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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and marbled paper covering boards worn at edges. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Contains 14 plates but no title page is present. Plates are clean. Some but not all are foxed to varying degrees. Contents Includes: January; Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire: A Tale of Country Life (chapters in each month from XV to XXII), First Meet of Season at Hopwas Earths, Christmas at Willowford Village, India Pickles, Sports of the West, List of Stag and Fox-Hounds for the Ensuing Season, Upcoming Coursing Mettings, Racing Calendar. February; The Friars of Old, Pittites - Though No Tories, Flapper Shooting on the Cornish Moors, Switzerland and its Sports, Scenes in Texas - A Walk Among the Wild Turkeys, Shooting A La Francaise, Thames Regatta, Royal Western Yacht Squadron AGM. March; India Jungle Tiger Hunting, A Slick Run Down Hill, Steeple-Chases to Come, Coaching and Coach Men, List of Stallions for 1844, Sporting Law, Tattersall's. April; Woodcock Shooting in Cornwall, Newmarket, Fishing in Ireland, The National Steeple-Chase, Bencraft's Patent Saddle, Rail v Road or Ancient and Modern Travel by Whiskaway, Hours in the Himalayas, Training Race Horse, Remarks on Kennel Lameness. May; Nimrod's Analysis of "The Diary of a Huntsman" by Thomas Smith, Sporting Peregrinations by Robin Hood, Irish Hounds and the Men who Ride Them, Increase of Dog Stealing, State of the Odds. June; Epsom Races, Steeple-Chase Winners in 1843-44, A Spanish Bull-Fight, Chester Cup Race, Public Amusements in the Metropolis. The Coursing Calendar 1843-44. Index to the Racing Calendar 1843. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57019124004. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and marbled paper covering boards worn at edges. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Contains 14 plates but no title page is present. Plates are clean. Some but not all are foxed to varying degrees. Contents Includes: January; Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire: A Tale of Country Life (chapters in each month from XV to XXII), First Meet of Season at Hopwas Earths, Christmas at Willowford Village, India Pickles, Sports of the West, List of Stag and Fox-Hounds for the Ensuing Season, Upcoming Coursing Mettings, Racing Calendar. February; The Friars of Old, Pittites - Though No Tories, Flapper Shooting on the Cornish Moors, Switzerland and its Sports, Scenes in Texas - A Walk Among the Wild Turkeys, Shooting A La Francaise, Thames Regatta, Royal Western Yacht Squadron AGM. March; India Jungle Tiger Hunting, A Slick Run Down Hill, Steeple-Chases to Come, Coaching and Coach Men, List of Stallions for 1844, Sporting Law, Tattersall's. April; Woodcock Shooting in Cornwall, Newmarket, Fishing in Ireland, The National Steeple-Chase, Bencraft's Patent Saddle, Rail v Road or Ancient and Modern Travel by Whiskaway, Hours in the Himalayas, Training Race Horse, Remarks on Kennel Lameness. May; Nimrod's Analysis of "The Diary of a Huntsman" by Thomas Smith, Sporting Peregrinations by Robin Hood, Irish Hounds and the Men who Ride Them, Increase of Dog Stealing, State of the Odds. June; Epsom Races, Steeple-Chase Winners in 1843-44, A Spanish Bull-Fight, Chester Cup Race, Public Amusements in the Metropolis. The Coursing Calendar 1843-44. Index to the Racing Calendar 1843. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57019124003. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and faintly scratched. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Contains 13 plates including vignette title and frontis. Plates are clean and crisp with occasional light foxing. Contents Includes: July; Little Wonder winner of the Derby, Sonnet by Abeland, Fish Ponds and Bad Laws, Fishing in Germany II, Black Partridge of Hindostan, The Fly Fisher's Text Book or The Science and Practice of Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout, etc. Sportsman in Ireland, Epsom and Ascot Races, The Drogheda Case, Tattersall's. August; The Rectors Pool Llanwrst, The Moors, The Rod and the Gun, Summer Sea Fishing, Foot and Leg of the Horse, Laws Protecting Salmon and Salmon Fly, Liverpool July Meeting. September; Elk Pursued by Wolves, Goodwood Races, Sporting in Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Grand Steeple Chase at Gustrow, Partridges. October; Fly-Fishing for Trout, Supply and Preservation of Foxes, Doncaster Races, George Osbaldeston, Torquay Regatta, Plymouth Royal Regatta. November; Death of Shamrock, The Parr is Not a Hybrid - answer to Sir Anthony Carlisle's Letter, History of the British Turf, Charboro' Races, Hunt and Dinner, Newmarket October Meeting. December; Mrs Bartholomew Wink's "Pleasure Party". The Philosophy of the Turf, The Paces of Horses, Sporting Scenes and Country Characters, Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands, The First Steeple Chase in North America. Racing Calendar 1840. Index to the Horses in the Racing Calendar. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57019103012. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and marbled paper covering boards worn at edges. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Contains 14 plates but no title page is present. Plates are clean. Some but not all are foxed to varying degrees. Contents Includes: January; Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire: A Tale of Country Life (chapters in each month from XV to XXII), First Meet of Season at Hopwas Earths, Christmas at Willowford Village, India Pickles, Sports of the West, List of Stag and Fox-Hounds for the Ensuing Season, Upcoming Coursing Mettings, Racing Calendar. February; The Friars of Old, Pittites - Though No Tories, Flapper Shooting on the Cornish Moors, Switzerland and its Sports, Scenes in Texas - A Walk Among the Wild Turkeys, Shooting A La Francaise, Thames Regatta, Royal Western Yacht Squadron AGM. March; India Jungle Tiger Hunting, A Slick Run Down Hill, Steeple-Chases to Come, Coaching and Coach Men, List of Stallions for 1844, Sporting Law, Tattersall's. April; Woodcock Shooting in Cornwall, Newmarket, Fishing in Ireland, The National Steeple-Chase, Bencraft's Patent Saddle, Rail v Road or Ancient and Modern Travel by Whiskaway, Hours in the Himalayas, Training Race Horse, Remarks on Kennel Lameness. May; Nimrod's Analysis of "The Diary of a Huntsman" by Thomas Smith, Sporting Peregrinations by Robin Hood, Irish Hounds and the Men who Ride Them, Increase of Dog Stealing, State of the Odds. June; Epsom Races, Steeple-Chase Winners in 1843-44, A Spanish Bull-Fight, Chester Cup Race, Public Amusements in the Metropolis. The Coursing Calendar 1843-44. Index to the Racing Calendar 1843. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57019103013. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing an Otter; Coursing; The Terrier; The Meet; Ptarmigan; Oxygen, a horse; The Dying Woodcock; Coursing - A Scene on Bagshot Heath; Guinea Hen and Jay; Trout Fishing, a View on the River Dart; The Hobby, a Hawk; John Winter, Huntsman to Ralph John Lambton; The Pike. Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1832 No. 19: Fox-Hounds in Great Britain for the Year 1832, with the Countries they Hunt and the Names of the Masters; The Greyhound; Nim South's Tour; Habits of the Woodcock etc.; November; Newmarket First and Second October Meetings; Noctes Nimrodianae or Sporting Conversations with Nimrod; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - The Turf - Cricket - Shooting Match and Gander Pulling etc; Racing Calendar (at rear). December 1832 No. 20: Letter from a Hants. Fox-hunter; Hawking; Review of the Racing Season; Murty Macrory; Review of Wild Sports of the West; December; A Few Lines From Mr Jorrocks on the Subject of His New Magazine; Remarks on the New Game Laws, as Affecting Wastes and Commons; Word or Two on Critics; The Pleasures of the Chase; Newmarket Houghton Meeting; Roach Fishing; Character of Hunting Countries, Shropshire; Miscellany - Betting at Tattersall's etc.; Coursing Calendar (at rear); January 1833 No. 21: The Road, Review of an Article in the Quarterly Review on the past and present state of Coaching; Review of the Racing Season of 1832; Sharp-Shooter, a Tale of Schooldays; Nim South's Reply to a Hants Fox-Hunter; Shooting in January; The Habits of the Snipe; Woodcock Shooting; Miscellany - Horses Gone Abroad - The Veterinarian- The English Farmer etc. February 1833 No. 22: A Few Words from the Editor to the Author of Dashwood's Letters; Hood's Comic Annual for 1833; Col. Hawker on Shooting; February; Close of the Shooting Season; The History of Horsemanship, Illustrated by Statuary and Sculpture - The Riding House at Dessau; Wildfowl Shooting Character of Hunting Countries, Hampshire; A Hunt Breakfast with Mr Jorrocks; Much Ado About Nothing; Lamentable Loss of the North Pole Mapping Expeditin, contained in an Extract from Peter Flam's Log; Travels and Sports in South America; Miscellany - The Versailles Hounds - Doncaster St Leger entries - Death of Stallions etc. March 1834 No. 35: The Bag Fox; Conundrums by Messrs. Simpkins and Jorrocks; Notice of a Subscription to Present Mr Farquharson with a Piece of Plate; A Few Lines from Nimrod; Sporting In India; Sports in South America - Lion and Ostrich Hunting; The Starling; Remarks on the Derby Favourites; Dashwood's Reply; On Arabian Horses; On Roaring; The Road; Fine Arts - The British Institution; Miscellany - Stag Hunt in Ireland - New Regulations for King's Plates etc. April 1833 No. 24: Observations on the Game Laws - The Metropolitan Magazine - Col. Hawker etc; Variation's Performances; The Last Day of the Season - A Day with the Durber Hounds; A Boar-Hunting Song Describing a Day in Touraine; Singular Death of Two Swans; Who Was the Cockney Stockbroker at Melton?; A Few Remarks on Breeding and Purchasing Young Horses; Characters of Hunting Countries - Durham; Nicholas Piscator; The Earl of Surry, Capt. Pechell, and Dashwood; Veterinary Jurisprudence; Fine Arts - Society of British Artists; Miscellany - Shugborough-hill Day - Trespass under the New Game Bill etc. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101101. All our books are sent by tracked mail.