Sothebys: THE RENOWNED COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS & DRAWINGS relating to HUNTING, HAWKING AND SHOOTING Formed by the late C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Esq. of Old Alresford House, Hants. THE SECOND PORTION THE SPORTING PRINTS., 19Jun1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 19, 1939 - June 19, 1939
Page Size: 662 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
517 I. A.: N. Wood, Gamekeeper to the Rt. Honble. Ld. Mulgrave, at his Lordship's seat in Yorkshire, Fuchjagd, Le Braconnier, Chiens en arret, and Lièvre au Gite, after Vernet and Gamble

GBP - 0.10
518 R. Ackermann & Son published by Illustrations of Game, etc.

GBP - Not Sold
519 V. Adam Sujets de Chasse

GBP - 0.15
520 V. Adam Shooting Scenes

GBP - 2.00
521 V. Adam Chasse au Tigre; Chasse à la Lionne; Chasse au Sanglier; and Chasse au Loup, and Chasse à l'Ours

GBP - 1.00
522 V. Adam Sujets de Chasse

GBP - 4.10
523 V. Adam Sujets de Chasse--Shooting

GBP - 0.10
524 Alfred C. Alais The Duke of Rutland, after Sir F Grant

GBP - Not Sold
525 H. Aldegrever Hercules arresting the Arcadian Hind (B. 95)

GBP - 0.10
526 H. Alken The Review, a Panorama of the Progress of Human Life .... and the Field Sports of the English People

GBP - 50.00
527 H. Alken A Trip to Melton Mowbray

GBP - 90.00
528 H. Alken Fox Hunter, Huntsman and Whipper in, Earth Stopper, Game Keepers, Poachers and Post Lads

GBP - 4.00
529 H. Alken Comparative Sporting--Grouse Shooting, the Right Sort and The Wrong Sort; and Partridge Shooters, The Right Sort and the Wrong Sort

GBP - 32.00
530 H. Alken One of the Right Sort; and One of the Wrong Sort

GBP - 26.00
531 H. Alken Hunters, a Puzzler

GBP - 1.00
532 H. Alken Hunting Recollections

1829

 GBP - 16.00
533 H. Alken Plate containing illustrations of eight hunters, etc., and A Hunting We Will Go

GBP - 1.00
534 H. Alken and R. G. Reeve Yellowham Wood, County of Dorset; and The Cock-Tails Done, Fifty Minutes in the Vale of Blackmore

GBP - 26.00
535 H. Alken My Stud

1831

 GBP - 30.00
536 H. Alken A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk

1822

 GBP - 35.00
537 H. Alken Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones

1823

 GBP - 26.00
538 H. Alken Title to British Sports

1821

 GBP - 0.12
539 S. Alken Delineations of British Field Sports

GBP - 1.05
540 S. Alken Delineations of British Field Sports

1822

 GBP - 20.00
541 Jost Amman Set of eight Sporting Plates

GBP - 3.05
542 Jost Amman Two Seasons, with hunting and shooting scenes

GBP - 0.08
543 Jost Amman Another set

GBP - 0.10
544 W. Ammon Aufbruch zur Jagd; and Rückkehr von der Jagd

GBP - Not Sold
545 W. T. Annis The Death of the Wolf

GBP - 0.10
546 S. W. Fores Anonymous : Shooting--Cockney Sportsmen

1800

 GBP - 1.00
547 W. Davison, published by Anonymous : after Gillray : Humorous Shooting Scenes

GBP - 1.00
548 Anonymous : Fox Hunting (caricatures)

GBP - 1.00
549 T. Sutherland Anonymous : Coursing--Finding

1823

 GBP - Not Sold
550 Anonymous : Fox Hunters sitting outside an Inn

GBP - 0.05
551 Anonymous : Four Sporting Subjects

GBP - 2.02
552 T. Sutherland Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 5.05
553 Anonymous : Fox Hunting, and the same set

GBP - 3.00
554 Anonymous : A Toast to Fox Hunting, and a Baxter print--Windsor Castle

GBP - Not Sold
555 Ackermann Anonymous : Hunting

1829

 GBP - 3.10
556 Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 1.02
557 Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 4.05
558 Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 3.05
559 Henry Alken Anonymous : Six Prints of a Fox Chase

1821

 GBP - 1.00
560 Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 1.02
561 Anonymous H. Alken Fox-Hunting

GBP - 3.10
562 Anonymous : Six humorous hunting and riding scenes

GBP - 1.00
563 Anonymous : Four humorous Fox Hunting Scenes

GBP - 0.15
564 Anonymous : Stag Hunting Scenes

GBP - 0.10
565 Anonymous, Fox Hunting Scenes

GBP - 0.12
566 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 3.05
567 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 2.10
568 Anonymous : a similar set

GBP - 2.05
569 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 3.00
570 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 1.08
571 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 3.10
572 Laurie and Whittle Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 1.00
573 Adam East Anonymous : Shooting and Hunting

GBP - 0.05
574 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 0.10
575 Anonymous : Hunting and Shooting

GBP - 1.10
576 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 1.00
577 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 0.05
578 Anonymous : Pheasant Shooting and Duck Shooting, Sporting Vignettes

GBP - 0.05
579 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 2.02
580 G. Davies Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 1.05
581 Anonymous : Coursing

GBP - 0.05
582 Anonymous : Coursing

GBP - 0.05
583 Hodgson & Co. Anonymous : Coursing

1823

 GBP - 2.10
584 R. Ackermann & Co Anonymous : Coursing

1829

 GBP - 3.10
585 Burgis & Barfoot Anonymous : Coursing

GBP - 0.05
586 Anonymous : Coursing

GBP - 1.08
587 Hooper & Wigstead Anonymous : Coursing

1797

 GBP - 0.05
588 Anonymous :' Coursing, Coursing, and Stag Hunting

GBP - 0.15
589 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 3.05
590 Anonymous : Shooting

GBP - 5.00
591 Anonymous : A Stag Hunt; A Boar Hunt; and A Fishing Scene

GBP - 22.00
592 Anonymous (Augsburg, 18th Century)

GBP - 1.15
593 Anonymous (German, 16th Century) : Studies of Hunting and Battle Scenes

GBP - 0.15
594 Anonymous (German, 16th Century) : Dives and Lazarus

GBP - 1.02
595 Anonymous : An Oriental Hawking Party

GBP - 5.15
596 F. Sala & Co. Anonymous : American Hunting Scenes (Shooting)

GBP - 24.00
597 Anonymous (German, 16th Century) : A Lion Hunt

GBP - 4.15
598 Anonymous (Dutch, 18th Century) : Two sheets with ornamental borders

GBP - Not Sold
599 Anonymous, Dutch Als die Honden niet en Willen

GBP - 0.05
600 Anonymous : Hunting and Shooting Plates, and Hares changing places with their persecutors

GBP - 0.05
601 Anonymous (Dutch, circa 1716) : Sporting Caricatures

GBP - 1.05
602 Anonymous (probably Flemish, 16th Century) : Design for a gunshaft, huntsmen defending Actaeon

GBP - 1.00
603 Anonymous : Plate of Ornaments

GBP - 2.02
604 Henry Alken Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 2.10
605 Anonymous : Eight Racehorses, a hurdle and a winning post

GBP - 1.10
606 Anonymous : Shooting Ptarmigan in the Highlands

GBP - 2.00
607 T. Falser Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 9.00
608 S. and J. Fuller Anonymous : A Sheet containing four Horse-riding Subjects--Fox Hunters, Military, Kenilworth, Racing

1821

 GBP - 1.00
609 Anonymous : Shooting Scenes

GBP - 2.02
610 Anonymous : Fox Hunting

GBP - 1.08
611 Anonymous : Fishing, Skating, Fox Hunting and Shooting

GBP - 1.00
612 Alken Anonymous : Fox Hunting Scenes

GBP - 3.10
613 Anonymous : Plates from the Annals of Sporting

GBP - 2.10
614 Anonymous (19th Century) : Portrait of a Huntsman

GBP - 4.05
615 Anonymous (German) : Satirical prints of Hunting

GBP - 0.05
616 Anonymous : Shooting--Sporting Miseries, or Six red letter Days in the Country

GBP - 12.00
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