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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting | Recreations of a Naturalist, 1906, the author's copy, annotated

Lot Closed

May 13, 01:20 PM GMT

Estimate

200 - 300 GBP

Lot Details

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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting


Recreations of a naturalist. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906


FIRST EDITION, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), portrait frontispiece, illustrations, some authorial annotations, numerous cuttings, letters, photographs and pieces of ephemera pasted in or loosely inserted, original cloth with falcon’s hood motif gilt on upper cover, occasional spotting, binding slightly rubbed


THE AUTHOR’S COPY, with numerous insertions.


LITERATURE:

Swift 258.01


PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, bookplate; Downside Abbey, stamp

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