‎Sports‎

‎Foxhunting Pennell Elmhirst Captain Edward‎

‎The Cream of Leicestershire / Eleven Seasons' Skimmings‎

‎London: George Routledge and Sons 1883. First Edition. With plain and colored illustrations by John Sturgess portraits and a colored folding map. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter red morocco with publisher's red cloth lavishly embellished with upper cover pictorial hunting scene in brown and gold bound in spine darkened else fine. Sturgess John. First Edition. With plain and colored illustrations by John Sturgess portraits and a colored folding map. 1 vols. 8vo. Captain Pennell-Elmhirst 1845-1916 a notable sportsman and notes Higginson who knew him "a most charming quiet unassuming man" wrote a number of books dealing with sport in the hunting field among them The Hunting Countries of England The Cream of Leicestershire The Best Season on Record Foxhound Forest and Prarie and The Best of the Fun. Many of these accounts were selected and republished from "The Field" where he wrote under the pen-name "Brooksby." Higginson British and American Sporting Authors pp. 128-9; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 286 George Routledge and Sons unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 231039

‎Polo Halpin Warren T.‎

‎Hoofbeats. Drawings and Comments by Warren T. Halpin. Introductions: Polo by Stewart B. Iglehart; Hunting by Henry G. Vaughan; Steeplechasing by William Du Pont Jr.‎

‎Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1938. First edition. Deluxe edition with hand-colored frontispiece no. 43 of 160. Signed hand-colored frontispiece. With 19 fine illustrations of Polo including Greentree vs. Templeton. 65 plates in all. 1 vols. 4to. Original vellum gilt t.e.g; Fine in original glassine and original white printed box. First edition. Deluxe edition with hand-colored frontispiece no. 43 of 160. Signed hand-colored frontispiece. With 19 fine illustrations of Polo including Greentree vs. Templeton. 65 plates in all. 1 vols. 4to. With illustrated sections on Polo Hunting to Hounds and Steeplechasing. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 223589

‎Coaching‎

‎An original pen-and-ink drawing of a four-in-hand coaching scene "Hill to the Downs. 'Done Up!'‎

‎np 1880. 1 vols. Approx. 11" x 15. On illustration board. Some light foxing a line of abrasion along right edge approx. 1/4" wide. 1 vols. Approx. 11" x 15" This anonymous English drawing captioned "The Hill to the Downs.- 'Done Up!'" shows a a double deck omnibus loaded with passengers apparently making its way from London to the races at Epsom Downs. The right wheeler does not want to start the guard is standing beside him and tries to pull him forward the coachman is using his whip. The coach is stationary as a smaller carriage drawn by two horses passes it.<br/><br/>A very nice dramatic item. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 48261

‎Maxwell The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert‎

‎Fishing at Home & Abroad‎

‎London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd 1913. First edition one of 750 copies. Illustrated with 6 photogravure plates 7 full-page color plates and 56 monochrome and half-tone illustrations in the text. xii 413 pp. Printed by the Arden Press Letchworth. 1 vols. Folio 12-1/2 x 10 inches. Bound in green buckram and green cloth. Very good spine sunned a little. Bookplate of H. Stanton. Unusual in anything but the standard brown morocco binding. First edition one of 750 copies. Illustrated with 6 photogravure plates 7 full-page color plates and 56 monochrome and half-tone illustrations in the text. xii 413 pp. Printed by the Arden Press Letchworth. 1 vols. Folio 12-1/2 x 10 inches. Dedicated to His Majesty King George V printed on handmade paper and lavishly illustrated Sir Herbert Maxwell's book is perhaps the most distinguished single volume publication of its kind and successfully realizes the author's goal of providing "in a single work information about fishing in all parts of the world" Preface p. v. With chapters on salmon trout sea fishing fishing techniques fly patterns local angling peculiarities etc. and Theodore Gordon's contribution "American Trout Fishing". The London & Counties Press Association Ltd unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 240542

‎Southard Charles‎

‎Trout Fly-Fishing in America‎

‎New York: E. P. Dutton 1914. First edition. With 12 illustrations and 20 color plates by H. H. Leonard. xv 288 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth. Some minor rubbing at extremities front hinge tender. Very Good plus. Uncommon. First edition. With 12 illustrations and 20 color plates by H. H. Leonard. xv 288 pp. 1 vols. 4to. 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.<br/><br/>Chapter XVI pp. 217-224 deals with "Trout Fly-Fishing in the Rangeley Region"<br/><br/>An important pre-war American work. Bruns S229; Wetzel p. 215 E. P. Dutton unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 231435

‎Tristram W. Outram‎

‎Coaching Days and Coaching Ways‎

‎London: Macmillan 1888. First edition. Illustrated by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's gilt stamped pictorial cloth uncut. Some wear to extremities hinges starting else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to. With the signature of "C. Albert Stevens Castle Point Hoboken NJ." This is one of the great coaching books of the late 19th century not to be confused with the later small octavo editions. Rittenhouse 87 Macmillan unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 32810

‎Hoffmann Professor Louis‎

‎King Koko or the Pretty Princess and the Lucky Lover. A Conjuring Entertainment in the Form of a Fairy Tale with Practical Instructions‎

‎London: Hamley's Magic Saloons pasted over nd. First edition. with Illustrations by H.L. Shindler. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in tan pictorial cloth stamped in black. Fine. First edition. with Illustrations by H.L. Shindler. 1 vols. 8vo. Hamley's Magic Saloons ( pasted over) unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 22078

‎Wetzel Charles M.‎

‎Trout Flies: Naturals and Imitations‎

‎Harrisburg Pa: Stackpole 1955. First Edition number 3 of the Deluxe Issue signed by the Author. Illustrated by the Author. 29 plates 12 of which are handcolored by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Padded brown calf. Very fine copy in custom clamshell box. First Edition number 3 of the Deluxe Issue signed by the Author. Illustrated by the Author. 29 plates 12 of which are handcolored by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Bruns W 76 Stackpole unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 61986

‎Nelson William‎

‎The Laws concerning Game. Of Hunting Hawking Fishing and Fowling &c. And of Forests Chases Parks Warrens Deer Doves Dove-cotes Conies: And Also of Setting Dogs Grey-hounds Lurchers Nets . Together with the Forest Laws: . By William Nelson . To Which are Now Added English Forms of Convictions Declarations .‎

‎London: Printed by E. Richardson and C. Lintot; for T. Waller 1762. Sixth edition. xvii 1 255 27 pp. 1 vols. Contemporary polished tan calf. Fine. Contemporary signature of Rowland Winn Esq. Sixth edition. xvii 1 255 27 pp. 1 vols. Printed by E. Richardson and C. Lintot; for T. Waller unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 240361

‎Poster: "National Show Co. Inc Operators Walter L. Main 3 Ring Trained Animal Shows . High Wire Artists . Introducing the Most Difficult and Dangerous Feats ever Devised by Human Ingenuity.‎

‎Milwaukee Wisconsin: Riverside 1900. Chromolithograph. With 7 Women and Men Figures on Highwire. Number 2591. 42 x 28 inches. Fine. Chromolithograph. With 7 Women and Men Figures on Highwire. Number 2591. 42 x 28 inches. Riverside unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 233791

‎Newberry Arthur St. John‎

‎A Fisherman's Paradise is an Excerpt from the Second Book of Arthur St. John Newberry "Another Catch." It Was Published After the Death of the Author and It is Sent in Fulfilment of His Wishes to the Members of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club‎

‎Cleveland Ohio: Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company 1914. First edition no. 35 of 150 copies. Presented to Mr. Thomas E. Price. Illustrated. 35 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Almost fine. Rare. First edition no. 35 of 150 copies. Presented to Mr. Thomas E. Price. Illustrated. 35 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. The St. Bernard Fish and Game Club was founded by Gen. George P. Foster and other Burlington Vermont sportsmen. Bruns N20; Wetzel p. 187 Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 239960

‎Yachting Magazine‎

‎An archive of materials belonging to John Clarke Kennedy concerning his involvement in Yachting Inc. publishers of Yachting Magazine and the eventual merging of Yachting Inc. into Kelmo Corporation which the Kennedy family controlled‎

‎1940. 1 vols. One full red calf corporate ledger titled "Yachting Incorporated"; one green cloth stock ledger with the remains of a Yachting label on the upper cover; two green cloth books of stock certificates each labeled "Yachting Incorporated Preferred Stock" and one such book labeled "Yachting Incorporated Common Stock"; a similar book of stock certificates of Kennedy Brothers Incorporated; two appointment books with tide tables for 1937 and 1938; and a brown expanding legal-size folder of documents. 1 vols. An Archive Concerning Yachting Magazine. John C. Kennedy was successively treasurer then president of Yachting Inc. publishers of Yachting Magazine and retained this archive after the magazine changed hands in the late 1930s. Included in this material are the corporate records of the Kelmo Corporation into which Yachting Inc. was merged in 1924 it later separated and was re-merged in 1940 records of the Yachting Board of Directors' meetings primarily concerning financing and including the meeting agreeing to sell all the capital stock to Kennedy; the actual books of issued and unissued common and preferred stock certificates of Yachting Inc. a book of shares of common stock of Kennedy Brothers Incorporated transferring Yachting stock to the Kennedys; the original 1923 signed option agreement by which Yachting's owners transferred for $40000 the total outstanding stock common and preferred and the actual stock certificates themselves and the original agreement of Oswald Garrison Villard conferring for $15000 his title and interest in the magazine--name records and other assets; Yachting's corporate income tax returns for 1927 and 1933 and some later tax and real estate correspondence; a lengthy Price Waterhouse report concerning the history and financial condition of Yachting as of January 1924 and a less encouraging special balance sheet and P&L for 1933; a 1933 recapitulation of book sales; and balance sheets and stock certificates of related companies. <br/> <br/> Also included are two 4 x 7" black leatherette books "Tide Tables and Daily Log" for l937 and 1938 in which John C. Kennedy has recorded his daily activities from July 7 l937 thru December 31 1938. Of particular interest are the efforts made in the fall of 1937 to interest Roy E. Larsen of Time Inc. in the purchase of Yachting Magazine by Time--a proposition which Larsen declined. The entries for 1938 deal mostly with Kennedy's growing financial worries and the decline of his sister's and his own health: it comes as a shock to learn that the author of these almost unbearably poignant entries was only 50 years old. On June 28 Kennedy reports the transfer "which took away my last of Yachting after 15 yrs." <br/><br/> In addition the archive contains the original certification of the familiar "Yachting" logo as a U.S. trade-mark registered June 3 1924; the original certificate registering the same in Canada dated January 20 1925; the unsigned carbon of a 1935 deposition by John C. Kennedy with accompanying schedule showing Yachting Inc.'s stock portfolio at the time of its sale in 1933 at a loss of $144000; the magazine's copy of a signed agreement to publish "The Model Yacht" by John O. Berg; a corrected draft of a document changing the corporate name of Yachting Inc. to Kelmo Corporation dated October 26 1939; 5 insurance policies with photostats of applications on the life of John C. Kennedy; his U.S. passport issued 1924; his autograph 2-pp enumeration of property to be divided among the heirs of his mother along with photographs and correspondence concerning her grave; and other papers including his agreement to lease from Jules S. Bache his 112-ft. diesel yacht "Colmena" for July and August 1931 for $13500--a unique souvenir of happier days. Altogether an archive of engrossing interest for the business and sporting historian alike. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 8945

‎Desmedt Eugene‎

‎La Science de L'Escrime .‎

‎Brussels: Veuve Monnom 1888. First edition. Photographs and illustrations in text. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. Last few signatures detached but complete lower wrapper torn. Internally Fine. First edition. Photographs and illustrations in text. 1 vols. 8vo. Thimm p. 78 Veuve Monnom unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 229900

‎Gibson CDW. C. D.‎

‎Shoot If You Must‎

‎New York: J.C. Dillon Co 1950. First edition Number 101 of 250 copies. 46pp. Portrait frontispiece by Charles Dana Gibson. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine copy. First edition Number 101 of 250 copies. 46pp. Portrait frontispiece by Charles Dana Gibson. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 250. Very scarce and desirable. Heller 2:643 J.C. Dillon Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 53412

‎Surtees Robert Smith‎

‎Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities; or the Hunting Shooting Racing Driving Sailing . Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorricks . in two volumes‎

‎Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart 1838. First American edition. 2 vols. Sm 8vo. Original boards light blue patterned-cloth spine with paper labels rubbed; apart from the usual foxing a fine copy with the armorial of "Maitland. First American edition. 2 vols. Sm 8vo. Previously appearing in the New Sporting Magazine London 1832-4 this book a collection of related stories was first published in London in 1838 the same year it crossed the Atlantic to become one of the earliest examples of foreign sporting fiction to be reprinted in America. Henderson p. 235; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 358 E. L. Carey and A. Hart unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 32957

‎Lamb Dana S.‎

‎Bright Salmon and Brown Trout‎

‎Barre MA: Barre Publishers 1964. No. 215 of 350 special copies signed by the author on half-title out of a First Edition of 1500 copies. Illustrated by Shirley Erickson. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown quarter morocco brown paper over boards with gilt device on upper cover a superb copy as new in original board slipcase. No. 215 of 350 special copies signed by the author on half-title out of a First Edition of 1500 copies. Illustrated by Shirley Erickson. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautiful copy of this classic book of angling memoirs and observations handsomely printed on special rag paper by Enschede´ of Holland. Bruns L 11 Barre Publishers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 53629

‎Dargent Yan Revoil Benedict Henry‎

‎Chasses dans l'Amérique du Nord‎

‎Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils 1869. Nouvelle édition" --. Illustrated with wood engravings by Yan Dargent. 358 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary blue gilt pebbled morocco shelfback and cloth boards marbled endpapers. Some slight uneven discoloration to upper cover otherwise a very good sound copy. Early gift inscription in the year of publication on the flyleaf. Nouvelle édition" --. Illustrated with wood engravings by Yan Dargent. 358 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. " . important chapters in the history of American sport" Révoil lived in the United States between 1842 and 1851 where he hunted and fished in all parts of the country keeping rigorous notebooks and recording his observations with an acute eye for scenery and detail. He wrote several works including "Chasses et pêches de l'autre monde" Paris 1856 from which the 1861 edition was revised under this title. Neither of the two earlier editions however appears to have contained the fantastic and often haunting engravings by YAN DARGENT Bretagne 1824 - 1899 which animate this edition.<br/>A translation of this title and "Pêches dans l'Amérique du Nord" later appeared as "Shooting and fishing in the rivers prairies and backwoods of North America" L. Tinsley brothers 1865. Of this interesting sportsman Clark observes "His many accounts are important chapters in the history of American sport." Sabin 70329 2nd edition of 1861; Rilings 829 English ed. 1865; Clark III 392 1874 ed. Alfred Mame et Fils unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 53566

‎Racing‎

‎Racing and Steeplechasing racing by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire and Mr. W.G. Craven. With a Contribution by the Hon. F. Lawley. Steeple-Chasing by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E.T. Watson‎

‎London: Longmans Green and Co 1886. First edition no. 219 of 250 copies on Large Paper. Numerous Illustrations by J. Sturgess. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in three quarter blue morocco and orange cloth t.e.g. Very good. First edition no. 219 of 250 copies on Large Paper. Numerous Illustrations by J. Sturgess. 1 vols. 4to. Large Paper Badminton Library. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 35572

‎Pickering Walton Izaac‎

‎The Complete Angler‎

‎London: William Pickering 1825. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece and title page with woodcuts of fishes in the text. 1 vols. 4 x 2-3/4 inches. Nineteenth-century brown morocco a.e.g. Rebacked. Small stain at top corner of first three leaves else a very nice copy. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece and title page with woodcuts of fishes in the text. 1 vols. 4 x 2-3/4 inches. Pickering 'Angler'. The first Pickering edition of Walton's classic; printed in diamond type by Thomas White Johnson's Court. One of the most desirable of Pickering's Diamond Classics. Keynes p. 94; Coigney 30; Spielman 506; Bondy p. 89 William Pickering unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 59173

‎Weiler Milton C.‎

‎Classic Shorebird Decoys: A Portfolio of paintings by Milton C. Weiler Text by William J. Mackey Jr. Foreword by Ed Zern‎

‎New York: Winchester Press 1971. Limited edition one of 975 copies numbered and signed by the artist. 24 full color plates also reproduced in black and white. 1 vols. Folio. Tan boards gilt brown leatherette spine front inner pocket holding the set of plates mint in substantial slipcase. Limited edition one of 975 copies numbered and signed by the artist. 24 full color plates also reproduced in black and white. 1 vols. Folio. A portfolio of 24 sumptuous full color paintings of masterpieces of decoy-making by the classic illustrator of the subject; accompanying each page of explanatory text is a full-size black and white reproduction of the relevant painting. A beautiful and important work. Winchester Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 33494

‎Franck Richard‎

‎Northern Memoirs Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the year 1658 .‎

‎Edinburgh: Archibald Constable 1821. New Edition with Preface and Notes by Sir Walter Scott; one of 250 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan polished calf edges yellow. Spine worn with loss at ends 1-1/2 inches at foot covers loose one inner hinge crudely repaired with tape. Bound without half title but otherwise internally fine with bookplates of Walter L. Nash and Samuel W. Lambert. New Edition with Preface and Notes by Sir Walter Scott; one of 250 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. A work notable for its disparagement of Isaac Walton Scott noting however that the author "is as much superior to the excellent patriarch Isaac Walton in the mystery of fly-fishing Walton utilizing only bait as inferior to him in taste feeling and common sense" Westwood & Satchell p. 100-1 Archibald Constable unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 9771

‎Ramsay J.‎

‎Hand-Colored Full Portrait Print: "John Lockley Esqr. Formerly of Boscobel House in the County of Salop. but now of Amerie Court Pershore in the County of Worcester. Father of the Field" Engraved by Thos. Lupton‎

‎London: J. Pittman Warwick Square & W.B. Cooke 9 Soho Square 1825. 1 vols. 14 x 10-1/2 inches Image Size. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. 14 x 10-1/2 inches Image Size. J. Pittman, Warwick Square & W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 38202

‎Walton Izaac‎

‎The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas‎

‎London: Chatto & Windus 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. Portrait frontispiece engraved additional title numerous plates and illustrations after Stothard and Inskipp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half calf t.e.g. Extremities rubbed spine label chipped. Internally clean. Third Nicolas Edition. Portrait frontispiece engraved additional title numerous plates and illustrations after Stothard and Inskipp. 1 vols. 8vo. A compact pleasing edition with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition 1836 here printed all on separate leaves. Coigney 95; Westwood & Satchell p. 235 Chatto & Windus unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 221571

‎Gierach John‎

‎Fishing Bamboo‎

‎New York: Lyons and Burford 1997. No 53 of 55 special large paper copies signed by author artist binder and publisher specially bound with a page of original typescript manuscript and a hand-colored line drawing. With illustrations by Glenn Wolff. 1 vols. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 blue morocco over blue ribbed cloth spine inset with piece of lettered bamboo by Carolyn Chadwick fine in original matching slipcase with leather label. No 53 of 55 special large paper copies signed by author artist binder and publisher specially bound with a page of original typescript manuscript and a hand-colored line drawing. With illustrations by Glenn Wolff. 1 vols. 8vo. DeLuxe Edition One of 55 Copies. Lyons and Burford unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 20214

‎North Country‎

‎A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers‎

‎Newcastle: Printed for Emerson Charnley 1842. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick vignettes by Bewick and others. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth portion of one flyleaf cut away else fine. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick vignettes by Bewick and others. 1 vols. 8vo. A series of individually issued pamphlets of angling verse here collected and provided with frontispiece and title page: there are 25 of these by various authors each embellished with a vignette by or largely in the style of Thomas Bewick; the first "The Angler's Progress" is dated 1820 the last "The Angler's Adieu for the Season" 1842. Westwood & Satchell pp. 157-160; Hugo The Bewick Collector 3812 Printed for Emerson Charnley unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 9773