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1. Archer ( Sir Geoffrey) and Eva M.Godman … (£300 – £400) £240

2. Baker (Edward Charles Stuart) Indian Pigeons … (£100 – £150) £120

3. Baker (Edward Charles Stuart) The Game-Birds … (£200 – £300) £280

4. Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of … (£180 – £220) £110

5. Bannerman (David Armitage) Birds of the … (£200 – £300) £180

6. Baxter (Evelyn V.) and Leonora Jeffrey … (£200 – £300) £140

7. Beebe (Charles William) A Monograph of the … (£2000 – £3000) £1300

8. British Warblers. Analytical monograph of … (£1500 – £2000) £2200

9. Buller ( Sir Walter Lawry) A History of the … (£1500 – £2000) £3200

10. Butler (Arthur Gardiner) Birds of Great … (£200 – £300) £100

11. Butler (Arthur Gardiner) Foreign Finches … (£1500 – £2000) £1300

12. Butler (Arthur Gardiner) Foreign Finches … (£200 – £300) unsold

13. Chalmers (Patrick R.) Birds Ashore and … (£150 – £200) unsold

14. Chapman (Abel) A collection of c. 200 … (£300 – £500) £1100

15. Ching (Raymond).- Snow (David) and others … (£150 – £200) £160

16. Coles (Charles) Game Birds, number 49 of … (£200 – £300) £300

17. Cotton (John) The Song Birds of Great … (£1000 – £1500) £1700

18. Dixon (Charles) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl … (£150 – £200) £140

19. Dixon (Charles) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl … (£100 – £150) £120

20. Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of … (£1800 – £2200) £2800

21. Dresser (Henry Eeles) A History of the Birds … (£7500 – £10000) £7500

22. Dresser (Henry Eeles) Eggs of the Birds of … (£800 – £1200) unsold

23. Gordon (Seton) Days with the Golden … (£200 – £300) £360

24. Gould (John) An Introduction to the Birds of … (£150 – £200) £220

25. Gould (John and Elizabeth) Three lithographs … (£250 – £400) unsold

26. Graves (George) British Ornithology, 3 … (£700 – £900) £1300

27. Harrison (J.C.) Hen Harriers One … (£100 – £150) £220

28. Harrison (J.C.).- Evans (David) The Birds of … (£200 – £300) £360

29. Harrison (J.C.).- McKelvie (Colin). The Game … (£200 – £300) £360

30. [Hayes (William) A Natural History of … (£3000 – £5000) unsold

31. Howard (H.Eliot) An Introduction to the … (£180 – £220) £140

32. Jardine ( Sir William) and Prideaux John … (£3000 – £4000) £6500

33. Jones (Henry).- Campbell (Bruce) The Bird … (£100 – £150) £60

34. Jones (Henry).- Olney (Peter J.S.) The … (£180 – £220) unsold

35. Kennedy (Alexander W.M. Clark) The Birds … (£200 – £300) £260

36. Lilford (Thomas L. Powys, fourth Baron … (£800 – £1200) £1400

37. Lilford (Thomas L. Powys, fourth Baron … (£150 – £200) £160

38. Lodge (George E.) Peregrine with eyasses … (£1000 – £1500) £7500

39. Lodge (George E.) Memoirs of an Artist … (£150 – £200) £320

40. Meinertzhagen ( Col. R.) Pirates and … (£100 – £150) £100

41. Meyer (Henry Leonard) Illustrations of … (£4000 – £6000) £3600

42. Meyer (Henry Leonard) Coloured Illustrations … (£700 – £900) £1000

43. Millais (John Guille) Game Birds and … (£300 – £400) £280

44. Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of … (£300 – £400) £340

45. Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of … (£400 – £600) £500

46. Mivart (St.George Jackson) A Monograph of … (£3500 – £4500) £4600

47. Morris (Beverley) British Game Birds and … (£400 – £600) £600

48. Morris ( Rev . Francis Orpen) A History of … (£200 – £300) £360

49. Morris ( Rev . Francis Orpen) A Natural … (£200 – £300) £360

50. Pelt Lechner (A.A. van) Oologia Neerlandica … (£400 – £600) £780

51. Pollard (H.B.C.) The Gun Room Guide … (£150 – £200) £140

52. Pollard (H.B.C.) and Phyllis … (£100 – £150) £90

53. Reid-Henry (David Morrison, 1919-1977 … (£150 – £200) £190

54. Reid Henry (George Morison, 1891-1983 … (£4000 – £6000) unsold

55. Reid Henry (George Morrison) Indian … (£200 – £300) £260

56. Rickman (Philip) A collection of … (£300 – £400) £380

57. Rickman (Philip) Wildfowl studies, 6 … (£150 – £200) unsold

58. Rickman (Philip) Small birds, 7 pencil … (£100 – £150) £100

59. [Rickman (Philip)] Bird watching diary of … (£200 – £300) £850

60. Rickman (Philip) Ducks, 14 pencil studies … (£150 – £200) £100

61. Rickman (Philip) Country scenes, 5 … (£150 – £200) £420

62. Rickman (Philip) Country scenes, 26 … (£400 – £600) £500

63. Rickman (Philip) Sketches & Notes from a … (£150 – £200) £170

64. Rickman (Philip) Flamingo pencil study of a … (£80 – £120) £20

65. Rickman (Philip) A Selection of Bird … (£3000 – £5000) £2000

66. Rickman (Philip) A Selection of Bird … (£250 – £350) £320

67. Rickman (Philip) Country, lakeland and shore … (£600 – £800) unsold

68. Rickman (Philip) Bird studies, 21 pencil … (£200 – £300) £120

69. Rickman (Philip) Hawks, 3 pencil studies of … (£100 – £150) £60

70. Rickman (Philip) Game birds 6 pencil … (£100 – £200) £60

71. Rickman (Philip) Flying Ospreys two … (£50 – £100) £30

72. Rickman (Philip) [Birds], original drawings … (£400 – £600) £280

73. Robjent (Richard) Geese in flight over lake … (£200 – £300) £550

74. Robjent (Richard) Gadwall, watercolour … (£100 – £150) £550

75. Robjent (Richard) Pair of mallard with … (£100 – £150) £500

76. Robjent (Richard) Wildfowl on the edge of … (£100 – £150) £440

77. Robjent (Richard) Country scene with birds … (£100 – £150) £360

78. Robjent (Richard) Pheasant, and grouse cover … (£150 – £200) £220

79. Robjent (Richard).- McKelvie (Colin … (£3000 – £4000) £2000

80. Robjent (Richard).- McKelvie (Colin … (£2500 – £3500) £1750

81. Robjent (Richard).- McKelvie (Colin … (£3000 – £4000) £1800

82. Robjent (Richard).- McKelvie (Colin … (£2500 – £3500) £1600

83. Robjent (Richard).- McKelvie (Colin … (£1200 – £1800) unsold

84. Robjent (Richard).- Martin (Brian P.) The … (£3000 – £4000) £1700

85. Robjent (Richard).- Martin (Brian P … (£3500 – £4500) £1300

86. Robjent (Richard) [Owls], 21 original … (£400 – £600) £1000

87. Robjent (Richard) [Gamebirds etc … (£400 – £600) £1400

88. Robjent (Richard) [Gamebirds, wildfowl … (£600 – £800) £1400

89. Robjent (Richard) [Birds], original … (£1000 – £1500) £1400

90. Rowley (George Dawson, editor … (£2500 – £3500) £3200

91. Scott (Peter) Wild Chorus, one of 1250 … (£150 – £200) £100

92. Seebohm (Henry) A History of British Birds … (£200 – £300) unsold

93. Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical … (£750 – £1000) £1100

94. Sharpe (Richard Bowdler) and Claude W.Wyatt … (£2500 – £3500) £3600

95. Shelley (George Ernest) A Monograph of the … (£4000 – £6000) £5800

96. Stonham (Charles) The Birds of the British … (£200 – £300) £200

97. Thorburn (Archibald) Grouse sheltering … (£100 – £150) £240

98. Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 5 … (£300 – £400) £650

99. Thorburn (Archibald) A Naturalist’s … (£400 – £600) £600

100. Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and … (£600 – £800) £950

101. Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol … (£300 – £500) £500

102. Thorburn (Archibald) Birds of Prey … (£300 – £400) £300

103. Tunnicliffe (Charles F.) Shorelands Summer … (£250 – £350) £900

104. Walpole-Bond (John) A History of Sussex … (£300 – £400) £480

105. Watson (Donald) One Pair of Eyes, [1994 … (£150 – £200) £250

106. Watson (William Smellie, 1796-1874, portrait … (£300 – £500) £550

107. Yarrell (William) A History of British … (£80 – £120) £20

108. Adams ( Bishop William Taylor) The … (£300 – £400) £650

109. Balfour (Andrew) First Report of the … (£150 – £200) £100

110. Burrows ( Captain Guy) The Land of the … (£300 – £400) £500

111. Burrows ( Captain Guy) The Curse of Central … (£150 – £200) £750

112. Butler (Annie) By the Rivers of Africa … (£300 – £400) £600

113. Congo.- Pigafetta (Filippo) A Report of … (£350 – £450) £550

114. Decle (Lionel) Three Years in Savage Africa … (£150 – £200) £460

115. Fitzgerald (William Walter Augustine … (£200 – £300) £320

116. Fitzpatrick (J.P.) The Transvaal from … (£200 – £300) £500

117. Gregory (John Walter) The Great Rift … (£400 – £600) £1200

118. Hope (Eva) Stanley and Africa, original … (£200 – £300) £200

119. Hutchinson (Edward) The Victoria Nyanza, a … (£200 – £300) unsold

120. Noble (John, editor ) Illustrated … (£300 – £400) £380

121. Oswell (W. Edward) William Cotton Oswell … (£400 – £600) £1000

122. Parke ( Surgeon Major T. H.) Guide to … (£200 – £300) £360

123. Peel (C.V.A.) Somaliland: Being an Account … (£300 – £400) £1500

124. Pringle ( Mrs. M.A.) Towards The … (£250 – £350) £1300

125. Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the … (£750 – £1000) £3300

126. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) and John Hanning … (£1500 – £2000) £5200

127. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) In Darkest … (£300 – £400) £2500

128. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) How I found … (£150 – £200) £240

129. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) Coomassie and … (£300 – £400) £550

130. Troup (J.Rose) With Stanley’s Rear … (£200 – £300) £150

131. Vincent (Frank) Actual Africa: or the Coming … (£150 – £200) £260

132. Ward (Herbert) Five Years with the Congo … (£250 – £350) £400

133. Andersson (Charles John) Lake Ngami; or … (£150 – £200) £360

134. Andersson (Charles John) The Okavango River … (£300 – £400) £550

135. Andersson (Charles John) The Okavango River … (£150 – £200) £320

136. Angas (George French) The Kaffirs … (£150 – £200) unsold

137. Baker ( Sir Samuel White) Wild Beasts and … (£120 – £180) £300

138. Baldwin (William Charles) African Hunting … (£150 – £200) £240

139. Bolton ( Capt. A.C.) Game Shooting in … (£350 – £450) £1600

140. Bryden (H. Anderson) Gun and Camera in … (£300 – £400) £460

141. Cameron (Verney Lovett) Across Africa, 2 … (£100 – £150) £260

142. Casati (Gaetano) Ten Years in Equatoria … (£150 – £200) £190

143. Central Africa.- Johnston ( Sir Harry … (£350 – £450) £260

144. Chapman (Abel) Savage Sudan Its Wild Tribes … (£150 – £200) £300

145. Chapman (Abel) Retrospect, Reminiscences and … (£200 – £300) £340

146. Christy (Cuthbert) Big Game and Pygmies … (£150 – £200) £260

147. Dickinson ( Capt. F.A.) Big Game Shooting … (£150 – £200) £400

148. Drummond ( Hon. W.H.) The Large Game and … (£100 – £150) £170

149. East Africa.- Ansorge (W. J.) Under the … (£300 – £400) £300

150. Elton (J. Frederic) Travels and Researches … (£100 – £150) £300

151. Exhibition Catalogue.- Stanley ( Sir Henry … (£100 – £150) £300

152. Finaughty (William) Recollections of William … (£300 – £400) £1200

153. Findlay (Frederick Roderick Noble) Big … (£250 – £350) £200

154. Gillmore (Parker), "Ubique" … (£100 – £150) £340

155. Harris ( Major William Cornwallis) The Wild … (£150 – £200) unsold

156. Johnston (James) Reality versus Romance in … (£100 – £150) unsold

157. Kingsley (Mary H.) West African Studies … (£400 – £600) £800

158. Kollmann (Paul) The Victoria Nyanza: The … (£100 – £150) £180

159. Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and … (£200 – £300) £420

160. Methuen (Henry H.) Life in the Wilderness or … (£100 – £150) £190

161. Millais (John Guille) A Breath from the … (£200 – £300) £220

162. Millais (John Guille) Wild Life in … (£2000 – £3000) £4000

163. Nardelli (Francesco) and Matthew Hillier … (£300 – £400) £260

164. Niedieck (Paul) With Rifle in Five … (£150 – £200) £180

165. Reid-Henry (David Morrison) Sketches of game … (£200 – £400) £420

166. Schweinfurth ( Dr Georg) The Heat of … (£150 – £200) £100

167. Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Oldfield Thomas … (£3500 – £5500) £4000

168. Selous (Frederick Courteney) Sunshine and … (£300 – £400) £650

169. Smith (Arthur Donaldson) Through Unknown … (£150 – £200) £190

170. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) Coomassie and … (£200 – £300) £440

171. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) In Darkest … (£1000 – £1500) £1800

172. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) In Darkest … (£150 – £200) £220

173. Stanley ( Sir Henry Morton) American … (£600 – £800) £900

174. Stigand (Captain C.H.) Hunting the … (£100 – £150) £180

175. Szechenyi ( Count Zsigmond) Land of … (£250 – £350) £550

176. Ward (Harriet) Five Years in Kaffirland … (£250 – £350) £400

177. Zimbabwe, Big Game.- A Photograph album of … (£200 – £300) £500

178. Caton (John Dean) The Antelope and Deer of … (£400 – £600) unsold

179. Demidoff (E., Prince of San Donato … (£300 – £400) £420

180. Hayden ( Sir Henry) and César Cosson … (£150 – £200) £220

181. Cartensen (A.Riis) Two Summers in Greenland … (£150 – £200) £150

182. Chapman (Abel) and Walter J.Buck. Unexplored … (£100 – £150) £140

183. Harvie-Brown (J.A.) Travels of A … (£200 – £300) £440

184. Russia.- Phillipps-Wolley (Clive) Savage … (£150 – £200) £230

185. Burton ( Major-General E.F … (£200 – £300) £130

186. Christopher (Sydney A.) Big Game Shooting in … (£100 – £150) £90

187. Cooch Behar ([Nripendra Narayana Bhupa … (£200 – £300) £220

188. Etherton ( Col . P.T.) Across the Roof of … (£200 – £300) £400

189. Fenton ( Lt.-Col. L.L.) The Rifle in … (£150 – £200) £250

190. Forsyth ( Capt. J.) The Highlands of … (£300 – £400) £300

191. Fraser ( Sir Andrew H. L.) Among Indian … (£250 – £350) £340

192. Gardner ( Mrs . Alan) Rifle and Spear with … (£300 – £400) £320

193. Haughton ( Captain H.L.) Sport & … (£200 – £300) £400

194. Koenigsmarck ( Count Hans von) The Markhor … (£250 – £350) £280

195. Pollock ( Lt.-Col. A.J.O.) Sporting Days in … (£200 – £300) £170

196. Pollok ( Lt.-Col. Fitzwilliam Thomas) Sport … (£150 – £200) £140

197. Raoul. Reminiscences of Twenty … (£120 – £180) £180

198. Rice ( Maj. Gen. William) Tiger-Shooting in … (£250 – £350) £220

199. Rothfeld (Otto) With Pen and Rifle in … (£300 – £400) £480

200. Taylor ( Major Neville) Ibex Shooting on … (£200 – £300) £260

201. Webber (Thomas W.) The Forests of Upper … (£150 – £200) £220

202. Aflalo (F.G., editor ) A Book of Fishing … (£80 – £120) £80

203. Brennand (George) Fisherman’s … (£300 – £400) unsold

204. Butcher (George, of Curbar, Derbyshire … (£300 – £400) £500

205. Carroll (W.) The Angler's Vade Mecum … (£300 – £400) £360

206. Connett (Eugene V., editor ) American Big … (£150 – £200) £150

207. Couch (Jonathan) A History of the Fishes … (£400 – £600) £1700

208. Francis (Francis) A Book on Angling … (£120 – £180) £360

209. Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon Rivers of … (£180 – £220) unsold

210. Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon Rivers of … (£400 – £600) £420

211. Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon and Sea … (£200 – £300) £150

212. [Hodge (Davies)], "Yellow Body" … (£180 – £220) unsold

213. Houghton ( Rev . William) British Freshwater … (£500 – £700) £750

214. [Howlett (Robert) The Anglers Sure Guide … (£400 – £600) £480

215. Kelson (George M.) The Salmon Fly: How to … (£400 – £600) £550

216. Knox (A.E.) Autumns on the Spey, number … (£200 – £300) £150

217. Lamond (Henry) The Sea-Trout, first edition … (£60 – £80) £30

218. McPhail (Rodger) and Colin Laurie … (£250 – £350) £370

219. Phair (Charles) Atlantic Salmon Fishing … (£100 – £150) £50

220. Pritt (T.E.) The Book of the Grayling … (£600 – £800) £480

221. Sheringham (Hugh) & John C. Moore. The … (£100 – £150) £110

222. Skues (G.E.M.) Nymph Fishing for Chalk … (£150 – £200) £170

223. Taylor (Samuel) Angling in all its Branches … (£150 – £200) £440

224. Traherne (John P.) Salmon Fishing with the … (£200 – £300) £320

225. Traherne ( Major John P.) The Habits of the … (£100 – £150) £60

226. Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, 13 … (£750 – £1000) £2000

227. Badminton Library.- Beaufort (Henry Somerset … (£500 – £700) £480

228. Cooper (Abraham) Impressions of a series … (£100 – £150) £150

229. [Bert (Edmund)] Bert’s Treatise of … (£200 – £300) £360

230. Freeman (Gage Earle) and Francis Henry … (£200 – £300) £260

231. Mavrogordato (J.G.) A Falcon in the … (£100 – £150) £260

232. Sebright ( Sir John Saunders … (£200 – £300) £260

233. Fore's Sporting Notes & Sketches, A … (£1200 – £1800) £1100

234. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting … (£1200 – £1800) £950

235. Alken (Henry) Symptons of Being Amused … (£150 – £200) £140

236. [Apperley (Charles J … (£300 – £400) £380

237. [Apperley (Charles J … (£400 – £600) £650

238. [Apperley (Charles J … (£300 – £400) £400

239. [Cox (Nicholas)] The Gentleman's … (£100 – £150) £190

240. G., chasseur . Collection de Chiens de … (£1500 – £2000) £1000

241. Somerville (William A.) The Chace, first … (£150 – £200) unsold

242. Miles (Henry Downes) British Field … (£400 – £600) unsold

243. Oudry (Jean Baptiste) A Book of Beasts Drawn … (£600 – £800) £480

244. Grimble (Augustus) Highland Sport, 10 … (£120 – £180) unsold

245. Hall (Herbert Byng) Scottish Sports and … (£200 – £300) £200

246. Millais (John Guille) The Wildfowler in … (£150 – £200) £130

247. St John (Charles) A Tour in … (£250 – £350) unsold

248. Weld (Charles Richard) Two Months in the … (£120 – £180) £240

249. Schwerdt (C.F.G.R.) Hunting Hawking Shooting … (£1200 – £1800) £1500

250. Scott (William Henry) British Field Sports … (£150 – £200) unsold

251. Baker (Ezekiel) Remarks on Rifle Guns … (£200 – £300) £140

252. Blanch (H.J.) A Century of Guns, first … (£150 – £200) £120

253. Edwards (Lionel) The Passing Seasons, 18 … (£200 – £300) £360

254. Gun at Home and Abroad (The), 4 vol … (£500 – £700) £1700

255. Laverack (Edward) The Setter, first edition … (£100 – £150) £130

256. Nettleship (John) The Trigger; or … (£150 – £200) £2600

257. Parker (Eric) and others. Shooting by … (£150 – £200) £210

258. Poaching.- Haggard (Lilias Rider, editor … (£150 – £200) £380

259. Rawstorne (Lawrence) Gamonia: or, The Art of … (£300 – £400) £440

260. Thornhill (R.B.) The Shooting Directory … (£300 – £400) £750

261. Wildfowling.- Baker White (J.H., Street End … (£200 – £300) £320

262. -. Millais (John Guille) The Wildfowler in … (£120 – £180) £40

263. -. Payne-Gallwey ( Sir Ralph) The Book of … (£200 – £300) £120

264. -. Smith (Sydney H.) Snowden Slights … (£200 – £300) £580

265. Sparrow (Walter Shaw) British Sporting … (£120 – £180) £80

266. Crealock ( Lt. Gen. Henry Hope) A … (£800 – £1200) £3000

267. Crealock ( Lt. Gen. Henry Hope … (£300 – £400) £280

268. [Dunkin (Robert)] “ Snaffle … (£200 – £300) £130

269. [Dunkin (Robert)] “ Snaffle … (£150 – £200) £440

270. Grimble (Augustus) The Deer Forests of … (£150 – £200) £360

271. Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their … (£150 – £200) £550

272. Sclater (Philip Lutley) On Certain Species … (£150 – £200) £440

273. Thornton ( Col. Thomas) A Sporting Tour … (£150 – £200) £220

274. Thornton ( Col. Thomas) A Sporting Tour … (£500 – £700) £600

275. Watkins-Pitchford (Denys James … (£150 – £200) £320

276. Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.), "BB" … (£80 – £120) £130

277. Watson (Alfred E.T.) King Edward VII. as a … (£100 – £120) £300

278. Moxon (Joseph) A Tutor to Astronomie and … (£400 – £600) unsold

279. Blunt (Wilfrid) and Paul Jones. Flora … (£100 – £150) £90

280. Meredith (Louisa Anne Twamley) The Romance … (£300 – £400) £360

281. Paxton ( Sir Joseph) The Magazine of … (£2500 – £3500) £1700

282. Reid Henry (George Morison, 1891-1983 … (£150 – £200) £260

283. Dogs.- Aldin (Cecil) An Artist’s … (£100 – £150) £140

284. Repton (Humphry) Observations on the … (£600 – £800) £400

285. Munnings ( Sir Alfred J.) Pictures of … (£100 – £150) £170

286. Humphreys (Henry Noel) & John Obadiah … (£200 – £300) £220

287. Morris ( Rev . Francis Orpen) A History of … (£150 – £200) £260

288. Seaweeds.- Beautiful Seaweeds, Illustrated … (£600 – £800) £800

289. Barnard (George) The Theory and Practice … (£100 – £150) £40

290. Bewick (Thomas) A General History of … (£150 – £200) £200

291. Lydekker (Richard) The Royal Natural … (£120 – £180) £40

292. Thorburn (Archibald) British Mammals, 2 … (£200 – £300) £400

293. Yarrell (William) A History of British … (£300 – £400) £260