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1809315829Lewes: Sussex Press; Printed and Published by J. Baxter 1809. First edition. 38 pp. Lacking the frontispiece plate supplied in photocopy facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo. Untrimmed. Disbound remains of blue paper along gutter some soiling and dog-earing of corners. Good. Yale duplicate stamp at foot of last page. Blue morocco backed clamshell box. First edition. 38 pp. Lacking the frontispiece plate supplied in photocopy facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo. A straightforward account of the qualities of 21 kinds of fish including flounder eel perch salmon pike trout and others less well known bleak guinead and brief instructions as to how to catch them; the sixpenny pamphlet ends with a three-page discussion of various worms and how to obtain them. Westwood and Satchell list this work similiar to that of Thomas Best's A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling London 1787 without authorial attribution. The words "but Comprehensive" in the title suggest that this was intended as a sequel to Best a popular work which went into numerous editions. <br /> The words "embellished with a frontispiece" have been effaced from the title page suggesting that for a long time this copy has been lacking the plate as also in the copy retained at Yale. The frontispiece is ornamental not didactic.<br /> <br /> Uncommon title. Westwood & Satchell p. 18 Sussex Press; Printed and Published by J. Baxter unknown
1869092589Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers 1869 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Nat the Navigator 1773-1838 who was an early American mathematician known for his work on ocean navigation often referred to as the founder of modern maritime navigation. His work The New American Practical Navigator first published in 1802 is still carried on board every commissioned US Naval vessel. 192 pages illustrated. Gilt decorated binding has light wear and rub marks inner hinges are cracked inked name on front endpaper personal library notation on rear endpaper light foxing. Lee & Shepard, Publishers hardcover
1860315008New Haven: Baker & Goodwin printers No. 1 Spruce St. New York 1860. Engraved frontispiece view engraved plate with portraits engraved and color printed advertisement view for Henry Austin architect. With 104 wood-engraved illustrations of carriages and coaches each within an elaborate color printed wood engraved border. With ads printed on verso of the carriage illustrations largely for New Haven businesses. 226 pp. Oblong 4to. Publisher's blind stamped cloth upper cover lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece view engraved plate with portraits engraved and color printed advertisement view for Henry Austin architect. With 104 wood-engraved illustrations of carriages and coaches each within an elaborate color printed wood engraved border. With ads printed on verso of the carriage illustrations largely for New Haven businesses. 226 pp. Oblong 4to. Superb copy of a landmark trade catalogue. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" Romaine.<br /> <br /> Founded in the 1850s G. & D. Cook & Co. quickly became among the most successful northeastern U.S. carriage makers of the pre-Civil War period. Advertised here are nearly their full line of carriages and coaches ranging in price from $80 for a Skeleton Wagon to $1200 for the elaborate Hamilton Coach. The NUC locates four copies LC MiU NN CtY. This copy complete with the color plate advertising the architect Henry Austin. Romaine p. 80 incorrectly referring to the illustrations as lithographs Baker & Goodwin, printers, No. 1 Spruce St. New York unknown
1883301834New York: W.H. Faulhaber Editor and Proprietor 1883. Vol.1 No.1. 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. Vol.1 No.1. 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Premiere issue and prospectus for this weekly newspaper "published in the interests of the catchers and sellers of fish . to furnish every fisherman and fish monger from the shores of Florida to the banks of Nova Scotia with such matters of interest as may meet with their approval." The articles include Fishing on the Banks "Something about the Perils and Privations that Fishermen Undergo" Fishing by Electricity Market Notes a wholesale market price list "Siftings" with a note about the supply of Frozen Salmon from Canada the supply of lobsters etc. and a column of ads for commercial fish dealers from Boston Erie New York Philadelphia and Baltimore.<br /> <br /> UNIQUE SURVIVAL of an UNRECORDED PUBLICATION. Not in OCLC W.H. Faulhaber, Editor and Proprietor unknown
1900238662N.p. American Northeast 1900. 96 3 x 2 inch Kodak Brownie photographs mounted 4 to a page. Oblong 8vo. Brown cloth album. Photographs generally fine. 96 3 x 2 inch Kodak Brownie photographs mounted 4 to a page. Oblong 8vo. Includes deerhunting scenes camping fishing from a boat and netting fish near a dam boating canoeing; views of farm field and woods; draught horses; and winter camping. unknown
1895317739Boston: Hearn 392 Boylston Street and Old Orchard Me 1895. Ivoryette 1884. Fine. Ivoryette 1884. Signed and adted on back "1895 Frances E. Haynes." Frances Haynes was a student at Mt. Holyoke in 1895. Hearn 392 Boylston Street and Old Orchard, Me unknown
1893238900Cambridge 1893. 4 pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo 17.7 x 15.4 cm. Photographic self wrappers split creased and dampstained. 4 pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo 17.7 x 15.4 cm. Scoreboxes partially filled with 4 cute pencil drawings around edges of Princeton box scores and a small "H" pennant spliced through Harvard score box Harvard won 9-8. unknown
1856252830London: Printed by Arthur Taylor 39 Coleman Street Printer to the Honourable City of London 1856. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half green calf over marbled boards t.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf. Bookplate of Dean Sage. Very Good. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This edition not noted in Westwood & Satchell. No copy recorded in OCLC. Sage p. 197 this copy Printed by Arthur Taylor, 39, Coleman Street, Printer to the Honourable City of London unknown
1804253590London: Printed for James Cundee Ivy Lane for Thomas Hurst; J. Harris and J. Wheble 1804. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings. xvi 542 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in full polished tan calf gilt spine a.e.g. by Riviere & Sons. Bookplate of Robert Winthrop. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings. xvi 542 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Schwerdt II 173 Printed for James Cundee, Ivy Lane for Thomas Hurst; J. Harris and J. Wheble unknown
1804211066London: Printed for James Cundee Ivy Lane 1804. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings.xvi 542 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary orange Continental boards yellowed edges. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings.xvi 542 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Schwerdt II 173 Printed for James Cundee, Ivy Lane unknown
1898317390Boston: The Stillings Press 1898. Illustrated. 32 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Green wrappers. Old fold at center else very good. Illustrated. 32 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A rare illustrated guide to a large sporting show that featured exhibitions of live wild game from Canada and the American West; an Indian camp with bird bark teepees; an aviary of American game birds and exotic pheasants; displays of sporting camps from Florida Maine and New Brunswick; a fish hatchery; a canoe pond; and swimming competitions and shooting matches. [The Stillings Press] unknown
1822267937London: Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1822. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. Uniformly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere spines gilt with red and green morocco labels all edges gilt. Very occasional foxing to plates. A fine set. Alken Henry. First Edition with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. Illustrated with 152 plates many of them hand colored by Henry Alken Samuel Alken Robert Cruikshank Thomas and Edwin Landseer etc. and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. With half-titles. 13 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting shooting and the turf but its reach extends to such less fashionable pursuits as swimming and gymnastics; the angler will find much of interest here. A superb prime set of this important sporting journal complete in 13 volumes WITH THE RARE JUNE 1828 NUMBER the last issued of which only a small number were published the January to June title page for 1828 half titles where called for and the errata page in Vol. 2. PLUS The Turf Herald and Turf Guides for 1824-1827. A fresh clean set beautifully bound. <br /> A CORNERSTONE OF ANY SPORTING LIBRARY. Schwerdt I pp. 32-5; Tooley 64; Podeschi A12; Cohn 32; Slater p. 9 Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown
1807220685Philadelphia: Printed & Sold at G: Willig's Musical magazine No. 12 South 4th St 1807. 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. Very good. 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Early American printed sheet music with an Angling metaphor: "Thus for men the women fair / Lay the cunning cunning snare / While like fish the men will rove / And with beauty fall in love / What is beauty but the bait ." Wolfe 7328 Printed & Sold at G: Willig's Musical magazine No. 12 South 4th St unknown
1871313226Hinsdale N.H.: Hunter & Co 1871. First edition with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; 59-74; 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Very good plus. First edition with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; 59-74; 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes chapters on the Birch Bark Canoe and on Fishing. <br /> Phillips notes that the 1871 edition contains an Appendix; the present copy in a variant cloth binding contains the Appendix beginning at p. 59 here slightly taller than the preceding gatherings noting that the Appendix will be supplied "until the present edition is exhausted"; and comprising Mudgett on the Mink pp. 60-68; and The Fox pp. 69-74.<br /> Uncommon thus. Phillips p. 192; Bruns A-133 Hunter & Co unknown
1832011058England: Baldwin & Craddock 1832. Issues 13-18 Vol 3 1832. 476pp/with engraved title and illus. Tight with all engravings appear present. Text clean. Edges of spine worn. 1st Edition. Boards. Very Good-/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baldwin & Craddock Hardcover
1831011057England: Baldwin & Craddock 1831. Issues 1-6 Vol 1 1831. 464pp/with engraved title and illus. pp 161-200 missing Includes 65pp racing calendar for 1831 Text clean. Rear edge of spine loose. 1st Edition. Boards. Very Good-/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baldwin & Craddock Hardcover
183628645London: M. A. Pittman. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in three-quarter leather. Rubbing the the edges. ; 9" . M. A. Pittman hardcover
1889258428Boston: Copyrighted and Printed by M.J. Kiley 7 Spring Lane 1889. First edition. Illustrated. 163 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt with loss at front joint but Very Good and sound. Label with Compliment from M.J. Kiley on front pastedown. First edition. Illustrated. 163 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustratewd with great advertisemenst inluding the Unexcelled Fireworks Co. of NY & St. Louis; The Private Club Champagne by Felix Jacquin Espernay France; Shipman's Automatic Steam Engines; Cycloram of Custer's Last Battle; Yacht Guns by Hartley & Graham; Yachting Uniforms by B.M. Whitlock etc. Copyrighted and Printed by M.J. Kiley, 7 Spring Lane unknown
1868100357Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1868 Paper. Fair. Soft cover. First Edition. "Transmitting in compliance with House resolution of the 8th instant relative to the trial of the United States steamer Wampanoag and vessels of that class with reports thereon". To the US House of Representatives 40th Congress 2d Session Ex. Doc. No. 339; July 20 1868. 47 pages. A bit tattered and soiled back page is nearly detached. Government Printing Office paperback
1883111455London: Norie & Wilson 1883 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 85 page illustrated late 19th century book on canoeing; plus 19 pages of advertisements. Gilt lettered binding has moderate wear minor fading; moderate foxing within; free endpaper has penciled instructions for water proofing. Norie & Wilson hardcover
1893237400Poughkeepsie: Privately Printed 1893. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth spine titled in gilt upper board stamped in silver. Some spotting to spine else very good plus. First edition. Frontispiece portrait five plates from photographs. 182 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting fishing and outdoor life in the Adirondacks Michigan and Canada in the 1850s and 1860s. Phillips p. 282; Plum 1047; Bruns O-21 "important and rare work"; Heller 1:708 [Privately Printed] unknown
1890249352New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street 1890. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt edges red. Upper inner hinge starting. Fine. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions published at Boston in 1893 and 1898 the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location for each of these later editions at the Center for Research Libraries 1893 and at the Huntington 1898. The present edition is unrecorded by bibliographers. <br /> <br /> The President of the Club was Charles W. Dimick; Vice-President J.A.H. Dressel; General Manager Maj. J.M. Taylor. Not in Riling Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street unknown
1890242738New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street 1890. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth titled in gilt edges red. Lower inner hinge cracked. Five full-page diagrams. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. <br /> <br /> Preceding the two recorded editions published at Boston in 1893 and 1898 the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location for each of these later editions at the Center for Research Libraries 1893 and at the Huntington 1898. The present edition is unrecorded by bibliographers.<br /> <br /> The President of the Club was Charles W. Dimick; Vice-President J.A.H. Dressel; General Manager Maj. J.M. Taylor. Not in Riling Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street unknown
1846252887London: G. Routledge 1846. New Edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. Original cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Dean Sage. New Edition". Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. A diminutive popular treatise first published in 1838; this is the 4th edition according to Westwood & Satchell. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Westwood & Satchell p. 9; Heckscher 62; Sage p. 9 this copy G. Routledge unknown
1890314089Van Buren AR: Thayer Bros. Print 1890. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Printed wrappers. Pale staining to upper corner of each page one or two spots else very good. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas . and to procure the stocking of the streams and woods of our State with fish and game."<br /> <br /> We were unable to discover any further information on this particular club.<br /> <br /> "The Sportsman's Creed" eight rules for sportsmen to aid in the preservation of fish and game including "Never be a fish-hog" printed on the rear wrapper with this sound advice: "Cheer Up Sportsmen The less Fish and Game you have the more there will be to get."<br /> <br /> UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Thayer Bros. Print unknown
