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SCHWERDT, C.F.G.R. Hunting Hawking Shooting illustrated in a catalogue of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings collected by C.F.G.R.Schwerdt. London: privately printed for the author, 1928-1937.
4 volumes, 4° (330 x 260mm). Limited to 300 copies, this number 23 signed by the author, plates, many coloured, tissue guards. Original morocco by Kelly & Sons, top edge gilt, others uncut.
A fine copy of the limited edition of the standard bibliography on hunting and the greatest English collection on the subject formed in modern times. Prince Henry bought heavily from the Schwerdt auction sales in 1939 and 1946, and perhaps as much as forty percent of the books in his own Sporting library were acquired from this prestigious collection. (4)
4 volumes, 4° (330 x 260mm). Limited to 300 copies, this number 23 signed by the author, plates, many coloured, tissue guards. Original morocco by Kelly & Sons, top edge gilt, others uncut.
A fine copy of the limited edition of the standard bibliography on hunting and the greatest English collection on the subject formed in modern times. Prince Henry bought heavily from the Schwerdt auction sales in 1939 and 1946, and perhaps as much as forty percent of the books in his own Sporting library were acquired from this prestigious collection. (4)
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