Author: Nimrod, ( C.J. Apperley ) & Henry Alken
Title: The Life of a Sportsman.
Description: London by George Routledge and Sons. No date (1874?) Large 8vo. (24.8 x 15.7 cm). viii, 402, (2) pp. Red half morocco. Spine richly decorated with five raised bands, gilt lettering and four fine gilt huntings motifs decorations. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a colour emblematic title, a colour frontispiece and 33 colour aquatint plates outside of text. The rarest of the sporting books by Charles James Apperley (1778-1843). A classic on (fox)hunting, horse-racing and other countryside sports in a splendid signed half morocco binding by Sangurski & Sutcliffe, London. Complete with the colour frontispiece, the colour emblematic title and all 33 aquatint plates; all of them drawn and engraved by Henry Alken (1784-1851), exept the portrait of Knigt, engraved by J.Harris after B.Marshall.
Keywords: Engeland London
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Title: The Life of a Sportsman.
Description: London by George Routledge and Sons. No date (1874?) Large 8vo. (24.8 x 15.7 cm). viii, 402, (2) pp. Red half morocco. Spine richly decorated with five raised bands, gilt lettering and four fine gilt huntings motifs decorations. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a colour emblematic title, a colour frontispiece and 33 colour aquatint plates outside of text. The rarest of the sporting books by Charles James Apperley (1778-1843). A classic on (fox)hunting, horse-racing and other countryside sports in a splendid signed half morocco binding by Sangurski & Sutcliffe, London. Complete with the colour frontispiece, the colour emblematic title and all 33 aquatint plates; all of them drawn and engraved by Henry Alken (1784-1851), exept the portrait of Knigt, engraved by J.Harris after B.Marshall.
Keywords: Engeland London
Price: EUR 420.00 = appr. US$ 456.48 Seller: Antiquariaat De Vries & De Vries
- Book number: [1219]
- Book number: [1219]
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