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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Apperley, Charles James] Nimrod, pseud. |
| Title: |
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq., of Halson, Shropshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop & Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry; with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric, and Extravagant Exploits. By Nimrod |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Rudolph Ackermann |
| Date: |
1837 |
| Item # : |
172313 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
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11 |
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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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$ 460 |
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| Description: |
| [12], 206, [1] pp. With 18 hand-colored aquatints by Henry Alken & T. J. Rawlins; engraved added title-page. 9½x5¾, later full gilt-ruled tan polished calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, original front cover cloth and a portion of the spine cloth bound in at rear; bound by Riviere. Second Edition. |
| Second edition of this classic sporting memoir, felt by many to be superior to the 1835 first edition, with expanded text and six more plates. There are actually three new plates replacing three of the plates of the first edition, making nine new plates in all. Abbey, Life, 385; Tooley, Books with Coloured Plates, 67. |
| Condition: |
| Minor foxing and soiling within, near fine in handsome binding. |
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