29th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Horse Racing.
Pick (W.), An Authentic Historical Racing Calendar of all the Plates, Sweepstakes, Matches, &c. Run for at York from the First Commencement of Races There in the Year 1709, to the Year 1785 inclusive .... [and] Pedigrees and Performances of the Most Celebrated Race-Horses that have Appeared upon the English Turf.
York: printed by W. Blanchard, no date [c.1785], frontis, viii, 196 & 132 pages, contemporary marbled boards, re-backed with calf;
with three others on Yorkshire horse racing. (4)
[Hugh Murray Collection]
Sold for £90
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 29th Sep, 2023
Highlights include a Late Medieval Prayer Book; a Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons, by John Gould, (1875), with forty-seven superb hand-coloured lithographic plates; an outstanding early album of Austrian topographical woodcuts and watercolours; a fascinating album of late 19th century photographs of Brisbane, Queensland and surrounding areas; the first part of the York library of Hugh Murray, author and historian; a collection of vintage playing cards and a large folding map of India.
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