Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen . . . by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.]. 12 etched plates by William Dickinson after drawings by Bunbury. 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, 352x260 mm, modern uniform 1/2 red morocco gilt, minor wear; occasional foxing, most noticeably on opening leaves of both volumes; top edges gilt, others uncut. William J. Steward bookplates. wide-margined copies. London: W. Dickinson et al., 1788; 1796

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Second editions of Bunbury's satires of hapless would-be horsemen, which were first published in 1787 and 1791.