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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Rowland Ward, F.Z.S.

The Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting, Preserving, and Artistic Setting-Up of Trophies and Specimens

Together with a Guide to the Hunting Grounds of the World.

Published: Rowland Ward, London, 1900

Edition: Eighth edition

Reserve: $180

Approximately:

Estimate: $240-260

Bidding opens: 3 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Oct 16:30 GMT

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1 volume. Eight edition 1900. 

Publishers brown leather cover.

Colour endpapers and page-blocks.

Name on inside.

Gilt title with large gilt vignette of rhino heads.

Large gilt vignette of antlers to the rear cover.

xiv, 268 pages, dedication page.

Portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature.

Full-page plates + in-text illustrations.

Fold-out plate of tiger skin laid out for preserving.

A lovely copy of this famous work. 

Recorded shipping weight 1000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 19.5 x 13 cm


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