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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Boxing.- , Treatise (A) on the Art and Practice of Self-Defence; or, Instructions how to obtain a Scientific mode of Boxing..., first edition, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, by B.Hodgson, 1826.

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$779 - US$1,039
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Boxing.- , Treatise (A) on the Art and Practice of Self-Defence; or, Instructions how to obtain a Scientific mode of Boxing..., first edition, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, by B.Hodgson, 1826.

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$779 - US$1,039
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Boxing.- Treatise (A) on the Art and Practice of Self-Defence; or, Instructions how to obtain a Scientific mode of Boxing..., first edition, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece of 8 demonstrations of stances around a central scene of boxing match, title with ornamental border, illustrations, frontispiece torn at folds and laid down, also a few short tears at outer edge affecting border but not images, browning, cropped with slight loss to final line on verso of first leaf of text, modern morocco-backed cloth, 12mo, by B.Hodgson, [?1826]. ⁂ Very rare; only 2 copies listed in libraries (BL and Yale), both with the imprint "Printed for the Booksellers, 1826" which is not present in this copy. We have been able to trace only one copy at auction, at the Anderson Galleries, New York in 1910, also dated 1826.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
30 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Boxing.- Treatise (A) on the Art and Practice of Self-Defence; or, Instructions how to obtain a Scientific mode of Boxing..., first edition, folding hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece of 8 demonstrations of stances around a central scene of boxing match, title with ornamental border, illustrations, frontispiece torn at folds and laid down, also a few short tears at outer edge affecting border but not images, browning, cropped with slight loss to final line on verso of first leaf of text, modern morocco-backed cloth, 12mo, by B.Hodgson, [?1826]. ⁂ Very rare; only 2 copies listed in libraries (BL and Yale), both with the imprint "Printed for the Booksellers, 1826" which is not present in this copy. We have been able to trace only one copy at auction, at the Anderson Galleries, New York in 1910, also dated 1826.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
30 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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