14th May, 2024 12:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 35
 

Boxing. Humphreys.The Memoirs of John Scoggins, 1827

Humphreys (Richard)

The Memoirs of John Scoggins, the Pugilistic Hero, otherwise John Palmer: his Fights in the Prize-Ring, Sporting Anecdotes, Annals of Pugilism, from 1719 to 1824,

First edition, portrait frontispiece (loose and dampstained), together with Miscellanies and an Appendix, contemporary calf backed boards, later endpapers, 8vo., W.Barnes for J Scoggins, 1827

***Very Scarce, Last copy at auction Leavitt, Strebeigh 1879

Sold for £529

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