Lot 30•
SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH)] The Analysis of the Hunting Field, 1847; and 24 others, nineteenth century (25)
Ending from 19 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
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[SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH)]
The Analysis of the Hunting Field, first edition in book form, early issue (with plates 4 and 6 dated 9 November), 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece and additional title) by J. Harris after Henry Alken, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., morocco book case [Tooley 470], R. Ackermann, 1846 [but 1847]--[EVANS (ARTHUR BENON)] The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 5 folding aquatint plates, J. Carpenter, 1808--CLEGHORN (THOMAS) The Hydro-Aeronaut, or Navigator's Life-Buoy, FIRST EDITION, half-title, aquatint frontispiece, woodcut illustration title, J.M. Richardson, 1810--WOODWARD (G.M.) An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, half-title, 5 hand-coloured etched plates (including folding frontispiece), light damp-staining, Thomas Tegg, 1809, early boards, first two mentioned with printed paper spine label, worn--LE CLERC (SEBASTIAN) Nattes's Practical Geometry, or Introduction to Perspective, translated from the French, 45 hand-coloured engraved plates (including pictorial title), modern morocco gilt, P. Wright, 1819--BEVAN (EDWARD) The Honey-Bee, woodcut frontispiece, patterned calf gilt by M.M. Holloway, gilt bee motif on spine, g.e., some abrasion to lower cover, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1827--BEWICK (THOMAS) History of British Birds, 2 vol., woodcut illustrations throughout, damp-staining to endpapers (loose), contemporary green morocco gilt, rubbed, Newcastle, 1797-1804; and 17 others, one with a fore-edge painting, 8vo (25)