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(DOGS and CATS.) ~ Hunde und Katzen. Erzählungen und Anekdoten, als Beiträge zur Charakteristik dieser beiden Hausthiere. Ludwigsburg: ‘Auf Kosten des Herausgebers’: C.F. Rast’schen, 1827.
First edition.
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A rare little collection for animal-lovers, with over 60 anecdotes illustrating the characteristics of dogs (mainly) and cats, with titles such as ‘The faithful poodle’, ‘Siberian sledge-dogs’, ‘The surgeon and the dog’, ‘Strange punishment by a poodle’, ‘Remarkable rescue by a dog’, ‘The hunting dog’, ‘The life and times of a pomeranian’. For cat lovers, there are stories such as ‘The amusing education of a cat’ (from Campe’s Kinderbibliothek) and ‘The prisoner and the cat’.
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£1200.00
(SAILING). ~ Yachts Racing Flags 1860-1902 [England, ?Southampton, c. 1902.]
A superb manuscript album of flags from the heyday of yacht racing, when owning a fast racing cutter was de rigeur for the English gentleman.
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Racing was concentrated in the Solent (adjacent to Southampton, from where this book hails) and attracted challengers from all over Britain and Europe. Among the colourful array of over 600 flags are those of George, Prince of Wales for his royal yacht Britannia; those of the Marquis of Hastings’s Aline, W. Baden Powell’s Snarley Yow, seven yachts belonging to the Earl of Dunraven, Kaiser Wilhelm’s Meteor, and Carl Friedrich von Siemens’s Tutty.
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£600.00
WALTON, Izaak, & Charles Cotton. ~ The Complete Angler. London: Charles Tilt, J. Menzies in Edinburgh and T. Wardle in Philadelphia, 1837.
The very scarce Tilt edition of the Compleat Angler, notable as the first with an American publisher’s name on the title.
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The frontispieces are by Ebenezer Randells, a pupil of Bewick.
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