‎Sports‎

‎Wilson Leila Fosburgh‎

‎One Hundred Years in the Adirondack Wilderness. The North Woods Club 1886-1986‎

‎np 1986. First edition. Map frontispiece. Folding map. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green wrappers. Fine. First edition. Map frontispiece. Folding map. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Essex County New York. Rare never seen. Mrs Wilson states that her husband Evan M. Wilson and her brother Hugh Fosburgh put this information together. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 228934

‎Baseball‎

‎Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together‎

‎N.p. 1940. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. Mounted to stiff card captioned at top in ink "Joe Dimaggio = Joe Louis" and at bottom with typed slip "Joe Louis Slugging Outfielder & Joe Louis." Narrow light vertical stain through the length of the image slight overall toning. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. The Yankee Clipper & the Bronx Bomber Pose Together. Rare photograph of the two legendary athletes posing playfully side by side Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder Louis standing with his fists clenched ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin. According to biographers Engelberg and Schneider Joe Louis was Dimaggio's first boxing hero: "Dimaggio saw several of Louis's fight including his first fight with Billy Conn. It took place at the Polo Grounds in New York one month into Dimaggio's monumental hitting streak in 1941 . " DIMAGGIO: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT p. 369. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 234945

‎Davy Sir Humphrey‎

‎Salmonia; or Days of Fly Fishing‎

‎London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1829. Second edition. Illustrated. xiii 3 335 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half black pebbled morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of John R. Woods. Signature of H. Barker 1852 on ffep. Very good. Second edition. Illustrated. xiii 3 335 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell p. 77 citing earlier editions John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 54006

‎Gumuchian Catalogue‎

‎Les Livres de l'Enfance. Préface de Paul Gavault‎

‎Paris: Gumuchian et Co 1930. First edition one of 1000 copies. xxiv 446 3 ads; ii 336 pp. of plates. 2 vols. 4to. Original wrappers with hand colored vignette. Chipping to head of spine of vol. 2 else very good largely unopened copy with publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. First edition one of 1000 copies. xxiv 446 3 ads; ii 336 pp. of plates. 2 vols. 4to. Gumuchian et Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 37841

‎Sheringham Hugh and John C. Moore‎

‎The Book of the Fly Rod‎

‎London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1931. First edition no. 45A of 195 copies of which 1A-70A reserved for USA signed by George Sheringham. Illustrated with four color-collotype plates and eight plates hand-colored by Geroge Sheringham. 174. 1 vols. 4to. Original green cloth vellum spine t.e.g. Fine. Bookplate small blindstamp on title-page. First edition no. 45A of 195 copies of which 1A-70A reserved for USA signed by George Sheringham. Illustrated with four color-collotype plates and eight plates hand-colored by Geroge Sheringham. 174. 1 vols. 4to. Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 242715

‎Legrand Maurice‎

‎Au Fil de l'Eau Souvenirs d'un pêcheur‎

‎Tours: Arrault 1943. First edition. 4 plates of angling photographs. 158 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original printed pictorial wrappers uncut. Some browning of wartime paper stock else fine. First edition. 4 plates of angling photographs. 158 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Arrault unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 58010

‎Salter Thomas Frederick‎

‎The Angler's Guide Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling . with considerable additions local descriptions glossary of technical terms and index‎

‎London: Printed for the Author by Carpenter and Son 16 Aldgate High Street 1815. Third edition with additions glossary and index. Large Paper Copy. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved and wood-engraved plates numerous illustrations in the text. xxix 313 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-7/8 x 5-1/4 inches. Attractively bound in full speckled tan morocco. Fine. Third edition with additions glossary and index. Large Paper Copy. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved and wood-engraved plates numerous illustrations in the text. xxix 313 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-7/8 x 5-1/4 inches. LARGE PAPER. A classic work first published in 1814 which went into numerous editions this one being particularly well illustrated.<br/><br/>Published in the same year as the second edition due to "the very favourable manner which the said work is spoken of by the Sporting Magazine for April 1815 also by the New Monthly Magazine for May". This edition includes new copper-engraved plates "taken from drawings made from living fish under the author's own inspection" Westwood & Satchell p. 186 Printed for the Author by Carpenter and Son, 16, Aldgate High Street unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 220867

‎Dowsett J Morewood‎

‎Big Game and Big Life. With a Foreword by R.B. Cunninghame Graham‎

‎New York: Dutton 1925. First American edition. Illustrated with 174 photographs Drawings and A Map. 242 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First American edition. Illustrated with 174 photographs Drawings and A Map. 242 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dutton unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 236868

‎Goodspeed Charles E.‎

‎Angling in America. Its Early History and Literature‎

‎Houghton Mifflin 1939. First edition no. 117 of 795 copies signed by the author. Numerous illustrations and facsimiles. xiv 381 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original blue cloth leather title label on upper cover and spine t.e.g. Spine sunned leather label faded to brown in remains of slipcase. First edition no. 117 of 795 copies signed by the author. Numerous illustrations and facsimiles. xiv 381 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Bruns G102 Houghton Mifflin unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 238024

‎The Sporting Repository containing Horse-racing Hunting Coursing Shooting. Archery Trotting and Tandem matches Cocking Pedestrianism Pugilism Anecdotes on sporting subjects interspersed with Essays Tales and a great variety of Miscellaneous Articles‎

‎London: Kegan Paul Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd 1904. One of 500 copies. 22 plates by Henry Alken and others. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full crimson morocco gilt emblematic tooling on the spine gilt doublures t.e.g. by Riviere & Son; spots of foxing on outer edges not extending onto the page else fine and attractive. One of 500 copies. 22 plates by Henry Alken and others. 1 vols. 4to. Fine Reprint of the Rare Classic 'sporting Repository" of 1822. The Sporting Repository a London periodical of almost legendary rarity particularly the final June issue appeared in only six monthly issues January-June 1822. There were a number of short-lived sporting journals around this time but this one was notable by the inclusion of 19 colored plates by Alken and J. Barenger. Not all of these are of top quality and the publishers of this 1904 reprint while reproducing most with careful fidelity have replaced six of the weaker ones with nine others of superior quality by Alken Dighton and Ben Marshall for a total of 22. Apart from this the contents are as in the original and the resulting volume is not only handsome but of continuing interest to the sportsman and to anyone interested in Regency England. Schwerdt II p. 212; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 348 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 52992

‎Mosely Martin E.‎

‎The Dry-Fly Fisherman's Entomology. Being a Supplement to Frederic M. Halford's The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook‎

‎London: Routledge 1921. First edition. Illustrated with 16 hand-colored plates and figures in the text. 109 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green rexine wallet-style binding. Very fine copy of this classic. Bookplate of Samuel W. Lambert. First edition. Illustrated with 16 hand-colored plates and figures in the text. 109 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Routledge unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 240004

‎Ronalds Alfred‎

‎The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect‎

‎London: Longman 1844. Third edition. With 20 hand-colored engraved plates 32-page publisher's catalogue dated October 1845. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth variant binding with slightly different pattern cloth slight soiling. Ownership signature and bookplate of William Arthur Sparrow. Fresh bright copy. Third edition. With 20 hand-colored engraved plates 32-page publisher's catalogue dated October 1845. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell p.178 Longman unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 221022

‎France Grille Francois Joseph‎

‎Itinéraire de Troyes a Mulhausen Chaumont Vesoul Belfort Par F. G. De Malvoisine‎

‎Paris: Timothee Dehay Imprinteries de Lachevareiere 1830. Half-title title vignette double-page engraved map Paris to Colmar route traced in colors. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Original printed boards advertisements on back cover wrapped in glassine. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers spine split some light spotting else very good. Half-title title vignette double-page engraved map Paris to Colmar route traced in colors. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Timothee Dehay [Imprinteries de Lachevareiere] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 33185

‎Polo Berry PR. P. R.‎

‎Two pen and ink drawings on paper colored in crayon depicting scenes from Polo matches in Cannes‎

‎Apx. 7-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches 2. Both matted and framed one glazed. Apx. 7-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches 2. Works inscribed: "Polo Cannes Mandelieu 6.8.60" and "Cannes-Mandelieu 5.5.65" each signed "P.R. Berry." Berry was a founder of the St. Moritz Polo Club in 1959. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 57444

‎Scotland Knox John‎

‎Voyage dans les Montagnes de l'Ecosse et dans les Iles d'Hébrides fait en 1786 . Traduit de l'Anglois by T. Mandat‎

‎Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1790. First edition in French. iv 412; iv 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Covers a little scuffed upper joint of volume 2 starting else very good. First edition in French. iv 412; iv 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "a good introduction of Scotland to Frenchmen" First French edition of A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland . London 1787.<br/><br/>"This Scottish philanthropist was for many years a bookseller of eminence in London and devoted the fortune he acquired in his business to the improvement of his country. He had long been concerned over the wretched condition of the Highlanders and had made as many as sixteen journeys since 1764 into various parts of the North. He succeeded in arousing the active interest of the London Highland Society in the formation of a British Society for extending the fisheries and improving the sea ports on the coasts. Subscriptions were taken and then he set out on the above recorded tour for which he was voted a gold medal by the Society. The two principal improvements he advocated were inland navigation e.g. tbe Crinan Canal since accomplished and the establishment of free villages or fishing stations on the east coast." - Cox. <br/><br/>Cox says of this French edition: "This work served as a good introduction of Scotland to Frenchmen and is of importance for the story of Ossianism in France. He reproduced some of the arguments of John Smith's Gaelic Antiquities Edinb. 1780 in reply to Johnson's attacks whereby Frenchmen became acquainted with some of the theories of Smith an acquired some notion of the Highland bards.<br/><br/>The Tour was first published in 1787 at the Highland Society of London. Cox III p. 33-34 Defer de Maisonneuve unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 27962

‎Saunders James‎

‎The Compleat Fisherman. The Compleat Fisherman. Being a large and Particular Account of all the Several Ways of Fishing now practised in Europe; with abundance of curious Secrets and Niceties in the Art of Fishing as well in the Sea as in Lakes Meers Ponds Rivers or Brooks; whether by Darts Spears Harpoons Nets Hook and Line or any other way whatsover. More particularly calculated for the Sport of Angling. With directions for preparing the angle rods lines hooks and baits proper for every part of the sport respectively; and also for the angler's conduct in rightly applying them. Also an account of all the principal rivers lakes &c. in England; and what kinds of fish are more especially found in them‎

‎London: W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple-Bar S. Tooke and B. Motte 1724. First Edition. Folding engraved frontispiece "fecit J.C.". vi .234 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf some minor wear and darkening to spine crisp copy. With 3 different bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. First Edition. Folding engraved frontispiece "fecit J.C.". vi .234 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Heckscher Copy. Westwood and Satchell p. 189 W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, S. Tooke and B. Motte unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 240397

‎Lewis Elisha J.‎

‎The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen Notes on Shooting and the Habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of America‎

‎Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo and Co 1855. First edition. Frontispiece aquatint engraved aquatint title page and numerous text illustrations. xxxi i 33-494 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original ribbed cloth gilt stamped emblematic spine. A beautiful copy of a book that seldom comes this way. First edition. Frontispiece aquatint engraved aquatint title page and numerous text illustrations. xxxi i 33-494 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Phillips p. 225; Henderson pp. 162-163; Heller 2:703 Lippincott, Grambo and Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 239955

‎Foxhunting Radcliffe FP. Delme F. P.‎

‎The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting.Revised Corrected and Enlarged by William C.A. Blew. Revised and Brought Down to Date by Cuthbert Bradley‎

‎London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1911. With ten steel-plate engravings coloured by hand and thirty-five wood engravings in the text. 2 vols. 4to. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fine. With ten steel-plate engravings coloured by hand and thirty-five wood engravings in the text. 2 vols. 4to. A classic work by the Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 298 George Routledge and Sons, Limited unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 224252

‎Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle; Combining with the News of the Week A rich Repository of Fashion Wit and Humour and the Interesting Incidents of Real Life‎

‎London: Published at Four O'Clock Every Saturday Afternoon by Messrs. Smith's 192 Strand London 1827. A four-page advertisement for Bell's paper printed on two conjugate leaves by B. Bensley Bolt Court Fleet Street. First sheet illustrated with numerous sporting subjects in the style of George Cruikshank. 1 vols. Folio. Fine fresh copy. A four-page advertisement for Bell's paper printed on two conjugate leaves by B. Bensley Bolt Court Fleet Street. First sheet illustrated with numerous sporting subjects in the style of George Cruikshank. 1 vols. Folio. Bell's Life in London was a rival to Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide an offshoot of his highly successful book. Egan began his periodical in 1824 as a Sunday weekly and in 1826 asked Cruikshank to design some wood engravings to head the paper's regular features which increased its circulation. Some Cruikshank designs were subsequently used without the artist's consent by Bell's paper and in 1827 Egan unable to achieve the success of his competitor sold out to Bell who merged the two journals into one. Bell's was a conspicuous success: it sold as many as sixteen thousand copies weekly to the poorest classes. This advertisement in addition to its lively cover of over twenty woodcuts features a number of poetical effusions to Royalty the Nobility Members of Parliament the Clergy the Army and Navy the Commercial Agricultural and Theatrical Worlds and of course Sportsmen of Every Degree The advertisement is not a part of Bell's periodical but was a separately issued publication to promote circulation. Patten George Cruikshank I pp. 300-301 et seq Published at Four O'Clock Every Saturday Afternoon by Messrs. Smith's, 192, Strand, London unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 233162

‎Fontaine S. T.‎

‎2 pencil drawings. "starting for a Hunt" with horseman jumping fence etc & "Escaped" with two horsemen‎

‎1 vols. 11-3/4 x 9 inches. Fine some foxing. 1 vols. 11-3/4 x 9 inches. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 43893

‎Foxhunting‎

‎Sporting Days. A Book for Visitors and House Parties Arranged by J. Harry Savory‎

‎Bristol: E.W. Savory Ltd. Fine Art Publishers 1907. First edition. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham Tom Browne Cecil Aldin and others. 1 vols. Folio. Pictorial buckram green ribbon ties. Spine darkened boards lightly soiled inner top hinge cracked. Very Good. First edition. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham Tom Browne Cecil Aldin and others. 1 vols. Folio. This scrapbook for house parties is mostly blank with the exception of one sketch of a saddled horse signed R.M. MacKenzie 1909. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 201; Riall A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham p. 79 "Rackham's contribution is a page with hanging fish and a tail-piece of a brace of pheasants in bracken. E.W. Savory, Ltd., Fine Art Publishers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 55940

‎Adirondacks Osborne Edward B.‎

‎Letters from the Woods. Editorial Correspondence. Random Rhymes from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest Lake and Random Rhymes‎

‎Poughkeepsie: Privately Printed 1893. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth spine titled in gilt upper board stamped in silver. Some spotting to spine else very good plus. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The Adirondacks in the 1850s. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting fishing and outdoor life in the Adirondacks Michigan and Canada in the 1950 and 1860s. Phillips p. 282; Plum 1047; Bruns O-21 "important and rare work"; Heller 1:708 [Privately Printed] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 237400

‎Mills John‎

‎The Old English Gentleman or The Fields and the Woods‎

‎London: Henry Colburn 1841. First edition. viii 293; ii 280; ii 274 2 pp. ads undated. 3 vols. 8vo. Uncut in the original drab gray boards blue cloth spines with printed paper labels a bit rubbed. Etched bookplate of George Gilpin on the front pastedown of each volume. Lovely set thus. First edition. viii 293; ii 280; ii 274 2 pp. ads undated. 3 vols. 8vo. Sporting Triple-Decker in Boards. Sadleir who had a copy in boards writes: "I remember an old bookseller in Edinburgh who had been at one time employed by W.T. Spencer telling me that Spencer regarded a board copy of THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN as one of the rarest three-volume items in his experience . " Wolff's copy on the other hand was rebacked with new labels and in his own estimation "pretty crude."<br/><br/>The first of Mills' "rollicking hunting books" Sutherland.<br/><br/>"Like his contemporaries 'Nimrod' C.J. Apperley and 'Yorkshireman' Surtees Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes pertaining to the order characterized by 'Jorrocks' as 'Gentleman sportsmen' and with the works of those 'top-sawyers' and first of sporting and sportive penman" Higginson. Sadleir 1738; Wolff 4803; Higginson pp. 75-6 Henry Colburn unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 228833

‎Surtees Robert Smith‎

‎Hillingdon Hall; or The Cockney Squire; A Tale of Country Life. By the author of "Handley Cross" &c. In Three Volumes‎

‎London: Henry Colburn Publisher 1845. First edition. 312; 324; 296 pp. Printed by Joseph Rogerson. 3 vols. 8vo. Later blue-green cloth a bit worn. Internally Fine. First edition. 312; 324; 296 pp. Printed by Joseph Rogerson. 3 vols. 8vo. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 359 Henry Colburn, Publisher unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 58448

‎Knight John Alden‎

‎Woodcock‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First edition No. 145 of 275 copies on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper signed containing an extra color plate. Frontispiece and 4 color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke 10 photographic plates in black & white. 161 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green boards gilt tan cloth spine with lettering piece very fine in slightly worn board slipcase. First edition No. 145 of 275 copies on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper signed containing an extra color plate. Frontispiece and 4 color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke 10 photographic plates in black & white. 161 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautiful copy of a handsome book signed by author and illustrator on limitation page. Biscotti p. 242; Heller 2:693 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 56888