‎Deportes‎

‎Roosevelt Franklin D‎

‎Pillow Sham for the "U.S.S. Potomac Presidential Yacht‎

‎N.p. United States 1930. Image of the "Potomac" and Presidential seal in blue thread over a gold satin background lettering as above in blue cloth; blue fringe border. 1 vols. 18 x 18 inches. Fine. Image of the "Potomac" and Presidential seal in blue thread over a gold satin background lettering as above in blue cloth; blue fringe border. 1 vols. 18 x 18 inches. A rare memento from the presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt this pillow sham was from the U.S.S. Potomac Presidential Yacht which is now a National Historic Monument.<br/><br/>Built in 1934 the 165-foot former Coast Guard cutter 'Electra' was converted to a U.S. Navy vessel in 1936 renamed the USS Potomac and served as FDR's presidential yacht until his death in 1945. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237016

‎Schaldach William Ordeman John T.‎

‎William J. Schaldach: Artist Author Illustrator‎

‎Saint Petersburg: privately printed for the author at the Schneidereith Press 1988. First edition one of 150 copies signed by the author with an original Schaldach etching. With an original etching by Schaldach initialled in the plate and printed posthumously. Numerous illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter green morocco and natural linen in matching cloth slipcase. As New. First edition one of 150 copies signed by the author with an original Schaldach etching. With an original etching by Schaldach initialled in the plate and printed posthumously. Numerous illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. privately printed for the author at the Schneidereith Press unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 210181

‎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 1947. First edition deluxe issue no. 60 of 149 copies signed by the editor with the extra suite of prints. With color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke and Lynn Bogue Hunt. 1 vols. 4to. Full red morocco emblematic gilt tooling t.e.g. Faintest trace of rubbing along front joint. Fine copy in publisher's slipcase. Rare. Hunt Lynn Bogue. First edition deluxe issue no. 60 of 149 copies signed by the editor with the extra suite of prints. With color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke and Lynn Bogue Hunt. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti p. 92; Heller 2:626 William Morrow unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 239995

‎Princeton vs. Harvard. Tuesday May 30 1893. Holmes Field Cambridge‎

‎Cambridge 1893. 4 pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo 17.7 x 15.4 cm. Photographic self wrappers split creased and dampstained. 4 pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo 17.7 x 15.4 cm. Scoreboxes partially filled with 4 cute pencil drawings around edges of Princeton box scores and a small "H" pennant spliced through Harvard score box Harvard won 9-8. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238900

‎Kuhnert Wilhelm‎

‎Animal Portraiture. Being fifty studies by Wilhelm Kuhnert. Accompanied by a series of original articles by R. Lydekker F.R.S.‎

‎London: Frederick Warne 1912. First edition. With title page drawing and 50 mounted full color plates. vii 105 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Full tan morocco gilt upper board preserving original gilt pictorial cloth within a gilt tooled border a.e.g. for Asprey. Fine. First edition. With title page drawing and 50 mounted full color plates. vii 105 pp. 1 vols. Folio. A splendid assemblage of Kuhnert's superb paintings. The plates measure 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in.; each is mounted on a recessed card mat with tissue guard and each is accompanied by a brief article on the species depicted. Subjects include both birds and animals and range from bison to hamsters including a number of less-than-familiar subjects: capercaillie Abyssinian green monkey mouflon spiny ant-eater and auk. Each creature is placed in a naturalistic setting and painted with meticulous care. <br/><br/>An admirable work in a superb binding. Frederick Warne unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238885

‎Ristigouche River Lansing Abraham‎

‎Recollections. Edited by Charles E. Fitch‎

‎New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press 1909. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth t.e.g. Light shelfwear title page foxed else near fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce privately printed work with considerable sporting content.<br/><br/>Pp. 123 to 266 comprise the Logbook of Camp Albany on the Ristigouche River with entries from 1883 to 1898 on angling hunting and social topics. A prefatory note quotes from Dean Sage's classic book and an afterword by Charles H. Raymond offers an appreciation of Abraham Lansing 1835-1899 of Albany New York: "To watch his tall graceful form while casting on the river was to see the exemplar of the accomplished fisherman; the man the rod the line were together but the extension and the completion of artistic and practical perfection".<br/><br/>Inscribed by Mrs. Lansing to the Hon. Hampden Roth November 5 1909. Wetzel p. 174; Bruns L39; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 107 Privately Printed [by the De Vinne Press] unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 240774

‎Frazier Joe Pierotti John‎

‎Original cartoon of Joe Frazier and Buster Mathis with Mathis's balloon saying "Look Joe-a Real Crown!" with Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuiti as smaller figures‎

‎17 x19 inches. Fine. 17 x19 inches. Inscribed " To Bob Blasberg with all the best Pierotti." in pencil above his pen signature. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 239701

‎Schaldach William J.‎

‎Original etching: "Brook Trout and Mayfly‎

‎New York 1930. Edition of 50. Drypoint etching signed WJS in the plate. Inscribed and signed in pencil beneath "To Eugene V Connett W.J. Schaldach". 4-3/4 x 6-7/8 inches. Printed on 9 x 12 sheet. Fine. Matted and framed with Connett's pencil note on back of frame "This is one of 50 prints only EVC. Edition of 50. Drypoint etching signed WJS in the plate. Inscribed and signed in pencil beneath "To Eugene V Connett W.J. Schaldach". 4-3/4 x 6-7/8 inches. Schaldach to Connett. Excellent image of a brook trout rising to take a mayfly on the surface of a rocky stream. The relation of the trout to the fly is precisely the same as on the much reduced drawing reproduced on the title page and in gilt on the front cover of the 1937 retrospective collection of Schaldach's work Fish<br/><br/>Eugene V. Connett proprietor of the Derrydale Press was a regular patron of the artist's work. The same year this print was produced Connett commissioned a drypoint etching of a Woodcock for the deluxe issue of Upland Game Bird Shooting in America. Schaldach was also one of the artists commissioned to illustrate American Big Game Fishing 1935<br/><br/>An uncommon print and a superb association. Illustrated in Fish 1937 at item 23. Ordeman p. 107 unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238069

‎Taverner Eric‎

‎Salmon Fishing. The Lonsdale Library Volume X.‎

‎London: Seeley Service 1931. First edition Number 224 of 275 copies printed on hand-made paper signed. With 111 plates and 214 illustrations in text 3 maps. 472 pp. With seven specimen flies by Garnetts & Keegans of Dublin "illustrating the various schools of Modern Fly Dressing" mounted at back. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Publisher's full blue pebbled morocco t.e.g. others uncut. Mat board of mount repaired. A very fine copy in custom blue morocco clamshell box lined with silk. First edition Number 224 of 275 copies printed on hand-made paper signed. With 111 plates and 214 illustrations in text 3 maps. 472 pp. With seven specimen flies by Garnetts & Keegans of Dublin "illustrating the various schools of Modern Fly Dressing" mounted at back. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. The seven flies include the March Brown and Blue Charm A.H.E. Wood; the Pink Lady dry fly G.M.L. La Branche; Gipps A.H. Chaytor; Sally T.E. Price Tannatt; Black Silk E. Crossfield; and Turkey Jackson J. Jackson. Bruns T9; Litchfield p. 88; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 166 Seeley, Service unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238434

‎Mather Cotton‎

‎His Fish Story. Wherein is made abundantly clear for the first Time the proper Answer to that most Antient & Confusing of Questions: What makes the fish bite‎

‎London: James Tregaskis & Son 1934. Excerpted from Cotton Mather's "Marginalia" by that eccentric angler Randolph G. Adams. 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Gray wrappers with gilt fish designs. Near fine. Excerpted from Cotton Mather's "Marginalia" by that eccentric angler Randolph G. Adams. 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. James Tregaskis & Son unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 243965

‎Houdini Harry Marsh JBI editor J. B.‎

‎The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs‎

‎London: Hodder and Stoughton 1877. Seventh edition. Albumen print frontispiece; vi 2 248 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt; rubbed at head of spine front hinge repaired with tape remnants of sticker to front paste-down cracked at title page; very good with frontispiece photo exceptionally fine. Seventh edition. Albumen print frontispiece; vi 2 248 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Houdini's copy. Harry Houdini's copy with gift inscription to him on the front free endpaper in pencil dated 1923 from Edw. W.P. Colusa. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238489

‎Brown Paul‎

‎Squadron A Collection: "Sway-backs Reunion" ink drawing of a cavalry soldier in uniform with crutch and bottle giving his mount a drink from a saucepan. And: A Group of 26 pencil sketches relating to Squadron A horse and military scenes‎

‎New York 1955. 8 x 10 in.; and sketchbook leaves approx. 8 x 10 in. Sway Back Reunion" matted and framed fine. Sketchbook leaves fine. Brown Paul. 8 x 10 in.; and sketchbook leaves approx. 8 x 10 in. Paul Brown Drawings. Interesting collection of drawings by the famed American illustrator Paul Brown chiefly connected to the Calvary Squadron A of New York City based at the armory on Madison Avenue and 94th/95th streets.<br/><br/>"Sway-Backs Reunion" is a humorous sketch of an elderly horse and a boozing cavalryman demonstrating Brown's characteristic energy of line.<br/><br/>The pencil sketches offer an interesting glimpse of Brown's working style and comprise: <br/><br/>- "Remember": 21 drawings of fallen soldiers and horses Our Buddies The Lost Patrol Last Call - Taps; "We must not forget" with Squadron A pennants ; a kneeling GI beside a fallen comrade. One drawing inscribed "To 'Phil' Brady Sincerely Paul Brown" 5 signed Paul Brown 3 signed"PB" and 12 unsigned preliminary drawings. <br/>The sketch of Squadron A pennants demonstrates a visual continuity between the crossed sabers of the cavalry troop and its 1941 redesignation as the 101st Cavalry. Its members fought gallantly in Germany and Austria during WWII.<br/><br/>- Two sketches for the "Sway-backs Reunion": drawings of a cavalryman offering his horse drink from a mess kit both signed "PB".<br/><br/>- Three unsigned sketches: "Coming in for the night" a man at a gate with two horses and a foal entering; well dressed horseman in top hat with rider coming over a fence in distance; sketch of foal and two dogs at play. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237320

‎Greenway James C. Jr. and A. Lassell Ripley‎

‎The Laurel Brook Club 1902-1957‎

‎N.p.: Commonwealth Press-New England Offset Co. Inc 1958. First edition no. 29 of 150 copies signed by the authors additionally inscribed to Clifford H. Byrnes. Illustrated with full color frontispiece by Ripley and other drawings by him photos. 63 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth with maps as endpapers. With Club blind stamp on title page as issued. About fine. Ripley A. Lassell. First edition no. 29 of 150 copies signed by the authors additionally inscribed to Clifford H. Byrnes. Illustrated with full color frontispiece by Ripley and other drawings by him photos. 63 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Signed by the Authors. The history of this private fishing club in Uxbridge Mass. with membership lists and fine illustrations by Ripley a member from 1944 on. Heller 1:740 "Rare"; not in Bruns or Thacher Commonwealth Press-New England Offset Co. Inc unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237062

‎South Side Club Knapp Edward Spring‎

‎We Knapps Thought it Was Nice‎

‎New York: Privately printed 1940. First edition number 192 of 200 copies for private distribution. Illustrated. 211 pp. Designed by T.M. Cleland and printed at the Marchbanks Press. 1 vols. 4to. Tan cloth with paper label on spine. Fine. Family presentation inscription from the author's daughter on front flyleaf. First edition number 192 of 200 copies for private distribution. Illustrated. 211 pp. Designed by T.M. Cleland and printed at the Marchbanks Press. 1 vols. 4to. Sport on Long Island before 'The Age of Speed'. Posthumously published family history and recollections of life at the Knapp family house in Bayshore. The second half of the book pp. 90 on is a substantial memoir of sporting on Long Island in the late 1880s and 1890s including horse racing angling shooting quail and geese and the South Side Club. Not in Wetzel Bruns Heller or Biscotti Privately printed unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237063

‎Bergman Ray‎

‎With Fly Plug and Bait‎

‎New York: William Morrow 1947. First edition One of 249 copies. This copy marked "Presentation Copy." SIGNED BY BERGMAN. With six color plates of flies by Dr. Edgar Burke and drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. vi ii 640 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original 3/4 green morocco t.e.g. some very minor rubbing else fine. Without the accompanying portfolio containing copies of the six Burke plates. Burke Edgar. First edition One of 249 copies. This copy marked "Presentation Copy." SIGNED BY BERGMAN. With six color plates of flies by Dr. Edgar Burke and drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. vi ii 640 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO THE GREAT EDGAR BURKE THE ILLUSTRATOR. Inscribed on the half-title :"To Edgar Burke in appreciation & deep friendship Sincerely Ray Bergman Mar. 1947." Bruns B135 William Morrow unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237899

‎Walton Izaak and Charles COTTON‎

‎The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation . with preface "A Preliminary Cast" by R. B. Marston‎

‎London: Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First Thorpe edition. Number 98 of 250 copies of the edition de luxe signed by the illustrator James Thorpe. 25 color plate and numerous illustrations by James Thorpe. xvi 167 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full green morocco gilt spine gilt with raised bands t.e.g. others untrimmed by Bayntun-Riviere for Sotherans. Fine copy in a matching open-faced cloth morocco tipped slipcase. Thorpe James. First Thorpe edition. Number 98 of 250 copies of the edition de luxe signed by the illustrator James Thorpe. 25 color plate and numerous illustrations by James Thorpe. xvi 167 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Deluxe edition of the first Complete Angler to be illustrated by James Thorpe. Coigney 250 Hodder & Stoughton unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237040

‎Chess Lewis William‎

‎Elements of the Game of Chess or a New Method of Instruction in that Celebrated Game.Revised and Corrected by an American Amateur‎

‎New York: G. and C. Carvill 1827. First American edition. Wood-cut illustrating the chess board and pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. Rebound in modern buckram black morocco label. A very good copy. First American edition. Wood-cut illustrating the chess board and pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. The tenth American chess book. The first English edition of this work appeared in 1822. Hagedorn #10 G. and C. Carvill unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 1507

‎Derrydale Press Boyer Ralph‎

‎Original drawing for the frontispiece of "A Tomato Can Chronicle": "From the box he extracted a spinner" depicting an angler seated streamside with another man perched up a tree‎

‎Published in "A Tomato Can Chronicle" 1937. Charcoal and ink on stiff paper. 9 x 12 inches on 10 x 13 sheet with margins ruled in pencil. Titled in pencil in another hand beneath. Some tape stains on verso pinhole and discoloration at top corner margins not affecting image. Fine. Published in "A Tomato Can Chronicle" 1937. Charcoal and ink on stiff paper. 9 x 12 inches on 10 x 13 sheet with margins ruled in pencil. Titled in pencil in another hand beneath. Ralph L. Boyer was one of the small group of artists most closely associated with the Derrydale Press. He was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and his work as an illustrator was widely published. Connett published several series of prints by Boyer including the celebrated Fathers of American Sport and fly-fishing prints; Boyer illustrated four books published by the Derrydale Press including Connett's own Random Casts and A Tomato Can Chronicle by Edmund Ware Smith where this drawing appears as the frontispiece. Siegel p. 190; Ordeman 2005 pp. 27-8 unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237199

‎Ettinger Churchill‎

‎Original drawing for "The Happy End": to illustrate the story "The Old Men's Pool" depicting two men in a laden canoe running the Little Falls of the Humber River Newfoundland the river in full spate Fergus Hamilton in the bow sitting with arms folded across his chest smoking a pipe Joe Denny in the stern holding firm to his paddle and guiding the canoe‎

‎New York 1939. Published in "The Happy End" 1939 at p. 183. Pen and ink on paper signed at left of drawing. 8 x 10 inches with generous margins 11-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches overall. Tape ghosts on verso. Fine. Published in "The Happy End" 1939 at p. 183. Pen and ink on paper signed at left of drawing. 8 x 10 inches with generous margins 11-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches overall. Fine sporting drawing by Churchill Ettinger illustrating the scene in the story by Ben Ames Williams "The Old Men's Pool" where fisherman and guide furious at each other's stubbornness descend the falls of the Humber River in full flood. <br/> Mr. Hamilton "just kept on smoking as calm as if he was setting on the cabin porch down at Old Men's Pool. So Joe mad at himself for being such a fool swung the canoe to hit the chute down the Little Falls.<br/> "And about that time he remembered that Mr. Hamilton couldn't swim. . But Mr. Hamilton never puffed his pipe any faster nor turned his head nor held on nor even stiffened in his seat." Siegel p. 198 unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237210

‎Poor Charles‎

‎Original drawings for "Men Against the Rule": three comparative diagrams illustrating the evolution of yacht design: Puritan - Reliance Reliance - Enterprise and Puritan - Enterprise‎

‎New York 1937. Published in Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design 1937 at pp. 121 127 131. Pen and ink with light blue wash titled in pencil marked for reproduction. Two drawings 14 x 18 inches the third 16 x 15-1/2 inches. Some soiling at outer edges. Fine. Published in Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design 1937 at pp. 121 127 131. Pen and ink with light blue wash titled in pencil marked for reproduction. Two drawings 14 x 18 inches the third 16 x 15-1/2 inches. Poor was professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics at Columbia University and author of works on astronomy and yachting. These three drawing are the only original illustrations for Men Against the Rule; all others were photographs of models or reproductions of prints and paintings. Siegel p. 219 unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 237214

‎Shooting Hawker Peter‎

‎Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting‎

‎London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1844. Ninth edition. 11 engraved plates. xxvii 623 32 ads dated 1846 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue blind-stamped cloth. Almost fine copy. Ninth edition. 11 engraved plates. xxvii 623 32 ads dated 1846 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. HANDSOME IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 58219

‎Walton Izaac‎

‎The Lives of Dr. John Donne Sir Henry Wotton Mr. Richard Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press 1824. New edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan calf spine gilt black morocco label. Bookplate of "The Misses Smith 93 Piazza di Spagna. New edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Coigney pp. 387-88 Clarendon Press unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 245948

‎Herbert Henry William‎

‎Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America .‎

‎New York: W. A. Townsend & Company 1859. New Edition Revised and Corrected with an Ample Supplement by the Author Together with A Treatise on Fly-Fishing by "Dinks" BAL's fourth edition. Illustrations in text. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt stamped brick cloth with pictorial upper board. Fine bright copy clean and entirely unsophisticated. New Edition Revised and Corrected with an Ample Supplement by the Author Together with A Treatise on Fly-Fishing by "Dinks" BAL's fourth edition. Illustrations in text. 1 vols. 8vo. A fine fresh copy of a thick book that most commonly shows severe signs of use. BAL 8166; Van Winkle p. 36 W. A. Townsend & Company unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 221793

‎BINDING Edwards of Halifax style Dawes Richard‎

‎Miscellanea Critica. Iterum Edita. Curavit et Appendicem Adnotationis Addidit Thomas Burgess‎

‎Oxford: D. Prince et J. Cooke 1781. 529 28 pp. 2 pp. ads. 8vo. Contemporary full vellum in neo-classical style; spine with eight bands of gilt rolls and floral pattern Grecian urn and laurel tool in five compartments and title and tail compartments stained blue; covers with wide double-ruled frame in gold and blue; decorated with blue inked designs of two figures in a country setting on front and urn on rear cover a.e.g. marbled endpapers; FORE-EDGE PAINTING possibly modern under gilt of two anglers beside a river one with rod in hand with a bridge and ruin visible in the background; near fine. 529 28 pp. 2 pp. ads. 8vo. Fine neo-classical binding in the style and contemporary with the Edwards of Halifax with a charming fore-edge fishing scene. ESTC 138706 D. Prince et J. Cooke unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 236777

‎Moose‎

‎Moose Hunt Collection of 35 Photographs recording a moose hunt hunting camp and other outdoor scenes in Canada‎

‎N.p. 1910. 4 x 5 inches. All but three photographs on small card mounts. Some fading and silvering very good overall. 4 x 5 inches. Images from a successful moose hunt including 3 photos of hunters in the party standing with the trophy other photos of moose and caribou racks and a sledge of antlers beside a rail line. The photos also show camp tents several lean-tos and log huts forest and upland scenes as well as portraits of guides woodsmen the cook and one Indian family. The terrain pine forest and upland plains and hills appears to be Canada likely New Brunswick or Quebec. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 245759