Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £60 |
Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal. London: H. Hurst, [1846]. Parts I - III for 1846 in 3 volumes, 8vo (213 x 130mm). (Occasional light spotting and staining.) Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt with burgundy morocco lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed). With 4 other books, namely Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome (London, 1849, attractively bound in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt), Frederick Courteney Selous's Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia (London, 1896, original buckram, FIRST EDITION), Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (London, 1898, reprint, attractively bound in contemporary red half calf gilt) and Frank Finn's The Water Fowl of India and Asia ... Third edition (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1921, original pictorial cloth, RARE). (7)