ABERDARE, ed. Lord

Lonsdale Library Volume XVI. Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis Fives and Badminton. [With Contributions by] E.M. Baerlein, Captain J. Tomkinson, E. Snell, Major T. Moss, David Egerton, John Armitage and Sir George A. Thomas. NEAR FINE COPY

Seeley Service,, [1933]. 8vo., with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a near fine copy.

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ABERDARE Lord

Lonsdale Library Volume XXV. The Lonsdale Book of Sporting Records 1937. With Past Records and Results. NEAR FINE COPY

Seeley Service & Co.,, [1937]. 8vo., with frontispiece, plates, and advertisements and tables in the text; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, covers very lightly marked else a near fine copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

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ABRAHAM George D.

On Alpine Heights and British Crags. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Methuen,, [1919]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers mildly browned; original green cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip dulled (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Neate 7.

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ADAMS Ena

Lonsdale Library Volume XXII. Deer, Hare and Otter Hunting. NEAR FINE COPY

Seeley Service & Co.,, [1936]. 8vo., with frontispiece, plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, covers very slightly faded else a near fine copy.

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ADAMSON W.A.

Trout. How To Catch Them. [Fourth Impression]. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Herbert Jenkins,, [1961]. Sm. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at bottom edge of front panel.

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ALEXANDER Sir Henry

The Cairngorms. The Scottish Mountaineering Club Guide. Third Edition. Revised by William A. Ewen. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Scottish Mountaineering Club, Edinburgh,, 1950. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous plates and maps (a number folding); red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1923.

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ALKEN Henry

'Breaking Cover' [original hand-coloured aquatint].

Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket,, 1824. Aquatint measuring 4.0 x 14.0 ins (approx. 10.0 x 35.5 cms), COLOURED BY HAND, etched by Henry Alken, aquatinted by T. Sutherland; unmounted, a trifle dust-soiled else in very good state. One of several hunting scenes by Alken with this title; this is the uncommon 'panorama' format showing considerable distance and perspective. An attractive image ideal for framing and display

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Book number: 15270

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ALLAN Mea

E A Bowles and his Garden at Myddleton House [1865-1954]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Faber,, [1973]. 8vo. First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 27123

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Keywords: gardening, horticulture, edward bowles, myddleton house, m. allan,sports, pastimes, gardening, horticulture, e, bowles, his, garden, myddleton, house, 1865-1954

ALLEN Miss. M.L.

Breakfast Dishes for every Morning of Three Months. Twenty-Fourth Edition. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

Crosby Lockwood,, 1914. Sm. 8vo., Twenty-Fourth Edition; original patterned boards printed in red, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, boards mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1884. All issues are scarce. Driver 8.17.

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ALLEN John

Denis Compton. Our Greatest All-Round Sportsman.

[Pitkin Pictorials],, [1949]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 16146

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Keywords: cricket, denis compton, sport, sports, sporting, john allen

ALLISS Peter

The Who's Who of Golf. With Research by Michael Hobbs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Orbis,, [1983]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 24239

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ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball. Second Edition. IN CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING

Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1859. 8vo., Second Edition, with a mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards save one present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps (one of two short tears in folds), neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto; attractively bound in late nineteenth century half calf BY SMART OF GLOUCESTER, marbled boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved binder's ticket on front paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate 18.

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ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1859. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with mounted chromolithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps; original terracotta diced cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the contemporary trace ticket of Sanders of Upper Tooting on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate *18.

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ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Third Series. Edited by A.E. Field and Sydney Spencer. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

Methuen,, [1932]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 15 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper, half-title and title lightly spotted; original terracotta plain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, upper joint fractionally rubbed at headband else a very good, bright, firm copy. This copy has the upper board plain rather than gilt-blocked. Comprises selections from Volume I-V of the Alpine Journal. Neate 22.

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ANDREWS James

Lonsdale Library Volume XXIX. Wildfowling. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Seeley Service,, [1950]. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates toned in sepia; original series binding of brown cloth boards, brown buckram back blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with mounted illustrations (repeated from text) on upper panel and backstrip.

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