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DOGS -- DOBSON, William. Kunopaedia. A practical essay on breaking or training the English Spaniel or Pointer. with instructions for attaining the art of shooting flying. London: 1814. 8° (228 x 140mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece. Original boards, paper title label to backstrip (backstrip split and chipped, corners bumped), later cloth slip-case. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 22 May 1939, lot 448). THE SCHWERDT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION: a fine copy. Schwerdt I, p.145.
FLOYD, William. Observations on Dog Breaking. London: 1821. 8° (213 x 132mm). Half-title. Interleaved. With extensive contemporary manuscript notes, additions and alterations by R.L.H. contemporary half calf, red morocco title label on upper cover. FIRST EDITION with interesting manuscript additions.
[CLAYTON, Sir Richard]. A Treatise on greyhounds. London: 1819. 12° (177 x 107mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Engraved title and frontispiece (spotted). Original boards, paper title label to spine (joints split, backstrip split), later four-fold cloth chemise, cloth slipcase. Provenance: I.J. Wells (inscription dated 1832). Schwerdt II,p.268.
BLAINE, Delabere. Canine Pathology, or a description of the Diseases of Dogs; with their causes, symptoms, and mode of cure. London: 1817. 8° (212 x 122mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end. Wood-engraved title vignette, wood-engraved decorations. Contemporary diced calf gilt (extremities scuffed).
YOUATT. William. The Dog. London: 1845. 8° (213 x 130mm). Title vignette. Contemporary half calf (extremities slightly scuffed). Provenance: Sir George Henry Scott Douglas (armorial bookplate); and one other, containing an earlier edition of the third work and a second edition of the first work. (6)
FLOYD, William. Observations on Dog Breaking. London: 1821. 8° (213 x 132mm). Half-title. Interleaved. With extensive contemporary manuscript notes, additions and alterations by R.L.H. contemporary half calf, red morocco title label on upper cover. FIRST EDITION with interesting manuscript additions.
[CLAYTON, Sir Richard]. A Treatise on greyhounds. London: 1819. 12° (177 x 107mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Engraved title and frontispiece (spotted). Original boards, paper title label to spine (joints split, backstrip split), later four-fold cloth chemise, cloth slipcase. Provenance: I.J. Wells (inscription dated 1832). Schwerdt II,p.268.
BLAINE, Delabere. Canine Pathology, or a description of the Diseases of Dogs; with their causes, symptoms, and mode of cure. London: 1817. 8° (212 x 122mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end. Wood-engraved title vignette, wood-engraved decorations. Contemporary diced calf gilt (extremities scuffed).
YOUATT. William. The Dog. London: 1845. 8° (213 x 130mm). Title vignette. Contemporary half calf (extremities slightly scuffed). Provenance: Sir George Henry Scott Douglas (armorial bookplate); and one other, containing an earlier edition of the third work and a second edition of the first work. (6)
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