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Author: [Apperley, Charles James] Nimrod, pseud.
Title: Sporting; Embellished by Large Engravings and Vignettes Illustrative of British Field Sports, from Pictures Painted by T. Gainsborough, E. Landseer, A. Cooper...Edited by Nimrod. With Literary Contributions by Thomas Hodd; John Hamilton Reynolds...&c.
Place: London
Publisher: A. H. Baily & Co.
Date: 1838
Item # : 169884
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   14
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 402
(Includes 20% Buyer's Premium)

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Description:
144 pp. With 23 steel-engraved plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page; plus 15 wood-engraved vignettes throughout. (Folio) 14¼x10¼, bound in early twentieth century half red morocco and cloth, ruled in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, matching cloth endpapers, all edges gilt; bound by Bayntun Binder (Bath, England). First Edition.
Schwerdt I, p. 40.
Condition:
Some red retouching to edges and joints. Splitting at joint ends, light wear to spine ends and corners; slight darkening inside and out; still near fine with an attractive Bayntun leather binding.
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