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Author: Egan, Pierce
Title: [Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage; Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc.]
Place: [London]
Publisher: [Thomas Tegg]
Date: [1832]
Item # : 169998
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   84
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 80
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Description:
3-444 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. 8¾x5½, period half leather & marbled boards. First Edition.
Inscription on front free endpaper in ink: "John Bold, Hurst Forest, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, 19 November, 1833"; below this is a small rubberstamp, J.D.T. Bold.
Condition:
Covers rugged, joints worn, corners and spine ends chipped; some soiling/darkening with, lacking title, prelims and first text leaf (first leaf is B2, page number 3), good, sold as is.
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