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Lot 448
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$585
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Lot Description
[Sporting] (Alken, Henry). The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism...
London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas M'Lean, 1822. Six parts in one volume. First edition. (x), 540, (7) pp. Illustrated with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 18 plates. Full red levant, tooled in gilt, joints rubbed; all edges gilt, dark blue endpapers; red morocco book-plate of Valentine Hollingsworth mounted to front paste-down; short closed tear in fore-edge of title-page; scattered light foxing.
Scarce, complete first edition of a rare sporting magazine, with plates after Henry Alken.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.