All 8vo, quarter or half bound leather with gilt-stamped spines with raised bands, illustrated, and with frontispiece, to include:

Elisha J. Lewis's The American Sportsman (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1871); Frank Schley's American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting (Frederick, MD: Baughman Brothers, 1877); A. Grimble's Shooting and Salmon Fishing (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892); Colonel T. Thornton A Sporting Tour Through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland (London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. Stated new edition); [Charles James Apperley's] (Nimrod, pseud.) The Chase, the Road and the Turf (London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Stated new edition).

9 x 6 in.; 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 8 7/8 x 6 in.; 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.

Private North Carolina Collection

Boards with minor scuffs and marks, worn corners and mostly light edgewear, and occasional wear to spines (mostly at ends); (2) with damp staining, one with sunned spine, and some joints with creasing, rubbing, and occasional light cracking starting; most with bookplate or residue from bookplate, one with folded and creased free endpaper; lightly toned pages with occasional foxing, light grime, and edge or corner wear; American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting with small areas of damp staining (heaviest at the beginning of the volume), A Sporting Tour with cracking at gutter between front free endpapers, endpapers and frontispiece brittle and cracked with some small tears and chips; last (3) volumes with some leaves still partially unopened; sturdy and handsome volumes with clean pages, overall very good.