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"SILVER HACKLE" pseud of ALFRED GEORGE SHUTTLEWORTH:
Man - Eaters and other Denizens of the Indian Jungle. Illustrated from the Author's photographsand of heads mounted by Messrs. Van Ingen Taxidermists of Mysore.
Thacker Spink & Co. Calcutta and Simla 1928. First edition. 8vo 9 x 6 inches 295-pages plus advertisements. Original pictorial cloth. Spine faded some foxing to prelims. otherwise overall good. Thacker, Spink & Co. Calcutta and Simla, 1928. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22082
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"Southeastern"
The Tramways of Woolwich and South East London
Slightly cocked hardcover in plastic-protected, faintly tanned jacket, which is slightly worn, with nicked spine head. Page block is tanned and a little marked; pages remain clean, and all content is clear. TS Used
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"Steam Railway" Magazine
Gallery of Steam
Hardcover and jacket in very good condition. TS Used
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"Tiphys"
Practical Canoeing; A Treatise on the Management & Handling of Canoes
London: Norie & Wilson 1883 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 85 page illustrated late 19th century book on canoeing; plus 19 pages of advertisements. Gilt lettered binding has moderate wear minor fading; moderate foxing within; free endpaper has penciled instructions for water proofing. Norie & Wilson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 111455
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# AUTEUR: Hébert G.
# TITRE: Muscle et beauté plastique féminine
# AUTEUR: Hébert G. # ÉDITEUR: Vuibert # ANNÉE ÉDITION: 1942 # COUVERTURE: 1/2 chagrin marron - dos à nerfs filets et titre dorés # DÉTAILS: In 12° relié VI + 352pp + 120 planches photographiques. # PHOTOS visibles sur www.latourinfernal.com
Bookseller reference : 0461
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# AUTEUR: Gabet Francisque
# TITRE: Mont Saint-Elie (alt.5514m) la première ascension expédition du duc des Abruzzes.
# AUTEUR: Gabet Francisque # ÉDITEUR: Mougin-Rusand # ANNÉE ÉDITION: 1898 # COUVERTURE: impr. rouge et noir # DÉTAILS: In 8° broché 30pp, photographie en frontispice et carte ht. Extrait de la revue du club alpin publiée par la section Lyonnaise du club Alpin français N° du 1er novembre 1897 et 1er février 1898.. Envoi autographe à Henri Ferrand. # PHOTOS visibles sur www.latourinfernal.com
Bookseller reference : 0708
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# AUTEUR: Le Grand Michel
# TITRE: Les courses de taureaux dans le sud-ouest de la France jusqu'au début du XIXème siècle. Etude historique et documents
# AUTEUR: Le Grand Michel # ÉDITEUR: Jean-Lacoste - Mont-de-Marsan # ANNÉE ÉDITION: 1934 # COUVERTURE: Souple imprimée - titre rouge # DÉTAILS: Grand in 8° broché 172pp.+ 2ff. reproduction en fac-similé hors texte, une carte des courses dans le sud-ouest sous l'ancien régime. Bibliographie et index alphabétique des noms de lieux. Edition originale. # PHOTOS visibles sur www.latourinfernal.com
Bookseller reference : 2603
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# AUTEUR: Blay Jean-Pierre
# TITRE: Les princes et les jockeys -1 La ville du cheval souverain -2 Vie sportive et sociabilité urbaine
# AUTEUR: Blay Jean-Pierre # ÉDITEUR: Atlantica - Biarritz # ANNÉE ÉDITION: 2006 # COUVERTURE: Souple jaune - illustrée en couleurs - titre brun - sous emboitage souple illustré # DÉTAILS: 2 volumes in 8° brochés 256pp.- 374pp. Sous emboitage souple illustré en couleurs. 6 illustrations en couleurs hors texte. L'auteur, spécialiste de l'histoire du cheval à participé en 2000, au lancement du magazine ” Napoléon 1er”, pour lequel il a été chargé d'articles sur la cavalerie. # PHOTOS visibles sur www.latourinfernal.com
Bookseller reference : 2698
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'84 These guys are going to be active from now on! Other Nippon Sports Publishing
World Boxing January 1984
Not Available 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
Bookseller reference : 2090502113703998
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'MIDDLE WALLOP', pseud.
The Art of Shooting and Rough Shoot Management. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece toned in sepia (original tissue guard present) and 10 sepia-toned plates, some very light and occasional spotting; original tan cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
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'SPY', pseud.
'He Might Be Champion If There Were A Championship.' Original Vanity Fair Caricature Portrait of H.W. Stevenson. Vanity Fair Supplement [1905]. ORIGINAL VANITY FAIR 'SPY' CARICATURE
Original chromo-lithograph portrait measuring 15 x 10.5 ins (approx. 38.0 x 26.5 cms) with engraved surface measuring 12.5 x 7.25 ins (approx. 31.75 x 18.5 cms), a near fine, virtually spotless copy. The caricature shows Stevenson about to make a shot. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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( OLYMPISME) - REVUE .
Kit Carson. Numéro spécial hors série. Melbourne 22 nov. - 8 déc. 1956. 16ème Olympiade.
1956 Lyon, Editions Impéria, 1956; in-4° agrafé, couverture illustrée en couleurs; 64pp. illustrées en noir et en couleurs.
Bookseller reference : 9634
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(Adirondacks) Speare, E Ray
Hollywood Club Memoirs
Privately printed 1952. First edition. Illustrated. xii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Ex-library with bookplate and release stamp on front pastedown ink shelf number on p. vi and pocket on back pastedown. Some soiling small tape residue at foot of spine. Very good. First edition. Illustrated. xii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Uncommon memoir of this early sportsmen's club in the heart of the Adirondacks. Great photographs.<br /> <br /> Speare is also author of VERSES IN FRENCH CANADIAN PATOIS 1957 which includes poems relating to the Adirondacks. Plum 6675; Biscotti p. 413; not in Heller Privately printed unknown
Bookseller reference : 243212
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(Adirondacks) Osborne, Edward B
Letters from the Woods. Editorial Correspondence. Random Rhymes from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest Lake and Random Rhymes
Poughkeepsie: Privately Printed 1893. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth spine titled in gilt upper board stamped in silver. Some spotting to spine else very good plus. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting fishing and outdoor life in the Adirondacks Michigan and Canada in the 1850s and 1860s. Phillips p. 282; Plum 1047; Bruns O-21 "important and rare work"; Heller 1:708 [Privately Printed] unknown
Bookseller reference : 237400
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(Adirondacks) Wilson, Leila Fosburgh
One Hundred Years in the Adirondack Wilderness. The North Woods Club 1886-1986
np 1986. First edition. Map frontispiece. Folding map. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green wrappers. Fine. First edition. Map frontispiece. Folding map. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Essex County New York. Mrs Wilson states that her husband Evan M. Wilson and her brother Hugh Fosburgh put this information together.<br /> Rare never seen. OCLC: 17679282 unknown
Bookseller reference : 228934
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(American Shooting Association)
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association Limited. Revised January 7th 1890. Organized Feb. 11 1889. New York January 1890
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street 1890. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt edges red. Upper inner hinge starting. Fine. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions published at Boston in 1893 and 1898 the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location for each of these later editions at the Center for Research Libraries 1893 and at the Huntington 1898. The present edition is unrecorded by bibliographers. <br /> <br /> The President of the Club was Charles W. Dimick; Vice-President J.A.H. Dressel; General Manager Maj. J.M. Taylor. Not in Riling Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street unknown
Bookseller reference : 249352
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(American Shooting Association)
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association Limited. Revised January 7th 1890. Organized Feb. 11 1889. New York January 1890
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street 1890. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt edges red. Lower inner hinge cracked. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. <br /> <br /> Preceding the two recorded editions published at Boston in 1893 and 1898 the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location for each of these later editions at the Center for Research Libraries 1893 and at the Huntington 1898. The present edition is unrecorded by bibliographers.<br /> <br /> The President of the Club was Charles W. Dimick; Vice-President J.A.H. Dressel; General Manager Maj. J.M. Taylor. Not in Riling Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street unknown
Bookseller reference : 242738
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(Andrews, William Loring) [Berners, Dame Juliana]
Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans . With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Man's favorite recreation by William Loring Andrews
New York: Scribners 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Title page and text printed in red and black. xii lxxxvi x pp. Printed at the Gilliss Press from type cast specially for this book patterned after the traditional old character first used by Wynkyn de Worde in his original 1496 edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in limp vellum gilt stamped t.e.g. Ex Libris of Richard C. Hunt Librarian of the Anglers' Club of New York. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Title page and text printed in red and black. xii lxxxvi x pp. Printed at the Gilliss Press from type cast specially for this book patterned after the traditional old character first used by Wynkyn de Worde in his original 1496 edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Scribners unknown
Bookseller reference : 254791
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(Angling)
The Angler's Hand-Book containing Concise Instructions for Every Department of the Art
London: G. Routledge 1846. New Edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. Original cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Dean Sage. New Edition". Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. A diminutive popular treatise first published in 1838; this is the 4th edition according to Westwood & Satchell. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Westwood & Satchell p. 9; Heckscher 62; Sage p. 9 this copy G. Routledge unknown
Bookseller reference : 252887
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(Arkansas)
Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren Ark
Van Buren AR: Thayer Bros. Print 1890. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Printed wrappers. Pale staining to upper corner of each page one or two spots else very good. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas . and to procure the stocking of the streams and woods of our State with fish and game."<br /> <br /> We were unable to discover any further information on this particular club.<br /> <br /> "The Sportsman's Creed" eight rules for sportsmen to aid in the preservation of fish and game including "Never be a fish-hog" printed on the rear wrapper with this sound advice: "Cheer Up Sportsmen The less Fish and Game you have the more there will be to get."<br /> <br /> UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Thayer Bros. Print unknown
Bookseller reference : 314089
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(Baseball)
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly
Worcester Mass: Isaiah Thomas 1944. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Full-page frontispiece and illustrations after woodcuts in the text. 1 vols. 16mo. Crimson polished calf spine gilt t.e.g. Fine. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Full-page frontispiece and illustrations after woodcuts in the text. 1 vols. 16mo. Fine facsimile of the first of the children's books produced by John Newberry originally published in 1744. The first American edition was printed by Hugh Gaines in 1762 although no copy of that edition is known. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Contains the first mention of Baseball in America the woodcut captioned such at p. 43. Henderson p. 7; Hamilton 115; Welch 778.2; Rosenbach 120 "One of the most influential and important books in the history of juvenile literature." Isaiah Thomas unknown
Bookseller reference : 242401
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(Baseball) Spalding, Albert G
America's National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution Development and Popularity of Base Ball with Personal Reminiscences of Its Vicissitudes Its Victories and Its Votaries
New York: American Sports Publishing Company 1911. First edition. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait frontis illustrations photographs and plates some folding. xix11-542 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bright blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt depiction of Uncle Sam at bat on the upper cover. Front inner hinge with nearly imperceptible conservation repair. An unusually fresh tight copy of a book most often seen in deplorable condition. First edition. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait frontis illustrations photographs and plates some folding. xix11-542 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. One of the key works in the literature of baseball by one of the prime movers in its codification and development. In addition to his pitching career which began in 1865 Spalding helped organize the National League cofounded the Spalding sporting goods company and published the first official rules guide for the game. This book was published four years prior to his death. American Sports Publishing Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 263515
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(Baseball)
Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson
Boston: Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street nera Milk Street. Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street 1895. Illustrated throughout. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A rare trade catalogue of 19th-century baseball gear profusely illustrated with wood-engravings of products offered by Wright & Ditson -- including Spalding bats and mitts catcher's masks bases shoes uniforms and caps and score books and other miscellanea. Wright & Ditson was later acquired by Spalding. Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street (nera Milk Street). Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street unknown
Bookseller reference : 244662
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(Baseball)
Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together
N.p. 1940. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. Mounted to stiff card captioned at top in ink "Joe Dimaggio = Joe Louis" and at bottom with typed slip "Joe Louis Slugging Outfielder & Joe Louis." Narrow light vertical stain through the length of the image slight overall toning. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. Rare photograph of the two legendary athletes posing playfully side by side Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder Louis standing with his fists clenched ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin. According to biographers Engelberg and Schneider Joe Louis was Dimaggio's first boxing hero: "Dimaggio saw several of Louis's fight including his first fight with Billy Conn. It took place at the Polo Grounds in New York one month into Dimaggio's monumental hitting streak in 1941 . " DIMAGGIO: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT p. 369. unknown
Bookseller reference : 234945
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(Baseball) Sanders, Charles W & JC J C
Sanders' Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to "Sanders' First Reader
New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co 1846. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary cloth-backed green boards. Some light scattered foxing; Very Good. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Charles Sanders was the author of a very successful series of school readers. His first primer was published in 1840 with the same image and the "Pictorial Primer" appeared in 1846. American Imprints cites two other edition of the Pictorial Primer in the 1846 volume; OCLC adds two more. The American Antiquarian Society dates this edition as "between 1846 and 1850" based on the imprint. A new edition of the "Pictorial Primer" copyrighted 1858 has a baseball-playing illustration with the same caption but a different image. American Imprint 46-6243; Block Baseball before We Knew It p. 209 Published by Mark H. Newman & Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 232320
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(Benson, Frank W) Paff, Adam EM E M
Etchings and Drypoints by Frank W. Benson. An illustrated and descriptive catalogue . Volume Three
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1923. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. A few spots on last two leaves of text else fine. Benson Frank W. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. Mill/well/26/1 Houghton Mifflin unknown
Bookseller reference : 246618
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(Benson, Frank W) Paff, Adam EM E M
Etchings and Drypoints by Frank W. Benson. An illustrated and descriptive catalogue . Volume Four
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Printed at the Riverside Press 1929. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. Label scuffed else very good. Bookplate of G. Peabody Gardner & Rose Gardner. Benson Frank W. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. The Flying Pintail etching original to this volume is item 275 in the catalogue and was produced in 1927. Houghton Mifflin Company [Printed at the Riverside Press] unknown
Bookseller reference : 245993
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(Bicycling) Ryder, HP H P
Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings: how to knit them with plain and fancy turnover tops
London: Macmillan 1896. Folding colored frontispiece and other photos in text. 35 1 pp. 1 vols. Thin 4to. Original printed blue boards a little worn front inner hinge cracked else near fine. Folding colored frontispiece and other photos in text. 35 1 pp. 1 vols. Thin 4to. A wonderful item with explicit instructions as promised in the title and enhanced with a colored folding plate featuring a completed stocking of striking elegance. Macmillan unknown
Bookseller reference : 13803
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(Binding, Italian) Lasena, Pietro
Dell' Antico Ginnasio Napoletano. Opera Posthuma di .
Napoli Naples: Carlo Porpora 1688. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. Mid-eighteenth century Italian polychrome enameled binding of full brown calf covers with two gilt-rolled panells central strap and scroll device built up from gouges surrounded by pointellé flowers with remnants of blue and red enamel edges gilt guaffered and painted with floral and hare design front free endpaper removed bookplate. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. A history of ancient sport and games in Italy first printed in 1641. This copy in an elaborate eighteenth-century Neopolitan enameled binding with all edges gilt gauffered and painted. Graesse IV p. 113 Carlo Porpora unknown
Bookseller reference : 254004
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(Bixby, William K) Samson, William Holland
Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis Mo
New York: Privately printed 1913. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "Mr. & Mrs. A. B. P- names partly effaced with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby St. L. 5/18/14"<br /> "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" Heller.<br /> An important and rare book. Plum Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716 Privately printed unknown
Bookseller reference : 238650
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(Boone & Crocket Club, ONE OF 100)
Record of North American Big Game Twelth Edition
Missoula Montana: The Boone & Crockett Club 2005. Number 82 of 100 copies signed by Robert Model President and the two editors Buck Buckner and Jack Reneau plus Illustrator Ken Carlson on the bottom of his colr plate "Advancing Shadows. Illus. xxiv 904pp. Thick 8vo. Half black leather and patterned sides. Fine in slipcase. Number 82 of 100 copies signed by Robert Model President and the two editors Buck Buckner and Jack Reneau plus Illustrator Ken Carlson on the bottom of his colr plate "Advancing Shadows" Illus. xxiv 904pp. Thick 8vo. The Boone & Crockett Club unknown
Bookseller reference : 314149
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(Burma) [Nisbet, Hugh]
Experiences of a Jungle-Wallah. by "Nibs.
St. Albans: Fisher Knight & Co. Ltd 1935. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Publisher's limp red roan decorated in gilt a.e.g. About fine. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Signed by the author to the title page dated November 1935. Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd unknown
Bookseller reference : 314743
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(Carriages)
G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Carriages New Haven Conn
New Haven: T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street 1859. Illustrated throughout. Engraved frontispiece of factory printed by F.F. Oakley Boston. 97pp. Oblong 4to 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. Bound in publisher's blind stamped brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Inner hinge repaired else Fine. Illustrated throughout. Engraved frontispiece of factory printed by F.F. Oakley Boston. 97pp. Oblong 4to 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street unknown
Bookseller reference : 315009
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(Carriages) Ramee, Daniel
La Locomotion. Histoire des Chars Carroisses Omnibus et Voitures de Tous Genres
Paris: Amyot 1856. First edition. 20 engravings on 10 sheets. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half blue cloth wrappers bound in trimmed. Some browning and spotting else very good. First edition. 20 engravings on 10 sheets. 1 vols. 8vo. Ramée's work on transporation history with the plates showing various carriages. Rittenhouse 68 Amyot unknown
Bookseller reference : 29750
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(Certified Sports Nutritionist)
High Performance Meal Recipes for Table Tennis: Increase Muscle and Reduce Excess Fat to Becom
2015. Paperback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : Atlantic-9781507595367 ISBN : 1507595360 9781507595367
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(Certified Sports Nutritionist)
High Performance Meal Recipes for Table Tennis: Increase Muscle and Reduce Excess Fat to Becom
2015. Paperback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : Atlantic-9781507595367 ISBN : 1507595360 9781507595367
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(Chess)
The Chess Journal: Devoted to the Interests of Caissa. No. 1 August 1870; No. II August 15th 1870; No 3 September 1st 1870 Volume I Second edition; No. IV September 15th 1870; No. V. October 1st 1870; No. 6 October 15th 1870 Second edition; No. VII November 1st 1870; No. VIII November 15th 1870
Dubuque Iowa: O. A. Bronson Jr. 1871. Pp.13 last page text printed on inside back wrapper small photograph tipped in; Pp. 2 15-24 18 printed in red; Pp. 12 page numbering confused self wrappers this last interfiled with previous issue; Pp. 37-52; Pp. 53- 64; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp.16 self wrappers. Illustrations of chess boards. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with front wrapper only for yearly volume wrappers for Parts II IV and V bound in several parts in self wrappers. Title browned losses in lower outer margin from gnawing browning of some leaves else very good. Pp.13 last page text printed on inside back wrapper small photograph tipped in; Pp. 2 15-24 18 printed in red; Pp. 12 page numbering confused self wrappers this last interfiled with previous issue; Pp. 37-52; Pp. 53- 64; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp.16 self wrappers. Illustrations of chess boards. 1 vols. 8vo. First volume of this chess journal. The early volumes were called "Dubuque Chess Journal" and "Brownson's Chess Journal" then in 1876 the title was changed to "The American Chess Journal "and then in 1877 returned to "Chess Journal."¶ The portrait photograph is inserted between a problem by Edward H. Courtnay and problems by Ludwig von Bilou. O. A. Bronson Jr. unknown
Bookseller reference : 35285
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(China) [Bell-Irving, John]
Diary of the Ewo Party Up-Country Shooting Trips in the Yangtse Valley China. From Season 1874-75 to 1890-90. At head of title: For Private Circulation only
London: Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited 1890. 3 mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Contemporary full black morocco over stiff card covers ruled in silver upper cover with text in blindstamp edges silvered decorative endpapers. Finely rebacked to style; edges rubbed. Black morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 3 mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. A signed presentation copy from the author John Bell-Irving to Douglas Jones. <br /> Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and partner in the Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson and a director of the Hong Kong Electric Company. Jones was Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton of Shanghai. <br /> "The greatest pleasure in up-country shooting trips" Bell-Irving claims "is the idea of perfect freedom far removed from business cares and beyond the reach of letters and telegrams." Succinct account of many hunting trips after pheasant waterfowl deer and other game with observations on weather and conditions and game bag. Bell-Irving and Jones are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br /> <br /> A SUSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF SPORT ALONG THE YANGTZE OVER THREE DECADES.<br /> <br /> EXCEEDINGLY RARE. OCLC 42241800 Princeton Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited unknown
Bookseller reference : 312761
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(China) Groom, Francis A; Douglas JONES
The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China
Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. <br /> <br /> Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions.<br /> <br /> Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br /> <br /> Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary.<br /> <br /> A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown
Bookseller reference : 312749
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(Coaching) Corbett, Edward
An Old Coachman's Chatter. With Some Practical Remarks on Driving
London: Richard Bentley and Son 1890. First edition. 8 tinted plates drawn and lithographed by John Sturgess plus one woodcut and diagrams. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial light brown cloth stamped in black decorative endpapers. Bookplate of Franklin Jones Willock on front pastedown. Near fine bright copy with very slight rubbing at spine tips and edges. First edition. 8 tinted plates drawn and lithographed by John Sturgess plus one woodcut and diagrams. 1 vols. 8vo. "Corbett was one of the last 'gentlemen coachmen' who drove commercial stages for the pleasure of driving. Recommended highly for its valuable data on driving four horses . " Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse 21 Richard Bentley and Son unknown
Bookseller reference : 229570
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(Coaching) Beaufort, His Grace the (Eighth) Duke of
Driving
London: Longmans. Green and Co 1901. Fifth edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown morocco and cloth boards t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons for Sotherans. Fifth edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Longmans. Green, and Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 43275
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(Coaching) Harris, Stanley ("An Old Stager")
Old Coaching Days
London: Richard Bentley & Son New Burlington Street 1882. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. viii iv 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Very good headcap chipped some foxing. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. viii iv 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine lithographs by Sturgess. Not in Rittenhouse Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street unknown
Bookseller reference : 231031
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(Coaching) Harris, Stanley ("An Old Stager")
Old Coaching Days
London: Richard Bentley 1882. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Spine slightly bumped hinges cracked else very good. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine lithographs by Sturgess. Not in Rittenhouse Richard Bentley unknown
Bookseller reference : 213937
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(Coaching) Haworth, Capt ME M E
Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching
London: Tinsley Brothers 1882. First edition. 11 tinted lithographic plates & vignette title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth with gilt-stamped coaching vignette on upper cover gilt-lettered spine. Spine darkened and slightly frayed at head; bookplate removed from front pastedown; text block slightly shaken and darkened at edges. Withal a good copy of a scarce and desirable coaching book. First edition. 11 tinted lithographic plates & vignette title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Both instructive and entertaining with chapters on technique coaching in England and Ireland on the Continent mixed with many anecdotes: " . I have mingled the instruction with illustrative anecdotes and incidents which may afford amusement to the general reader. If whilst my bars are 'whistling' up the hill and rattling down I have been able to combine some useful hints with the amusement often to be discovered in what I have termed 'Scrapings of the Road' my desire will be amply gratified." from the Introduction. Not in Rittenhouse Tinsley Brothers unknown
Bookseller reference : 229571
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(Colt, Samuel) Edwards, William B
The Story of Colt's Revolver. The Biography of Col Samuel Colt
Harrisburg Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company 1953. Limited edition number 39 signed by the author. Numerous illustrations. 470 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown padded leather gilt and blind stamped a.e.g. Minor traces of rubbing to spine. Very good. Limited edition number 39 signed by the author. Numerous illustrations. 470 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Stackpole Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 41987
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(Connett Family)
Copper plate: William Connett Hat Manufacturer Rahway New Jersey 1815 Warranted Water Proof
New York or New Jersey 19th century. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 3-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches. Used. Engraved by P.E. Hamm Phila. 3-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches. Eugene V. Connett 3rd was born into a family of hatmakers founded by his great-great grandfather. After graduating from Princeton with the Class of 1912 he went into the family business. After service as an officer and wartime production manager in the first world war he returned to the hat business and managed the firm until he sold it in 1925. His next career was closer to his heart as a sportman: in 1927 he established the Derrydale Press which published more than 150 titles over the next decade and a half until wartime paper shortages prompted Connett to close down the firm.<br /> <br /> An attractive vignette displaying a buxom Columbia the American Eagle flags and horn clipper ship cornucopia sword and plough and a pair of beavers. With smaller electroplate of same image mounted type high. Provenance: from the family of Eugene V. Connett 3rd and by descent unknown
Bookseller reference : 242581
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(Decoys) Merkt, Dixon Mac D
Shang. A Biography of Charles E. Wheeler
Spanish Fork Utah: Hillcrest Publications 1984. No. 22 of 550 copies signed by the author and Jim Rikhoff President of the National Sporting Federation. Numerous illustrations in color and black-and-white. 1 vols. 4to. Brown leather spine and upper board gilt a.e.g. moire silk endpapers. Fine. No. 22 of 550 copies signed by the author and Jim Rikhoff President of the National Sporting Federation. Numerous illustrations in color and black-and-white. 1 vols. 4to. Hillcrest Publications unknown
Bookseller reference : 40240
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(Derrydale Press) Burke, Dr Edgar
American Dry Flies and How to Tie Them
New York: Privately Printed for the Anglers' Club by the Derrydale Press 1931. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece. 25 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue printed boards. Very fine in original glassine. Bookplate. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece. 25 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Frazier notes the book's "extreme" fragility and notes that it is "hard to find in fine unchipped condition." Here is as good a copy as you could hope to find. Siegel 46; Frazier B-24-a; Bruns B299 Privately Printed for the Anglers' Club [by the Derrydale Press] unknown
Bookseller reference : 252992
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(Derrydale Press) Lee, Amy Freeman
Hobby Horses
New York: The Derrydale Press 1940. First edition no. 110 of 200 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with photographs of Midnite Star Night Alarm Carnation Diamond and Kitty Lightnor. xii 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8.25 x 5 inches. Original red cloth printed label on upper board. About fine. First edition no. 110 of 200 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with photographs of Midnite Star Night Alarm Carnation Diamond and Kitty Lightnor. xii 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8.25 x 5 inches. Siegel 159; Frazier L-2-a The Derrydale Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 246366
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(Derrydale Press) Grand, Gordon
The Silver Horn and Other Sporting Tales of John Weatherford
New York: The Derrydale Press 1932. First edition one of 950 copies. With 6 drawings by J. Alden Twachtman. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red boards gilt. Scuff on fore edge slight traces of rubbing at spine ends as usual about as fine a copy as will be encountered. First edition one of 950 copies. With 6 drawings by J. Alden Twachtman. 1 vols. 8vo. One of the most successful Derrydale titles and though a collection of stories a leading candidate for The Great American Sporting Novel. Siegel 65; Frazier G-6-a; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 161 The Derrydale Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 215147
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