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    Sale 9066

    Printed Books including Maps and Atlases, Travel, Natural

    London, South Kensington

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    6 April 2001

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    • Foreign Field Sports, Fisherie
    Lot 203

    Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes ... with a Supplement of New South Wales, London: H. R. Young, 1819. 2° (325 x 228mm.), 110 mostly hand-coloured aquatint plates by C. Dubourg after Howitt, Atkinson, Clark and others (?lacking half title, a few spots, some very light marginal browning), contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, a few strips torn on covers), t.e.g. Second edition. Abbey Travel 3; Schwerdt I, 179; Tooley 225.

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    GBP 1,762

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    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes ... with a Supplement of New South Wales, London: H. R. Young, 1819. 2° (325 x 228mm.), 110 mostly hand-coloured aquatint plates by C. Dubourg after Howitt, Atkinson, Clark and others (?lacking half title, a few spots, some very light marginal browning), contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed, a few strips torn on covers), t.e.g. Second edition. Abbey Travel 3; Schwerdt I, 179; Tooley 225.

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