Autumn Book Sale

Darwin (B) & others, A History of Golf in Britain, 1952. Large Octavo. Some ink markings/annotations to some illustrations £140-180

Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography, 1926. 2nd reprint. In a dusty and torn dustwrapper (some loss) £80-120

Dixon (C), The Game Birds & Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 1900. 41 plates in colour. Thick Quarto (spine a little worn) £240-280

Chapman (A), Memories, 1930. Together with Retrospect, 1928 (same Author) Both illustrated (a few in colour in each volume). In publisher's d...

Walsh JH ("Stonehenge"), The Dogs of the British Islands, 1878. 3rd edition; green cloth gilt, all edges gilt £180-220

Sherer (J), Rural Life, nd(c1870). Thick Octavo. Book now detached from half-leather gold-tooled binding £240-280

Fry (CB), Famous Cricketers & Cricket Grounds, nd(1896). Photo illustrated on every page. Folio. (Hinges broken and backstrip half off) £2...

The Cosmopolite, The Sportsman in Ireland, 1897. Together with: Berkeley G, Reminiscences of a Huntsman, 1897. Nimrod, The Chase The Road & The...

Scrope (W), Days & Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, 1898. Together with Berkeley (G), Reminiscences of a Huntsman, 1897; Thornton (T), A...

Fothergill (GA), Notes From the Diary of a Doctor Sketch Artist & Sportsman, 1901. Published by Samson at York. Squarish folio; colour frontis...

Sherer (J), Rural Life, nd(c1870). Very thick, large Octavo. Over 100 steel engravings, 1016pp. In a robust half-leather binding £60-80

Walker (C), Old Flies in New Dresses, 1898. 1st edn, 3 full page plates & other illus. Ex-lib copy, front hinge strengthened with sellotape. T...

The Sporting Magazine Vols 10 & 12, 1797-98. 2 vols, with plates. Together with 3 Ruff's Guides to the Turf (1909-10-11): & 9 mid-19th ...

The Badminton Library, 1987. Reprints in bookcloth. 3 copies each of the Golf and the Tennis volumes, and 1 copy of Cricket. Accompanied by 3 cop

THe Badminton Library, 1880's. 9 volumes (4 duplicated) from the series including Driving, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting. Together with 1 copy e...

Vesey-Fitzgerald (B), The Book of the Horse, 1946. Together with 7 copies of The Horseman's Year (1940's-50's), and 5 others on horses ...

Simpson (C), Trencher & Kennel, 1927. 24 colour plates. Some worming. Together with 3 similar on hunting (some plates lacking) & 6 others. ...

Edwards (L), The Collected Sporting Verse of Will H Ogilvie, 1932. 32 colour plates. Together with a 1934 reprint of the same artist's Sketches...

Leech (J), Plain or Ringlets, nd. 13 colour plates. Together with 4 similar in distressed condition. Waf. (5) £80-120

Leech (J), Ask Mamma,nd(1858?). With Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour nd(C1860?); and 8 others on hunting etc. Waf. (10) £150-180

Pennell-Elmhirst (Capt), The Cream of Leicestershire, 1883. Colour plates; shaken copy. Together with one similar by the same author & 10 othe...

Clapham (R), Foxes Foxhounds & Fox-Hunting, nd(c1920). Plates throughout; with Dale (TF), Fox-Hunting in the Shires; and 16 others. Waf. (18)

Huxley (T), On Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, 1862. 1st edition. As issued by the publisher (Hardwicke) with 2pp

Terray (L), Conquistadors of the Useless, 1963. A fine copy in a fine,price-clipped dustwrapper £30-50

Wilcox (WD), The Rockies of Canada, 1906. Photo illustrations throughout, 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth

Bewick (T), A General History of Quadrupeds, 1807. 5th edn. Large Octavo, illustrated with woodcuts. In re-backed full calf; Bewick (T), History

Schwerdt (C), Hunting Hawking Shooting illustrated in a catalogue of books manuscripts prints & drawings, 1985. 4 vols, small Quarto (4) £...

Morris (FO), A History of British Birds Vol VI, 1857. Hand-finished colour plates (1 creased). Together with Lydekker, Monkeys, nd(1870?) 2 colour

Jones (T), Cassell's Book of Birds, nd(c1880). 4 vols in 2; 40 colour plates & about 400 other illustrations. Contemporary half leather (s...

Stuart Baker (EC), The Fauna of British India including India & Burma - Birds, 1922-30. 2nd edition, 7 vols (lacks vol VIII, overall index). S...

The Oriental Sporting Magazine, 1870. In 2 volumes, half-leather bindings. Mounted real photograph frontispiece to vol I (2) £80-90

Brown (L), British Birds of Prey, 1976. Together with 4 other New Naturalist titles (all in dustwrappers); and 9 other books on Scotland (14)

Browne (TH), History of the English Turf 1904-1930, 1931. 2 vols. Sand cloth; with 2 modern books on racing (4) £40-60

Corri (E), Refereeing 1000 Fights, 1919. Small Octavo (blue bookcloth); with Lindrum (W), Billiards, 1948 (5th edn) (2) £50-70

A Souvenir Book of Scottish Rugby International Matches 1934-1939. A Souvenir Book of Scottish Rugby International Matches 1946-1950. A Souvenir Bo

Yorkshire Rugby Football Union Official Handbooks, 1934-5 & 1935-6. 2 small cloth bound volumes. With North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket...

History of Van Straubenzee Family, Privately Printed 1938; Fairfax-Blakeborough (J), Sporting Days and Sporting Stories, 1925; and The Hunting Coun

Cook (T), A History of the English Turf, nd(c1901). 3 vols small Folio.Copiously illustrated throughout; and Dixon (C), Lost & Vanishing Birds...

Shire Horse Stud Books (covering the years 1914-1919, 1921-1941, 1943-1956). (The years 1921-1926 2 copies each.) Together with The Hackney Stud B

Barker (W), Historical and Topographical Account of Wensleydale, 1856. 2nd edition. Illus, original cloth; Speight (H), Romantic Richmondshire, 1897

Peary (RE), Nearest the Pole, 1907. Binding dull with small marks, illustrated throughout and with a folding map. Together with Conway, The Alps

Longstaffe (W), The History & Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, 1909. Ex-lib copy £40-60 238 Pigot's Directory of Yorkshire, 18...

Musgrave (Agnes), Cicely or the Rose of Raby an historical novel, 1859. Published in Bishop Auckland this book contains 6 plates of local topogra

Pinkerton (R), Russia, 1833. 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Slightly grubby copy in a recent cloth binding with paper title-label £40-60

Sykes (M), Dar-ul-Islam, 1904. 22 maps and 73 illustrations. Title-page bears a "Ministry of Interior Library" stamp: some stains, penci...

Erskine (JE), Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific, 1853. Folding map, 4 colour plates, and some line illustrations. Re-c

Shackleton (EH), The Heart of the Antarctic, 1909. 2 vols large Octavo. Folding maps & panorama in end pocket, 6 colour and numerous other il...

Eustace (JC), A Classical Tour Through Italy, 1821. 6th edition. 4 vols in the original boards, but all lack spines & gatherings are loose etc...

Campion (P), A Recent History of Hampshire Wiltshire Dorset, nd(1923). Large Quarto, cream cloth, no.283 from the subscription edition of 500. Il

Bennett's Business Directory of Yorkshire, 1911; Trades Directory, Sunderland, Durham and Middlesbrough, 1910-11; and Yorkshire Charities Commis...