Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen . . . by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.]. 12 etched plates by William Dickinson after drawings by Bunbury. vi, [2] (of [4]?), [v]-xx, 38 pages * Annals of Horsemanship: containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, both successful and unsuccessful: communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. 17 etched plates by William Dickinson after drawings by Bunbury. xvii, [1], 81, [1] pages. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 318x226 mm, modern uniform mottled calf gilt with equestrian motifs in spine compartments; text leaves toned with occasional minor spotting in the first work and variously foxed or browned in second, most plates clean, plate facing page 20 in the second work restored in blank lower margin, last plate trimmed and inlaid to size with brown paper. London: W. Dickinson et al., 1787; 1791

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first editions of Bunbury''s satires of hapless would-be horsemen.