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Sports and Pastimes
200. Angling.- Gosden (Thomas, Binder) WALTON (ISAAC) THE COMPLEAT
ANGLER, with biographical and elucidatory notes, by Sir John Hawkins,
GOSDEN (12TH HAWKINS) EDITION, numerous illustrations throughout, bound in
FULL GREEN MOROCCO OVER WOODEN BEVELLED BOARDS BY THOMAS GOSDEN,
with gilt decoration to the boards and turn-ins depicting fish, medallion portraits
of Walton and Cotton to the centre of each cover and fishing basket medallions to
each corner as bosses, g.e., rebacked, rubbed at extremities, [Oliver, 25], 8vo, 1825.
£600 – £800
201. -. Hicks (J.) WANDERINGS BY THE LOCHS AND STREAMS OF ASSYNT; AND
THE NORTH HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, FIRST EDITION, 8 engraved plates (2 plates
of flies), slightly browned, ink inscription on front free endpaper, original gilt
decorated cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, spine darkened, edges uncut, [W&S p.118],
8vo, 1855. £100 – £150
202. -. Walton (Izaak) & Charles Cotton THE COMPLETE ANGLER. seventh
edition, engraved additional pictorial frontispiece and 16 plates, lacking
advertisements, occasional water-staining, engraved bookplate of George Bover,
contemporary diced calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving worn original backstrip, corners
worn, rubbed, [Oliver 17], for Samuel Bagster, 1808; and another edition, 1823,
8vo £75 – £100
203. Cricket.- BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: CRICKET AND FOOTBALL, one of
1000 copies, photogravure plates and portraits, tissue guards, illustrations,
original red roan, gilt, g.e., a fine copy, folio, [1917] £100 – £150
204. Food & Drink.- Dumas (Alexandre) GRAND DICTIONNAIRE DE CUISINE,
FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and black, 2 engraved portraits, ink
ownership inscription to title, lengthy ink notes to p.2 of preliminaries, occasional
light spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with double morocco labels, 1
worn, rubbed, [Bitting 135; Vicaire 297], 4to, Paris, 1873.
£200 – £300
205. -. Rundell (Maria Eliza) ANEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY, second
edition, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, spotting, original boards,
sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, chipped and soiled, 1807; and another,
Cookery, by the same, 12mo £100 – £150
206. -. Salerno (School of) REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM APOEM,
edited by Sir Alexander Croke, half-titles engraved frontispiece and plates, some
spotting and offsetting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, Oxford, 1830 §
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