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Woodcock Hoffmann Dr. Julius
Die Waldschnepfe. Ein monographischer Beitrag zur Jagdzoologie. Mit einem Anhang über die nordamerikanische Waldschnepfe
Stuttgart: Verlag von Julius Hoffmann 1887. Second expanded edition. Chromolithographic front wrapper photographic frontispiece illustrations in text. viii 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter red sheep and marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Fine. Second expanded edition. Chromolithographic front wrapper photographic frontispiece illustrations in text. viii 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Monographic study of the woodcock with an appendix on the North American woodcock. This expanded edition includes extensive discussion of the impact of hunting regulations on the number of woodcock in Germany and Austria. Thiebaud 501 for 1877 French ed. Verlag von Julius Hoffmann unknown
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Schaldach William J Sandys Edwyn and TS. Van Dyke T. S.
Upland Game Birds. The American Sportsman's Library. Edited by Caspar Whitney
New York: The Macmillan Company 1904. Reprint. Illustrated by L.A. Fuertes A. B. Frost J.O. Nugent and C.L. Bull. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Green cloth gilt t.e.g. Spine ends worn dampstaining along bottom edge hinges cracked front repaired with tape. Good. Reprint. Illustrated by L.A. Fuertes A. B. Frost J.O. Nugent and C.L. Bull. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Schaldach the Prize Student. WITH THIS WONDERFUL INSCRIPTION: "Awarded to Wm. J. Schaldach for excellence of biological exhibit at the Central High School June 1914 Jesse B. Davis Prin." Schaldach 1896-1982 was 18 and a high school student in Grand Rapids Michigan when this copy was inscribed. "His interests were fishing hunting and art". Ordeman notes this "well-worn copy" in his monograph and further observes: "Some of Mr. Schaldach's writings in Coverts and Casts and Paths to Enlightenment in particular suggest an influence of Upland Game Birds upon the author." A choice association item marking the start of a great career. Phillips p. 330; Ordeman William J. Schaldach pp. 15-16 describing this copy The Macmillan Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 242800
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La Blanchere Henri de
La Pêche et les Poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire Général des Pêches ; Precédé d'une Préface par Aug. Duméril
Paris: Delgrave & Cie 1868. First edition. With 48 finely produced chromolithographic plates by A. Mesnel heightened with gum and more than 1000 wood engraved illustrations in text. xv 859 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's quarter red morocco gilt and pebbled cloth boards rulled in blind. Some light foxing not affecting plates. Faint rubbing to extremities. Very good plus. First edition. With 48 finely produced chromolithographic plates by A. Mesnel heightened with gum and more than 1000 wood engraved illustrations in text. xv 859 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Superb Chromolithographic Plates. First edition of this comprehensive work with excellent plates of fish by Mesnel. Vicaire IV 739-730; Heckscher 229; Nissen Fischbücher 16; Nissen ZBI 2334 noting 45 plates; Albert Petit 1332; DBF XVIII 1343 Delgrave & Cie unknown
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Foxhunting King Edward
American Hunting Scenes. The Check
New York: The Derrydale Press 1929. First and only edition of 250 signed proofs unnumbered. Hand-colored aquatint engraving within a watercolor border at edge of platemark. Signed by the artist lower left. 1 vols. Plate size 19 x 12-1/2 inches on a larger sheet of handmade paper overall dimensions 25 x 18-1/2. Some chipping at margins. Near fine. First and only edition of 250 signed proofs unnumbered. Hand-colored aquatint engraving within a watercolor border at edge of platemark. Signed by the artist lower left. 1 vols. Plate size 19 x 12-1/2 inches on a larger sheet of handmade paper overall dimensions 25 x 18-1/2. These are notes Ordeman "the first aquatints depicting contemporary American foxhunting scenes ever published . 'The First Flight' was the first print published and it was only after it had proven popular that Mr. Connett issued the three prints that completed the set." The Check depicting six huntsmen in an autumn landscape beside a field where hounds are casting for scent was the third in the series. Ordeman 2005 pp. 60-61 The Derrydale Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 247886
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Somerville & Ross Grand Gordon
Autograph letter signed "Sincerely Gordon Grand" to Sidney Smith 27 January 1946 concerning the Somerville and Ross Bibliography and his "debt to these authors
Millbrook New York 1946. One page on ruled letterhead G.G. Millbrook New York. 4to. Old fold. Fine. One page on ruled letterhead G.G. Millbrook New York. 4to. GG on Somerville & Ross: 'for truly I am much in debt to these authors'. A fine letter from Grand to bookseller Sidney Smith of Canaan New York "making some inroads on my post Christmas mail" and acknowledging Smith's offer of a copy of the Somerville & Ross bibliography by Elizabeth Hudson: "I would appreciate having this book very much indeed for truly I am much in debt to these authors. No year passes without my having a visit with the Major and Flurry Knox and the other characters. I am also under obligation to Dr. Somerville for her friendly comments on my efforts at writing." The author of The Silver Horn and other American classics praises the Irish R.M. stories of Somerville and Ross. A great association. Cf. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 159-62 unknown
Bookseller reference : 245643
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Scotcher George Heddon Jack
Scotcher Notes. Bibliographical biographical and historical notes to Geroge Scotcher's "Fly Fisher's Legacy ." circa 1810; with Comments on the Fly-dressings
London: Honey Dun Press 1975. First separate edition no. 90 of 165 copies signed by Heddon & Simpson. With hand-tied fly "Scotcher's Black Gnat" as frontispiece six plates hand-colored by John Simpson at back. 8 29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter green morocco and marbled boards by A. F. Sismore. Bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield. Fine in original publisher's marbled box. First separate edition no. 90 of 165 copies signed by Heddon & Simpson. With hand-tied fly "Scotcher's Black Gnat" as frontispiece six plates hand-colored by John Simpson at back. 8 29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Litchfield Copy. Fly-tier Jack Heddon compiled these notes for the deluxe edition of the Honey Dun edition of Scotcher's Fly Fisher's Legacy published the preceding year. An outstanding production as ever with the output of this press with distinguished provenance. Honey Dun Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 228986
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Auger Fred
Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw Cover title
N.p. Vancouver 1961. Illustrated by Lew Saw Alan Pratt Seattle Times. 15 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated self-wrappers. Illustrated by Lew Saw Alan Pratt Seattle Times. 15 pp. 1 vols. 4to. RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson and "one Indian" the author Fred Auger publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper for steelhead grayling and salmon on the Kvichak River in western Alaska. The camp was operated by Grenold Collins and the party visited it on the recommendation of Lee Richardson. The narrative is whimsical and informative the illustrations are in a lightly comic style. The back cover illustration is of the Skyomish Sunrise fly for steelhead. It is probable that just a few copies were printed for the participants and their friends. Interesting and RARE. OCLC 41828006 2 copies Univ. Alaska Univ. British Columbia unknown
Bookseller reference : 246510
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Barnum Phineas Taylor
Autograph Letter signed "P.T. Barnum" to Major James Pond
Victoria Hotel Southport July 2d/'82. 2 pages pen and ink. 1 vols. 8vo. Old folds light browning at margins. 2 pages pen and ink. 1 vols. 8vo. Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum writes to his lecture manager Major James Pond declining an invitation to lecture in England and revealing his gross receipts from his Barnum & Bailey's show. Reading in part "Thanks for your offer for me to lecture . the receipts of our big show were in first 6 days $74051.00 - the whole ten days over $108000 and on one day Saturday June 17 $15742.15. This seems incredible - but is the honest truth. We think that "Jumbo" an African elephant recently purchased from the London zoo adds £800 - or $4000 daily to our receipts - certainly for 8 months or 36 weeks he will add to our receipts $15000 per week or $540000! - £109000 sterling. Is it any wonder that we decline an offer of £100 per day & all expenses for the 75 or 80 winter days that we can't exhibit in America" Barnum closes with a postscript "Ask Hoffman if he can tell me how to get the Mexican dwarf girl on resonable terms for Ringling show next summer .". Major James Burton Pond 1838-1903 was a lecture promoter who in addition to Barnum represented Samuel Clemens Winston Churchill and Henry Stanley. unknown
Bookseller reference : 263256
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Lloyd Anne
Typescript of her poem "Words for a Winter Landscape" signed and inscribed to Eugene V. Connett
n.p. 1947. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine condition. From the collection of Eugene V. Connett III proprietor of The Derrydale Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Eugene V. Connett. A pleasing typewritten poem of four four-line stanzas reflecting on nature's profundities. Signed dated July 9 1947 and inscribed "For Eugene V. Connett III". Anne Lloyd was the author of the book of poems "Antiques and Amber" published by The Derrydale Press 1928. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12752
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Hunt Lynn Bogue Hunt Lynn Bogue
A Set of Eight China Dinner Plates with Black and White Wildfowl Designs by Lynn Bogue Hunt with His Explanatory Legends on the Back
n.p. 1940. 1 vols. 10-1/2 inches in diameter. These plates have been used to dine from--there are minute scratches and rubbing here and there and a small chip to the underside of one or two rims--but they are fine overall and ideal for display. Lynn Bogue Hunt. 1 vols. 10-1/2 inches in diameter. Wildfowl China Plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt. On November 3 1943 Lynn Bogue Hunt wrote to Eugene V. Connett founder proprietor and in 1942 liquidator of The Derrydale Press: ".I have been decorating highball glasses plates and doing porcelains for a couple of years and with considerable success on a royalty basis". Looking at these exceptionally attractive and interesting plates it is easy to see why. Hunt's ducks pheasant quail and other species are vigorously depicted in flight with Hunt's caption and signature included on the front surface. On the back of each plate is shown a pair of the subject birds and a lengthy description about 125 words of their characteristics and habits lettered and signed by Hunt. Despite numerous attempts by various practitioners sporting art does not always translate well to other media but with these plates Hunt has successfully combined form and function with elegance and style. A BEAUTIFUL SET. unknown
Bookseller reference : 13016
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Nimrod
Master Charles BROWN "Young Nimrod" "Champion wing and rifle shot of the world"
1883. An original 'front-of-house' board visible area: 30.5 x 22.5 inches with seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs visible area: 5 x 3.5 inches. 1 vols. Frame size 34 x 26. Oak frame over matted board with seven openings for photographs. Photos somewhat faded the card mat soiled. An original 'front-of-house' board visible area: 30.5 x 22.5 inches with seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs visible area: 5 x 3.5 inches. 1 vols. Frame size 34 x 26. A unique reminder of an extraordinary sporting prodigy. An original 'front-of-house' board with calligraphic manuscript text in red and black ink 'Mastr. C Brown / "Young Nimrod" / Champion Wing And / Rifle Shot of the World / as he appeared before / H.R.H. the /Prince of Wales / Prince Christian / and / various Members / of the / Royal Family.' the board acting as a custom matt for seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs of Master Brown in uniform or in shooting kit all with gun in hand two with an accompanying gundog. It is not possible to be certain but this 'board' looks like it was used in the lobby of a venue where 'Young Nimrod' was appearing possibly doubling as the 'card' which was used to identify his 'act' as he performed on stage. In any case it is a remarkable survivor from the age of P T Barnum Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley and a reminder of a time when the borders between sport theatre and spectacle were blurred to the delight of appreciative audiences in the UK Europe and the US. In addition to showing great natural talent Charles Brown also had the advantage of being the son Thomas Brown the proprietor of the South London Shooting Ground at Nunhead. By the time he was eight 'Youing Nimrod' was already shooting to a very high standard see below for some of his most memorable scores. The Prince of Wales a keen shot was an occasional visitor to Nunhead and on the 3rd April 1882 at the Royal Aquarium Westminster Master C. Brown gave an exhibition of glass ball shooting before the Prince and his guests: this is probably the occasion referred to on the present board. A contemporary account of 'Young Nimrod is given by Basil Tozer: "Last but not least comes Master Charles Brown of Nunhead alias "Young Nimrod" a boy not yet in his teens but who may fairly be termed the juvenile champion wing-shot of the world. Young Nimrod began shooting at the early age of seven and has from the time of his first essay made wonderful progress in the art. His name is well known in connection with shooting and he is frequently a topic of conversation at pigeon shooting reunions. The guns employed are of small caliber i.e. double and single 20 24 and 28 bores thereby making his performances all the more creditable. He was greatly eulogised upon his skill by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales before whom he gave an exhibition in glass ball shooting some years ago. Annexed are some of Young Nimrod's best scores: First match at pigeons shot at Nunhead on December 18th 1882. To kill 34 blue rocks i.e.rock-doves out of 50 with a 28-bore gun at 15 yards rise. A strong wind favoured the birds rendering the task an extremely difficult one. Second match shot at Dawlish South Devon on the 28th December following. To accomplish the same feat under similar conditions. It may here be well to remind the reader that Young Nimrod was at this time but eight years of age. His next performance worthy of note took place on January 25th 1883. This was an attempt to shoot 70 pigeions out of 100 at 18 yards rise and 80 fall using his 28-bore Greener . This he achieved in splendid style. He again backed himself to reapeat the same at the Union Club Hendon on the 2nd April 1883 and actually grassed 75 of Hammond's blue rocks out of the century 61 of which were killed with the first barrel. These figures speak for themselves and the boy's unerring aim added to his cool calm demeanour whilst shooting would do credit to any veteran sportsman - not to mention a child of nine. His expertness with the rifle is equally laudable. Young Nimrod's finest performance took place at Nunhead on 25 May 1885 when he broke 1047 glass balls in one hour the first hundred being disposed of in six minutes fifty seconds. The guns employed were two 24-bores and a 20-bore. In February 1883 he undertook to shoot 420 double rises out of 600 at the Agricutural Hall on three consecutive days. This he accomplished by destroying 513 out of the 600 in double shots. In the same year he scored 88 " kills" out of 100 clay pigeons. On the 2nd March 1884 Master Brown was tasked by his father to pierce 60 wooden balls out of 100 with a .380-bore rifle standing at ten yards rise the balls were thrown up by hand in front of him. Total. 83 out 100" Basil TOZER. Practical Hints on Shooting. London: 1887 pp. 358-360 & p.377 Litt: J.H. JONES "Young Nimrod." Being a brief sketch of the life of C. Brown. London: 1884. unknown
Bookseller reference : 264695
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Hunt Lynn Bogue
Archive of Correspondence with Hermann Kessler Art Director of Field and Stream magazine including testimonials about the artist
New York 1958. 3 photographs 30 pp. typed or autograph material and an inscribed copy of How to Draw and Paint Birds. 4to and smaller. Condition generally fine. 3 photographs 30 pp. typed or autograph material and an inscribed copy of How to Draw and Paint Birds. 4to and smaller. Lynn Bogue Hunt Archive with His Own Typewritten 'Biography'. Fine archive of material relating to the American artist Lynn Bogue Hunt 1878-1960 from the period late in life when he was facing financial difficulties and was no longer painting cf. Shelly Lynn Bogue Hunt p. 54. Comprising: - Two-page "Biography of Lynn Bogue Hunt" typewritten with several corrections in ink written by Hunt in the third person late 1940s mentioning the Field and Stream portfolio with 4 typed one-page articles on birds Quail Wild Turkey Mallard Canvasback. - Two typed letters signed from Hunt to Kessler dated 18-19 October 1954 describing the layout of his palette and discussing a project to promote Hunt's work - Typed letter signed from Hunt to Kessler undated thanking him for proofs and observing "I have long felt that you are one of the outstanding Art Directors of the country. The dress of Field and Stream has become very handsome under your direction." - Two autograph letters signed from Roy Chapman Andrews the model for INDIANA JONES Carmel Valley1954 discussing the move from Connecticut to California and continuing: "Of course I am happy to give you a publicity word! Here it is - if it be useful make the most of it! 'In my opinion Lynn Bogue Hunt is one of the world's foremost bird painters. he is not only an artist but a sportsman as well. His paintings have a beauty & vitality that comes from first hand stdy in the field.' Roy Chapman Andrews" -Typed note signed from Van Campen Heilner "Lynn Bogue Hunt is without any doubt the foremost painter of birds animals and fishes alive today . " - Two typed letters signed from Jay N. Darling with a cartoon signature. - Typed letters signed from David M. Newell editor of Field & Stream; author John Kieran; and R. C. Murphy curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History with their testimonials. - Portrait photograph of the artist brush in hand before his painting of Wild Turkeys in a forest clearing. - Two photographs connected with the 80th birthday celebration for Hunt in 1958 one a group portrait with typed note identifying those in attendance including Robert Ruark W. Goadby Lawrence Arthur Fuller Bob KuhnTom Rost etc.; the other of Hunt and E. T. Rigg president of Holt Rinehart & Winston. - a copy of How to Draw and Paint Birds inscribed from Hunt to Kessler in a shaky hand many of the full page illustrations credit Field & Stream. A select group of material preserved by Hermann Kessler the influential art director of Field and Stream the publication which commissioned Lynn Bogue Hunt's most widely known work. Provenance: Hermann Kessler; his widow Helen Shaw Kessler unknown
Bookseller reference : 242709
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Robinson Roland Evans
Forest and Stream Fables. By Awahsoose the Bear
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co 1886. First edition. With 8 full-page engravings. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated self-wrapper stitched. Brief List of Forest and Stream books 21 titles latest Uncle Lisha's Shop ready Oct. 1887 loosely inserted. Some dust soiling to covers else fine. First edition. With 8 full-page engravings. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book. Fine copy of Robinson's first publication an American sporting classic. Contains "The unlucky Bass" "The Foolish Fish" and "The Wise and Foolish Pike." John Kohn of Seven Gables back in 1972 came up with an approximate census of 8 known copies. A soiled worn copy in the Eberstadt Sporting sale brought $355 lot 112. Rare. BAL 16876 illustrated opposite p. 274; Seven Gables Cat. 'More First Books' 227; Bruns p. 386; American Sporting Books from the Collection of Lindley Eberstadt 1981 Forest and Stream Publishing Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 240808
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Danet Guillaume
L'Art des Armes ou La manière la plus certaine se servir utilement de l'Epeé .
Paris: Chez Herissant 1766. First edition. Engraved portrait and allegorical frontispieces 33 engraved folding plates; ii xxxviii 247 3 pp. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf spine gilt in six compartments red morocco label and gilt stamped "Tome I" some rubbing to spine else near fine. First edition. Engraved portrait and allegorical frontispieces 33 engraved folding plates; ii xxxviii 247 3 pp. 8vo. One of the most important 18th-century fencing manuals and a key work in the development of modern fencing. L'ART DES ARMES was a direct attack on the orthodoxy of the Académie d'armes de Paris. "Son ouvrage doit d'être classé parmi ceux qui ont rendu le plus de services à la cause de notre art et de son enseignement" Vigeant. A second volume containing an additional 12 plates and a response to critics allied with the Académie was published in 1767. Thimm p. 74-5; Pardoel 757.01; Vigeant p.48-9 Chez Herissant unknown
Bookseller reference : 242797
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Fairfax Thomas
The Complete Sportsman or Country Gentleman's Recreation.
London: Printed for J. Cooke at Shakespear's-Head in Pater-noster-Row 1764. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece showing a hunting scene with two lines of verse underneath. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep spine replaced portion of lower margin of one leaf missing without loss of text else internally near fine crisp and attractive. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece showing a hunting scene with two lines of verse underneath. 1 vols. 12mo. Nice Copy of an Early Sporting Classic. A very nice copy of this basic and scarce work which went into numerous editions some bibliographically confusing. This is most probably the third edition following the first edition dated 1758 and its reprint dated 1764. It deals with a wide range of sporting activities including hunting shooting racing angling cock-fighting and much more. An important book. Schwerdt IV p. 32; Westwood & Satchell p. 90; Podeschi 53 Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head, in Pater-noster-Row unknown
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Dodgers Mullin Willard
Original pen and ink of flying Bums . entitled "The Boid is on the Wing.--- All 41 of the Dodgers put their X to the 12953 contracts . and the Flock's first contingent arrives in the south February 18 .
New York 1953. Fine large original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing by Mullins. 1 vols. 17-1/ x 15 inches aprox. Rolled and laid into a tube addressed to Mr. Frank Graham Jr Publicity Director of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Fine large original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing by Mullins. 1 vols. 17-1/ x 15 inches aprox. SIGNED By MULLIN. Willard Mullin September 14 1902 - December 20 1978 was an American sports cartoonist. He is most famous for his creation of these "Brooklyn Bum" the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. He received the Reuben Award for 1954 for his work as well as the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for each year from 1957 through 1962 and again in 1964 and 1965. unknown
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Scrope William
The Art of Deer-Stalking; illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl with some account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer and a short description of the Scotch Forests
London: John Murray 1838. First edition. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and by the author. Extra-illustrated with 24 additional engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green morocco spine gilt. Headcap repaired hinges repaired else very good some toning and occasional light foxing. First edition. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and by the author. Extra-illustrated with 24 additional engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Extra-Illustrated Classic. The first edition of "a famous book showing how this fascinating sport was carried on with the aid of deerhounds before modern rifles were introduced. It seems a pity that such noble animals as Scotch deerhounds and Irish wolfhounds cannot now be put to their natural use" Schwerdt. From the library of James van Alen. Schwerdt II pp. 154-5 John Murray unknown
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Waltoniana Wotton Sir Henry
Reliqui Wottonian; or A Collection of Lives Letters Poems . By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wooton Kt
London: Printed by Thomas Maxey for R. Marriot etc. 1651. First Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved portraits in text. 18mo. Full dark brown morocco gilt dentelles a.e.g. by Stikeman covers detached internally fine. Custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. First Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved portraits in text. 18mo. First Edition of a Rare Izaak Walton Precursor; The Heckscher Copy. Contains a poem of 24 lines "On a Banck as I sate a Fishing" a description of the Spring cited in The Compleat Angler. Printed two years before the first edition of The Compleat Angler by the same printer. THE JOHN GERARD HECKSCHER COPY with three Heckscher bookplates and one of Rudolph August Witthaus; lot 2199 in the Heckscher Sale 1909 where it brought the very respectable price of $12.00. An extremely rare book and internally a very fine copy. Westwood & Satchell p. 243; Heckscher 2199 Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, etc. unknown
Bookseller reference : 262412
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Southard Charles Z.
Trout Fly-fishing in America
New York: Dutton 1914. First edition no. 71 of 100 Deluxe copies signed by the author. 20 colored illustrations by H.H. Leonard. xv 288 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Three quarter dark green morocco over green cloth t.e.g. Extremities somewhat rubbed one binder's blank loosened and small loss to lower corner of inserted photograph; lower hinge tender. A very good plus copy of this beautiful book in its scarcest and most desirable state. First edition no. 71 of 100 Deluxe copies signed by the author. 20 colored illustrations by H.H. Leonard. xv 288 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Inscribed Presentation Copy with Photograph. An early and authoritative work finely illustrated. An essential part of an American angling library here in the deluxe issue and with an uncommon presentation inscription from the author "Osborn P. Loomis with the compliments of the Author Chas. Zibeon Southard July 29 1916" and a tipped-in photograph of the author in outdoor garb seated on a cot in a platform tent smoking a cigar. The portrait is reproduced as the frontispiece to Southard's 'A Treatise on Trout for the Progressive Angler' 1931. Bruns S-229; Hampton p. 87 1915 London ed.; Sherwin sale lot 464 trade ed. only Dutton unknown
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Taverner Eric
Typed Letter signed with Autograph Postscript to Eugene V. Connett on the events of the day
Devon England 1942. Two pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Near fine condition. From the estate of Eugene V. Connett III proprietor of The Derrydale Press. Two pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine TLS to Eugene Connett by Eric Taverner. An extremely interesting and wide-ranging letter from the great angling writer. Among other items he remarks on the US entry into WWII "My own view is that you are getting into the war with all four wings unless you are dipterous and all six fins; the fatty or adipose one you have I judge already sloughed shed moulted or otherwise disposed of. I have been very struck with the way your bombers appear to have upset the Japanese battleships.". He mentions restarting shooting after twenty-five years comments on the effect of scarcities on English book production and describes in detail his old Devonshire cottage. Eric Taverner wrote extensively on angling subjects; among his more famous books are "Salmon Fishing" and "Trout Fishing from All Angles". A GRAND DELIGHTFUL LETTER. unknown
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Newberry Arthur St. John
Caught-on-the-Fly. Fugitive Notes of Sport and Other Notes
Cleveland Ohio: Printed for the writer by The Britton Printing Company 1908. First edition Number 7 of 120 copies. Illustrated. 306 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Original full green morocco over boards upper board stamped in gilt. Spine perished board edges very worn. Bookplate. First edition Number 7 of 120 copies. Illustrated. 306 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Heller: 'The Rarest of the Author's Works'. Collection of hunting and fishing sketches many published in Field and Stream. Accounts of hunting elk in Colorado moose in northern Ontario; caribou in Newfoundland; fishing on Ohio rivers salmon in Newfoundland and salt water angling in the Florida keys and Bahamas. Newberry includes two chapters with measurements of notable big game trophies and the largest fish. Newberry's second work Another Catch was published in posthumously in 1914. Heller's copy illustrated appears to have been rebound as the front board is without ornamentation. A facsimile reprint was published by Meadow Run Press in 1989. Phillips p. 274; Bruns N19 "no offerings in years"; Heller 1:582 "The rarest of the author's works"; not in Thacher Printed for the writer by The Britton Printing Company unknown
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Hunting in the Dakotas. Collection of 35 photographs of outdoor scenes including views of hunters and their game bag; goose hunting in dugout blinds in stubble of a harvested field; hunting dogs; and views of landscapes and farms
Twin Lakes No. Dakota 1890. 35 mounted albumen photographs 15 captioned in pencil. 5 x 7 inches on gilt-edged card mounts 8 x 10 inches. Generally very good ten photographs quite faded. Laid into a quarter blue morocco and cloth dropbox. 35 mounted albumen photographs 15 captioned in pencil. 5 x 7 inches on gilt-edged card mounts 8 x 10 inches. Outstanding group of photographs documenting bird hunting in the Twin Lakes area of north central North Dakota northeast of Bismarck in the late nineteenth century. Scenes include several of the hunters and their arrayed bag of geese ducks grouse and snipe; turf houses and barns; a wooden farmhouse on the prairie; the hunters' tent camp and wagons; and the narrow stretch of ground between the Twin Lakes. One of the most interesting views shows two hunters standing in dugout pits in the stubble of a harvested field with a long line of decoys behind them; this photograph is the only one to identify the hunters by name Cummings on the left and Dr. Booth on the right; a second uncaptioned photograph shows the two men from a different angle with one of the dogs. The "Lunch" photograph shows a circle of four men and their dog seated in the high grass eating one hunter taking a pull at a small dark bottle beside their wagon and tethered horses. Other captions note: "1 afternoon bag 3 men 88 geese 4 varieties"; "Our dogs 4 pointers 1 setter"; "Duck slue in No. Dakota"; "Mixed bag ducks geese snipe plover"; four hunters and their dog with their bag of "Sharp tail grouse ducks and snipe"; "Rex on point"; the wagon carrying the party of six titled "grouse hunting"; and other untitled photographs of the same group of men. Several of the wide view photographs are reminiscent of the sporting illustrations of A.B. Frost. A few of the photographs are quite faded but even in these the scenes can still be discerned. A substantial group of images of sporting life from Dakota frontier. unknown
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Mershon William B.
Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing
Boston: Stratford Company 1923. First edition. Illustrated. iv 259 pp. Printed by the Alpine Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Original maroon cloth. About fine. Bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. In the uncommon orange printed dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated. iv 259 pp. Printed by the Alpine Press. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket Signed. Turkey grouse and quail rail and ducks chiefly in Michigan with salmon fishing in Quebec and duck and goose hunting in North Dakota. Signed by the author on the half-title. Bruns M164 "very scarce"; Heller 1:574; Phillips p. 260 Stratford Company unknown
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Halford Frederic M.
Making a Fishery
London: Horace Cox 1895. LARGE-PAPER COPY out-of-series from the de luxe edition of 150 on large paper and specially bound but without the limitation leaf. Title in red and black portrait frontispiece 4 plates illustrations in text. 1 vols. arge 8vo 283 x 182mm. Publisher's green crushed morocco gilt inner gilt dentelles t.e.g. uncut. Spine slightly faded preserved in solander box. LARGE-PAPER COPY out-of-series from the de luxe edition of 150 on large paper and specially bound but without the limitation leaf. Title in red and black portrait frontispiece 4 plates illustrations in text. 1 vols. arge 8vo 283 x 182mm. Presentation Copy. This copy is inscribed to J.P. Hawksley noted angler committee member of the Fly Fishers' Club friend of Halford and regular visitor to Ramsbury. See illustration at page 90. Westwood & Satchell Supplement p. 258; Hampton's Angling Bibliography p. 130 Horace Cox unknown
Bookseller reference : 262428
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Garrison Everett and Hoagy B. Carmichael
A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod
Far Hills NJ: Meadow Run Press 1999. Deluxe edition no. 34 of 36 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated with drawings tables and photographs. 1 vols. 4to. Original full pale green Japanese silk printed label on upper cover endpapers of Indonesian handmade bamboo paper together with bamboo paper folder containing colophon information two photographs and a letter from Garrison. As new contained in publisher's matching folding box. Deluxe edition no. 34 of 36 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated with drawings tables and photographs. 1 vols. 4to. The Deluxe Edition One of 36 Copies. The Deluxe Edition of this classic book originally published in 1977 and subsequently revised and updated. Edmund Everett Garrison 1893-1975 was one of the great fly-rod makers probably the greatest. His rods are collector's items and $15000 is not an unusual price to pay for one. Garrison trained as an engineer worked full time for most of his adult life in a structural engineering firm and only produced his meticulously hand-crafted rods evenings and weekends; his output was thus comparatively small but each rod that left his hand was a masterpiece. He brought to an old art a unique technological competence which made for outstanding performance but it remained an art. Nearly twenty thousand copies of this book have been sold in previous trade editions; this is one of only 36 Deluxe copies the edition quickly sold out and contains two glossy photographs one of Garrison and family members in which he holds one of his rods the other of Carmichael working on a rod of his own and an ALS of Garrison. A SPLENDID AND HIGHLY DESIRABLE VOLUME. Meadow Run Press unknown
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Darbee Harry with Mac Francis
Catskill Flytier. My Life Times and Techniques. Introduction by Sparse Grey Hackle
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1977. First trade edition. Illustrated by Francis W. Davis. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth backed boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket minor soiling. Inscribed by the authors on the half title. First trade edition. Illustrated by Francis W. Davis. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Jim & Catherine Deren. A "real book full of memories and hopes stories and trout talk with something of that hallowed mist that hovers around the Willowemoc and the Beaverkill" from the foreword. Inscribed on the half title "Best wishes to our good friends The Derens Elsie B. Darbee Harry A. Darbee Mac Francis." Jim Deren was proprietor of the legendary New York City tackle shop the Anglers Roost. J.B. Lippincott unknown
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Wright & Ditson
Official Lawn Tennis Rules of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association
Boston: Wright & Ditson Publisher 1894. Illus. 24 pp. 12mo. Brown pictorial printeds wrappers. Illus. 24 pp. 12mo. Not in Phelphs & Sabine 1893 40 pp. issue cited Wright & Ditson, Publisher unknown
Bookseller reference : 268196
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Seabury George J.
An Ode to the Lake Bass
New York: Privately Printed 1890. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's cloth with bass in color leaping for a fly author's signature lower right. presentation copy inscribed by the author. Very good copy some wear and spotting to front board. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Inscribed to "W.C. Southwick a typical Piscator; the only man that ever caught a forty-pound Striped Bass with a pin hook and thread with the compliments of The Author July 29 /95" Canto I "To the Oswego or Large Mouth Bass" Canto II "To the Black or Small Mouth Bass". Bruns S98 "Extremely Rare"; Wetzel p. 209 "Only a few copies printed . Rare Privately Printed unknown
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Ward CS. C. S.
Hints on Driving
London: Published by the Author Commission Stables 66 Brompton Road 1870. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author "photographed from life by Maull & Co." mounted albumen print. 24 pp. Printed by Jas. Wade 18 Tavistock-street Covent Garden. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth upper board titled in gilt. Some edge wear. Very good plus. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author "photographed from life by Maull & Co." mounted albumen print. 24 pp. Printed by Jas. Wade 18 Tavistock-street Covent Garden. 1 vols. 8vo. RARE. The author C.S. Ward the well-known "Whip of the West" provides a concise outline of eight essential rules for driving carriages: Selection of the team; Mounting the Box; The Seat; Turning; Descending a Hill; The Position of the Hands; Uniformity of Draught; The Use of the Whip. There follow several anecdotes and songs. Uncommon and interesting. Signed by the author and dated "C.S. Ward August 21st 1892" Grimshaw The Horse. A Bibliography of British Books 1851-1976 139; Wells 8040 Published by the Author, Commission Stables, 66 Brompton Road unknown
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Edwards Lionel
Huntsmen Past and Present
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1929. First edition. No. 59 of 150 copies only signed by the author. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolor drawings by the author. 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt stamped gray buckram with a vellum spine t.e.g. Stain to rear board. First edition. No. 59 of 150 copies only signed by the author. Illustrated from contemporary prints and from original watercolor drawings by the author. 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 123 Eyre and Spottiswoode unknown
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Piersall Jimmy and Al Hirshberg
Fear Strikes Out: The Jimmy Piersall Story
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book 1955. First edition. 217 pp. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth shelf worn; very good. First edition. 217 pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED "To John your pal Jim Piersall" Piersall's heroic struggle with mental illness adapted for the screen in a memorable movie starring Anthony Perkins. Atlantic Monthly Press Book unknown
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Gorham Silver
Album of Gorham Silver Plates Trophies etc. most made for Black Starr & Frost
New York 1913. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Contemporary black cloth front hinge off. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Includes photographers of these Trophies: 8 Photos of Silver plates for the Winner Joyant for Larchmont Race Weeks Series 1911 ; Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Race 1911; Manhasset Bay Cup Races; Interstate Races Marblehead; Larchmont Yacht Club Series 1912; New York Yacht Club Cruise 1912 Won by Joyant; Larchmont Yacht Club Series 1912. Won by Joyant; Manhasset Bay Yacht Club June 8-Set 14 1912. Won by Joyant. This is the sloop-yacht Joyant owned by Commodore W.H. Childs of the New Yorks Yacht Club. Most trophies identified as by Black Starr & Frost New York and many others. unknown
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Walton Izaac
The Lives of Dr. John Donne Sir Henry Wotton Mr. Richard Hooker Mr. George Herbert
London: Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Richard Marriott 1670. First edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. Bound without blank A1 blank A8 present. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep rebacked. Loose in binding spine worn. Ink signature dated 1740 on free endpaper leather label of Estelle Doheny. Internally clean and with generous margins. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. Bound without blank A1 blank A8 present. 1 vols. 8vo. Walton on the English Poets. First collective edition of Walton's essential biography of seventeenth century English divines and poets. The biography of Wotton was published as part of Reliquae Wottoniane 1651; Walton's Elegy of Donne was first published in the 1635 edition of Donne's Poems and the Life in the edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons in 1640; separately in 1658; the biography of Hooker was first published in 1665. The Life of George Herbert has was first published separately in the same year as this edition. The irregular pagination in the life of Herbert is a printer's error; the text is complete. An important work with distinguished provenance. Wither to Prior 955; ESTC R15317; Wing W671; Pforzheimer 1056; Keynes G. Donne 4th ed. 61; Coigney p. 386 Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Richard Marriott unknown
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West Leonard
Collection of Four Autograph Letters Signed "Leonard West" to R.B. Marston editor of the Fishing Gazette August to December 1912 concerning printing and publishing The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation and preparation of the deluxe copies
Ravenhead St. Helens England: Published by the Author 1912. Pen and ink on paper. 15 pp. total. 1 vols. 12mo. Green buckram portfolio. Letters generally fine. Book: original olive cloth a trifle worn spine faded else fine. Pen and ink on paper. 15 pp. total. 1 vols. 12mo. West to Marston on producing and selling The Natural Trout Fly. Fascinating clutch of letters from Leonard West discussing the production and early sales of The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation now recognized as one of the classic works of pre-war English angling literature with information on the deluxe edition containing hand-tied flies. The recipient R.B. Marston author of Walton and the Earlier Angler Authors and the 1901 Supplement to the Bibliotheca Piscatoria was the influential editor of the Fishing Gazette for many years. - The first letter 3 pp. is dated 14 August 1912 and begins "Herewith I have the pleasure in enclosing review copy of my book 'The Natural Trout Fly & Its Imitation' & hope you will find the volume worthy of a favorable review . I think the printers deserve a good word for the way they have turned out the plates ." Docketed with a note in Marston's hand "See my note in FG Aug. 24 1912 RBM." - The second letter dated 23 August thanks Marston for a "very handsome" Note in the Fishing Gazette see clipping inserted in the book and discusses other early notices: "The 'Scotsman' gives me a good word shot but quite O.K. The Sporting & Dramatic 'have given instructions for it to be well reviewed & request permission to reproduce one of the plates' That for an outsider seems going it pretty strong - does it not . I have unloaded 100 up to now & sent for more." West also details progress on the edition de luxe "My leisure at present is occupied in dressing flies & trying to get others up to concert pitch . I have booked 19 E. de luxe" - The third letter 2 pp. dated 21 October notes that West is sending Marston "the edition de luxe of my book & hope you will like the get up & also the flies therein. The demand has been much greater than the supply so there will be little difficulty in disposing of a copy if desired at a premium. Other copies should all be sent out in the next fortnight . The ordinary edition is quietly going out all the time & hosts of appreciative letters are received not only from English customers but from France & America also." Docketed see F.G. note Oct. 26/12. - the fourth letter 4 pp. dated 12 December 1912 discusses sales of the book: "Sales are moving all the time lowest number sent off in any week being 10 & the average being 31.76 per week. I do no know if a "proper" publisher would consider this satisfactory but possibly he might not talk to his customers in the blunt way I do to some of mine!" West also discusses two flies Orange Partridge and Snipe & Purple: "but what is a snipe & purple It is over thirty years since old Joe Moses a well known North country catcher of fish shewed me how to make it . but not dressed as now sold but thusly details & sketch follow keep it thin both in body thorax & legs." West adds a note at the top "P.S. What about the Hon. D. Fearing - his copy - of the Ed. de luxe" With a copy of the printed book Marston's Occasional Note "Send Your Money!" from the Fishing Gazette for 24 August 1912 clipped and tipped in to front pastedown. Choice group of letters with substantial content and an important association. Published by the Author unknown
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Owings Osbourn
The Wizard is Os. Huntsman Fisherman & Sometime Sailorman
Trappe Maryland: Osbourn Owings 1990. No. 1 the dedication copy of 650 special autographed copies out of an edition of 1000. Photographic illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Pale blue cloth pictorial dust jacket as new. No. 1 the dedication copy of 650 special autographed copies out of an edition of 1000. Photographic illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. The Dedication Copy to Kip Farrington. THE DEDICATION COPY inscribed "To Chisie Farrington in memory of Kip / Os Owings". The book is dedicated to Kip Farrington the noted sportsman and angling author whose book Fishing the Atlantic inspired the author and his wife "to try our hands at deep-sea fishing." The dedication includes a page of reminiscences about Farrington and photo of Kip and his wife. Three of the book's seven chapters deal exclusively with deep-sea sport fishing and the author's successes in landing broadbill marlin tuna mako shark and highlighted by his landing in 1958 a 1128 pound black marlin--the largest ever taken in competition up to that time. "Not so much an autobiography as it is a chronology of the progress from the classic hunting and fishing days of the past to the conservation-oriented world that faces today's sportsman" Ron Gard. Owings tells of his experiences in his own words. "This book steeped in knowledge and experience offers a candid and entertaining view past and present of a true sportsman" Gard. THE FINEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY. Osbourn Owings unknown
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Delcampe Le Sieu
L'Art de Monter à Cheval .;Traité des Remedes . pour la guerison des Chevaux
Paris: chez Jacques le Gras au Palais à l'entrée de la Gallerie des Prisonniers 1664. Second edition. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved folding plates. xii 320; 152 4 pp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full mottled French calf spine gilt small worming at back inner margin of 3 leaves not affecting text. Bookplate of Bibliothèque Fournier-Sarlovèze. Signed "Reynaud" on ffep. Second edition. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved folding plates. xii 320; 152 4 pp. 8vo. Beautiful copy in contemporary binding of the second edition of this popular manual of horsemanship. The second edition is enlarged with a second part on the treatment of horse maladies. Huth p. 22; Wells 1871 chez Jacques le Gras, au Palais, à l'entrée de la Gallerie des Prisonniers unknown
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Brown Paul
Collection of 11 books comprising 7 volumes signed or inscribed with original drawings: Silver Heels 1951; Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Told in Short Form and in Pictures 1952; Daffy Taffy 1955; Fire! The Mascot 1939; Hi Guy. The Cinderella Horse 1944; Sparkie and Puff Ball 1954; Great Horse Stories. Selected by Page Cooper 1946. And 3 signed titles: Thrills and Spills 1933; Hits and Misses 1935; Ups and Downs 1936. And: Pony School 1950 inscribed by the dedicatee Marion Shotter to nephew Bill Brady
New York: Scribners etc. v.d. 11 vols. 8vo. Original cloth or boards some wear or soiling; the first three titles in dust jackets some wear. Five titles with dated remarques and inscriptions two with signed remarques. 11 vols. 8vo. Paul Brown Collection. A substantial and interesting collection of Paul Brown remarques in his books most drawn for the same young horseman over a period of years. Great Horse Stories 1946. Remarque of a horse's head and inscription "For Emma with lots of luck Paul 46" Fire! The Mascot 1939. Remarque of Fire the Dalmatian with inscription "Fire! For Henry Brady with lots of luck Paul Brown 47" Hi Guy. The Cinderella Horse 1944. Remarque of a horse's head with inscription dated 1949. Silver Heels 1951. Remarque of a horse's head with inscription in year of publication. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Told in Short Form and in Pictures 1952. Remarque of a horse's head with inscription in year of publication. Daffy Taffy 1955. Remarque of a horse's head. Sparkie and Puff Ball 1954. Remarque of a horse's head. Also present is a copy of Pony School 1950 inscribed by the dedicatee Marion Shotter to nephew Bill Brady. "Although the family never owned a horse Brown would occasionally take the children to a real 'Pony Farm.' A woman named Marion Shotter owned a farm in a nearby town where she kept several ponies and would have pony rides for children. This farm was the inspiration for the book of the same title as well as its sequel Pony School" Biscotti p. 16. With 3 signed titles of Brown's classic equestrian work: Thrills and Spills 1933; Hits and Misses 1935; Ups and Downs 1936. Biscotti pp. 58-68 72 100 Scribners, etc. unknown
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Artedi Peter
Petri Artedi sueci Genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus ordinibus generum characteribus specierum differentiis observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad Genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars. III. Emendata et aucta a Iohanne Iulio Walbaum
Grypeswaldiae: Ant. Ferdin. Roese 1792. Second edition first ed. 1738. iv 723 pp. 8vo. Quarter calf and boards spine laid down. Library bookplate with release. Second edition first ed. 1738. iv 723 pp. 8vo. Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius February 22 1705 - September 27 1735 was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology." Artedi was born in the province of Ã…ngermanland. Intending to become a clergyman he went in 1724 to study theology at Uppsala University but he turned his attention to medicine and natural history especially fishes. In 1728 his countryman Carolus Linnaeus arrived in Uppsala and a lasting friendship was formed between the two. In 1732 both left Uppsala Artedi for England and Linnaeus for Lappland; before parting they reciprocally bequeathed to each other their manuscripts and books in the event of death. Artedi accidentally drowned at Amsterdam where he was engaged in cataloguing the collections of Albertus Seba a wealthy Dutchman who had formed what was perhaps the richest museum of his time. According to agreement his manuscripts came into the hands of Linnaeus and his Bibliotheca Ichthyologica and Philosophia Ichthyologica together with a life of the author were published at Leiden in 1738. On his grave an epitaph by George Shaw is engraved: Here lies poor Artedi in foreign land pyx'd Not a man nor a fish but something betwixt Not a man for his life among fishes he past Not a fish for he perished by water at last. Ant. Ferdin. Roese unknown
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Walton Izaak
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation being a discourse of Fish and Fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers
London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot 1653. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4 Q5-8 and R1-3 in facsimile a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge gilt spine with two red leather labels edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas" by James McDonald New York. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. The First Walton. First edition of a landmark of English literature. The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien; p. 245 with a notorious error is here in facsimile in the corrected state. The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain outside of permanent collections as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier English 31; Westwood and Satchell p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey 1749-1816 West Dean Sussex F.R.S. and M.P. 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved - Harry T. Pethers sale Sotheby's 5 December 1960 lot 135 £145 to Maggs - Bent Juel-Jensen acquired from Maggs February 1961 for £225 Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot unknown
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Reeve Katharine Roosevelt
Covert-Side Courtship
Philadelphia: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company the Washington Square Press Philadelphia 1909. First edition. With frontispiece and 4 plates of silhouettes by J. Stanley Reeve. 98 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth titled in gilt silhouette of a hound in gilt on upper cover. Contemporary owner signature on flyleaf. Very slight fading of spine. Fine. First edition. With frontispiece and 4 plates of silhouettes by J. Stanley Reeve. 98 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Short novel of riding horse racing and society in the Virginia hunt country by the wife of the celebrated foxhunting author J. Stanley Reeve 1878-1960. J. Stanley Reeve and Katharine Lowell Roosevelt were married April 17 1909; the book includes silhouettes by her husband. Uncommon. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 304 [Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, the Washington Square Press, Philadelphia] unknown
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Griswold F. Gray
A Salmon River
New York: Dutton's 1928. Limited to 250 copies. Signed on title-page. Illustration of "Griswold Gray" salmon fly instead of map as frontispiece. 239 1 pp. Printed at the Plimpton Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Original Publisher's deluxe full crimson morocco with gilt stamped Griswold device on upper cover wide turn-ins tan morocco doublures t.e.g. Inner hinges repaired joints started spine dark one corner rubbed. Very good. Limited to 250 copies. Signed on title-page. Illustration of "Griswold Gray" salmon fly instead of map as frontispiece. 239 1 pp. Printed at the Plimpton Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Bruns "Very Scarce" We have not seen another copy in this full crimson morocco binding the author's own copy was bound in full green; all others seen have been bound in limp green. Consists of selections from two previous privately printed books including "Observations on a Salmon River". Inscribed by Griswold "William F. de Haynes 1928" on half-title. Bruns G-187 "red morr. doubtful" noting copies in black or green Dutton's unknown
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Polo
Polo photographs: seven original early photographs of polo in Argentina
Argentina 1883. Two large photos show mounted groups of players mallets raised; the third shows an attendant holding the bridle of a pony. Of four smaller photos one shows a man in gaucho outfit standing with ponies one shows another man holding a pony and two show several ponies together in one case feeding from a hay rack. 1 vols. Three photos approximately 6-1/2 x 9 inches; four approximately 3 x 4 inches. Mounted on two sheets of pasteboard; a few cracks without loss in the lower margin of one large photo a small chip and diagonal crack at the corner of one small photo else near fine. In two frames. Two large photos show mounted groups of players mallets raised; the third shows an attendant holding the bridle of a pony. Of four smaller photos one shows a man in gaucho outfit standing with ponies one shows another man holding a pony and two show several ponies together in one case feeding from a hay rack. 1 vols. Three photos approximately 6-1/2 x 9 inches; four approximately 3 x 4 inches. Rare Argentine Polo Photographs Ca. 1883. A very early and possibly unique set of polo photographs dating from the game's earliest days in Argentina a country subsequently famous for its superb record in International competitions. Invented in Persia the game was revived in India in 1863 and was brought to England by British officers in 1869. A number of Englishmen many of them younger sons of British nobility emigrated to Argentina in the latter decades of the century and around 1883 they introduced polo first played around Buenos Aires which quickly spread and became a national sport. Some of the faces in the photos offered here have a distinctly English appearance and it is not too fanciful to assume that these may indeed be some of the founders of the Argentine game. It is also possible that these are the first photographs taken of polo in Argentina. AN HISTORIC SET OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Dale Polo at Home and Abroad p. 182 et seq unknown
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Nantucket
Collection of Photographs of Gardner D. Marsh prize-winning salt water angler of Eel Point Nantucket
17 x 12 inches and smaller most approx. 8 x 10 inches or smaller. Old pin holes some soiling or wear occasional losses generally very good. 17 x 12 inches and smaller most approx. 8 x 10 inches or smaller. Gardner Marsh - 'the great Atlantic caster from Nantucket'. Interesting group of photographs of Nantucket angler Gardner D. Marsh "the first great surf caster. Dressed in killer black hip boots and foul weather jacket Gardiner sic despite the primitive bamboo rod and heavy braided nylon line practically invented modern surf casting could lay his drail in the mouth of a bluefish 100 yards off Smith Point in the face of a 20-knot sou'westerly. He taught us all but peccadilloes did him in and he was deported from the island ended up in Florida much to our loss" C.S. Lovelace Memoirs of a Lost Island 2007 pp. 35-6. Gardner Duane Marsh was a graduate of St. Albans School and Dartmouth College class of 1941 a veteran of the Army Air Corps and a long-time fixture in Nantucket. His renown extended to other waters for Kip Farrington called him "the great Atlantic caster from Nantucket" Fishing the Pacific Offshore and on 1953 p. 113. - Portrait of GM and George Heinold inscribed "To Gardner Marsh if there is a better surf caster I haven't met him. Many thanks for teaching me how to handle the long sticks I never used one that long before George Heinold" Heinold 1916-1982 was a columnist for Outdoor Life. - GM holding "Striped Bass from the Surf Nantucket Island" 42 & 35 lbs. - GM holding two striped bass 41-1/2 and 35 pounds before a hardware store window with display of tackle. - GM with S. Kip Farrington on the beach beside a parked station wagon with the notation "World's no. 1 Angler any fish any water" Farrington holding a rod the two men holding a large lure between them. - GM with Chisie Farrington on the beach beside a parked station wagon both holding rods with the notation "only woman in world who ever caught 2 Broadbill in one day & 1 world record she holds now" with a worn and torn example of the same photograph similar notation. - GM with three striped bass hanging from the sign of the Eel Point Anglers Club with losses at top and bottom right. - GM with large striped bass noted 62-3/4 pounds and dated 1950 on the mount. - GM with trophies for catching most game fish on the Atlantic coast during the 1950 season surfcasting from Nantucket Island 600 fish bass and blues 6131 lbs. - GM with two striped bass captioned on mount "A fine November day on 'The Point' at Hatteras - before the bridge & the people". - Group of nine photographs of a trip to Cape Hatteras November 1950 captioned on the glass cracked. - Home made plaque with relief sculpture of two whales logo of Cabo Blanco Fishing Club Peru and medallion of St. Francis signed Gardner Duane M- on back - Group photograph of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity Dartmouth GM fifth from right top row captioned on back "I am 21 years old here just prior to going to 2nd World War for 4-1/2 years" - St. Albans School baseball team GM fifth from left seated note on back of frame "I am 18 years old here unknown
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Southard Charles Zibeon
The Evolution of Trout and Trout Fishing in America
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. First edition no. 88 of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait map 9 color plates. xxxii 254 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's burgundy morocco gilt t.e.g. Some rubbing along front joint small trace of old bookplate removal on front pastedown. very good. Custom cloth slipcase. Uncommon. First edition no. 88 of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait map 9 color plates. xxxii 254 pp. 1 vols. 4to. One of 100 Copies. Southard "had the first fish camp built on the Kennebago . kept very complete records of Kennebago Lake Rangeley Maine fishing including sky and weather conditions" Bruns. An important and beautifully illustrated work. Bruns S-227; Wetzel p. 215 E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
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Alciati Andrea
Duello . Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità Bound with: PUTEO Paris de. Duello. Libro de Re Imperatori Prencipi . Historiographi Philosophi Legisti Canonisti & Ecclesiasitici .
Venice: Baldassar di Costantini; Comin de Tridino de Monferrato 1544. First Italian edition of Alciati; later 7th Italian edition of Puteo. 101 7 ff; 176 ff. 12mo. Bound together in 17th century calf spine ends chipped and repaired outer blank corner of first title repaired some old text soiling and discoloration. First Italian edition of Alciati; later 7th Italian edition of Puteo. 101 7 ff; 176 ff. 12mo. Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling. Two early works on duelling bound together. The Alciati was first published in Latin as De Singulari Certamine 1543 and appears here in its first Italian edition. The Puteo was first published in Latin in 1518 translated into Italian in 1521 and published in many editions thereafter. Alciati 1492-1550 was a Milanese lawyer and popular author of emblem books and works on courtly behavior. Puteo's Duello was one of the most important and popular works of chivalry duelling and military law in the 16th century. Alciati: Gelli p. 105; Adams A600; Thimm 5 1545 ed. Puteo: Gelli pp. 164-5; Adams P2299 for 1544 ed.; Thimm 233 Baldassar di Costantini; [Comin de Tridino de Monferrato] unknown
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Walden Howard T. II
Upstream and Down
New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. Publisher's Dummy. All pages blank. 1 vols. Small thick 8vo. Original black cloth color vignette inset in upper cover spine unprinted t.e.g. Inner hinges cracked lower hinge open. Custom half black morocco box with logo of Derrydale press printed in gilt on the spine and on inset morocco label on upper cover. Weiler Milton C. Publisher's Dummy. All pages blank. 1 vols. Small thick 8vo. Publisher's Dummy. Connett's innovative plasticized cloth interacted with the gold stamping and effectively dissolved it with most copies showing only the colored upper cover inset of a spilled creel. This copy with the front stamping surrounding the inset unusually bright bears no printing on the spine and perhaps the problem was not anticipated before the final production. Uncommon. Siegel 143; Frazier W-1-a The Derrydale Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 242904
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Shibley Fred Warner
Aspinwall Island
New York: Privately Printed printed by the De Vinne Press 1916. First edition. With 12 photographic plates. 167 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine. First edition. With 12 photographic plates. 167 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Aspinwall Island is the gem of ninety islands in Sharbot Lake.This lake lies in the crest of the divide between the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa." Beautifully produced interesting memoir of life and sport in rural Ontario black bass fishing in Sharbot Lake camping and talk around the fire. Bruns S140 Privately Printed [printed by the De Vinne Press] unknown
Bookseller reference : 219454
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Sloane Eric
Eric Sloane's Weather Book
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce; Little Brown and Company Boston 1952. First edition Copy #71. Diagrams charts and illustrations throughout. 1 vols. 4to. Original grey cloth lettered and decorated in brick. Some spotting rubbing and fading of cloth light browning of endpapers else a very good copy. First edition Copy #71. Diagrams charts and illustrations throughout. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed with a drawing of a Fisherman. Inscribed on the endpapers with a drawing showing a fisherman casting towards a cloud that looks back somewhat timidly. Inscription reading "To Wendle L. Collins. Eric Sloane Brookfield. Conn" and in the upper corner "First edition copy #71". Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Little Brown and Company Boston unknown
Bookseller reference : 26168
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Griswold F. Gray
Some Fish and Some Fishing
New York: John Lane 1921. First edition. Illustrated. 251 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green boards black cloth spine titled in gilt. Spine faded else Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. 251 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Covers salt water fishing including tarpon bonefish tuna swordfish marlin sailfish striped bass Atlantic & Pacific salmon fishing. A scarce book Inscribed on the flyleaf "W.H. Blake from F. Gray Griswold 1923" With a loosely inserted card from the Cascapedia Club sending a Salmon weighing 23 lbs to W.H. Blake from Gray Griswold dated June 13 1923 with autograph note on back "Tell Mr. Blake the fish are late this year but I have managed to score of fish in two days among hundreds of floating logs: 24.24.23.19.16.15.10. F.G.G.". Bruns G191; Callahan A Partial Tarpon Bibliography p. x John Lane unknown
Bookseller reference : 237198
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Halford Frederic M.
The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual. Including The Fisherman's Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery
London: George Routledge 1913. First combined edition. With 44 plates mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper and additional illustrations in the text. Extra-illustrated with a map of Lough Arrow a photograph newspaper clippings mounted on interleaved sheets and an inserted hackle. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary pigskin rebacked preserving original spine. Fine. In a cloth folding box. First combined edition. With 44 plates mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper and additional illustrations in the text. Extra-illustrated with a map of Lough Arrow a photograph newspaper clippings mounted on interleaved sheets and an inserted hackle. 1 vols. 4to. Presentation Copy to John Henderson With Correspondence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY to angling author and master fly tyer John Henderson senior who contributed a chapter "Dry-Fly on Lough Arrow" an outstanding trout fishery in Ireland illustrated with three photogravure plates from his negatives. Several of the inserted newspaper clippings including reviews of the book mention Henderson's flies & his technical innovations. With nine inserted autograph letters from Halford to Henderson ranging in date from October 1911 to May 1913 and dealing with the book's publication the illustrations fly patterns etc. Seven of the letters are loosely inserted; tipped in at the front are one letter and a note returning the negatives used for the book and thanking Henderson for his "admirable contribution." With a small group of photographs of Lough Arrow and a brief correspondence between H.T. Sheringham and Henderson. With an interesting provenance from John Simpson whose Honey Dun Press published John Henderson junior's Hackle Book in 1982. George Routledge unknown
Bookseller reference : 220813
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