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The Sporting Kalendar. Containing a distinct Account of what Plates and Matches have been run for in 1753

Name: The Sporting Kalendar. Containing a distinct Account of what Plates and Matches have been run for in 1753
Author: JOHN POND

Book Description

12mo, cont. full speckled calf, rubbed and a little scuffed, small piece chipped from head of spine and neatly re-fixed, gilt double fillet border to both boards, raised bands to spine with gilt tooling (rubbed and faded) to compartments, red leather title-piece; edges speckled red. Browning to outer margin of endpapers and faintly carrying through to first and last few leaves.

Dealer Notes

An Article for making a Newmarket Match, Certificates to prove the Qualifications of a Horse, A Table shewing what Weight Horses are to carry for the Give and Take Plates, from Thirteen to Fifteen Hands high. The Measurement of the Roads taken from the Mile-Stones to Newmarket, Epsom, Guilford, Salisbury, Cirencester, Canterbury, Bath, Nottingham, York, Scarborough, &c.'
Pond's annual was published between 1751 and 1757, all volumes are rare.

Author JOHN POND

Date [1753]

Binding Cont. full speckled calf

Publisher Printed by G. Woodfall, at the King's-Arms, Charing-Cross: [London]

Condition Very good

Pages xxxvi, 176

Price: £175.00

Offered by Pemberley Books

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