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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Archery) |
| Author: |
Paul, James Balfour |
| Title: |
The History of the Royal Company of Archers. The Queen's Body-Guard for Scotland |
| Place: |
Edinburgh and London |
| Publisher: |
William Blackwood & Sons |
| Date: |
1875 |
| Item # : |
171568 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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15 |
| Sale Name |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 575 |
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| Description: |
| x, 393, [1], 15 pp. Illustrated with 7 color lithographed plates (including frontispiece) with printed paper-guards; and 5 "autotype" plates from photographs. 9½x7, original gilt-stamped green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| Early and important Archery book, with numerous historical facts and interesting references. Also contains a few golf references (see pp. 218-219 and Appendix IV "Curious Match Between a Golf-Ball and an Arrow" written by J.H. Tait). Bold presentation inscription in black ink on the front free endpaper: "Presented to Lt. Col. J.M. Sym, D.S.O., by the County Commandant Ross-shire Cadet Force in appreciation of his interest in and support of the Cadet Movement in the County." |
| Condition: |
| Light wear overall; hinges tender, occasional faint foxing; about fine - clean and bright. |
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