‎Sports‎

‎Vermont‎

‎Lake Dunmore photo album‎

‎Lake Dunmore Vt 1904. With 39 photographs mounted singly on album leaves. 1 vols. Obloing 4to. Green cloth label of Lake Dunmore House Hotel inside front cover. Inner hinge tender some silvering to prints. Very good. With 39 photographs mounted singly on album leaves. 1 vols. Obloing 4to. Attractive turn of the century album of a summer in Vermont at the Lake Dunmore House Hotel beneath the distinctive profile of Mount Moosalamoo. Views of the hotel and hotel boathouse village and farm scenes a lakeside road boating mountains meadows grazing cattle and the Falls of Lana and Texas Falls local places of beauty. The hotel a late nineteenth century wooden construction burned to the ground in 1906. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315366

‎Devereux William B. Jr.‎

‎De la Posición y Forma de Jugar un Team o Equipo en el Polo. Notas para Principiantes . Adaptado al Castellano por el Marqués de Viana Preface by Devereux Milburn‎

‎Madrid: Imprenta Lacau Hileras 7 1928. Copy no. 55 of 200 copies printed. Title page printed in red and black. With diagrams. 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth upper cover titled in gilt with vignette of polo player. Spine faded old tide mark along foot of leaves. Very good minus. Copy no. 55 of 200 copies printed. Title page printed in red and black. With diagrams. 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 200 copies. Polo strategy by the legendary American player William Boucher Devereux Jr. 5-goal handicap who trained the Princeton team. These notes appeared first in Town & Country and were published in book form as Position & Team Play in Polo Brooks Brothers 1924. The preface is by Devereux Milburn Sr. 1881-1942 10-goal handicap and one of the greatest polo players of all time. Translated by the celebrated Spanish player 5-goal handicap José de Urbaza marqués de Viana; with an engraved calling card of the marqués bearing a short formal note of presentation. Laffaye Diccionario pp. 99 377 Imprenta Lacau, Hileras, 7 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 301402

‎Watson Frederick‎

‎Hunting Pie: The Whole Art & Craft of Foxhunting. Foreword by Mrs Thomas Hitchcock.‎

‎New York: The Derrydale Press 1931. First edition one of 750 copies. Eleven plates title page vignette and cover art by Paul Brown. xvi ii 64 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial boards uncut. Fine in original glassine. laid into a half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. Brown Paul. First edition one of 750 copies. Eleven plates title page vignette and cover art by Paul Brown. xvi ii 64 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An amusing guide to the mysteries of the sport with beautifully finished Paul Brown drawings. Siegel 52; Frazier W-5-a; Biscotti Paul Brown p. 108; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 398 The Derrydale Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 259644

‎Walton Izaak‎

‎The Lives of Dr. John Donne Sir Henry Wooton Mr. Richard Hooker Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press 1805. extra-illustrated with 50 plates 20 of which are hand-coloured. xxiv 389; iv 355 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Full gilt-ruled calf inner gilt dentelles all edges gilt. extra-illustrated with 50 plates 20 of which are hand-coloured. xxiv 389; iv 355 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Handsomely extra-illustrated with portraits views vignetteset al. Clarendon Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315029

‎Francis Francis‎

‎Newton Dogvane. A Story of English Country Life‎

‎London: Hurst and Blackett Publishers Successors to Henry Colburn 1859. First Edition. Illus. by John Leech. 3 vols. 8vo. Three quarters red morocco and marbled boards gilt emblematic spines t.e.g. Bookplates of Dean Sage and Edward Sands Litchfield. Almost fine in blue cloth open-faced slipcase. Leech John. First Edition. Illus. by John Leech. 3 vols. 8vo. Sadlier 900; Wolff 2335 Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315005

‎Evans Gerritt‎

‎How Gamblers Win; or the Secrets of Advantage Playing Exposed . by a Retired Professional‎

‎New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers 1868. Second edition wrappered issue. 112 pp. with publisher's ads at rear. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial wrappers spine lettered in gilt ads printed in endpapers. Loss to backstrip covers chipped and worn staining to title rodent damage to upper outer corner slightly better than it sounds. Second edition wrappered issue. 112 pp. with publisher's ads at rear. 12mo. The second edition published by Dick & Fitzgerald following the first edition of 1865. One of the earliest and subsequently widely read works on advantage play and cheating in poker and other card and dice games. With contemporary "Special Notice" slip laid-in from Eureka Trick and Novelty Co 87 Warren St. New York advertising their selection of books and games. Toole Stott 395; Horr 640 Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315098

‎Trade catalogue‎

‎Kuaint Kueer and Kurios and Book of New Receipts with Catalogue of Novelties and Wonders cover title‎

‎New York: George Blackie & Co 1870. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 12mo. Publishers pink pictorial wrappers. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 12mo. Includes marked playing cards gambling and magic books magic tricks novelties and all sorts of curiosities and miscellany such as "False Moustaches that cannot be detected when worn" offered by New York wholesale agents George Blackie & Co. George Blackie & Co unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315110

‎Gaming‎

‎The Vices of the Cities of London and Westminster . In Five Letters from a Citizen of London to a Member of Parliament‎

‎Dublin: G. Faulkner . and R. James 1751. First Dublin edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Removed. Occasional spotting to text. First Dublin edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Letter IV: "Of Gaming its present State Means to suppress private Play." ESTC records a London edition tentatively dated 1750. ESTC T103721 G. Faulkner ... and R. James unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315109

‎Carleton Henry Guy‎

‎The Thompson Street Poker Club from "Life‎

‎New York: Gilliss Brothers 1884. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout. 62 1 ads 1 pp. 8vo. Publishers illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. Very slight wear to corners minor scuffing a nice copy. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout. 62 1 ads 1 pp. 8vo. Written and illustrated in the lowest and broadest tradition of racial caricature. Jessel 1349 Gilliss Brothers unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315112

‎Ashton John‎

‎A History of English Lotteries Now for the First Time Written‎

‎London: Leadenhall Press Ltd. 50 Leadenhall Street 1893. First edition of the first book on the history of the lottery in England. 28 inserted facsimiles as well as numerous illustrations in the text. xi i 359pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half brown leather. Very Good. First edition of the first book on the history of the lottery in England. 28 inserted facsimiles as well as numerous illustrations in the text. xi i 359pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Leadenhall Press, Ltd. 50 Leadenhall Street unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315080

‎Morse Isidore‎

‎Photograph Album of Travels in Russian Central Asia and Mongolia‎

‎Russian Central Asia 1899. Some of the photographs published in: Percy W. Church Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun Rivingtons 1901. 77 Kodak photographs in album mounts captioned in ink. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary Kodak Souvenirs album in blue cloth over bevelled boards manuscript labels. Presentation on inside front cover "With Isidore Morse's compliments to Evelyn J Mardon. Some of the photographs published in: Percy W. Church Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun Rivingtons 1901. 77 Kodak photographs in album mounts captioned in ink. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. An American in Russian Central Asia 1899. Superb set of photographs taken by an American sportsman travelling in Russian Central Asia in 1899 documenting ethnography landscapes local customs sporting trophies wapiti ibex roedeer and camp life and Chinese and Russian officialdom. Captions indicate the Hotel at Tashkent Mongol weddings a "Kirghiz swell". Kalmuk officers shikaris Mongol soldiers Chinese soldiers and cooks Russian settlers "Mongol Buddhist & Tranchi Mussulman" French & Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries Kirghiz shikaris "Nora - shikari" several portraits "Towing barges on Tekes river affluent of the Ili" "Boundary pillar between Chinese & Russian territories at Naryakul" "Jargilan valley at Kulja" "Jimbuk Mongol shikari" and many others. This album is similar in composition to an album presented by Morse to the Royal Geographical Society in 1990 and contains an identical number of photographs. The recipient Evelyn J. Mardon 1867-1958 was a member of the Indian Civil Service and hunted big game around the world. Percy W. Church used a small selection of Morse's photographs to illustrate the portions on sport in the Tekes country in the Tien Shan mountains in Chinese Turkestan 1901 the account of his journey with J.V. Phelps to Yarkand and Kuldja and Tashkent plates at pp. 60 70 108 132 one titled "Morse's shikari" corresponding to a photograph of Nora in this album. H.H.P. Deasy also reports a chance encounter with Morse at the Kili Pass In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan 1901. Isidore Morse was a son of Leopold Morse a merchant and five-term congressman from Massachusetts. He and his brother Tyler Morse Harvard 1898 inherited considerable wealth at their father's death in 1892. Isidore took part in the 1903 Macmillan expedition to the Blue Nile and subsequently served with an English regiment at Anzac in 1915 where he was wounded and lost an arm. An excellent visual record largely unpublished and unexplored. With: Church. Percy W. Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun. Illustrated with folding map at back. xii 207 pp. London: Rivingtons 1901. A near fine fresh copy with Buenos Aires English High School prize label to front flyleaf. A couple of short tears at folds of map. Church credits Morse's photographs at the end of his preface. Cf. Geographical Journal XVI:4 p. 380. For published book see: Czech Asia p. 47 "excellent descriptions of the terrain and of the indigenous peoples"; Cordier 2863 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 311752

‎Winterblossom Henry T.‎

‎The Game of Draw-Poker Mathematically Illustrated; Being a Complete Treatise on the Game Giving the Prospective Value of Each Hand Before and After the Draw and the True Method of Discarding and Drawing With a Thorough Analysis and Insight of the Game as Played at the Present Day by Gentlemen‎

‎New York: William H. Murphy 1875. First edition. viii 9-72 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's blue cloth front cover stamped in gilt and black. Spine ends rubbed light soiling to cover and spotting to text but in all an attractive copy. First edition. viii 9-72 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Draw Poker 1875: its Rules and Math. First edition of this important early mathematical approach to poker; along with Blackbridge's The Complete Poker Player 1875 it is the earliest book devoted soley to the game. The author Henry T. Winterblossom advertises himself as a Professor of Mathematics and his book is the first to treat the mathematical aspects of poker. Winterblossom argues that knowing the odds and probabilites of success with each hand mitigates the risk inherent in gambling and reduces the player's reliance on dumb luck: "All games of chance create a morbid appetite in those who indulge in them in proportion to their ignorance of the mathematical basis upon which those games are constructed." "The National Game" a New York Times article for February 12 1875 suggests that Winterblossom is a pseudonym and though the author's real name is not revealed he was thought to be a member of New York's literary Lotus Club. The earliest contemporary notice of Blackbridge's Complete Poker Player considered with Winterblossom the first books on the sport was a review in the 10 April 1875 edition of the New York Times - evidence perhaps that Winterblossom's work has precedence as the first book on poker. Jessel 1706 William H. Murphy unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315094

‎Agnew KM. Major RA. K. M. R. A.‎

‎Ferozepore Tent Club. Log Book. Season 1929 bound with: Season 1930 Cover title‎

‎Ferozepore: Muir Printing Works 1929. First editions all published. 29; 31 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Brown cloth morocco spine label preserving printed wrappers. Signed by the compiler on front wrapper of 1929 volume. Bookplate and binding with monogram CC. Fine. First editions all published. 29; 31 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Pigsticking in the Punjab 1929-30. Printed record of the organized pig hunting seasons of the Ferozepore Tent Club. Ferozepore is located on the Sutlej Rivier in Punjab. The compiler of the 1929 Log Book Major K.M. Agnew notes that this was the first formal season of the Club whose membership comprised 16 to 19 officers with four to ten "spears" typically in attendance at the hunts. Brigadier Ivan Urmston Battye 1875-1953 a member of the numerous Battye family of soldiers was stationed in Ferozepore 1927-1930 and was a regular at meets. As for example from the hunt at Jogewala 6 March 1930: "a big boar broke and was hunted to thick cover near the railway. Here in a sharp jinking hunt Battye speared; he then disappeared into thickish cover. Battye went forward onto the Railway embankment and viewed him about a mile ahead. Only Battye got on terms and ran him to a place near Shah Din Wala where he got in two more heavy spears. ." The log books record location attendance and the bag with other comments. One of these suggests the extent of Gandhi's Civil Disobedience movement in the spring of 1930 which promoted resistance to buying foreign made clothing and refusal to pay salt tax: even in the North West Gandhi's campaign was felt. The account of the Easter Meet at Hissar notes: "We are opening up new country this Season and expect at a later date to hunt at Hissar and Sirsa. This was not realised owing to Mr. Gandhi." Under the entry for April 27th appears a laconic sentence: "Owing to civil disturbances it is unlikely that there will be a meet in the near future." No further fixtures are recorded until 10th August; and a note there recording that because of declining attendance "it was decided by Brigadier Battye and the Secretary to stop running pigsticking as an organised Tent Club and waive fines etc just covering expenses and no more." These two volumes are all that was published. UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Muir Printing Works unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313005

‎Morse Rebecca‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed "Beckie" addressed to her 14 year-old brother Richard Morse Andover Mass detailing the act of Signor Blitz‎

‎New Haven Ct: Miss Apthorp's School for Girls 1855. 4 pp with a stampless envelope annotated "Pd 3 cts" in upper corner. 8vo. Old folds. 4 pp with a stampless envelope annotated "Pd 3 cts" in upper corner. 8vo. ABOUT SIGNOR BLITZ. Letter from the young grand-daughter of geographer Jedidiah Morse and niece of telegraph inventor Samuel F.B.Morse to her teenaged brother describing the act of British born Antonio "Signor" Blitz 1810-1877 perhaps the best known magician in the US before the Civil War. ".Miss Apthorp told us that she was going to take us to see Signor Blitz a juggler and ventriloquist.First he brought out a little wooden doll and a cloak on him and made him disappear and then made him come back again. He put an ivory ball in his mouth and pretended to swallow it; then he pulled from his mouth first a long piece of red ribbon; then yellow blue green and white. He brought out his canary birds and two or three ring doves; he made one of the canaries draw a little waggon and two of them swung in a seat while two others swung above them one pretended to sleep with little torches all around it and the funniest of all was one who came out all dressed in a cloak and hat just like a little soldier on a wooden horse and another fired off a little cannon; the wooden horse fell and the Colonel pretended to be dead. Signor Blitz showed a wooden man whom he called Bobby and pretended he spoke; of course Signor Blitz spoke for him." Blitz arrived in America in 1834 and quickly rose to popularity; at the height of his fame there were some dozen other magicians operating under his name. He wrote the autobiography Fifty Years in the Magic Circle 1871. [Miss Apthorp's School for Girls] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 315328

‎Diderot Denis & Jean Le Rond d'Alembert editors‎

‎Paumier. Contenant neuf planches. And: Paulmerie. Extracted from: Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences des Arts et des Métiers. Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences les Arts Libéraux et les Arts‎

‎Paris; Liege: Panckoucke; Plomteux 1785. 9 engraved plates by Benard after Lucotte. 2 pp. explanatory text. 9 vols. Folio. Extracted. In old marbled wrappers. Some marginal chipping not approaching plate marks. Engravings fresh and clean. 9 engraved plates by Benard after Lucotte. 2 pp. explanatory text. 9 vols. Folio. The complete set of these beautiful plates relating to Court Tennis "le Jeu des Paumes" from the Récueil de Planches that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the creation of implements and play of tennis and billiards in the late 18th century and have never been surpassed for their beauty and historical accuracy. Pl. 1 - Paulmerie Jeu de Paulme et Construction de la Racquette Pl. 2 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme Pl. 3 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme Pl. 4 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme et de Billiard Pl. 5 - Paulmerie Salle de billiard et Instrumens de Billiard Pl. 6 - Paulmerie 1er Plan d'un Jeu de Paulme quarré et Salle de Billiard Pl. 7 - Paulmerie Plan audessus des murs du Jeu de Paulme Pl. 8 - Paulmerie Coupes du Jeu de Paulme quarré Pl. 9 - Paulmerie Plans au Rez de Chaussée et audessus des murs d'un Jeu de Paulme a dedans. Panckoucke; Plomteux unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314816

‎Buggies‎

‎Lion Buggy Co. Cincinnati upper cover‎

‎Kansas City Missouri printed at the 'Press of Grand Rapids Engraving Co. Michigan: Kingman-Moore implement Company 1903. 29 full page illustrations of buggies et al. pp. 1-2-34 -36. Oblong 4to 8 x 9-1/2 inches. Gray pictorial wrappers semi raised design printed in ref and gold on the upper covers. 29 full page illustrations of buggies et al. pp. 1-2-34 -36. Oblong 4to 8 x 9-1/2 inches. Kingman-Moore implement Company unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314913

‎Wyoming Brassey TA. T. A.‎

‎Diary of a Hunting Trip 1888‎

‎Battle England: Printed by Ticehurst and Co 1889. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed wrappers. In quarter black morocco slipcase. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Thomas Alnutt Brassey 2nd Earl 1863-1919 was educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford. Brassey was an honorary Lieutenant in the London Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers from 1888 to 1892. He acted as Assistant Private Secretary to Earl Spencer during the time the latter was First Lord of the Admiralty 1892-95 and in 1894 was Assistant Secretary of the Royal Commission on Opium that his father chaired. He was a benefactor of the Bodleian Library. "This is the day-by-day journal of a wealthy Englishman's hunting trip for elk in southern Wyoming in August and September of 1888. He seems to have been the kind of man who knew or had letters to the 'best people' and was important enough to be given a special train from Marquette to St. Paul. " - TWS The party camped near Battle Creek in south central Wyoming southwest of Saratoga. Streeter VII 4108; not in Sabin Phillips or Heller. OCLC: 34069497 Newberry; Field Museum. Provenance: Charles B. Wood III his sale 1986; F.P. Williamson Printed by Ticehurst and Co unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 312698

‎Scrope William‎

‎Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon Instructions to the Sportsmen Anecdotes etc.‎

‎London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1843. First edition. Illustrated by 13 Lithographs 3 hand-colored and wood Engravings by L. Haghe T. Landseer and S. Williams from Paintings by Sir David Wilkie Edwin Landseer R.A Charles Landseer William Simson and Edward Cooke. xvii iii 298 2 adspp. Printed by A. Spottiswoode. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green straight grained publisher's cloth gilt stamped spine and upper and lower cover vignettes. A gorgeous bright copy. First edition. Illustrated by 13 Lithographs 3 hand-colored and wood Engravings by L. Haghe T. Landseer and S. Williams from Paintings by Sir David Wilkie Edwin Landseer R.A Charles Landseer William Simson and Edward Cooke. xvii iii 298 2 adspp. Printed by A. Spottiswoode. 1 vols. 8vo. VERY FINE COPY IN CLOTH. Schwerdt II pp. 154-5; Westwood & Satchell p. 191; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 53 John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 311450

‎Anticosti Island‎

‎The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island‎

‎Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited Anticosti Division 1937. Sixth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's brown pictorial wrappers. Covers lightly creased and thumbed ink initials G. F. H. dated 1938 to upper cover. Sixth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Anticosti "the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence" was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence of their efforts to attract fishermen. It is well illustrated and includes selections from a fictional fishing diary as well as fish catches for 1934 1935 and 1936. Wood describes a fifth edition circa 1936. He notes "All of these pamphlets are rare.". Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 72 for 5th ed. 1936; Bruns p. 26 Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314090

‎De Guingand Major General Sir Francis "Freddie"‎

‎Camp Chaleur‎

‎N.p.: Privately printed by Tinlings of Liverpool 1964. First edition signed by Freddie and Mar Lou Guingand Freddie's daughter. 15 pp. With loosely inserted letterpress leaf identifying de Guingand as the author and noting his two war memoirs Operation Victory 1947 and Generals at War 1964. 1 vols. 4to. Full red morocco titled in gilt "Camp Chaleur" and with a leaping salmon stamped in gilt by James MacDonald & Co. New York City. Fine. First edition signed by Freddie and Mar Lou Guingand Freddie's daughter. 15 pp. With loosely inserted letterpress leaf identifying de Guingand as the author and noting his two war memoirs Operation Victory 1947 and Generals at War 1964. 1 vols. 4to. Rare privately printed memoir of the author's friendship with Jane Engelhard spanning three decades and trips to Camp Chaleur on the Grand Cascapedia. The camp had been built by the Phipps family in 1921 the first fishing camp on the river with indoor plumbing and was bought by the Engelhards in mid century; the building burned down in the 1980s. Charles Engelhard was the model for Ian Fleming's villain Goldfinger. Major General Sir Francis de Guingand 1900-1979 served with Montgomery from El Alamein to the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the West. As Montgomery's chief of staff he had responsibility for the smooth functioning of the British Army and exercised his considerable diplomatic skills in liaison with their American Allies. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 75 "One of the great salmon-fishing rarities"; Not in Bruns. Not in OCLC [Privately printed by Tinlings of Liverpool] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 312785

‎Parmachenee Club‎

‎Constitution By-laws Rules and List of Officers and Members 1916 Parmachenee Club‎

‎New York: New York Office 309 Broad Street 1916. 24 pp. Printed at the Rumford Press Concord N.H. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue paper over boards paper printed label on upper cover. Lower joint split but holding. Mookplate of Sidney A. Kirkman. 24 pp. Printed at the Rumford Press Concord N.H. 1 vols. 12mo. Club book of this famed sporting club with 36 members in 1916 ten of whom are identified as shareholders. The club held the lease of more than 120000 acres at Lake Parmachenee in Magalloway Maine. With records of fish caught 1905 to 1915. Not in Phillips Wetzel Bruns Heller. Not in OCLC New York Office 309 Broad Street unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314208

‎Johnson Eldridge Reeves‎

‎Buck Fever‎

‎Philadelphia: Privately printed 1911. First edition. Illustrated with four duotone plates by Frank McKernan. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco with slate gray doublures gilt silk flyleaves a.e.g. Binding neatly rebacked. Corners bumped small loss to one corner ownership inscription of Thomas Boyd and his bookplate on first blank; and his small stamp. Very good plus an uncommon title. McKernan Frank. First edition. Illustrated with four duotone plates by Frank McKernan. 1 vols. 8vo. A true account of a deer hunting trip in California taken by the author and friends in 1908 this book consists of 42 pages printed on the rectos only. Privately printed for the author Eldridge R. Johnson who headed the Victor Talking Machine Company and later owned the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland. Heller 181. Not in Phillips or Riling Privately printed unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 312999

‎Walton Izaac and Charles Cotton‎

‎The Complete Angler or the contemplative man's recreation . edited by John Major‎

‎Boston: Little Brown & Company 1866. First Little Brown edition one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch Bigelow & Co. Cambridge. Illustrated with 12 steel engraved plates including facsimile of the 1653 title page title leaf vignette and 74 wood engravings by Henry Marsh in text. Title page printed in red and black. xiv 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green morocco gilt spine extra gilt boards with six rule border and filigree cornerpieces turn-ins elaborately gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. by MATTHEWS. Fine copy. First Little Brown edition one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch Bigelow & Co. Cambridge. Illustrated with 12 steel engraved plates including facsimile of the 1653 title page title leaf vignette and 74 wood engravings by Henry Marsh in text. Title page printed in red and black. xiv 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Goodspeed's Copy. Coigney 88. For Matthews c.f.: Binding in America 1680-1910 p. 96; Spawn & Kinsella American Signed Bindings through 1876 pp. 176-7. Provenance: bookplate of famous bookseller and angler Charles E. Goodspeed Little, Brown & Company unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314039

‎Pringle J. J.‎

‎Twenty Years' Snipe-Shooting. Extracts from the Daily Journal of the Game-Books of the Snipery‎

‎New York: Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy presentation inscription from the author on front flyleaf wrinkled with two small staple holes at top of flyleaf. Bookplate of F.P. Williamson. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. An outstanding record of outdoor life and sport in southern Louisiana being Pringle's account of his shooting near the Teche and Attakapas country. "I shot almost altogether on the Camperdown and Cypre-Mort grounds; both very extensive inland marshes with low prairies and sloughs adjacent." Pringle was the son of the distinguished South Carolina politician John Julius Pringle and here he recounts in elaborate detail and with marvelous photographs his hunting experiences over twenty years from 1867 in the bayous of Louisiana. It is also an account of the ecological consequences of the conversion of marshlands to agricultural purposes: with draining of the swamps and the extension of the New Orleans and Opelousas Railway now the Southern Pacific to Franklin the snipe came no more. Pringle also calls attention to the destruction of northern nesting grounds and the effect upon snipe populations. "The most valuable record of game we have. Completely accurate with tallies of game killed each day and natural history notes" -- Phillips. "Pringle's careful record stands unique on our shores . Twenty Years Snipe Shooting offers an unique insight into an era of southern history and near forgotten lifestyle." -- Mathewson. "A very rare book; only a small number were privately printed" Gee. This copy is inscribed by Pringle to Mrs. Haig Thomas. With an interesting letter from Walter McIlhenny loosely inserted recalling family connections with Pringle and snipe hunting. Phillips pp. 301-2; Howes P620 "aa"; Riling 1477 only a small number printed; Litchfield 66; Heller 2:741 Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313461

‎Massachusetts‎

‎A Charles River Canoe Cruise. By One of the Cruisers‎

‎Boston 1915. Typescript with 16 mounted photographs with typed captions below. x 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brick cloth titled in gilt. Minor rubbing to spine ends; some toning. Very good plus. Typescript with 16 mounted photographs with typed captions below. x 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Narrative of the adventures of the Skipper the Judge the Deacon and the Doctor on a three-day canoe trip up the Charles river from South Natick to Lake Populatic "supposed to be the head of canoe navigability." In earlier years the party had cruised the river from South street as far as Natick. The party of four embarked at a boat house in South Natick and by paddle and portage soon left the town behind. The first night they camped in a pine wood. The second day they faced windy conditions and passed the Medfield Insane Ayslum where they took on fresh water from a spring. Their maps were meager and out of date and they first had to navigate "the mystic maze of the maddening Medfield Meadows" before entering the oxbows of the Charles passing ruined factories and difficult portages on their way to the Lake where they made camp for the second night. The return trip was swiftly accomplished on the final day. A handsome little volume with light-hearted prose and excellent photographic illustrations often caption with witty remarks. "Dedicated to the girls who stayed at home" on the first page of the text - and as soon as the party returned to South Natick they called their wives and dashed for the train back to Boston. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314436