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A Tour in Sutherlandshire with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. GOOD WORKING SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
por ST. JOHN Charles
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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John Murray,, 1849. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 8 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), first twenty leaves of both volumes (including endpapers, frontispiece, title and first plate) heavily damp-marked; original green ribbed cloth, upper boards elaborately framed in blind enclosing hooded falcon on block perch all in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, covers damp-marked (first volume moderately, second volume heavily) but still a good, tight, working set of a scarce work in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-downs (bookplate in second volume damp-marked). 16pp publisher's catalogue (date January 1849) bound in at end of second volume. A perfectly sound working set of a scarce sporting classic. Anderson, p.412; Westwood & Satchell p.185.
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- Livreiro
- Island Books
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 19529
- Título
- A Tour in Sutherlandshire with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. GOOD WORKING SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
- Autor
- ST. JOHN Charles
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- John Murray,
- Data de publicação
- 1849
- Palavras-chave
- sporting, field sports, hunting, shooting, fishing, fly fishing, angling, falconry, sutherlandshire, sutherland, charles st john
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Island Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
Sobre Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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