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ref. 53336Paris: Crépy 1783. Original hand-coloured engraving overall 72 x 48 cm comprising 15 sections the game occupying 12 sections each 16 x 16 cm. plus 3 half-panels at the bottom for the title and rules of the Nouvelle Combinaison each 8 x 16 cm. Contemporary linen backing. Framed with museum quality glass 99% UV filter - less than 2% reflection. Easily removable from frame Joints holding although fragile wear to corners minor loss to inside margin of lower left title panel light browning a few hanging pin holes at margins. Scarce especially when coloured. Without imprint or date as normal. The 12 panels depict 12 traditional games La Main Chaude Le Balon La Crosse etc which follow the 12 months of the year. Rules for advancing around the board underneath each illustration and a second method of playing in the bottom three panels. [Paris: Crépy, 1783]. unknown
1915ref. 57029Helena MT: Independent Publishing Co. 1915. 8vo. 88 pp. Photo illustrations tables historiated vignettes at upper fore-edges of text pages throughout. Beige-printed softcovers salmon-coloured outline map of Montana on front cover border in burgandy minor chipping head & foot of spine & to couple corners minor dustsoiling still VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original and well illustrated report. The Montana Legislature in 1913-1914 codified a number of fish and game laws and established the Game and Fish Commission in order to adjust hunting seasons bag limits license hunters and fishermen who were rapidly decreasing the numbers of game animals and fish as well as try and legislate against water pollution through cyanide and other pollutants introduced by mining interests in the State. Montana had established a number of fish hatcheries to feed many of the small landlocked lakes & ponds which were rapidly being depleted by intrepid sportsmen dynamiting the habitats and harvesting the fish. There are descriptions of hunting bear in Flathead County with a photo of the “Famous Lady Hunter” standing over her trophy; descriptions of deer hunting and remonstrations against poachers especially with those continuing to kill the “Bull Moose” which had been barred by State law. Of additional interest are the photos and detailed description of the Montana State “Fish Car ‘Thymallus’” featuring banks of specially fitted aerated aquariums for transporting hatchery fish for license paying sportsmen followed by tables of the 10s of 1000s of fish released. Also included are statistics on poaching arrests jail sentences and fines. Worldcat locates copies UCLA NOAA Woods Hole Yale holds an edition issued in 1914 for the Northern Pacific Railway with 75 pp.; See: Diann Ericson The Legislative and Political Development of the Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks 1895-1921: A Case of Cultural Heritage 1994. Independent Publishing Co., paperback
1904ref. 55454London: Rowland Ward Ltd. 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi 292 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 44 photos and plates 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine simulated Zebra skin endpapers minor bumping to corners edgewear slight spotting on the spine still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans salmon cannery operations and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears Grizzly Bears Moose Dall Sheep and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg. He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy Alaska’s No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg 1869-1939 pp. 28-29 38. Rowland Ward Ltd., hardcover
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1927ref. 53798New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1927. 8vo. xi 3 239 1 pp. Colour-tinted frontisp. 7 colour-tinted plates. Orange cloth silver lettering front cover & spine very minor shelfwear very slight bumping to corners w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of stalking Tiger silhouette on front cover by Reynolds in black silver and orange slight chipping head of spine minor creasing edgewear still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of big game stories of the Indian jungle set on the North Eastern frontier near Bhutan. Casserly 1869-1947 joined the 22nd Bombay Infantry in 1892 served in China during the Boxer Rebellion and later with the 120th Rajputana Infantry with about 200 sepoys in a small fort in Cooch Behar. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
1954ref. 53794London: William Kimber 1954. 8vo. ix 1 282 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Green cloth gilt lettering on spine minor dustsoiling & slight foxing to fore-edges of textblock minor shelfwear w/ d.j. vivid cover art by Sanford with depicting elephants zebras giraffes and more in grays black white & yellow minor dustsoiling slight foxing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this scarce big game hunting memoir with the author documenting his experiences in hunting lions elephants the dik-dik buffalo rhinoceros leopard zebras and more. William Kimber, hardcover
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1994ref. 52970Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books 1994. 8vo. xiii 1 238 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illustrations plates maps. Blue simulated leather boards gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. NF/NF copy signed on limitation page by Woods and again on ffep. to John P. Archer Jr. 1924-2016 noted Maryland farmer big game hunter and a member of the Safari Club International. First edition signed & numbered 76 of 1000 copies presented to John P. Archer. This work offers excellent details on tracking and hunting the African leopard as well as shooting advice skinning details and more. Trophy Room Books, hardcover
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