Rare Sporting Map of the Meadow Brook Hunt

Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hounds. [Cover title:] Fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hounds.

From Harry & Madeline Atherton, Christmas 1926.

Price: $1,750.00


About the item

Folding map “Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hunt” (9 x 16-1/2 inches on a 12 x 18 inch sheet), backed with cloth and folded. Pastedown with printed text within floral border with riding helmets and crossed whips. Fox mask vignette on title page; stannding hound as tailpiece. [8] pp. Square 32mo. Rare Sporting Map of the Meadow Brook Hunt. Red satin wallet binding, upper cover printed in gilt. Minor edge wear, text and map fine and fresh. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 251.

Item #249443

A finely detailed map of sporting Long Island, depicting roads and forests and fields, with names of owners of the estates, and identifying 18 fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hunt. The map stretches from Old Westbury to the estate of R.C. Thomas just over the Suffolk County line.