family, descendants of the Captain.

Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

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