Form genre ss: Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- William Potter. / Language: English / Work Type: booksellers' labels (provenance) - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

<< YCBA Home << YCBA Home

Start Over

You searched for:

Form genre ss Booksellers' labels (Provenance) -- William Potter.

Language English

Work Type booksellers' labels (provenance)

1. The British sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and farmer's dictionary, of recreation and amusement : Including a most improved system of modern farriery, and anatomical dissections of a horse : with concise rules for chusing good horses, and the secrets of training them with wind and vigour for the course, field, and road : particular instructions for riding, racing, hunting, coursing, hawking, shooting, setting, & fishing : with the most approved methods of breeding, curing, and managing all sorts of cattle : particularly oxen, cows, deer, and sheep : and for breeding, training, and managing dogs, hawks, cocks, doves, pigeons, singing-birds, &c. : with a new and interesting description of all the traps, nets, engines, baits, and magical contrivances, for taking birds, and all sorts of game, alive : and for destroying vermin of every kind that annoy poultry, or infest the farmer's yard : the whole comprised under one alphabetical arrangement, and each article explained under its proper name : Compiled from the latest discoveries, and improved by many years real practice and observation / by William Augustus Osbaldiston, Esq. ; embellished with elegant copper plates, adapted to each subject.

No cover image available

Creator:: Osbaldiston, William Augustus
Date:: [1792-1796?]
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-664, [2] pages, [41] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa : delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports / by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris ... ; drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

No cover image available

Creator:: Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Date:: 1840 [i.e. 1840-1842]
Physical Description:: vi, [6], 175, [1] pages, [31] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 61 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts