‎Sports‎

‎Cotton WB. W. B.‎

‎Sport in the Eastern Sudan from Souakin to the Blue Nile‎

‎London: Rowland Ward 1912. First edition second issue without the map. x 285 5 pp. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 inches. Publisher's tan cloth gilt. Bookplate of Crafts Cole. and his signature Cecil C. Cole Capt. M.C. 1060. Very Good. First edition second issue without the map. x 285 5 pp. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 inches. "A rather scarce Rowland Ward publication the first issue was published with a map and map pocket while the second issue apparently lacked both. This work details the author's 1910-11 expedition on which he bagged gazelle leopard and hippopotamus near the Atbara River. Continuing on to the Setit he shot lion buffalo kudu and other plains game some from a machan near a watering hole. Cotton then trekked to the Rahad and Dinder Rivers where he collected lion buffalo hippopotamus and a variety of plains game. The nine month safari cost Cotton£750!" Czech. Czech Africa p. 67 Rowland Ward unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 315612

‎Lyell Denis D.‎

‎The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game‎

‎London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited 1929. First Edition. With life-size illustrations of most of the game tracks.xiv 234 6 pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to 9 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Jacket toned and worn with losses to extremities cloth a bit mottled endpapers foxed. First Edition. With life-size illustrations of most of the game tracks.xiv 234 6 pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to 9 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches. IN DUST JACKET. "Lyell provide sic rules for hunting big game as well as chapters dealing with rifle selection and tracking game. The remainder of the text examines the natural history traits and methods of hunting species by species. The illustrations consist of sketches of the spoor of game animals many being life sized. An essential work aimed at a generation of new hunters visiting Africa at the time" Czech. Czech Africa p. 174 Seeley, Service & Co. Limited unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 315599

‎Washington George‎

‎George Washington Sportsman From his own Journals. Preface by John C. Phillips.‎

‎Cambridge Mass: The Cosmos Press Inc 1928. First edition one of 100 copies privately printed for John Phillips. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and black boards with stars. Fine. First edition one of 100 copies privately printed for John Phillips. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "But Washington's first love in the realm of sport was riding to hounds over his own and neighboring plantations ." Preface. Wetzel p. 228; Bruns P80; Biscotti p. 342; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 289; The Edward S. Litchfield Collection p. 84 The Cosmos Press, Inc unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 253383

‎Waltoniana Walton Izaak‎

‎Illustrations to Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler‎

‎London: Published by T. Gosden 107 St. Martin's Lane 1822. Title leaf 2 portraits and 18 plates on India Paper mounted. 7 of the plates are in three states: etching before letters and with letters. 1 vols. 4to. Full diced brown contemporary calf a.e.g. by Wright Bookbinder Greenwich with ticket. Rebacked preserving most of spine head and bottom panel renewed. Some touches of foxing. Very good plus. Title leaf 2 portraits and 18 plates on India Paper mounted. 7 of the plates are in three states: etching before letters and with letters. 1 vols. 4to. A nice set of the suite of illustrations to Walton including portraits of Walton and Cotton facsimiles views and fishing scenes produced for Gosden in the 1820s. The two portraits and 9 of the plates bear Gosden's imprint; a number of the plates are in multiple states. Coigney p. 397 Published by T. Gosden, 107, St. Martin's Lane unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 259086

‎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 books‎

Bookseller reference : 314913

‎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. 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. 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.<br/><br/>Pl. 1 - Paulmerie Jeu de Paulme et Construction de la Racquette<br/>Pl. 2 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme<br/>Pl. 3 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme<br/>Pl. 4 - Paulmerie Instrumens de Paulme et de Billiard<br/>Pl. 5 - Paulmerie Salle de billiard et Instrumens de Billiard<br/>Pl. 6 - Paulmerie 1er Plan d'un Jeu de Paulme quarré et Salle de Billiard<br/>Pl. 7 - Paulmerie Plan audessus des murs du Jeu de Paulme<br/>Pl. 8 - Paulmerie Coupes du Jeu de Paulme quarré<br/>Pl. 9 - Paulmerie Plans au Rez de Chaussée et audessus des murs d'un Jeu de Paulme a dedans. Panckoucke; Plomteux unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314816

‎Alaska Keith Harold C.‎

‎Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed Privately as a Matter of Record for the Members of the Party‎

‎Brockton Mass: Harold C. Keith 1931. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. Wood grain wrappers with pictorial onlay text gathered with cord. Cover onlay creased with a few old tape ghosts ink notation to front blank Goodspeed sales receipt 1957 bookplate of Stephen Ellsworth Clow and Ruth Hazen Clow. Green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four organized by H. Wendell Endicott comprised Endicott George Perry Latham Reed and Harold C. Keith whose diary for 14 August to 7 October 1930 is printed here. Latham Reed Sr. and Gen. R. E. Wood joined the party for the first stage of the journey to Big Delta. <br/>The hunting began on 24 August when a herd of caribou passed across the road in front of their car. Mr. Collins assistant district attorney at Fairbanks" stepped out and showed us how to shoot by dropping a big caribou on the first shot."<br/><br/>Twenty-one miles up the road from Big Delta the party left Mr. Collins' car and joined their crew of 8 and 24 horses and began their trip. They hunted bear and moose and caribou and sheep near the Gerstle River and Elting Creek and Jarvis encountered heavy snow saw the northern lights and completed a large loop back to Twenty-Six Mile Cabin during their stay.<br/><br/>Endicott 1880-1954 was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys. Harold C. Keith Amherst class of 1908 and Endicott were both shoe manufacturers in Massachusetts. Keith was president of the George E. Keith Co. in Brockton<br/><br/>The only other copy of this book recorded is a photocopy in the Candace Waugaman Collection at the Rasmuson Library University of Alaska Fairbanks<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC not in Heller Biscotti Harold C. Keith unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313016

‎PARMACHENEE CLUB‎

‎Constitution By-Laws Rules and List of Officers and Members 1900. Parmachenee Club. Organized May 1 1890. Incorporated March 24 1896. Club House Camp Caribou Parmachenee Lake Oxford County Maine. New York Office 18 Wall Street‎

‎New York: 18 Wall Street Privately printed by the De Vinne Press 1900. First edition. 41 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's vellum-backed paper-covered boards lettered in gilt. Extremities slightly worn with some minor loss spine and covers a bit darkened and spotted endpapers lightly foxed. First edition. 41 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Unrecorded. The Club House address is Camp Caribou Parmachenee Lake Oxford County Maine. The president at the time was Henry W. Poor famous book collector and the sixty members included G. B. M. Harvey Robert P. Bass Charles J. Glidden and a single female member Miss Eweretta Whitney. The book includes a two-page list of points of interest<br/>". the famous club which leased 120000 acres around and above Lake Parmachenee in 1890 . Henry Parkhurst Wells who created the Parmachenee fly was a member and named his famous fly after the club." - Bruns in the entry for the 1920 club history.<br/><br/>UNRECORDED. Not in Phillips Wetzel Bruns Heller. Not in OCLC 18 Wall Street, [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314205

‎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 books‎

Bookseller reference : 314039

‎Wilde Oscar Allen Clifford P.‎

‎Log of the Twelfth Annual Cruise of the Second Presbyterian Fishing Club of Philadelphia July 1st to 15th inclusive on the Schooner "Samuel Applegit‎

‎Philadelphia: Russell & Creamer 1882. First edition. With fine partly colored caricature folding map of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and environs; numerous illustrations in text. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt with publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. Rubbed minor staining to boards upper wrapper chipped at upper corner with small loss possibly to presentation "Mrs Jas. H. Allen. Book label offsetting to front free end paper. Very good. First edition. With fine partly colored caricature folding map of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and environs; numerous illustrations in text. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "The 'Wilde' Æsthetes of 1882". One of the rarest of this series of privately printed volumes produced by this Philadelphia sporting club and an unusual demonstration of the popularity of Oscar Wilde during his American tour of 1882. The verso of the title page includes a list of the 22 members of the cruise "The 'Wilde' Æsthetes of 1882" with the title in a floral heading giving them all first names of flowers and Wildean associations including: <br/>Sunflower SMITH Oscar's first love too poetical .<br/>Mignonette MOUSLEY Oscar's twin brother too fat for a Porpoise.<br/>Rhododendron RAUCH Oscar's great-aunt too much 'poke.'<br/>Woodbine WEHN Oscar's little sister too awfully nice.<br/>Petunia PACKARD Oscar's maid too much of a masher.<br/><br/>With the ticket of J.L. Smith 27 S. Sixth St. Philadelphia Please Acknowledge Receipt on front wrapper. "Sunflower" Smith who heads the crew list was a Philadelphia map publisher<br/><br/>Clifford P. "Arbutus" Allen is described as the loggist; and Herbert S. "Petunia" Packard as the artist. Allen b. 1841 was the regular scribe for the club's annual fishing cruises.<br/><br/>RARE. Wetzel p. 199; Bruns W83; Library of John M. Schiff Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1990 lot 132 this copy; not in Heller. Provenance: Mortimer L. Schiff with his bookplate Russell & Creamer unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314013

‎China Groom Francis A.; Douglas JONES‎

‎The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China‎

‎Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. <br/><br/>Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions.<br/><br/>Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br/><br/>Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary.<br/><br/>A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 312749

‎Pennsylvania Marriott Benjamin F.‎

‎Manuscript title: The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party and: Wyoming and: Our Summer Trip 1871‎

‎N.p. Pennsylvania 1871. Ink on paper with pencil and watercolor drawings throughout including rural scenes and pictures of camp life 2 finely executed leaves depicting 11 and 7 named angling flies two individual drawings of flies and several watercolors of trout. 256; 276; 10 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Brown half morocco finely rebacked preserving spines; the third manuscript in folded sheets unstitched. Boxed in three seperate black or blue slipcases. Clean and fresh. Ink on paper with pencil and watercolor drawings throughout including rural scenes and pictures of camp life 2 finely executed leaves depicting 11 and 7 named angling flies two individual drawings of flies and several watercolors of trout. 256; 276; 10 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Accounts of mid-nineteenth century outdoor sport and holiday travel in central Pennsylvania by a an earnest and occasionally lyrical chronicler.<br/><br/>The first The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party is a record of a trout fishing party in the summer of 1868 to a "certain secluded little dell deep in the old hemlock woods shut in on all sides by the Allegheny mountains with scarce passage way allowed for one of the brightest and most romantic little trout streams in the Pennsylvania woods." The party included Marriott the chronicler; Browny the Nimrod of the party and the artist whose neatly finished drawings punctuate the narrative; Kelley the fisherman; Pankey; and Miller. The party left the West Philadelphia railroad depot on 3 July joined for the Harrisburg leg of the trip by Charley V- "one of the best fly fishermen in Philadelphia" who was on his way to a small stream above Altoona. After delays their train crossed the Susquehanna where they saw a Fourth of July party in possession of one of the islands in the river and at last reached North Point where the wagon to take them up the creek awaited. Marriott writes simply and with an eye for scenic detail and an ear for the wit of his friends. He alludes to Dickens and quotes Dr. Bethune on the habitat of the trout fisherman: "His choice is the swift river the rock-broken stream; and he walks hopefully on from one jutting cliff to another making his fly fall lightly as a drop of snow on each turn of the wave or under the out-eaten turf or over the deep dark pool."<br/><br/>The second with a pictorial title of the mountains of Wyoming county Pennsylvania recounts a trout fishing trip to Bowman's Creek northwest of Scranton with companions Browny Jim Will and Tom. During their climb to Harvey's Lake several flocks of wild pigeons flew overhead and though they had but one gun between them "a long single-barrelled revolutionary looking affair" Tom was "ubiquitous." Later describing their campsite under an enormous hemlock Marriott writes "And Reader have you ever slept in a hemlock bed . The resinous odor is an agreeable one and a great promoter of sleep." <br/><br/>The third much shorter manuscript is the preliminary pages only of a return visit to Bowman's Creek in the summer of 1871; the party gets just beyond Bethlehem.<br/><br/>Remarkable group of manuscripts providing a glimpse of daily life on summer vacations long ago. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313551

‎Sturges Lee‎

‎Salmon Fishing on Cain River New Brunswick‎

‎Chicago: Privately Printed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour 1919. One of 50 copies printed. With 7 etched plates by Sturges each with lettered tissue guards numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lower right in pencil. Unpaginated 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gray boards upper board titled in gilt and stamped in blind with fisherman on lower right of upper board. Tiny chip at head of spine else fine With a signed calling card of Mr. & Mrs Lee Sturges Elmhurst Illinois addressed "Mr. Solomon Sturges Merry Christmas from. Sturges Lee. One of 50 copies printed. With 7 etched plates by Sturges each with lettered tissue guards numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lower right in pencil. Unpaginated 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Legendary Rarity With Signed Card To Solomon Sturges. A beautifullly produced volume the account of a weeklong canoe trip fishing for salmon with guide Harry Allen privately printed for Lee Sturges 1865-1954 a well known Chicago artist and industrialist. The book was designed and printed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour notable in the Chicago Arts and Crafts movement.<br/><br/>Bruns recounts a story told by the author's son that his father's house burned down and with it most of the edition. Bruns suggests that "four or five copies" survived; the actual number to have survived is perhaps a dozen copies. This copy with a small exterior paper repair at the head of the spine and a superficial stain at the center of the spine internally a very fresh copy. Unquestionably rare. Wetzel p. 220; Bruns S328; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 122; OCLC: 12357211 Newberry UNHvlt/W/2/4 Privately Printed [by Ralph Fletcher Seymour] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 312714

‎Babcock Louis L.‎

‎The Tarpon‎

‎Buffalo NY: Printed for Private Distribution 1921. Second edition. With 2 plates from line drawings. 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth upper board titled in gilt. Minor soiling lettering slightly faint roughly opened after title page binding still sound. Overall near fine. Second edition. With 2 plates from line drawings. 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Review of the tarpon in literature pointers on angling for tarpon and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 91-95.<br/>Privately printed and re-issued in five editions through 1951. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "For H. Wendell Endicott/ with the regards and/ good wishes of/ Louis L. Bacock./ Valentine's Day 1925./ 'O east is East and west is / west and never the twain/ shall meet.' "<br/>Endicott was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys 1925; the friendship was enduring for in the fifth edition Babcock refers to a recent letter from him. An outstanding asociation. Bruns B5; Callahan iii Printed for Private Distribution unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313920

‎Connett Eugene V. editor‎

‎Duck Shooting along the Atlantic Tidewater. Chapters by F.C. Lincoln Lynn Bogue Hunt F.C. Havermyer 2nd et. al‎

‎New York: William Morrow & Company 1947. First Edition copy number 3 of 147 Deluxe copies. With color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke and Lynn Bogue Hunt. xii 308 p. 1 vols. 4to. Full red publisher's morocco emblematic gilt tooling t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Spine slightly darkened owner name on colophon page in original red paper over boards slipcase somewhat rubbed. Hunt Lynn Bogue. First Edition copy number 3 of 147 Deluxe copies. With color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke and Lynn Bogue Hunt. xii 308 p. 1 vols. 4to. WITH WATERCOLOR BY EDGAR BURKE. With portfolio laid in and with a fine signed watercolor of flying duck by Edgar Burke on the front flyleaf. Biscotti p. 92; Heller 2:626 William Morrow & Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 249367

‎Apperley Charles James‎

‎Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton.with notices of his Hunting Shooting Driving Racing Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. By Nimrod‎

‎London: Rudolph Ackermann 191 Regents Street 1837. Second Edition Reprinted With Considerable Additions From The New Sporting Magazine. With 18 hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and T.J. Rawlins. xii 206 2 8 adspp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full tan polished calf gilt spine brown leather title label a.e.g. original covers and spine bound in at back by Riviere & Son for Sotherans 37 Piccadilly. Bookplate of William Crampton. Alken Henry. Second Edition Reprinted With Considerable Additions From The New Sporting Magazine. With 18 hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and T.J. Rawlins. xii 206 2 8 adspp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tooley 68; Schwerdt I p. 39; Abbey Life 385; Martin Hardie pp. 185-86; Higginson Smith p. 400; Huth p. 130; Prideaux p. 326; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 20-21 Rudolph Ackermann 191, Regents Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 309289

‎O'Connor Roy & Susan‎

‎Indian Summer‎

‎Lunenberg Vt: Privately printed at the Stinehour Press 1973. First edition one of 20 copies printed. 5 tipped-in photographs 4 in color. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in pink wrappers printed in red. Fine immacualte copy in a green quarter morocco slipcase and matching cloth chemise by European Bookbinders. First edition one of 20 copies printed. 5 tipped-in photographs 4 in color. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Recollections of salmon fishing and life at the Engelhard camp on the Grand Cascapedia during the summer and fall of 1973. Includes a history of Lorne Cottage built in 1878 and a chapter on Warren Gilbert. the long time manager of Lorne Cottage.<br/><br/>Susan Engelhard O'Connor is the daughter of Jane and Charles Engelhard of Cragwood Far Hills New Jersey who owned two of the legendary fishing camps on the Grand Cascapedia Camp Chaleur and Lorne Cottage. Charles Engelhard was the minerals tycoon and head of Engelhard Industries and the model for Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. The Engelhards were notable philanthropists and significant donors to the White House restoration project and to the Morgan Library. <br/>Information on the number of copies is based upon correspondence between Charles Wood the bibliographer of the Atlantic Salmon and the authors; the Stinehour Press kept no records of this book. Ten copies were issued in wrappers<br/><br/>RARE AND BEAUTIFUL. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 111. Not in OCLC Privately printed at the Stinehour Press] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 312791

‎Seymour Ralph Fletcher‎

‎The Log of the Four Dudes. By One of Them‎

‎N.p. Chicago: Privately printed 1921. First edition. Title printed within thick and thin rule border; vignette device at end. 4 92 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Paper covered boards with printed paper label on upper cover. Skilfully rebacked with original spine label laid down. Some light wear to extremities. Very good plus. First edition. Title printed within thick and thin rule border; vignette device at end. 4 92 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches. With Rod & Gun in Wyoming. Rare privately-printed account of a month-long fishing and hunting expedition through Wyoming in the early fall of 1920. The text relates the experiences of two couples Ralph and Myra and Philip and Caroline on a hunting and fishing expedition particularly in pursuit of elk and sheep. Their guides are identified as Ned Frost "the sine qua non of the whole excursion" and Carl Hammett. In the foreword the unnamed author offers useful advice for making such a trip successful and comfortable recommending clothing footwear and camping material: "There are many sleeping outfits that are fairly satisfactory but of those who have come under my observation the best combination is an air mattress with bellows to blow it up and on top of it an eider down 'Arctic Sleeping Bag' with a Hudson Bay blanket inside to wrap closely around you. With this outfit you can 'sleep warm' and comfortably no matter what the temperature may be - and 'sleeping warm' is one of the secrets of a successful hunting trip." The text consists of daily entries from their September 20 departure by train from Chicago to their return a month later with outstanding descriptions of the scenery and natural wonders of Wyoming the results of their hunting and fishing adventures and how each of the four city-dwellers performed in the wild. A few of the entries are written by the women who participated.<br/> <br/>In the September 30 entry Ralph describes the scenery at their lunch stop: "Behind us were the Big Horns - 175 miles away but looking infinitely nearer in that wonderfully clear air: in front of us were the Tetons and to their right some 65 miles distant Ned pointed out to us a peak a landmark in the Yellowstone-Thorofare country at the foot of which Burnham missed his elk so many times five years ago. A vast country of mountain and valley; of forest and barren wastes; of gentle slopes and of box canyons whose rocky sides descended sheer for hundreds of feet until they ended at the bottom in a jumble of rocks and browken bowlders sic."<br/> <br/>OCLC suggests that this work was printed by the noted Chicago author printer and publisher Ralph Fletcher Seymour and likely written by him as well. Not in Malone's WYOMINGIANA nor in the Eberstadt Decker Soliday or Graff catalogues. OCLC lists only two copies at the Univ. of Wyoming and Northern Illinois University and we are unable to find any other copies appearing in the market. Not in Phillips Heller or Biscotti; nor in Malone's Wyomingiana nor in the Eberstadt Decker Soliday or Graff catalogues. OCLC 11229887 2 copies: Northern Illinois U. U. Wyoming Privately printed unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 312715

‎Bradley JR. J. R.‎

‎Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia‎

‎New York: Mail and Express Job Print 1904. First edition. Illustrated with 13 full-page photographs photo vignette on title page. 52 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Green cloth upper cover title in gilt. Finely rebacked. Minor soiling to binding. First edition. Illustrated with 13 full-page photographs photo vignette on title page. 52 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite the title "Compliments of the author J.R. Bradley"<br/>Big Game hunting by the author and his friend T.T. Reese in the Stickeen sic River Country. The trials of traveling consume the first 28 pp. after which are several more on hunting white sheep followed by several more on mountain goat and grizzly. There are four minor trout fishing incidents eclipsed by the hunting content. "A rare work I have had three times in thirty years." Heller.<br/>"The tales make good reading." - Streeter. Phillips p. 55; Streeter 4122; Heller 1:35 and illustrated on the front panel of the dust jacket Mail and Express Job Print unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313007

‎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.<br/>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 books‎

Bookseller reference : 312785

‎Tarpon‎

‎The Judge's Tarpon. A Comedy of the Royal Palm‎

‎Miami: The Florida East Coast Hotel Company 1903. First edition. Vignette title page illustrations from photographs. 20 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial wrappers all edges gilt. Removed. First edition. Vignette title page illustrations from photographs. 20 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "How would a tarpon weighing 185 pounds suit you. the plain unvarnished truth is more startling than anything you'd care to risk telling."<br/><br/>Exceedingly scarce tarpon fishing pamphlet issued by the Royal Palm Hotel for the 1904 season from January to April. Bruns p. 154 "Rare"; Callahan p. iii 'Not seen entry from listing in Bruns"; Servies 13518 "Separate issue not located". OCLC: 21308602Univ. Miami Duke The Florida East Coast Hotel Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314014

‎Hopkins Nathaniel R.‎

‎The Hoppiad" By A. Farfromhomer‎

‎Upper Dam Maine 1920. Edition of 20 copies. With two portraits photogravure frontispiece ornamental headpiece hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth backed pictorial boards with trout fly inlaid in upper cover. Laid into a half brown calf and marbled boards drop box. Edition of 20 copies. With two portraits photogravure frontispiece ornamental headpiece hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. Poem describing a fishing trip to Maine sponsored by the Oxford Paper Co. for a number of New York notables among them George Semken and William Edwin Rudge. Siegel copy is signed Nathaniel R. Hopkins at the portait frontispiece; Yale copy is attributed to George H. Semken and is signed G.H.S. Not in Phillips Wetzel Bruns Heller. OCLC: 54271883 Yale 213733568 U.C. Santa Barbara. Provennce: Col. Henry Siegel unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314030

‎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.<br/><br/>With records of fish caught 1905 to 1915. Not in Phillips Wetzel Bruns Heller. Not in OCLC New York Office 309 Broad Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 314208

‎Emmet William Temple‎

‎Good Hunting! A Record of certain occurrences in British Columbia during the Summer of 1888. By W.T.E.‎

‎New York: privately printed 1901. First edition perhaps 100 copies printed. 75 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches. Drab boards new spine preserving original printed spine label. First edition perhaps 100 copies printed. 75 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches. RARE. "Hunting big game in the Similkameen country." Philips. Philips p.113; Heller 1:97. Streeter VII 417;OCLC: 21359443 Yale Central Conn. State; U.B.C. Toronto [privately printed] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 312713

‎Babcock Louis L.‎

‎The Tarpon‎

‎Buffalo: Printed by Matthews Northrup for Private Distribution 1920. First edition. 62 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Plain green wrappers pictorial onlay of leaping tarpon on front wrapper. Minor rubbing. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf "To an old tent-mate/ of mine with my/ regards & best wishes/ L.L.B/ May 6/20." Half green morocco clamshell box. First edition. 62 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy of the Rare First. Review of the tarpon in literature pointers on angling for tarpon and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 53-57. Privately printed and re-issued in several editions through 1951. Bruns B5; Callahan iii Printed [by Matthews Northrup] for Private Distribution unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313923