Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Portrait Miniatures, Prints, Maps and Books - 4th October 2006

Lot 26

Miles (Henry Downes): British Field Sports

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £150

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Description

Miles (Henry Downes): British Field Sports, 14 coloured and 30 uncoloured plates, defective copy with first section loose, frayed and repaired with sellotape, some staining and foxing,contemporary half morocco, 4to [nd] - and 17 others on natural history and sporting, including Heslop's Notes & Views of the Purple Emperor [Butterfly], [1964], and titles illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB', with autograph letters and notes by him; sold not subject to return (18)