Rare Books
"Field Sports: Volumes I & II" MILES, Henry Downes
$1,500
Volume I:
[484] pp.
Tallis & Co.
Volume II:
[520] pp.
Henry Lea & Co.
1870
w/ moire silk boards
12.25" x 9.75"
ILLUSTRATED WITH 73 LITHOGRAPH PLATES (5 hand coloured). Complete. Fascinating views of guns, rabbit, pheasant, duck, pigeon and grouse shooting, sporting dogs, birds, hunting with horses, coursing etc plus the 2 sort after plates of CRICKET AND TENNIS. Many of the plates with decorated borders. Volume two is entirely dedicated to the horse.