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Lot 386
WARD, ROWLAND Several editions of the Sportsman's Handbook and Records of Big Game.
Comprising: The Sportsman's Handbook to Collecting Preserving, and Setting-up Trophies and Specimens together with a guide to the hunting grounds of the world. London: Rowland Ward, 1888. Fourth edition. Publisher's textured leather with gilt figure of two rhinoceroses; similarly bound copy of the seventh edition, 1894. Generally a bit worn and bowed with loss to upper corner and some leather rubbed away, scattered foxing, front pastedown a bit torn; the ninth edition, 1906. Leather a bit worn and rubbed with minor losses to spine ends; and two copies of the eleventh edition bound in cloth. Extremities bumped, bookplate in one copy; Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game XIth Edition (Africa). London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1968. Publisher's green cloth in glassine wrapper. Wrapper a bit torn; another copy dated 1962 in green cloth. Slight lean, spine ends bumped, soiling to edges; Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game XIth Edition (Africa). First Addendum List. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1964. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Spine ends bumped, light foxing to endpapers; and Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game XIth Edition (Africa). Second Addendum List. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1966. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Extremities bumped.
The lot nine volumes. (9)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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