Boxing History - The John Roberts Collection, Part I

1: Souvenir of The Tommy Burns vs Jack Johnson Boxing Contest - Heavy Weight Championship of the World program. 76 pages, original and...

2: The Game by Jack London, first edition by Macmillan 1905. Illustrated with tissue guards.

3: Jimmy Carruthers - a metal matchbox holder showing the World Bantam Weight Champion; together with a set of The Australian Ring 1963...

4: Les Darcy - an original photograph of Darcy by Milton Kent with

5: Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress, second edition 1819. Front marbled board detached.

6: Pierce Egan: An Impartial Inquiry into The Contest Between Dutch Sam and Nosworthy, December 1814 (London 1815, 30 pages); bound tog...

7: Boxiana, Volume 1, 1829. Bound with numerous illustrations and fold-outs. 794 pages.

8: Boxiana, Volume 2, 1829. Bound with numerous illustrations and fold-outs. 497 pages.

9: Boxiana, Volume 3, 1829. Bound with numerous illustrations. 640 pages.

10: Boxiana, Volume 4, 1829. Bound with numerous illustrations. 672 pages.

11: Boxiana, Volume 5, 1829. Bound with numerous illustrations. 680 pages.

12: Fistiana, London 1841. Hardback, gilt edges.

13: Fistiana, Parts 1 & 2, 1843. Hard-card covers, gilt edges.

14: Fistiana, 1844. Ownership: H. Parkinson. Hard-card, gilt edges.

15: Fistiana 1845. Ownership: Francis Morley. Hard-card, gilt edges.

16: Fistiana 1846. Linen covers.

17: The Life and Adventures of the Far-Famed Billy Purvis by Robson 1849. Front marbled board detached.

18: Fistiana 1851. Ownership: William Danby. Linen covers.

19: Every Gentlemans Manual - A Lecture on the Art of Self-Defence by Pierce Egan, London 1851. Contemporary recover.

20: Fistiana 1852. Linen cover.