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ref. 0982147147.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. B9780982147146Paperback / softback. New. paperback
2012ref. Q-1450420206Human Kinetics 2012-12-14. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Human Kinetics paperback
1980ref. 2090502113717975Not Available 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1972ref. 127056Bonn, Habelt, 1972. 27,5 x 20 cm. 5 Blatt, 282 Seiten, XII Tafeln und 11 gefalt. Beilagen. Leinenband (sehr gut).
ref. 1099093783.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1991Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 12mo. (16,5 x 12,5 cm). In Uzbek. 131, [5] p. Ozbek okçulari. Uzbek archers and archery. Extremely rare.
2002As New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and Turkish; and Mamluk-Kipchak facsimile. [xiii], 367 p. This book is a bilingual edition of Kitâb fî 'ilm an-Nussab; a book on the knowledge of arrows or hulasa 'The essence', a late fourteenth century archery manual written in Mamluk-Kipchak and composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt. This work is the earliest archery manual written in any Turkic language. Although many Arab historians have described the incredible feats of Turkish archers, our knowledge of their skills from Turkic sources written prior to the 14th century is limited to scanty and sporadic material collected from various glossaries and literary works. Contents; Preface; abbrv., transcription table; introduction; Linguistic analysis of the text; Transcription; English translation; glossary; bibliography; technical terminology; reverse English-Mamluk-Kipchak glossary.; Facsimile.
2002ref. H15262Milverton Ontario: Blue Vale Press 2002. First printing. Near Fine. 8.5 x 5.75 inches stiff wraps spiral bound 82 pp illustrated. Near fine and distinctly rare OCLC locating only one holding in Karlsruhe. History advice lore and specific instructions on ancient craft techniques the culmination of the author's over 15 years researching including conversations with hundreds of archers. A gorgeous and well written work of utter madness! Blue Vale Press unknown
ref. RGW24967Hardcover. Very good. Additional vignette title foxed 13 engraved plates some foxed particularly in surround and a further 24 outline plates stain in left top corner and foxing xxiv456pp; tear to pp 397/398. 8vo contemp. half blue morocco gilt worn spine faded front hinge cracked No Jacket issued hardcover
1987Fine English Original imitation full leather bound. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In English. [xvi], 224 p., b/w plates. Enlarged Third Edition. Turkish archery and the composite bow. A review of an old chapter in the chronicles of archery and a modern interpretation.
1907ref. 126739London, New York a.o. Longmans, Green an co, 1907. 32 x 24 cm. 44 + 26 pp. with 40 illustrations. Blindpressed orig. cloth binding.
1967Features: Did Richard Giesbrecht overhear JFK's assassins?; Colour photo ad for the 1968 Delta Oldsmobile; Campus 1967 - Why has it grown so quiet? - an 11-page hard look at the new campus and its problems; A Consumer's Report on Canada's Top Universities; A Day in the Life of a University - 100 people are button-holed at the University of Toronto; Crazy Legs! - colour photos of coloured leggings!; The day the balloon went up for Wallace McCutcheon; Robert Stanfield in Ottawa - the end of obstruction; The Lonely, Fearful Hell of Nervous Breakdowns; Hey Stuke! - Annis Stukus seeks to bulldoze Vancouver into the National Hockey League; When the daring young men took off into glory from a Newfoundland pasture - the challenge to be the first to fly the Atlantic; The Black Hand on the Big Trigger - H. Rap Brown gives his first full-scale interview to a white reporter; Look - There's a Flying Saucer! - some scientists want to prove UFO observers right, or wrong; Nice colour ad for Hollandia pipe tobacco; Colour photo half-page ad for Ski-Doo 1968; Canadiana, with Gerald Stevens; Fantastic colour photo centerfold for the 1968 Buick Models - Gigantic and beautiful cars we'll probably never see again... sigh; Archery in the Rough. Covers separated and detached, but present. Book
20158vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 32 pages of plates; pictorial blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and colours, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. VERY SCARCE.
1801ref. 9985London: Printed for the Author by C. Roworth 1801. First edition. 8vo 2 xlii 298 2pp. Engraved frontispiece and an engraved dedication leaf. 19th century half calf over marbled boards. Old ownership signature inked out on title. Scuffing bookplate removal and catalogue entry on front endpapers. Boards with rubbing. Very good. Nicely bound first edition of this scarce history on the development of English archery. Thomas Roberts was a member of the Toxophilite Society the oldest archery club in England. Printed for the Author by C. Roworth unknown
2019New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (31 x 22 cm). In English and Turkish. 404 p., ills. Istanbul through a bow's sight.= Nisangâh-i Istanbul. 'Okmeydans' in Istanbul in the period of the Ottoman Empire and Istanbul Archers Tekke - Archers in the classical Ottoman age - Evliya Çelebi and archers - Famous archers in Istanbul and their 'Nisantas's - Turkish / Ottoman manuscript literature on archery - Production and producers of composite bows - Story of 'Tekke of Archers'.
191788 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1833ref. 194116London: T. Hurst 1833. First edition of this popular handbook covering the history and theory of the sport. It is aimed towards both men and women with the charming frontispiece depicting both genders in their archery attire. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries "archery was revived as a fashionable pastime among the English aristocracy thanks to a nostalgic taste for the gothic and medieval" Johnes p. 193. It was issued in several variant bindings: green or brown paper-covered boards green and white moiré cloth or green morocco-grain cloth as here. This is the only variant with the plates presented as a folding frontispiece; in the others they were separated into a frontispiece and two plates. Small octavo. Hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece. Original green morocco-grain cloth Lake variant iii rebacked yellow coated endpapers. Corners bumped and lightly worn occasional marks and damp stains to contents front inner hinge cracked but holding firm neat tape repair to frontispiece verso: a very good copy. Bobbs 7; Lake A17a. Martin Johnes "Archery romance and elite culture in England and Wales" History vol. 89 no. 2 Apr. 2004. hardcover
1940ref. 238401940. American target archery and home bow making ephemera addressed to George L. Aspinwall 1940 to 1945 documenting how sporting science mail order commerce and workshop practice shaped the equipment choices of a Chestnut Hill archer. The central three page letter comes from Russ Hoogerhyde the six time national champion who answers Aspinwall's complaint about a set of arrows before soliciting his judgment of traditional and Paul E. Klopsteg bow designs. Correspondence invoices instructional sheets and annotated trade literature from Hoogerhyde E. Bud Pierson J. Ellis Mitchell and the Falcon Archery Shop follow Aspinwall from purchasing prepared sinew and glue to comparing limb geometry arrow weight silk backing and the performance of completed bows. Aspinwall George L. Archery Ephemera Archive. Chestnut Hill Massachusetts; Northbrook and Chicago Illinois; Cincinnati Ohio; and Dallas Texas 1940 to 1945. Eight items in 12 leaves principally 8.5 x 11 inches. 1 Hoogerhyde Russ B. Typed letter signed to George L. Aspinwall. Northbrook Illinois August 29 1940. Three pages. Responding to Aspinwall's dissatisfaction with the weight and finish of newly purchased arrows Hoogerhyde explains that shafts were weighed and spine tested before their nocks feathers and cresting were applied. He places shooting performance above uniform scale weight recalling that the "imperfect" set he used at the 1931 National Tournament varied by 52 grains yet enabled him to shoot three perfect ends out of five at 40 yards. The letter then turns to Aspinwall's purchase of two bow types one traditional and one based on Klopsteg's "A Graphic Method of Designing a Bow" published in the June 1939 issue of Ye Sylvan Archer. Hoogerhyde reports selling traditional bows over the newer design by four to one and asks whether Aspinwall's Klopsteg bow developed excessive set in its lower limb under the asymmetrical three finger draw. 2 Pierson E. Bud. Autograph letter signed to George L. Aspinwall. Cincinnati Ohio November 20 1940. One page on illustrated archery tackle letterhead. Pierson acknowledges Aspinwall's five dollar check and shipment of 20 bundles of sinew with enough glue for three bows advising him to apply a medium backing about three sixteenths of an inch thick while wet and to prepare osage wood carefully. 3 Pierson E. Bud. Invoice to George L. Aspinwall. Cincinnati Ohio November 23 1940. One leaf. Records 20 bundles of prepared sinew and one half pint of sinew glue at a total cost of five dollars. 4 Falcon Archery Shop. Loin sinew sales and instruction circular addressed to George L. Aspinwall. Chicago Illinois circa February 21 1945. Two leaves. Announces the return of loin sinew after an absence of nearly two years compares its appearance to "one or two hundred small violin strings dipped in glue and dried within a wrapping" and gives prices for sinew and glue. Aspinwall's pencil calculations a postal money order receipt for $8.58 and the notation "Sent M.O. $8.58 Feb. 21 '45 for 2 orders sinew and glue plus 10% for selected" record his purchase. 5 Pierson Bud and Chas. "Cold Glue Sinew Backing." Cincinnati Ohio undated. One printed leaf with manuscript corrections and numbered procedural changes. The instructions cover preparing yew and osage obtaining beef tendons from slaughterhouses shredding and washing sinew applying it under bandages retillering the finished bow and allowing three weeks to one month for drying. 6 Hoogerhyde Russ. "Directions for Applying Silk Backing." Northbrook Illinois undated. One typed instruction sheet attributing the development of silk backing to physicist Clarence N. Hickman and specifying clamps rosin padding glue and more than 500 pounds of applied tension. 7 Mitchell J. Ellis. "Mitchell Pierson Silk Applicator." Dallas Texas undated. One typed instruction sheet directing the archer to mount silk muslin rubber and plywood in a geared applicator stretch the silk two percent and leave the bow clamped for at least 24 hours. 8 Falcon Archery Shop. "Sinew Backing." Chicago Illinois undated. Two typed leaves with manuscript additions describing the preparation of the bow softening and shredding tendon degreasing the strands maintaining warm glue and positioning the bow during application. Hoogerhyde wrote less than a month after winning his sixth national championship in August 1940 yet his letter treats Aspinwall as a participant in unresolved questions about bow balance and construction. Klopsteg then president of the Central Scientific Company had brought the methods of a physicist and instrument designer to limb geometry while Hickman's experiments addressed arrow oscillation bow efficiency and backing materials. Aspinwall's papers record these ideas outside the laboratory and sporting press where commercial bowyers translated them into customer correspondence and amateurs tested them at the bench and shooting line. The repeated directions for sinew and silk also preserve a transitional workshop culture in which archers sourced animal tendon built clamping fixtures mixed glue altered limb stiffness and annotated printed instructions according to experience. Moderate overall toning old folds staple holes occasional spotting minor edge wear and several short edge tears; manuscript additions and signatures remain legible. Overall good condition. A personal record of scientific experimentation mail order trade and manual craft within American archery during the 1940s. unknown
1940ref. 238401940. American target archery and home bow making ephemera addressed to George L. Aspinwall 1940 to 1945 documenting how sporting science mail order commerce and workshop practice shaped the equipment choices of a Chestnut Hill archer. The central three page letter comes from Russ Hoogerhyde the six time national champion who answers Aspinwall's complaint about a set of arrows before soliciting his judgment of traditional and Paul E. Klopsteg bow designs. Correspondence invoices instructional sheets and annotated trade literature from Hoogerhyde E. Bud Pierson J. Ellis Mitchell and the Falcon Archery Shop follow Aspinwall from purchasing prepared sinew and glue to comparing limb geometry arrow weight silk backing and the performance of completed bows. Aspinwall George L. Archery Ephemera Archive. Chestnut Hill Massachusetts; Northbrook and Chicago Illinois; Cincinnati Ohio; and Dallas Texas 1940 to 1945. Eight items in 12 leaves principally 8.5 x 11 inches. 1 Hoogerhyde Russ B. Typed letter signed to George L. Aspinwall. Northbrook Illinois August 29 1940. Three pages. Responding to Aspinwall's dissatisfaction with the weight and finish of newly purchased arrows Hoogerhyde explains that shafts were weighed and spine tested before their nocks feathers and cresting were applied. He places shooting performance above uniform scale weight recalling that the "imperfect" set he used at the 1931 National Tournament varied by 52 grains yet enabled him to shoot three perfect ends out of five at 40 yards. The letter then turns to Aspinwall's purchase of two bow types one traditional and one based on Klopsteg's "A Graphic Method of Designing a Bow" published in the June 1939 issue of Ye Sylvan Archer. Hoogerhyde reports selling traditional bows over the newer design by four to one and asks whether Aspinwall's Klopsteg bow developed excessive set in its lower limb under the asymmetrical three finger draw. 2 Pierson E. Bud. Autograph letter signed to George L. Aspinwall. Cincinnati Ohio November 20 1940. One page on illustrated archery tackle letterhead. Pierson acknowledges Aspinwall's five dollar check and shipment of 20 bundles of sinew with enough glue for three bows advising him to apply a medium backing about three sixteenths of an inch thick while wet and to prepare osage wood carefully. 3 Pierson E. Bud. Invoice to George L. Aspinwall. Cincinnati Ohio November 23 1940. One leaf. Records 20 bundles of prepared sinew and one half pint of sinew glue at a total cost of five dollars. 4 Falcon Archery Shop. Loin sinew sales and instruction circular addressed to George L. Aspinwall. Chicago Illinois circa February 21 1945. Two leaves. Announces the return of loin sinew after an absence of nearly two years compares its appearance to "one or two hundred small violin strings dipped in glue and dried within a wrapping" and gives prices for sinew and glue. Aspinwall's pencil calculations a postal money order receipt for $8.58 and the notation "Sent M.O. $8.58 Feb. 21 '45 for 2 orders sinew and glue plus 10% for selected" record his purchase. 5 Pierson Bud and Chas. "Cold Glue Sinew Backing." Cincinnati Ohio undated. One printed leaf with manuscript corrections and numbered procedural changes. The instructions cover preparing yew and osage obtaining beef tendons from slaughterhouses shredding and washing sinew applying it under bandages retillering the finished bow and allowing three weeks to one month for drying. 6 Hoogerhyde Russ. "Directions for Applying Silk Backing." Northbrook Illinois undated. One typed instruction sheet attributing the development of silk backing to physicist Clarence N. Hickman and specifying clamps rosin padding glue and more than 500 pounds of applied tension. 7 Mitchell J. Ellis. "Mitchell Pierson Silk Applicator." Dallas Texas undated. One typed instruction sheet directing the archer to mount silk muslin rubber and plywood in a geared applicator stretch the silk two percent and leave the bow clamped for at least 24 hours. 8 Falcon Archery Shop. "Sinew Backing." Chicago Illinois undated. Two typed leaves with manuscript additions describing the preparation of the bow softening and shredding tendon degreasing the strands maintaining warm glue and positioning the bow during application. Hoogerhyde wrote less than a month after winning his sixth national championship in August 1940 yet his letter treats Aspinwall as a participant in unresolved questions about bow balance and construction. Klopsteg then president of the Central Scientific Company had brought the methods of a physicist and instrument designer to limb geometry while Hickman's experiments addressed arrow oscillation bow efficiency and backing materials. Aspinwall's papers record these ideas outside the laboratory and sporting press where commercial bowyers translated them into customer correspondence and amateurs tested them at the bench and shooting line. The repeated directions for sinew and silk also preserve a transitional workshop culture in which archers sourced animal tendon built clamping fixtures mixed glue altered limb stiffness and annotated printed instructions according to experience. Moderate overall toning old folds staple holes occasional spotting minor edge wear and several short edge tears; manuscript additions and signatures remain legible. Overall good condition. A personal record of scientific experimentation mail order trade and manual craft within American archery during the 1940s. unknown books
1822ref. 194371Wrexham: Printed by A. Tye 1822. First and only edition of the membership list for the newly restored society. Founded in 1787 the Royal British Bowmen was the first archery collective to admit women. It "regarded shooting more seriously than most and took steps to limit the excessiveness and expense of the festivity" Johnes pp. 196-7. The society toured the country houses of its members rather than meeting in taverns in large part because of the presence of women. The events functioned as an extension of the marriage mart and there were several unions among its members. Although archery enjoyed great popularity in the late 18th century the sport dwindled during the Napoleonic Wars. This membership list dates from the post-Waterloo revival which was also influenced by the growing taste for medievalism. Nineteenth-century archery was characterized by increased opulence and sociability. WorldCat records only one institutional holding: the British Library. Despite the designation on the title page as a "new edition" we have traced no copies of an earlier publication. Sextodecimo 128 x 80 mm pp. 46. Headpiece. Original limp leatherette blue marbled endpapers. Binding soiled extremities rubbed contents lightly toned else clean: in very good condition. Martin Johnes "Archery romance and elite culture in England and Wales" History vol. 89 no. 2 Apr. 2004. hardcover
1844ref. AQ33592Thirsk: s.n. 1844. Manuscript on paper. 16pp. Stitched. Housed in modern navy moire cloth folder bound by John Gardener of Borough Green Kent. Single old central vertical fold. 'Do not Agincourt Cressy and gory Poitiers Prove the aim of our archers and yeomen When thousands of Gauls in despite of their spears Fell slaughtered by hundreds of bowmen.' A mid-nineteenth century manuscript in a single legible hand providing an apparently unpublished verse account of an archery meeting at Thirsk North Yorkshire. The anonymous author of the rollicking thirty-three stanza narrative was evidently a member of the Thirsk Bowmen one of England's foremost archery societies established on 3rd July 1824. The lively poem charts the course of a grand ball held at an undisclosed location in September of 1844. The celebration was most probably held to commemorate of the culmination of that year's practice season which ran from the first Tuesday of May to last Tuesday of September. Though there is no extant evidence that the event was an annual one jubilation was indeed in order as in August of 1844 the inaugural Grand National Archery Meeting had taken place; an event instituted be the secretary of the Thirsk bowmen and largely dominated by society members. The narrative itself charts the evening's festivities affectionately championing those in attendance; each referred to by a grandiose pseudonym reflecting their character or sporting achievements. The manuscript replete with in-jokes and personal anecdotes was evidently intended for circulation amongst members for both their amusement and as a token of remembrance for what was undoubtedly a joyous and somewhat raucous occasion. 'The hall is deserted the guests are all gone The chandeliers shed their effulgence on none The floor is untrodden the benches are bare The graceful and lovely no longer are there! The scene shall be ended the curtain shall fall And we'll close with a wish that's echoed by all May Thirsk have an annual Archery ball.' . 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover
1830ref. 187726Philadelphia: R. H. Hobson 1830. Archery. the best probably of the gymnastic exercises First and sole edition of this rare guide attractively preserved in original state. The United Bowmen was the first archery club founded in the United States and this manual largely based on Thomas Waring's A Treatise of Archery London 1814 the first such text produced in the United States. Just 15 copies traced institutionally all in America. The club was founded in 1828 by artist and natural historian Titian Ramsay Peale 1799-1885 who had just returned from Stephen Harriman Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and "feeling the want of outdoor exercise" Davidson p. 1 and inspired by observation of the "Indians settled West of the Mississippi" with whose habits he was "entirely familiar" introduction p. vi settled on archery as a suitable pastime. Along with half a dozen other gentlemen - including fellow artist Thomas Sully who provided the sketch for the frontispiece - he set about formalizing a constitution for a society not to exceed 25 members. The Manual offers a brief history of the practice a discussion of the equipment required and its maintenance technique shooting drill and a guide to archer's etiquette mostly drawn from Waring but with occasional references by way of historical anecdote to Ascham's Toxophilus. By the time of Davidson's celebration of of the UBP Peale the last original member had died and membership had dwindled the new generation having found novel occupations and distractions; so the last "remains. have been gathered together and are deposited as a final resting place in the hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Sic transit gloria Sagittariorum Conjunctorum". Bookplate of investment banker and philanthropist John M. Schiff's Northwood library to the front pastedown. Schiff 1904-87 was a noted breeder of race horses and a prominent promoter of the Scout Movement recipient of Bronze Wolf in 1981. Duodecimo. pp. xii 66. With an engraved frontispiece by C. G. Childs and T. Kelly from a drawing by Thomas Sully one further engraved plate and a tipped-in sheet of publisher's advertisements to rear. Original publisher's dark olive green linen-backed moderate olive green morocco-grain paper boards lettered in gilt to front board. Housed in modern yellowish green chemise and cloth slipcase deep orange spine label. A little rubbed and stained spine a touch sunned; endpapers browned and slightly marked from the removal of a bookplate and card ticket-pocket text block toned and with sporadic foxing; very good. Henderson Early American Sport 1977 p. 41 title page illustrated at p. 20. Robert B. Davidson History of the United Bowmen of Philadelphia 1888. hardcover
First edition, small 8vo (131 x 81 mm), [24], 112, 117-172pp., (i.e. 168pp., as 113-16 omitted in the pagination), mounted woodcut frontispiece of a male archer, early ownership signature to title partially erased, upper corner of D1 restored with a loss of a few letters which have been added in ms. blank lower corner of M3 repaired, occasional light soiling and staining, marbled endpapers, eighteenth-century green morocco, tooled in gilt, overall a very good copy. Written when he was sixty-six years old, this is probably the last book which Markham wrote, and is one of his scarcest. "The practical instruction which he proceeds to give to the would-be-archer, of the bow and its use, the shooting-glove, the string, the shaft, the steel of the arrow, the feather, and the arrow-head, is reminiscent of Asham and may indeed be derived from his Toxophilus."?Poynter. Only two other copies have appeared at auction over the last 70 years, the Macclesfield copy sold by Sotheby's 14th April 2005 lot 1311 ?6,600 and the Fox Pointe copy sold by Forum Auctions 10th July 2019 lot 104 ?5000. STC 17333; Poynter, 40; Cockle, 129; Schwerdt II, p.10; Lake & Wright, p.199.
