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BADMINTON |
Badminton Library Complete Set
1880+.
Longman and Co.
30 Vols, a vg+ clean set. Details of editions dates etc given on request
[15773] |
£1200.00 |
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BALFOUR BROWNE V.R. |
The Stalking Letters And Sketches
1978.
1st Edn,.
Antony Atha Publishing.
Rugby.
131+ pages, TEG, landscape 4to, Illustrated with 11 full page colour plates from paintings and many full page and text drawings by Balfour Browne. One of a limited edition of 950 copies, this being No 754, bound in 1/4 brown morroco with a gilt stag's head and title to the upper cover in the publisher's slipcase, personal presentation inscription to the front-end paper ,a fine copy. Balfour Browne is considered one of the foremost painters of red deer and stalking scenes. He was also a keen student of stalking and the letters that he left provided a lot of good advice for any stalker.
[24447] |
£160.00 |
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Banwell D. Bruce |
Highland Stags Of Otago
1968.
1st.
A.H & A.W. Reed.
Wellington New Zealand.
170 pagesa, illustrated throughout with photographs with map end papers, in DJ. Some old marking to edges of the DJ from a DJ protection cover which has also left some marks to the blank margin of the map end papers. Otherwise, a very good copy of a difficult title to find. The Otago herd of red deer is the only herd in New Zealand that is descended from wild stock. Barnwell's accurate picture of the herd's Highland ancestry, going right back to before the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745. He then traces the moves leading up to the importation to New Zealand of the wild progenitors of the Otago herd, famous for its trophy heads with hunters.
[23868] |
£250.00 |
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BREADALBANE Marchioness of |
The High Tops Of Black Mount
1935.
rep Edn,.
William Blackwood And Son.
xvii - 251 pages, frontis illus, and 39 full page illus from photographs, publishers' blue cloth, gilt title to the upper cover vg + bright copy. DJ present with some tears along top edge and old staining. First published in 1907, this edition republished by the executors has a memoir of the author and two extra photographs, . A memoir, recounting many years of adventures deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands.
[23246] |
£80.00 |
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