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JAMES Audrey |
Memoirs Of A Fen Tiger, The Story Of Ernie James of Welney
1986.
1st Edn,.
David Charles, Newton Abbott.
136 pages, illus with drawings and photographs, fine copy in dj. James's life as a mole catcher, wildfowler, eel-trapper, plover catcher etc, also some punt gunning.
[24008] |
£30.00 |
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JARRETT Alan |
Wildfowling North and South
2006.
1st Edn.
Big Sky Enterprises.
Kent.
187 pages, illus in b/w from photographs, signed by Jarrett on the title page, fine in dj.
[20061] |
£25.00 |
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JARRETT Alan |
Wildfowling ways
2003.
1st Edn.
Meresborough Books.
Rainham.
135 pages, illus in b/w from drawings, date on FEP, a fine copy in dj. Much on wildfowling in Kent
[20108] |
£20.00 |
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JEANS Thomas |
The Tommieberg Shooting Or A Moor In Scotland
nd circa 1870.
reprint Edn,.
Routledge Warne And Routledge.
VIII 424 pages, illus by Percival Skelton, slate blue cloth, title in upper boards, sine and corners bumped, spine faded, rubbing to head and tail of spine, vg-. The humorous study of Mr Brixey who takes a moor, lodge, river and loch, Brixey did not seem to get value for money, he notes in the final chapter to the reader when the "purpose of renting a moor in Scotland take nothing upon credit - or you will be done" Chute 98, Westwood Satchell 123 (4 chapters on angling)
[13654] |
£38.00 |
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JOHNSON T.B. |
The Shooters Companion
1823.
2nd impression and considerably enlarged Edn,.
Sherewood Jones & Co.
IX 396 pages, 12 pages catalogue of sporting books, engraved frontis and 2 other plates, old damp mark to the plates, an uncut copy in the original printed paper covered boards, spine showing some paper loss. to this edition the author added wildfowl and fen shooting as well as more details on each type of game, also includes guns, powder, breeding and training setters and spaniels. Chute 348
[3650] |
£85.00 |
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Johnson, T.B. |
The Sportsman's Cyclopaedia; Comprising A Complete Elucidation of the Science and Practice of Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Hawking, Cockfighting, and other Sports and Pastimes of Great Britain Embellished with a profusion of highly finished engravings, after Landseer, Ward, Cooper, Hancock, and other eminent artists.
1848.
revised.
Henry H Bohn.
2 volumes . vi, 940, 5 pp. 57 woodcut and steel engraved full-page plates. Bound in a contemporary ? green calf red title labels. Schwerdt only list the 1831 one volume 1st edition (vol 1 271pp) as does Chute, 351, as Swift 305-01 but notes this edition, Westward Satchel 124, list the 1831 edition with footnote (A few copies re-issued with new title-page and additional illustrations by Mr Bohn in 1848.)
[23501] |
£220.00 |
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JONES Owen |
The Sport of Shooting
1928.
2nd Edn,.
Edward Arnold and Co.
XI,285 pages, 16pp advs, adverts, illus, FEP removed, blue cloth with gilt title and shooter with dogs vignette to upper board, a vg copy. A comprehensive study first published in 1911, the author notes the high expense of shooting.
[16558] |
£20.00 |
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JONES Owen Woodward Marcus. |
A Gamekeepers Notebook
1910.
1st Edn.
Edward Arnold.
xii 307 pages, 6 plates from photogravures, some spotting to contents as often found, inscription to FEP, publishers dark red cloth, gilt vignette of seated keeper to upper board, the cloth clean and bright. The author goes through the seasons with his observations and his duties. Chute 359 (2nd imp)
[20232] |
£45.00 |
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