28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 59
 

59

Millais (John Guille). The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and...

Millais (John Guille). The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. 4to, original half vallum, plain dust jacket with printed spine-label (the jacket probably original; spine-panel largely restored, a few nicks and tears), 21 photogravure and other plates, a bright copy - Tegetmeier (William Bernhard). Pheasants, 4th edition ('enlarged'), London: Horace Cox, 1904. 8vo, original cloth (loss to head of spine), 24 plates (6 in colour), bookplate of J. E. Harting (1841-1928, British ornithologist) - Cank (Thomas). Forty Years Mingled in Game (Fur and Feathers), 1st edition, Leyland: published and copyrighted by T. Cank, ''The Lancashire Pheasantries'', 1891. 8vo, original cloth, 133 pp. - St John (Charles). Natural History and Sport in Moray, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. Large 8vo, original cloth (spine sunned and frayed), all heliogravure plates as called for - and 28 others (not collated), natural history and field sports, 19th and early-20th century, mainly in original cloth, including Oates, Wild Ducks, 1st edition, 1905 (plates by Lodge), Burke, The Indian Shikar Field Book, 4th edition, Calcutta, 1908 (pre-printed game register in rear pocket), Aflalo, The Sportsman's Book for India, 1st edition, 1904 (withdrawn from the General Assembly Library, New Zealand), and similar (qty: 32) Mullens & Swann pp. 502 (St John). Library Hub traces two copies only of Thomas Cank's privately published Forty Years Mingled in Game. St John's work first appeared in 1863, without plates.

Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

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