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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: 1844
Item # : 172292
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   83
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 161
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Description:
iv, 414 + 8 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, a few of them hand-tinted. 8¾x5½, original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine.
Condition:
Some fading to epine, a bit of wear at ends; near fine, in custom folding cloth box.
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