A LETTER TO T. GISBORNE ESQ IN REPLY TO HIS ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS by A YORKSHIREMAN - 1835

Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing an Otter; Coursing; The Terrier; The Meet; Ptarmigan; Oxygen, a horse; The Dying Woodcock; Coursing - A Scene on Bagshot Heath; Guinea Hen and Jay; Trout Fishing, a View on the River Dart; The Hobby, a Hawk; John Winter, Huntsman to Ralph John Lambton; The Pike. Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1832 No. 19: Fox-Hounds in Great Britain for the Year 1832, with the Countries they Hunt and the Names of the Masters; The Greyhound; Nim South's Tour; Habits of the Woodcock etc.; November; Newmarket First and Second October Meetings; Noctes Nimrodianae or Sporting Conversations with Nimrod;… Read More

Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing a Fox-Hound with puppies; Hunting - Throwing Off; The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Rabbit Shooting; The Carp; Vespa, a horse; William Crockford; Hunting - The Find!' Beauty and General, celebrated trotting pony and setter; Hunting - Gone Away!; The Farquharson Vase; Pincher and Shivers, two dogs; The Bittern Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1833 No. 31: List Of Fox-Hounds in Great Britain, for the Present Season, with the names of the Masters and the Countries they Hunt; Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering; Ackermann's Pictures of Count Sandor's Exploits in Leicestershire;… Read More

Pontefract - Ackworth: C. Elcock & J. Lucas., 1833. First Edition . Hardcover. Average. 8vo. Engraved Title-page and Plates. FIRST EDITION. PONTEFRACT : 1833-1837. Edited by Luke Howard. Hardback. 5 bound volumes of the entire periodical - ceased publication in 1837. Engraved title-page opposite printed title-page to volume one. One fold-out plate (facsimile of a letter in 1660 and eight other facsimiles as plates). Contemporary brown calf-leather; spine and corners. Marbled boards. Indexed. Spines worn with loss; main labels present volume numbers missing; strong and sound. Lacks one title-page. Text complete. Average. Very scarce as a complete set. Referenced by: Smith I, 983. LUKE HOWARD FRS (1772-1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. He was born in London, the son of Robert Howard, a lamp… Read More

Pontefract - Ackworth: C. Elcock & J. Lucas., 1833. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Engraved Title-page and Plates. ** SALE ** FIRST EDITION. PONTEFRACT : 1833-1837. Edited by Luke Howard. Hardback. 5 bound volumes of the entire periodical - ceased publication in 1837. Engraved title-page opposite printed title-page to volume one. One fold-out plate (facsimile of a letter in 1660 and eight other facsimiles as plates). Contemporary brown calf-leather; spine and corners. Marbled boards. Indexed. Spines with slight wear; strong and soundly bound. VERY GOOD. Very scarce as a complete set. Referenced by: Smith I, 983. LUKE HOWARD FRS (1772-1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. He was born in London, the son of Robert Howard, a lamp manufacturer, and educated at the Quaker school in… Read More

Pontefract - Ackworth: C. Elcock & J. Lucas., 1833. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Engraved Title-page and Plates. FIRST EDITION. PONTEFRACT : 1833-1837. Edited by Luke Howard. Hardback. 5 bound volumes of the entire periodical - ceased publication in 1837. Engraved title-page opposite printed title-page to volume one. One fold-out plate (facsimile of a letter in 1660 and eight other facsimiles as plates). Contemporary brown calf-leather; spine and corners. Marbled boards. Indexed. Spines with slight wear; strong and soundly bound. VERY GOOD. Very scarce as a complete set. Referenced by: Smith I, 983. LUKE HOWARD FRS (1772-1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. He was born in London, the son of Robert Howard, a lamp manufacturer, and educated at the Quaker school in Burford,… Read More