‎Sports‎

‎Waltoniana Pickering William Editor‎

‎Rules and Regulations of Walton and Cotton Club; Instituted 19th March 1817. Revised 8th April 1840‎

‎London: Privately Printed by C. Whittingham Printer for William Pickering 1840. First Edition. One of only 33 copies. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Decorative borders printed in red historiated initial letters. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary Roxburgh red morocco-backed boards. Owner signature of J.W. Rivington Wilson. Bates bookplate. Some external wear loose in binding internally very good. First Edition. One of only 33 copies. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Decorative borders printed in red historiated initial letters. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. One of 33 copies. Distinguished copy of a scarce book.<br/>James Wilson Rimington-Wilson 1822-1877 of Broomhead Hall Yorkshire was a strong amateur chess player and a noted collector of books on chess and other sports. The library was dispersed in 1928: Jerome Kern owned a manuscript poem on chess by Oliver Goldsmith from the Rimington Wilson library; and a manuscript hand list of his sporting books 1866 is at the University of Virginia.<br/>The Joseph Bates copy from his sale lot 231. With his bookplate. Westwood & Satchell pp.180; Coigney p.402; Keynes 95; Porter 409 Privately Printed by [C. Whittingham, Printer for William Pickering] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 37897

‎Zouch Thomas‎

‎The Life of Isaac Walton; including Notices of his Contemporaries‎

‎London: Septimus Prowett Strand 1824. Second edition large paper copy one of a small number of copies Coigney says only 8 copies. With 21 full-page engravings by Thomas Gosden 14 marked proof" on India paper mounted and title page and chapter-heading vignettes. Extra-illustrated with a proof state of the portrait of Walton by Housman engraved by Audinet. 2 ii 93 pp. Printed by C. Smith Strand. 1 vols. 4to. Full diced russia boards tooled in blind with a gilt rule border a.e.g. Rebacked with period tooling. Bookplate of Thomas Wilson. Some foxing of mounting leaves generally not affecting text or plates else a fine fresh copy. Gosden Thomas. Second edition large paper copy one of a small number of copies Coigney says only 8 copies. With 21 full-page engravings by Thomas Gosden 14 marked proof" on India paper mounted and title page and chapter-heading vignettes. Extra-illustrated with a proof state of the portrait of Walton by Housman engraved by Audinet. 2 ii 93 pp. Printed by C. Smith Strand. 1 vols. 4to. LARGE PAPER COPY. Coigney p. 406 ; Westwood & Satchell p. 245 Septimus Prowett, Strand unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 235643

‎American Shooting Association‎

‎Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association Limited. Revised January 7th 1890. Organized Feb. 11 1889. New York January 1890‎

‎New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street 1890. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt edges red. Lower inner hinge cracked. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. <br/><br/>Preceding the two recorded editions published at Boston in 1893 and 1898 the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location for each of these later editions at the Center for Research Libraries 1893 and at the Huntington 1898. The present edition is unrecorded by bibliographers.<br/><br/>The President of the Club was Charles W. Dimick; Vice-President J.A.H. Dressel; General Manager Maj. J.M. Taylor. Not in Riling Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 242738

‎Boone and Crockett Club Reneau Jack and Susan editors‎

‎Records of North American Big Game. Tenth edition‎

‎Missoula Montana: Boone and Crockett Club 1993. Deluxe edition #8 of 55 copies. Signed by the Editors the Artist and all contributors. Illustrated. xvi 604 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters brown morocco. Fine in open-faced brown cloth slipcase. `. Deluxe edition #8 of 55 copies. Signed by the Editors the Artist and all contributors. Illustrated. xvi 604 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boone and Crockett Club unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 245747

‎Dogs Taplin William‎

‎The Sportsman's Cabinet; or a Correct Delineation of the Various Dogs Used in the Sports of the Field Including the Canine Race in General‎

‎London: J. Cundee 1803. First edition. Two engraved titles 26 engraved plates by John Scott after Reinagle and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt with sporting tools a.e.g. Rebacked spines laid down. Internally very fresh with none of the usual foxing Dalmatian plate present. First edition. Two engraved titles 26 engraved plates by John Scott after Reinagle and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick. 2 vols. 4to. The third published English dog book perennially admired for the excellence of its illustrations. Schwerdt II p. 248; Hubbard The Literature of British Dogs p. 27-29 J. Cundee unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 234897

‎Smythe Frank S.‎

‎Edward Whymper‎

‎London: Hodder and Stoughton 1940. First edition. Illus. folding map.xiv 330 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pink cloth. Fine in very good chipped at spine dust jacket. First edition. Illus. folding map.xiv 330 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 244853

‎Trotting Horses‎

‎1891 Eighth Annual Catalogue of High-bred Trotting Stock at Highland Stock Farm. The Property of H.L. & F. D. Stout. Dubuque Iowa‎

‎Duduque Iowa: Hardie & Scharle 1891. 126 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Illustrated cream wrappers printed in black brown red and brown. Fine. 126 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Hardie & Scharle unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 245069

‎Walton Izaac‎

‎The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation by . and Charles Cotton. Edited by John Major‎

‎London: D. Bogue Fleet-Street and H. Wix New Bridge-Street 1844. The Sixth titled Fourth Major edition large paper copy 7-5/8 x 5-1/8 inches. With 12 steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound without advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full dark blue morocco gilt boards gilt with the piscatorial vignette of the 1653 edition a.e.g. Some faint traces of rubbing. Fine. A beautiful copy. The Sixth titled Fourth Major edition large paper copy 7-5/8 x 5-1/8 inches. With 12 steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound without advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo. Large Paper Copy. Major produced a superb series of editions of the Complete Angler from 1823 to 1844 this being the final one. A handsome work here in the larg paper format and in a fine binding of the period. Coigney 56 D. Bogue, Fleet-Street and H. Wix, New Bridge-Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 245011

‎Bogumil Cz‎

‎Das Billardbuch. Vollständige Theorie und Praxis des Billardspiels. Mit 128 in den Text gedruckten Illustrationen‎

‎Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1895. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. viii 393 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth edges red. Fine. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. viii 393 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 245336

‎Surtees Robert Smith‎

‎Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire A Tale of Country Life‎

‎London: John C. Nimmo 1888. First Illustrated Edition. Hand colored frontispiece and 11 hand colored steel engraved plates by Wildrake Heath and Jellicoe. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan pictorial cloth gilt some fading to cover else fine. First Illustrated Edition. Hand colored frontispiece and 11 hand colored steel engraved plates by Wildrake Heath and Jellicoe. 1 vols. 8vo. First Illustrated Edition Original Cloth. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 359; Tooley 474 John C. Nimmo unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 10564

‎Johnson Frank M.‎

‎Forest Lake and River‎

‎Boston: Printed for Subscribers 1902. First edition no. 9 of 350 copies deluxe issue with plates handcolored and signed by the artist. Chromolithograph frontispiece to vol. I portrait frontispiece to vol. II; three color plates of flies Salmon Trout Bass two color plates of fish numerous reproductions of fish and black-and-white lithographic plates with decorative ornaments and vignettes throughout. xxvi 313 3; xi 368 pp. Printed at the University Press. 2 vols. 4to. Later half morocco and cloth over boards all edges uncut. Fine lacking as almost invariably the portfolio described by Bruns as of extreme rarity. First edition no. 9 of 350 copies deluxe issue with plates handcolored and signed by the artist. Chromolithograph frontispiece to vol. I portrait frontispiece to vol. II; three color plates of flies Salmon Trout Bass two color plates of fish numerous reproductions of fish and black-and-white lithographic plates with decorative ornaments and vignettes throughout. xxvi 313 3; xi 368 pp. Printed at the University Press. 2 vols. 4to. Deluxe Issue with plates signed by the artist. With eight of the black & white plates of angling and outdoor scenes handcolored and signed in pencil by the artist beneath. These include salmon leaping a waterfall rushing rivers anglers canoeing on a lake a night fishing incident and two symbolic landscapes. <br/>The final illustration in volume II A Forest Song includes the verses of the song printed beside the woodland scene; all other copies we have seen have the black & white plate without printed text.<br/>Neither Bruns nor Heckscher note this special issue presumably limited to the first ten or fifteen copies. Bruns B33; Heckscher 1129 Printed for Subscribers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 220696

‎Whitney Cornelius Vanderbilt‎

‎Live a Year with a Millionaire‎

‎Lexington Kentucky: Maple Hill Press Box 890 1981. First edition. Illustrated. 94 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in brown cloth slipcase and chemise. Inscribed on tipped in card "Merry Christmas from Mary Lou and Sonny Whitney 1981. First edition. Illustrated. 94 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With Xmas card in pocket stating the Whitneys will be at Camp Deerlands Whitney Park Long Lake for Xmas. Maple Hill Press Box 890 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 226668

‎Bartlet J.‎

‎The Gentleman's Farriery: or a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horses: wherein . M. La Fosse's Method of Trepanning Glandered Horses is particularly Considered and Improved: also a New Method of Nicking Horses is Recommended; with a Copper-Plate and Description of the Machine. To which is added an appendix‎

‎London: Printed for John Nourse et al. 1770. Seventh edition revised. Engraved frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plates in rear. xxviii 370 10 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary brown polished calf marbled endpapers gilt edges. Joints starting otherwise a very attractive copy. With bookplates of BENJAMIN and JOHN WHITE of Selborne and two other owners' signatures G. Gray; John Hopson 1857 on the first blank. Seventh edition revised. Engraved frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plates in rear. xxviii 370 10 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. From the Library of the Publisher of Natural History of Selborne. Written by a human surgeon and first published in 1753 this popular work was primarily a compilation of earlier writers. It went into many editions the first edition is extremely rare and the early editions are scarce<br/><br/>This copy has a remarkable provenance connecting it to the immediate family of GILBERT WHITE of Selborne. Benjamin White c.1725-1794 was the younger brother of Gilbert White 1720-1793 author of the celebrated Natural History of Selborne 1789 which Benjamin White in fact published. Benjamin White's shop at Fleet Street and the Strand Horace's Head "became a meeting place for naturalists and as was customary was used as a poste restante in 1775 by Gilbert White's correspondent Thomas Pennant whose books White published and by others. White's range of titles is indicated in his advertisement at the end of J. Ellis and D. C. Solander's Natural History of the Zoophytes 1786 which he published. They included Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina in two volumes which perhaps inspired Audubon" DNB.<br/><br/>White's engraved bookplate of South Lambeth is affixed to the front pastedown; along with that of his son JOHN WHITE who assisted Gilbert in the preparation his journals for publication and contributed a Memoir of his famous uncle for the 1802 edition. Smith II p. 69-77; this edition not in Dingley cf. 35-38; ESTCT88518 Printed for John Nourse et al. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 221660

‎Walton Izaac‎

‎The Lives of Dr. John Donne Sir Henry Wotton Mr. Richard Hooker Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson.with Notes and the Life of the Author by Thomas Zouch‎

‎York: Printed by Wilson Spence and Mawman 1796. First Zouch edition. Frontispiece. Illustrated with copperplates. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full straight grained blue contemporary morocco gilt spine a.e.g. Bookplate of the Lord Bishop of Durham The Honourable Shute Barrington LL.D. Minor rubbing. A Beautiful Copy. First Zouch edition. Frontispiece. Illustrated with copperplates. 1 vols. 4to. Coigney p. 387-88 Printed by Wilson, Spence and Mawman unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 41336

‎Dugmore A. A. Radclyffe‎

‎The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou. An Intimate Account of the Life of the Reindeer of North America‎

‎Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. London: William Heinemann 1913. First edition American issue from British sheets. Illustrated with Paintings Drawings and Photographs from Life by the Author. Folding map at back. viii191 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Blue gilt-lettered cloth with gilt-stamped image of bucks locking horns. Author / Illustrator Dan Beard's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a bit faded small remnant of shelf label on spine overall a very good copy. First edition American issue from British sheets. Illustrated with Paintings Drawings and Photographs from Life by the Author. Folding map at back. viii191 pp. 1 vols. 4to. J. B. Lippincott Co. London: William Heinemann unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 56554

‎Du Fouilloux Jacques‎

‎La Venerie de Jacques du Fouilloux précédée de quelques Notes Biographiques et d'une Notice Bibliographique‎

‎Anger: Charles Lebossé 1844. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text after the original cuts of the 1585 edition. 59; 93 leaves; 29 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Later half red morocco and boards gilt spine. Covers show slight wear else a fine copy. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text after the original cuts of the 1585 edition. 59; 93 leaves; 29 pp. 1 vols. 4to. One of the most beautiful sporting books of the 16th century was Du Fouilloux's La Venerie. Here is a fine edition on handmade paper using the original illustrations. Thiébaud 308-311 Charles Lebossé unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 56666

‎Bowlker Richard and Charles‎

‎Bowlker's Art of Angling containing directions for Fly-Fishing Trolling Making Artificial Flies Etc.‎

‎Ludlow: R. Jones 1854. A New Edition Revised. Hand-colored frontispiece of flies and other illustrations. 1 vols. 12mo. Original pebbled green cloth gilt angling device on upper cover fine. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. A New Edition Revised. Hand-colored frontispiece of flies and other illustrations. 1 vols. 12mo. With an ALS to Charles Engelhard from R.S. Pierrepont Jr Old Westbury N.Y. laid in about salmon fishing also inscribed in 1953 to Engelhard from Pierrepont. Westwood & Satchell pp. 39-40 earlier edns; Heckscher 262 R. Jones unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 226076

‎Sports Illustrated. First Issue. Volume One Number One‎

‎New York: Sports Illustrated 1954. First edition of the first issue of the magazine. Illustrated. 144 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. Apart from some rather forceful pencil doodles on upper cover the 'R' of SPORTS is outlined and a rectangle drawn around the date with their indentations visible on the following three leaves a very good copy. First edition of the first issue of the magazine. Illustrated. 144 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Complete with 6 pp. TOPPS baseball card fold-out of such players as Willie Mays Wally Moon Vern Law Duke Snider Bob Turley Robinson Ted Williams Ted Kusizewskiet Ed Mathews etc. Sports Illustrated unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 232729

‎Cole Ralph‎

‎The Young Angler's pocket companion; or a new and complete treatise on the art of angling as may be practised with success in every river in England; . the art of making artificial flies etc. To which is now added a new and most successful method of trolling and laying trimmers . Together with the best method of Smelt fishing‎

‎London: for R. Bassam etc. 1795. First edition. Frontispiece & 2 plates. Pp. i-vi 7-108. 1 vols. 18mo in 6s 12 x 6 cm. Bound in nineteenth century brown pebbled morocco some headlines trimmed else fine copy. First edition. Frontispiece & 2 plates. Pp. i-vi 7-108. 1 vols. 18mo in 6s 12 x 6 cm. Westwood and Satchell p. 62; Heckscher 474 "very rare for R. Bassam, etc. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 63115

‎Sandeman Fraser‎

‎Angling Travels in Norway‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1895. First edition. with 4 colored plates of flies a folding table and 57 other illustrations. x 284 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth spine faded else fine. First edition. with 4 colored plates of flies a folding table and 57 other illustrations. x 284 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Heckscher 1718; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 29 for large paper copy Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 240673

‎Baseball‎

‎Nineteenth Century Naive album of Black and Baseball Interest with a Label 'specimens of Drawing by James Pirnie No. 6 Joralemon Street Brooklyn L. Island New York State United States of America Western Hemisphere‎

‎Brooklyn 1860. 1 vols. Disbound. Laid in a green cloth drop box with leather title label "Baseball. 1 vols. Very interesting album of a talented amateur draughtsman drawings including one of 'sambo" playing the banjo several baseball drawings e.g. a Baseball player 'seeing Stars" dated January 15 1867 p. 15 s baseball Diamond Lacrosse Player a Firemen "running to a Fire" p. 25 with coloring etc. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 53897

‎Pleissner Ogden‎

‎Six Plates from: Atlantic Salmon Fishing‎

‎New York: The Derrydale Press 1937. Six plates from watercolor paintings by Ogden Pleissner signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. Pleissner Ogden. Six plates from watercolor paintings by Ogden Pleissner signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Each of the 6 plates from Phair's monumental book signed in pencil on the lower right by the great artist Ogden Pleissner<br/><br/>The plates are:<br/><br/>Playing a Big One--Down's Gulch<br/><br/>At Soldier's Gulch<br/><br/>June--Devil's Half Acre<br/><br/>Fork's Pool--Tobique<br/><br/>New Brunswick Salmon<br/><br/>Leaping Salmon. Siegel 110; Frazier P-5-a; Bruns P72 for published book The Derrydale Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 219045

‎Lamb Dana S.‎

‎Woodsmoke and Water Cress‎

‎Barre MA: Barre Publishers 1965. First edition No. 136 of 200 copies specially bound and signed by the author from an edition of 1500 printed by The Stinehour Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paper over boards tan calf spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Spine slightly sunned else fine in original publisher's slipcase. First edition No. 136 of 200 copies specially bound and signed by the author from an edition of 1500 printed by The Stinehour Press. 1 vols. 8vo. An engaging collection of sporting anecdotes and reminiscences by the beloved angling writer. Bruns L17 Barre Publishers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 41452

‎Taylor Samuel‎

‎Angling in All its Branches Reduced to a Complete Science‎

‎London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees 1800. First edition. xv 298 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original boards unopened and uncut. First edition. xv 298 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell pp. 205-6 T.N. Longman and O. Rees unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 32658

‎Melner Samuel and Hermann KESSLER‎

‎Great Fishing Tackle Catalogs of the Golden Age . Commentary by Sparse Gray Hackle‎

‎New York: Crown 1972. First edition copy specially bound for the author. Illustrated. vii i 344 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards gilt spine with 4 gilt flies t.e.g. Fine. First edition copy specially bound for the author. Illustrated. vii i 344 pp. 1 vols. 4to. KESSLER'S OWN COPY in a fine binding. Undoubtedly done by Crown for the authors as a special present. Bruns M155. Provenance: Estate of Herman Kessler Crown unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 242618