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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1117	D. Vinckeboons	Venationes	1612	GBP -	10.00
1118	C. J. Visscher	Two sets of four Hunting Scenes		GBP -	3.00
1119	C. J. Visscher	Plusieurs Oyseaux	1649	GBP -	1.00
1120	T. Vivares	Fox Hunting		GBP -	1.00
1121	E. C. Voysard; G. Demarteau; A. L Moeglich	Trophées de Chasse, A Trophy composed of musical and hunting subjects, and five sheets of Trophies, and A Trophy		GBP -	2.00
1122	E. Walker	An Extraordinary Rencontre with five Tigers		GBP -	0.10
1123	E. Walker	Tiger Hunting		GBP -	2.10
1124	J. Wangner	Perspectivischer Abriss des Grosen Fürstin Hirsch Wasser-Jagens		GBP -	1.00
1125	G. R. Ward	Henry, third Earl of Harewood, "To the Members of the Bramham Moor Hunt"		GBP -	Not Sold
1126	W. Ward	Fox Hounds Breaking Cover		GBP -	3.00
1127	W. Ward	Setters		GBP -	13.00
1128	W. Ward	Thunder, an old English Setter		GBP -	3.00
1129	W. Ward; C. Turner	Pointers, and Pointer Sancho		GBP -	Not Sold
1130	J. Watson	Spaniel and Wild Duck		GBP -	Not Sold
1131	E. Weixelgärtner	Eberjagd; Wasserjagd; Edelhirsch; Rehe; Füchse vor ihrem Baue; and Der Geier		GBP -	0.10
1132	E. Weixelgärtner	Auerhahnjagd; Gemsenjagd; Halali; Der Erlegte Hirsch; Bärenfamilie; and Heimkehr mit einem Hirsche im Winter		GBP -	Not Sold
1133	E. Weixelgärtner	Die Heimkehr von der Hirschjagd, Gemsjagd; Der Platzhirsch; Uberraschte Wild diebe; and Kämpfende Hirsche		GBP -	Not Sold
1134	J. G. Wells	City Sportsmen		GBP -	1.10
1135	J. Wells	Snipe Shooting		GBP -	2.10
1136	H. Weyen published by	Venationes		GBP -	0.10
1137	Winckelmann	Jagdstücke--Shooting Scenes		GBP -	4.10
1138	D. Wolstenholme junior	Hertfordshire Village Scenery--View near Ottley		GBP -	6.00
1139	D. Wolstenholme, junior	Shooting	1819	GBP -	160.00
1140	R. Woodman	His Majesty's Harriers		GBP -	1.10
1141	G. M. Woodward	The Fourteenth of September, or City Sportsmen		GBP -	4.00
1142	W. Woollett	Shooting		GBP -	5.00
1143	W. Woollett	The Spanish Pointer		GBP -	0.10
1144	W. Woollett	La Chasse au Sanglier, and A Stag Hunt		GBP -	1.00
1145	T. Worth	A Line Shot--The Aim and The Recoil; and A Bad Point		GBP -	1.00
1146	T. Worth; J. Gillray	The First Bird of the Season; Black Duck Shooting; A Bad Point; and A New Jersey Fox Hunt, Death of the Corsican Fox		GBP -	2.10
1147	P. Zancon	You can't Write; and You can't Spell		GBP -	2.00
1148	J. Ziegler	Vue des Environs entre les Ponts du Danube près de Vienne		GBP -	1.15
1149	J. A. Zimmermann	Design for Tapestry, Julius Mensis VII, and three similar designs		GBP -	1.00
1150		A folio volume of early 19th Century paper		GBP -	2.00
1151		Broadside relating to the defeat of the King of Bohemia, A list of Knights at Nymphenburg, A List of the Members of, and those who occasionally Hunt with, The Old Cheshire Hounds, Game Laws; etc.	1620, 1727, 1823	GBP -	0.10
1152	T. Rowlandson and others	Caricatures of Shooting, Hunting and Fishing		GBP -	2.00
1153		Collection of Engravings of Sporting Subjects		GBP -	2.00
1154		Das Jagdschloss Falkenlust ein Rheinisches Baudenkmal Cuvilliés, Die Ozoraer Hochjagden des Fürsten Ester-hazy, Sports, Pastimes and Pursuits of Canada; Frankfurt, views of; and Jagdbilder von C. Ockert	1901	GBP -	0.10
1155		Field Sports		GBP -	1.00
1156	F. Ruscheweyh	Fifteen Hunting Subjects, a Prospectus, and Le Petit Fauconnier		GBP -	1.10
1157	Canella et Bellay; Lemercier; V. Adam, etc	French Lithographs : Le Duc de Berry tuant un Aigle dans la Forêt de Fontainebleau, Apporté, and other French sporting lithographs		GBP -	2.15
1158		German Lithographs : Sporting Subjects		GBP -	3.05
1159		German Lithographs : Sporting Subjects		GBP -	1.00
1160	T. Morris; J. Scott; A. Cardon	Hawking and Fox Hunting, The Pointer and the Spaniel, The Return from Coursing		GBP -	Not Sold
1161	C. W. Smith and Sir C. D'Oyly	Indian Dead Game, Exercises in colouring, Field-Sport and Games, Head and tail pieces		GBP -	2.00
1162		Mezzotint Portraits and Sporting Subjects		GBP -	0.15
1163	A. Tempesta and others	Old Master Engravings		GBP -	0.15
1164		Old Master Engravings		GBP -	4.05
1165		Portraits of Sportsmen : C. J. Apperley, Osbaldeston, John Mytton riding a Bear, etc.		GBP -	1.00
1166	B. Audran; P. van Sompel; H. Goltzius; C. Allardt; F. Joullain; C. N. Cochin; H. Gutten-berg	Retour de Chasse (Mme. de Vermenton), Rudolf II, The Son of Frisius, Maria Stuart of Orange, Francois Desportes, three Hunting plates after Desportes; Repos de Chasse, Femme de Chasseur, and Rendez-vous de Chasse d'Henri IV		GBP -	1.05
1167	R. Cruikshank and others	Sporting Prints		GBP -	1.05
1168	L. Davent	Sporting Subjects by Old Masters of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, including A Stag Hunt and Fishing		GBP -	0.15
1169	W. Dolle	The Ancient Hunting Notes, The Ancient Hunting Notes of England, a similar sheet by W. Dolle; and Forest Harmony, or the Music of the English and French Horns		GBP -	Not Sold
1170		Various engravings and reproductions		GBP -	1.00
1171	T. Sutherland	Fox Hunting		GBP -	2.10
1172	C. Hunt	Fox Hunting	1873	GBP -	0.10
1173	Phelippeau and Moret	La Jardinière		GBP -	3.00
1174	N. de Launay	Le Bonheur du Ménage		GBP -	1.10
1175	Prot	Les Amours à la Maison		GBP -	1.15
1176	H. Alken	Leicestershire		GBP -	1.10
1177		The Meet		GBP -	Not Sold
1178	C. G. Lewis; W. Humphrys	The Melton Breakfast, and The Melton Hunt		GBP -	0.10

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