1889 HUNTING Shooting GUNS Sports & Game Hunt Dogs Falconry Illustrated 3v SET

1889 HUNTING Shooting GUNS Sports & Game Hunt Dogs Falconry Illustrated 3v SET

‘The Badminton Library’ was perhaps the most important 19th-century encyclopedia published with the intent of providing the English public with reading on sports and leisure, skill improvement, and general knowledge of their favorite pastimes.

This lot from the ‘Badminton Library’ contains three books on hunting and shooting including “Coursing and Falconry” by Cox and Lascelles. These volumes feature fine illustrations depicting hunting scenes, hunting dogs, game birds and fowl, and even views of women shooting bows and arrows!

Item number: #23368

Price: $599

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The Badminton Library

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889-96.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • “Shooting” (1889) – [2], xiii, [1], 358
    • Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
  • “Coursing and Falconry” (1892) – xiii, [1], 413, [3]
    • Harding Cox and Gerald Lascelles
  • “Poetry of Sport” (1896) – xxxvi, 420
    • Hedley Peek
  • Provenance: Handwritten – Eugene F. Wells
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
    • Decorative brown cloth
  • Size: ~7.75in X 5.75in (19.5cm x 14.5cm)

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