Sale 5310
London, South Kensington
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1 September 2008
Price realised
GBP 600
Estimate
JOHN CHAWORTH MUSTERS The Great Run with John Chaworth Musters' Foxhounds. Nottingham: R. Allen & Son, [1877]. 4°, partly-coloured map and 4 photographic portraits mounted, one-leaf prospectus loosely inserted, original printed pictorial cloth-backed boards. Provenance: Schwerdt copy (bookplate). Schwerdt II, p. 37. RABY PACK -- Earl of Darlington's [Earl (later Duke) of Cleveland's] Fox-Hounds. Operations of the Raby Pack, in the Years 1816-17 [1838-39]. London: C.H. Reynell [Matthew Bell], 1817[-41]. 7 volumes various, 4° (minor browning), contemporary boards or cloth (two spines lacking). An incomplete set. Schwerdt II, p. 121; and 2 others including Ben Herrings's Hunting, Steeple-Chasing, and Racing Scenes. (10)
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