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    Sale 8401

    Autograph Letters and Printed Books

    London, South Kensington

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    28 May 1999

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    Lot 113

    ARKWRIGHT, William. The Pointer and his Precedessors. An illustrated history of the pointing dog from the earliest times, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. 4, half title, title printed in red and black, heliogravure frontispiece and 40 plates, original cloth, title lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, dust-jacket (torn), uncut, booksellers label pasted on pastedown. NO. 172 OF 750 COPIES.

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    GBP 437

    Estimate

    GBP 150 - GBP 250

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    ARKWRIGHT, William. The Pointer and his Precedessors. An illustrated history of the pointing dog from the earliest times, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. 4, half title, title printed in red and black, heliogravure frontispiece and 40 plates, original cloth, title lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, dust-jacket (torn), uncut, booksellers label pasted on pastedown. NO. 172 OF 750 COPIES.

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