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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Queen Mab.
London: Printed and published by W. Clark ... 1821
Second (first published edition) of Shelley’s most provocative poem. The radical bookseller and pirate William Clark came across a copy of the privately-printed first edition in 1821 and brought out this unauthorized text, ‘studious in adhering to the original copy’, printing the notes in French,...
£950
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GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS.
The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII. By Giraldus de Barri; translated into...
London, for William Miller, 1806.
First edition of this delightful work devoted to the life and writings of the great medieval historian Gerald of Wales, by the English antiquary Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838). Hoare ‘had a particular fondness for Wales, as did many of his fellow antiquaries, and he made a significant contribution...
£250
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BROUGHTON, Thomas.
A letter to James Hugh Smith Barry Esq. High Sheriff, of the County Palatine of Chester, containing some observations...
[Chester?, 1795].
A rare letter from Sir Thomas Broughton, addressed from Doddington Hall in Cheshire and dated 30 November 1795, in which he complains about the printing of resolutions carried at a recent meeting at Northwich regarding the ‘present high price of corn’.
£125
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[WALSH, John Henry.] ‘STONEHENGE’.
Manual of British rural Sports, comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking,...
London, M’Corquodale & Co. for G. Routledge & Co., 1857.
Third edition of Walsh’s popular text on field sports. First published the previous year, the Manual of British rural Sports ‘covers the whole cycle of field sports, and, among other things, deals in a scientific manner with the breeding of horses’ (ODNB).
£120
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TEGETMEIER, William Bernhardt, and C.L. SUTHERLAND.
Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules, and Mule Breeding.
London, Horace Cox, 1895.
First edition of Tegetmeier’s treatise on the military and civilian uses of horses and related species. ‘Upwards of four thousand works on horses and their utilization have been published, and of this number about one half have been printed in Great Britain. It may therefore appear an act of presumption...
£120
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[GEORGE VI.] DUDLEY & Co., Ltd.
‘Valances, Posters & Decorations for Coronation Displays’.
London, [1937].
A large colour-printed catalogue of coronation decorations available from Dudley & Co. of Holloway, London, including flags, tags, badges, pencils, papers, portraits, ribbons, medals, hats, balloons, and other celebratory displays.
£150
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[EDWARD VII.] WISBEY, James, & Co.
Coronation List … New List with revised Prices of Coronation Favors, Decorations, Flags, Emblems,...
London, [1902].
A large illustrated catalogue of coronation paraphernalia available from James Wisbey & Co. of Houndsditch, London, ‘wholesale and exporte warehousemen’ with ‘by far the Largest Stock and most Complete Collection of these Goods in the United Kingdom’.
£150
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[VICTORIA.]
‘Diamond Jubilee Fund in account with The Sungei Ujong Treasury’ [repeated in Malay, Tamil, and Chinese].
[Seremban? 1897.]
A remarkable quadrilingual document, offering a summary of accounts for a Malaysian Diamond Jubilee Fund in English, Malay, Tamil, and Chinese.
£450
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BRYDONE, Patrick.
Voyage en Sicile et à Malthe, traduit de l’anglois de M. Brydone, membre de la Société Royale des Sciences...
Neuchâtel, au magasin de la Société Typographique, 1776.
Attractive edition of Brydone’s A tour through Sicily and Malta (1773) in the French translation of Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (1751–1814), ‘one of the most successful works on Italian travel in the eighteenth century and … the first important book on Sicily’ (Pine-Coffin).
£225
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HARDY, Campbell.
Sporting adventures in the New World; or, days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia …
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
First edition of this most interesting account of Nova Scotia, Canada, by the Royal Artillery officer Campbell Hardy (1831-1919).
£575
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[WHEELWRIGHT, Horace William.] ‘The OLD BUSHMAN’, and G. BOWERS (illustrator).
Sporting Sketches, home and abroad … with...
London, Savill, Edwards, & Co. for Frederick Warne & Co., and New York, Scribner, Welford, & Co., [c. 1866].
First edition of a series of sporting anecdotes, gathered from the author’s experiences in Britain, Scandinavia, and Australia. Gathered mostly from his articles for The Field, the Sporting Sketches were in preparation for the press at the time of the author’s death in November 1865, and appear here...
£85
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[SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).
Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour.
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
First edition of Surtees’s most successful novel, and his first collaboration with John Leech. Though never acknowledging his career as a sporting author, Surtees was a significant contributor to the Sporting Magazine, in 1830 replacing Nimrod as hunting correspondent and the following year establishing...
£350
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[STEPHEN, George, and Robert CRUIKSHANK (illustrator).]
The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse, by Caveat Emptor, Gent.
London, S. Bagster junior for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman and Samuel Bagster, 1835.
First edition of a humorous exposition of warranty law for horses, illustrated by Cruikshank. A lawyer prominent in the abolition of slavery, Sir George Stephen (1794-1879) practised as a solicitor and subsequently barrister in London, Liverpool, and Melbourne. Though purportedly written as an amusement...
£60
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[PATENT OFFICE.]
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications relating to Farriery, including the medical and surgical...
London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions [– Commissioners of Patents’...
Very scarce publication of patents relating to farriery. Gathering patents granted in the century and a half before the establishment of the Patent Office, the entries describe a vast array of inventions, some practical and others fanciful, relating to all elements of farriery and veterinary science,...
£950
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[HARNESSES.]
A little Book for every Man who keeps a Horse, or Ease to Horses, and Safety to Drivers, in single and double Harness.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., and Bath, R.E. Peach, 1862.
First edition (‘third thousand’) of a very rare anonymous publication, ‘written to introduce and explain my invention for improvements in apparatus for attaching horses to carriages, for which I have obtained Her Majesty’s Patent’.
£250
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BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.
A domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, so conducted as to enable Persons to practice...
London, Knight & Compton for Thomas Boosey, 1803.
First edition of a scarce manual on equine and canine veterinary medicine. Describing himself somewhat spuriously as ‘Surgeon and Professor of Animal Medicine’, Blaine proposes his text as a means of disseminating the information taught at the newly founded Royal Veterinary College to those who could...
£350
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THOMPSON, Charles.
Rules for bad Horsemen, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. … the second Edition,...
London, J.Robson, 1763.
Second edition of a short treatise on riding, first published the previous year. Evidently successful, the text underwent six editions by the end of the century with two pirated Dublin versions, and was reprinted again in 1830.
£450
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TAPLIN, William.
The Sporting Dictionary, and rural Repository of general Information upon every Subject appertaining to the Sports...
London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood, Longman & Rees, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, and J. Harris, 1803.
First edition of Taplin’s Sporting Dictionary, with entries relating to farriery as well as riding, breaking and training, and hunting and racing. An early publication in this genre: such sporting works would develop with great success over the following century.
£185
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REEVES, John.
The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident...
Salisbury, B. Collins for J. Newbery and Stanley Crowder, London, 1763.
Second edition, printed at Salisbury, of a treatise of a local farrier in Hampshire. ‘The author of the following sheets, having been many years in the practice of Farriery, and acquired reputation by his success in curing the various Diseases of Horses, several gentlemen in the neighbourhood solicited...
£120
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RADCLIFFE, Frederick Peter ‘Delmé’.
The noble Science: A few general Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for the Use of the rising Generation...
London, Whitehead & Co. for Rudolph Ackermann, 1839.
First edition of Radcliffe’s work on fox-hunting with horses and hounds. Gently written by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds, the text is accompanied by charming illustrations after drawings by the author’s brother.
£175