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ACTON C.R. |
Sport And Sportsmen Of The New Forest
1936.
1st Edn,.
Heath Cranton Ltd.
190 pages, illus by Eric Meade-King, damage to FEP where name removal has caused loss 3cm x 1cm. Blue cloth, title in black, mostly hunting with hounds.
[18884] |
£20.00 |
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Adams, Cyril, |
LIVE PIGEON TRAP SHOOTING - ITS HISTORY APPURTENANCES, DES CENDANTS, AND HOW TO DO IT
2017.
1st.
The Sporting Library.
Grantham.
276 pages, 4to illustrated throughout using colour and b/w photographs. Line drawings, old prints adverts and related ephemera. This is without question the definitive work on the subject ? the history, equipment, descendants of an esoteric sport and how to do it a fine copy in DJ.
[23698] |
£80.00 |
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AFLALO F.C. |
Half a Century Of Sport In Hampshire, Being Extracts From The Shooting Journals Of James Edward Second Earl Of Malmesbury With A Prefatory Memoir By His Grandson The Fifth Earl
1905.
1st Edn,.
XXXVII 192 pages, advs, 13 full page illus, a partially unopened copy, some foxing to close page edges, publishers red cloth, gilt title to upper board, vg. Chute 011
[13123] |
£55.00 |
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AFLALO F.C. |
Half a Century Of Sport In Hampshire, Being Extracts From The Shooting Journals Of James Edward Second Earl Of Malmesbury With A Prefatory Memoir By His Grandson The Fifth Earl
1905.
1st Edn,.
XXXVII 192 pages, advs, 13 full page illus, a partially unopened copy, some foxing to close page edges, publishers red cloth, gilt title to upper board, vg. Chute 011
[13124] |
£55.00 |
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ALKEN H., BARENGER J., MARSHALL J., DIGHTON B. |
The Sporting Repository containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects
1904.
1st thus Edn,.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd.
x 478 pages, illustrated with 22 hand-coloured plates all edges gilt, a limited edition of 500 copies. Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) Bath in a full red calf with gilt double frames to the boards with sporting motif corner pieces, the spine in 5 compartments with central sporting vignettes within gilt decorative boarders and leather title label. Light rubbing to spine edges with cracking to top 4cm of the upper spine edge. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822 and quite rare and was important for its fine colour plates. The plates are reproduced and coloured by hand, includes plates on Partridge Shooting Grouse Shooting, Gamekeepers, poachers, Greyhounds.
[22536] |
£185.00 |
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ALKEN H., BARENGER J., MARSHALL J., DIGHTON B.illus |
The Sporting Repository containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects
1904.
1st thus Edn,.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd.
x 478 pages, illustrated with 22 hand-coloured plates, a limited edition of 500 copies, publishers 2 tone green cloth, gilt vignette of horse and rider to upper board, light dust soiling to cloth. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822 and quite rare and was important for its fine colour plates. The plates are reproduced and coloured by hand, includes plates on Partridge Shooting Grouse Shooting, Gamekeepers, poachers, Greyhounds.
[3400] |
£150.00 |
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ALKEN H., BARENGER J., MARSHALL J., DIGHTON B.illus |
The Sporting Repository containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects
1904.
1st thus Edn,.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd.
IX 233 + VII 244 pages, 2 volumes bound as 1, 4to., TEG, 22 colour plates after Henry Alken, Barenger, Dighton, Benjamin Marshall. limited edition of 50 numbered copies on hand made paper. Armorial bookplate of R.N.H.Moore Stevens to front paste down, faint tide mark to top 1/3 of verso blank on FEP and first blank and lesser so to 1/2 title and top half of rear free end paper, bound in later not recent 1/2 dark blue morroco, cloth sided spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, sporting motifs to four compartments within gilt ruled borders, a fine binding. Sporting Repository was originally published as a magazine in 1822, and was important for its fine colour plates.
[18555] |
£280.00 |
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ALKEN, Henry Thomas |
The National Sports of Great Britain. With Descriptions in English and French.
1904.
New edition.
D Appleton and Company, New York.
folio, chromolithographed frontispiece, facsimile of the 1823 title-page, 50 full-page engraved coloured plates after Alken. With accompanying description in English and French on most of the Sporting subjects practiced at the time. Including hawking, hunting, horse-racing, shooting, fishing, baiting, and combating animals. Some even browning to blank end papers, the contents clean and free of foxing. Bound in the publishers half red morocco, red cloth sides, gilt, top edges gilt, the binding clean and tight in vg condition First published in 1821, this facsimile published in London in 1903, and in New York in 1904 The London edition was bound in a red cloth the American edition in a much superior half leather.
[21750] |
£740.00 |
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AMATEUR SPORTSMAN |
Sporting Anecdotes Original And Select Including Characteristic Sketches Of Eminent Persons Who have Appeared On The Turf With An Interesting Selection Of The Most Extraordinary Events Which have Transpired In The Sporting World. A Correct Description Of The Animals Of Chase
1804.
1st Edn,.
Albion Press.
vi (x) 542 pages,advert leaf, frontis + 15 full page engraved plates + vignette to title page TEG, pages uncut, armorial bookplate of Francis Alexander to front paste down, some browning to plates, bound in later full crushed morroco by Robertson. A mixture of fact and fantasy with a very wide cross section of stories and events in all sports" Schwerdt Vol.II 173 Chute 17 (coloured copy), Rare.
[21444] |
£220.00 |
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AN OLD GAMEKEEPER |
Plain Directions For Acquiring The Art Of Shooting On The Wing, With Useful Hints Concerning All That Relates To Guns And Shooting, And Particularly In Regard To the Art Of Loading So As To Kill. To which has been added several valuable and hitherto secret recipes, of great practical importance to the sportsman
1873.
1st.
The Handicraft Publication Company.
vi (i) 88 pages, 11pp adverts, frontis illustration of a Woodcock, publishers brown blind stamped cloth with gilt title to the upper cover a VG+ copy. Riling 936
[23600] |
£65.00 |
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ANON. |
An Essay Of Shooting
1975.
reprint Edn,.
The Richmond Publishing Co Ltd.
Richmond Surrey.
v ix 306 4 pages, blue cloth, facsimile reprint of the 1789 Dublin edition, new introduction by W S Curtis, fine in dj
[20591] |
£20.00 |
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ANON. |
An Essay Of Shooting
1975.
reprint Edn,.
The Richmond Publishing Co Ltd.
Richmond Surrey.
V+IX+306+4 pages, blue cloth, facsimile reprint of the 1789 Dublin edition, new introduction by W S Curtis.
[15925] |
£20.00 |
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ANON. |
Ferrets And Ferreting Containing Instructions For The Breeding, Management, And Working Of Ferrets
nd circa 1888.
1st Edn,.
39 (i) + 25pp catalogue for L.Upcott Gill + 7pp adverts, frontis + text illus throughout some spotting to front few pages27 pages, 32pp of adverts, text illus, original paper covers, light dust soiling, chips to spine edges, scarce item, few could have survived in good condition.
[21068] |
£65.00 |
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ANON. COMPILED BY POUND DUDLEY |
Shooting In The Mediterranean
C1930.
85 pages, privately printed, 4to., Printed by the Chief of Staff of HM Mediterranean Fleet for officers of the fleet, notes on the various game available, how and where to find it, the areas covered are Western Mediterranean, Adriatic and West Coast of Greece, the Aegean Eastern Mediterranean Sea of Marmora and Black Sea. The notes cover small game and big game including Ibex, wild pig, wild goats etc. partridge, quail, dove, the areas giving notes on town, station, game likely to be encountered, comments and what bags made or have been obtained i.e. Kavala "In September the local people organised a pig drive at which one pig was killed, no information as to whether it is any good to cook. Imbros "Best day 195 partridges and 15 various for 8 guns in the Valley of the Ridge. First published Circa 1926, this copy with circular stamp for the Commanding Officer HMS London 6 February 1930, note written beneath "compedia dated 7 Feb 1930 inserted". This appears to be pre publication for a revised edition with typed sheets or slips placed between relevant pages i.e. "page 15 cancel present notes and substitute" then follows a typed page in this case detailing licences, big game, pigsticking, similar inserts throughout, occasional ink notes to text, cloth index tabs to some pages. Retained in the original cloth backed paper covered boards, title to upper board, some surface rubbing. A rare item 1 copy listed on COPAC 1926 edition giving Malta as the place of publication.
[11492] |
£600.00 |
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APPERLEY J.C Nimrod |
The Life Of A Sportsman
1842.
1st Edn.
Rudolph Ackermann.
VI (2) 402 pages, A.E.G. 36 hand coloured plates by Henry Alken of which 4 plates are on India paper mounted on thick paper, plate 33 2nd issue, contents clean and free of foxing, bound in full burgundy morroco by Riviere, triple gilt ruled border to boards, spine in 6 compartments, ornate gilt tooling within ruled borders inner gilt turn ins, light surface rubbing to spine edge. A vg copy of what is considered by many the premier coloured plate sporting book of the 19th century. (Tooley 65) Schwerdt I 36. .
[18916] |
£720.00 |
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APPERLEY J.C[Nimrod] |
The Life Of A Sportsman
1914.
reprint Edn,.
Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd.
XI 400 pages, 36 colour plates, inscription on front paste down, green cloth with gilt fox vignette to upper board, vg. First published in 1842 "A half true half ficticous story descriptive of a country gentleman of large fortune and highly connected and his children's and sporting ambitions. The plates are excellent showing various sporting pursuits.
[18342] |
£80.00 |
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APPERLEY Nimrod C.J. |
Memories Of The Late John Mitton ESQ of Halston Shropshire With Notices Of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing
1837.
2nd with considerable additions Edn,.
Rudolph Ackerman.
IX+ 206 pages, 8pp adverts, AEG, 18 fine hand coloured plates by H. Alken and T.J.Rawlins. Some occasional spotting to blank margin of plates and text, bound in full dark green morroco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt ruled borders to boards, spine in 6 compartments, ornate gilt tooling with double ruled borders, inner tooled borders, original cloth cover boards bound in at rear. Schwerdt Vol 1 38-39 "The second which is more interesting than the first on the account of the increased number of plates". John Mytton a hard living hard drinking sportsman died at the age of 38 penniless. Chute 1st edition 022
[18915] |
£380.00 |
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APPERLEY Nimrod C.J. |
Memories Of The Late John Mutton ESQ of Halston Shropshire With Notices Of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing
1837.
2nd with considerable additions Edn,.
Rudolph Ackerman.
IX+ 2064 pages, 8pp adverts, AEG, 18 fine hand coloured plates by H. Alken and T.J.Rawlins. 1 plate has slight chipping and dust soiling to very outer margin not effecting title or image. Recased in the publishers cloth with spine relayed, gilt title to upper board within an ornate sporting frame, vg. Schwerdt Vol 1 38-39 "The second which is more interesting than the first on the account of the increased number of plates". John Mytton a hard living hard drinking sportsman died at the age of 38 penniless. Chute 1st edition 022
[2037] |
£285.00 |
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APPERLEY Nimrod C.J. |
Memories Of The Late John Mutton ESQ of Halston Shropshire With Notices Of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing
nd Circa 1900.
reprint Edn,.
Keegan Paul.
XXVI 234 pages, large 8vo., coloured frontis and 19 further coloured plates, publishers green cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, vg.
[17106] |
£65.00 |
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ARNOLD E.C. |
A Bird Collectors Medley
1907.
1st Edn,.
West Newman and Co.
144 pages, small 4to., 20 plates, 12 being in colour from the author's paintings and drawings + text illus from photographs. Publishers blue cloth with gilt title to upper board, light rubbing to head and tail of spine. The author dedicated the book to "my brothers and those who have been shore shooting with me in Norfolk and elsewhere". Much on shooting in Norfolk also chapters on punting in Chichester harbour, the Old Decoy Eastbourne, unusual shots etc., also chapters on natural history. Not in Chute.
[18692] |
£120.00 |
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ARNOLD E.C. |
British Waders Illustrated in Colour with Descriptive Notes
1924.
1st Edn,.
University Press.
Cambridge.
vii+102 pages, 4to, TEG pages uncut, 51 colour plates from water colours by the author with descriptive notes, limited to 50 copies signed by Arnold of which 45 are for sale, this being No 20. bound in 1/4 vellum, ice blue cloth boards, gilt wader vignette to the upper board. 2cm bruise to upper spine edge on the upper cover causing crack in vellum neatly repaired, o/w binding and vellum clean, although a book of natural history of waders, Arnold a keen shot notes many wildfowlers observations on waders being shot or seen. Much being on the Cley marshes of Norfolk.
[23495] |
£165.00 |
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Aspin, Jehoshaphat |
A Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Pastimes, of the Inhabitants of England, From the Arrival of the Saxons Down to the Eighteenth Century. Selected from the Ancient Chronicles, and rendered in Modern Phraseology. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, From Strutt and Others
1825.
1st.
J Harris.
iv -296, small 8vo, frontis and 11 engraved plates, some off setting from the plates to the text. Later not recent full calf raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine compartments an attractive binding VG. A variety of sports and pastimes covered. Hawking is mentioned in chapter ix, pages 129 -133 with a half page illustration. The hawking information consists chiefly of information taken from The Book Of St. Albans Swift 27- 01
[23505] |
£65.00 |
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