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18933075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br /> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br /> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br /> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown
18933075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Big Game Hunting in India 1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br/> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br/> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br/> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown books
1888100195Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition Number 58 of 105 copies. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. Folio. Full light blue crushed levant morocco the front and back boards inlaid with blue brown yellow green and black morocco to represent ospreys fishing for salmon in a panoramic river scene with wooded shores the front doublure of dark blue levant with a salmon caught by a fly inlaid in black green and white morocco the back doublure of dark blue morocco with two salmon swimming upstream inlaid in black green and white morocco flyleaves of white watered silk t.e.g. with original covers and coloured end-papers preserved by Riviere. Bookplate of Matthew C.D. Borden. Slightest toning of spine. First edition Number 58 of 105 copies. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. Folio. The Borden Copy Bound by Riviere. Superbly bound example of a book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river. Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols.1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known. "Borden 1842-1912 was fond of bindings and the library contained examples of all the better known contemporary craftsmen . in sumptuous modern style" Cannon. One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production in a striking custom binding by Riviere for a celebrated collector. Catalogue of the Printed Books Manuscripts Autograph Letters etc. Collected by Matthew C.D. Borden 1910 Volume II pp. 168-169; Borden sale 1913 lot 647 $220.00; Cannon American Book Collectors p. 225; Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S4; Hampton 2008 p. 245 David Douglas unknown books
1888238981Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover decorative endpapers. Some slight toning of spine occasional spotting throughout else fine. In custom green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition Number 88 of 105 copies. Aquatint title page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Family Copy Inscribed to His Son. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br/><br/>Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols.1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br/><br/>A family copy of one of the pinnacles of nineteenth-century angling literature inscribed to the author's son:<br/><br/> "Henry M. Sage from D. Sage Nov 1896" Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 117; Heller 2:469; not in Lande. Provenance: Henry M. Sage with his bookplate David Douglas unknown books
1824246169London: Published by Thomas McLean 1824. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco the covers elaborately panelled in gilt the spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in the second compartment the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools gilt turn ins cream-glazed endpapers red morocco inner hinges gilt edges scuffed endpapers and blanks with silver-fish damage. Alken Henry. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work. It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" Tooley<br/><br/>The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding fox stag and otter hunting beagling racing falconry various types of dogs and horses shooting grouse partridge pheasant snipe wild-fowl bittern pigeon fishing for pike and salmon fishing from a punt prize-fighting cock-fighting badger bear and bull-baiting and perhaps most extraordinary of all: "owling." It is interesting to note that although both the artist and the author felt that it was necessary to record badger bear and bull baiting they did not hold back from condemning all three 'sports' as barbaric.  <br/>This copy is a later issue/impression. The additional pictorial title is dated 1821 rather than 1820 as in the first issue a letterpress title in French has been added only the English title is present in the first and second issues and the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 Podeschi records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are numbered. The watermarks suggest a date of 1824 or later. The plates very carefully hand-colored are all aquatints by I. Clark and retain all of the liveliness that is such a feature of this work.<br/>The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s . To many sporting art is 'Alken' and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary" Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75-76. Tooley 41; Schwerdt I p. 19; Podeschi 111; Litchfield 14; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 10-11 Published by Thomas McLean unknown books
1888260233Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover. Silk inner hinges professionally repaired. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. Bookplates of Jay Gould Lindhurst Irvington on Hudson; and Edward Hine Johnson. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br/><br/>Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols. 1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br/><br/>One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production with the notable provenance of financier Jay Gould. Sage who lived in Albany would have known Gould from equestrian circles as both men maintained stables of trotting horses and bred Morgan horses. Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S-4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 11; Heller 2:469; not in Lande David Douglas unknown books
1888260233Edinburgh: David Douglas 1888. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive green cloth with salmon and osprey design on upper cover. Silk inner hinges professionally repaired. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. Bookplates of Jay Gould Lindhurst Irvington on Hudson; and Edward Hine Johnson. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition no. 78 of 105 copies initialed by the Publisher. Aquatint title-page partly printed in red after G. Reid by Annan and Swan aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan 16 etched plates after and by Stephen Parrish Mrs. A.L. Merritt C.A. Platt H. Sandham and others on japan paper 63 etched engraved and wood-engraved headpieces tailpieces historiated initials vignettes and other ornaments after and by Merritt Platt J. Adam and others double-page lithographed map after and by J. Bartholomew on japan paper. 1 vols. Folio. A book of almost legendary beauty rarity and importance recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river.<br /> <br /> Dean Sage's contributions to angling literature are few in number but profoundly influential: "Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers" published in the Atlantic in 1875 is a classic account. His library catalogue 2 vols. 1896 1904 remains an important document in the history of angling bibliography and collecting. Sage's section on "The Atlantic Salmon" in Salmon and Trout 1902 is a synthesis of his own first hand knowledge as a fisherman and his assessment of the extensive literature. The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing remains the work for which Sage is best known.<br /> <br /> One of the pinnacles of nineteenth century fishing book design and production with the notable provenance of financier Jay Gould. Sage who lived in Albany would have known Gould from equestrian circles as both men maintained stables of trotting horses and bred Morgan horses. Heckscher sale 1909 lot 1681 $180.00; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de pêche de M.G. Albert Petit 1921 no. 1861; Phillips p. 328; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 100; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 428; Wetzel p. 206; Bruns S-4; Litchfield p. 58; Hampton 2008 p. 245; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 11; Heller 2:469; not in Lande David Douglas unknown
1876310359Washington 1876. First edition. 2 folding maps 7 line drawings and 7 tipped-in albumen photograph portraits with fine manuscript captions. 143 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original three quarter red morocco titled in gilt on upper cover "The/ Yellowstone/ and/ The Great Geysers/Strong/1875." Ownership signature of Rhoby McM Gillespie Chicago wife of the photographer on title. Spine neatly rebacked. First edition. 2 folding maps 7 line drawings and 7 tipped-in albumen photograph portraits with fine manuscript captions. 143 pp. 1 vols. 4to. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest descriptions of Yellowstone being the account of a hunting expedition to the north-western territories undertaken by the author and six officers plus a contingent of enlisted men including US Secretary of War Gen. Wm. W. Belknap and US Inspector General R. B. Marcy who fell ill and nearly perished on the trip as well as Gen. James W. Forsyth Lt. G. C. Doane Gen N. B. Sweitzer and Col. George L. Gillespie whose photographic portraits illustrate the book. The party traveled some 5000 miles by rail stage steamer and horseback in 53 days seeking elk deer buffalo and other game as well as wild fowl; due to the season of the year game was not as plentiful as hoped but the abundance of trout exceeded all expectations and almost 500 large ones were caught see pp. 54-57. Another impediment to hunting were the "hostile Sioux who were constantly lurking around in great numbers;" it was perhaps prophetic that on September 3 1875 they met and were entertained by General George Armstrong Custer of the 7th Cavalry at Fort Lincoln just nine months before the Battle of Little Big Horn. As befitting "one of the most famous sportsmen in the country" Custer and his wife and sister lived in great state on the post surrounded by the General's hunting trophies of which there were many. Circumstances prevented Strong from retaining the head or hide of the huge leader of a buffalo herd which he shot but the event is described in lively detail. Also noteworthy are the author's splendid descriptions of Yellowstone and the surrounding territory. Many accounts of Yellowstone and the Northwest were to follow but this one in its depiction of the country the sport and the individuals who participated in this early adventure is a gem and equally rare. <br/>A FASCINATING AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNT OF FRONTIER SPORT AND EXPLORATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST. RARE. Streeter 4101; Graff 4014; Phillips American Sporting Books p. 364; Litchfield p. 50; Heller 634; Howes S1083 "b"; Taylor traveling thru Wonderland pp. 48-49 unknown books
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br /> The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br /> The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br /> Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. UNRECORDED. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed hunting diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br/>The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br/>The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br/>Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown books
1889258645Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1889. First edition. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. 1 vols. Folio 21-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches. Period style red straight-grained morocco spine gilt with raised bands in seven compartments titled in gilt brown endpapers. First edition. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. 1 vols. Folio 21-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches. Rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color a rare A.B. Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S. Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day. <br/><br/>The plates with titles taken from the preceding text leaf are as follows: <br/>1. Killing the Salmon. Henry Sandham. <br/>2. A Moose hunt. Henry Sandham. <br/>3. Trout fishing. Henry Sandham. <br/>4. Fly-fishing for Black Bass. S.F. Denton. <br/>5. Hunting Antelope i.e. Prong-horn. Frederic Remington.<br/>6. Catching a Tarpon. Fred. S. Cozzens. <br/>7. Mallard shooting. S.F. Denton. <br/>8. Catching a Mascalonge. Frank H.Taylor. <br/>9. A Wild Turkey hunt. R.J. Zogbaum. <br/>10. Sailing for Bluefish. Fred S. Cozzens. <br/>11. Hunting the Virginia Deer. A.B. Frost. <br/>12. A day with the Prairie Chickens. R.F. Zogbaum. <br/>13. A hunt above the timber-line Big-horn. Edward Knobel. <br/>14. Canada Goose shooting. Frederic Remington. <br/>15. Stalking the Wapiti. Henry Sandham.<br/><br/>The two plates by Frederic Remington 'Hunting Antelope' Hassrick & Webster 434 and 'Goose Shooting' Hassrick & Webster 435 are also listed by Peggy and Harold Samuels Remington The Complete Prints New York 1990 pp.152-3 with the comment that they are the first and second Remington prints to appear in color. They were preceded only by a series of four monochrome photogravures for John Muir's Picturesque California 1888 and two other individual prints both black and white. <br/><br/>Arthur Burdett Frost is now perhaps best known for his sporting pictures and prints but his lack of interest in deer-hunting meant that he rarely pictured shooting scenes that featured anything other than small game. His image 'Hunting the Deer' is recorded and illustrated in Henry M. Reed's The A.B. Frost Book Charleston 1993 pp.101 104-5 but the author was apparently unaware that it was issued as part of the present work which is not included in the extensive appendix of books illustrated by Frost. The present work includes six angling plates three of fly-fishing four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. <br/><br/>Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface the plates are all from water-colours especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen who judged them for technical accuracy. Phillips p. 141; Wetzel p. 146; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 238; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; not in Reese Stamped with a National Character Bradlee Whidden unknown books
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
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 books
1872313448Cambridge: Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press 1872. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern brown morocco over bevelled boards in period style a.e.g. preserving presentation label from the author. Blind stamp to title page withdrawal stamp at foot of presentation. Very good plus. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Streeter's copy had a list of the 212 recipients and a note that "Tucker had been given the 'Ordre de St. Stanislaus de 2d Classe'. <br /> Pages 152-178 contain a description of the 'great buffalo hunt' the Grand Duke was treated to with Buffalo Bill as his guide and General Custer General Phil Sheridan and Sioux Chief Spotted Tail as his hosts."<br /> <br /> With a loosely inserted printed bifolium announcement for a social event for the Grand Duke in Boston 1871. Heller 1:394; Streeter 4098; Howes A-126 "aa"; Graff 35 Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press unknown
1872313448Cambridge: Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press 1872. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern brown morocco over bevelled boards in period style a.e.g. preserving presentation label from the author. Blind stamp to title page withdrawal stamp at foot of presentation. Very good plus. First edition one of 212 copies. Portrait photograph frontispiece. iv 221 pp. 1 blank 1 index. 1 vols. 8vo. Streeter's copy had a list of the 212 recipients and a note that "Tucker had been given the 'Ordre de St. Stanislaus de 2d Classe'. <br/>Pages 152-178 contain a description of the 'great buffalo hunt' the Grand Duke was treated to with Buffalo Bill as his guide and General Custer General Phil Sheridan and Sioux Chief Spotted Tail as his hosts."<br/><br/>With a loosely inserted printed bifolium announcement for a social event for the Grand Duke in Boston 1871. Heller 1:394; Streeter 4098; Howes A-126 "aa"; Graff 35 Printed for private distribution at the Riverside Press unknown books
1859240236Hamburg: P. Salomon & Co 1859. First edition in German and first foreign language edition. 10 woodcut engravings. xii 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of Dean Sage with 1942 Parke Bernet bill for lot 493 laid in. Some toning of spine minor traces of wear. Fine. First edition in German and first foreign language edition. 10 woodcut engravings. xii 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A rare and notable edition of Walton's classic the first foreign language and the first German edition in a translation by I. Schumacher from the 1853 London edition. Horne and Coigney both note the persistent rarity of this work.<br/>With outstanding provenance: from the library of sportsman and collector Dean Sage. Coigney 76; Horne 75; Oliver 74; Westwood & Satchell p. 233; Litchfield p. 41 P. Salomon & Co unknown books
1859240236Hamburg: P. Salomon & Co 1859. First edition in German and first foreign language edition. 10 woodcut engravings. xii 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of Dean Sage with 1942 Parke Bernet bill for lot 493 laid in. Some toning of spine minor traces of wear. Fine. First edition in German and first foreign language edition. 10 woodcut engravings. xii 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A rare and notable edition of Walton's classic the first foreign language and the first German edition in a translation by I. Schumacher from the 1853 London edition. Horne and Coigney both note the persistent rarity of this work.<br /> With outstanding provenance: from the library of sportsman and collector Dean Sage. Coigney 76; Horne 75; Oliver 74; Westwood & Satchell p. 233; Litchfield p. 41 P. Salomon & Co unknown
1820263794London: J. H. Burn 1820. Second edition reprinted from the original edition of 1657. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 2 title-pages dated 1657 and 1659 3-page publisher's catalogue at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary straight-grained green morocco tooled in gilt and blind maroon watered silk endpapers a.e.g. Fine. Preserved in morocco-backed solander box. Second edition reprinted from the original edition of 1657. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 2 title-pages dated 1657 and 1659 3-page publisher's catalogue at end. 1 vols. 12mo. Unique on Vellum. The only copy of this edition printed on vellum. "One copy of the reprint by Burn was on vellum and is now in the Denison collection" Westwood & Satchell. It reappeared in the Davis sale at Sotheby's on 26 November1900 lot 16 sold for £15.15.0 and again in the same rooms on 20 March 1967 where it was purchased by Thorp. According to an inserted note from John Simpson it was probably originally the Corser copy sold at Sotheby's in July 1868. For an extensive commentary on this work see Westwood & Satchell pp. 21-23 J. H. Burn unknown books
1897229569London: Vinton & Co 1897. Edition De Luxe no. 60 of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. With 18 wood engraved and 10 hand-colored etched plates plus numerous illustrations in text; Vol. II contains 100 flies in 12 recessed card mounts. 2 vols. 4to. Full green crushed morocco gilt t.e.g. others uncut. Covers time-darkened and as usual spines uniformly faded to brown; second volume rebacked else a fine set with the flies in perfect condition. With an inserted fly at no. 54 with the manuscript notation "one of the flies tied by Halford in 1903. Edition De Luxe no. 60 of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. With 18 wood engraved and 10 hand-colored etched plates plus numerous illustrations in text; Vol. II contains 100 flies in 12 recessed card mounts. 2 vols. 4to. One of 100 Signed Copies With an Added Fly Tied by Halford. Frederic M. Halford 1844-1914 author and angler of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras whose writings and systematic approach to the dry fly profoundly influenced fly-fishing around the world. His books beginning with Floating Flies 1886 and Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice 1889 and culminating with Dry-Fly Entomology 1897 made a legendary figure of the somewhat reserved Halford and shaped the sport for decades. As Tony Hayter's recent biography demonstrates Halford's life and writings remain of perennial interest. Westwood & Satchell Supplement p. 246; Gee p. 92; cf. Hayter F. M. Halford and the Dry-Fly Revolution 2002 Vinton & Co unknown books
1889312698Battle England: Printed by Ticehurst and Co 1889. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed wrappers. In quarter black morocco slipcase. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Thomas Alnutt Brassey 2nd Earl 1863-1919 was educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford. Brassey was an honorary Lieutenant in the London Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers from 1888 to 1892. He acted as Assistant Private Secretary to Earl Spencer during the time the latter was First Lord of the Admiralty 1892-95 and in 1894 was Assistant Secretary of the Royal Commission on Opium that his father chaired. He was a benefactor of the Bodleian Library.<br/><br/>"This is the day-by-day journal of a wealthy Englishman's hunting trip for elk in southern Wyoming in August and September of 1888. He seems to have been the kind of man who knew or had letters to the 'best people' and was important enough to be given a special train from Marquette to St. Paul. " - TWS<br/><br/>The party camped near Battle Creek in south central Wyoming southwest of Saratoga. Streeter VII 4108; not in Sabin Phillips or Heller. OCLC: 34069497 Newberry; Field Museum. Provenance: Charles B. Wood III his sale 1986; F.P. Williamson Printed by Ticehurst and Co unknown books
1873312749Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. <br /> <br /> Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions.<br /> <br /> Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br /> <br /> Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary.<br /> <br /> A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown
18872347741887. 26 leaves with 63 mounted albumen prints most 4-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches all captioned in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Recent red morocco and original red cloth over boards. One photograph with clean split across image no loss. Some fading generally fine and clear. 26 leaves with 63 mounted albumen prints most 4-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches all captioned in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Assembled by a party of men on an extended tour and hunting expedition in the area the album documents numerous locations in southwest Florida in the period immediately following the extension of the Florida Southern Railroad into the Peace River region in 1886. All of the photographs are captioned in ink and all but the first nine which were taken at Interlachen near Gainesville relate to southwest Florida. The album includes scenes of the grounds of Charles Francis Jr. at Interlachen and the residence of Goerge Long; the railway station an office car and a street scene at Trabue; views of the Hotel Punta Gorda under construction; waterfront scenes along the Punta Rassa; views of Fort Myers; a Spanish Fishing village; a "Cracker" family and their orange grove; Judge Ziba King and his house at Fort Ogden; scenes of the Myakka River Bartow and Zolfo Springs and a number of hunting and camping scenes. Nineteenth century photographic albums of Florida are very scarce; the present album shows the rural landscape of southwest Florida at the dawn of the modern age. unknown
1888311411Quebec 1888. 192 pp. closely written in various hands in pencil or ink on sheets of a pocket ledger. 1 vols. 8vo. Original sheep boards. Inkstamp of Mic-mac Salmon Club Matapedia P.Q. on front pastedown. Finely rebacked to style. 192 pp. closely written in various hands in pencil or ink on sheets of a pocket ledger. 1 vols. 8vo. Record of three seasons at the Micmac Salmon Club on the Matapedia where it joins the Restigouche river with 178 records of daily weather and river conditions participants and pools fished salmon and grilse caught as well as the ones that got away weights flies used and other notes on moods Poems to the Club House Kitten friends and fisherman passing through and other incidents.<br /> <br /> The cover of the log book reads "Fishermen will please record in the book each salmon or grilse he has killed during the day. Give weight of each where killed Time of Day Direction of Wind Condition of river and sign. Please state number of trought caught and weight of the fish and place where caught." <br /> The most prolific contributor to the log was Dr. Jedediah H. Baxter 1837-1890 Surgeon General of the U.S. Army personal physician to President James Garfield Baxter was not present at the assassination of the president in July 1881 gone fishing. He wrote some 99 entries and signed many others. James L. High American attorney wrote 29 entries and signed records of kills. One day such heavy quantities of logs came down that Baxter had to abandon fishing; on other days visible discharges of sawdust from upriver were a nuisance.<br /> <br /> On 15 July 1887 J.M. Oliver fishing along near the end of the Island pool was threatened with violence by the Superintendant of the Restigouche Club if he didn't get over to the other side of the water. "Notwithstanding Robinson's scaring" Oliver returned to the same pool the next day and caught a 23-lb. salmon and hooked a much larger one. Discussions with members of the club Robert Goelet owner of Toadbrook Lodge and Mr. Penfold followed "They said they were advised by counsel McAllister of Campbellton that our right extended not to the thread of the stream but the middle of the water surface" and declined to "adjust" matters; a long letter was sent to the Executive Committee of the Ristigouche Club at 120 Broadway in New York.<br /> <br /> Other anglers at the Club waters include Senators O.H. Platt of Connecticut Wade Hampton of South Carolina and George Edmunds of Vermont with wife and daughter; angling author J.A. Henshall The Book of the Black Bass Favorite Fish and Fishing etc. and his friend Dr. W.W. Dawson; John Milton Oliver later a founding member of the Izaak Walton League a conservation group whose entries have a literary flair; James Daniel Richardson Confederate soldier and Tenessee congressman 1885-1905; Samuel H. Kauffmann newspaper publisher and trustee of the Corcoran; Ripley Hitchcock E.A. Hitchcock his wife and his brother Henry Hitchcock; F.J. Baxter E.T. Allen C.B. Burnham T.B. Mills of New York City.<br /> <br /> The 1886 season 8 June - 10 August pp. 1-74 75 salmon killed by Dr. & Mrs. Baxter Burnham Dawson High Ripley Hitchcock Kauffmann Macartney & Sen. Platt.<br /> The 1887 season 14 June - 28 July pp. 75-136 64 salmon killed Dr. Baxter E.A. Hitchcock Henry Hitchcock T.B. Mills Sen. & Mrs. Edmunds Burnham High Dawson Hitchcock brothers Oliver & Sen. Hampton.<br /> The 1888 season 12 June - 18 August pp. 137-192 15 salmon killed Dr. Baxter E.A. Hitchcock Richardson & Sen. Hampton.<br /> <br /> This small salmon-fishing club is not the Micmac Club organized in the 1920s by Walter Meigs Carmichael Grand Cascapedia I pp. 236-7 nor a later incorporation in Quebec. An excellent and entirely legible record of salmon fishing on the Matapedia and Restigouche rivers from the 1880s. UNIQUE AND FASCINATING. unknown
1845230508N.p.: Privately Printed 1845. First edition one of 25 large paper copies printed. Extra-illustrated with 13 wood-engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. iv 241 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo 11-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco and green cloth titled on spine "The River Dove" between gilt rules. Front endpaper split at hinge slightly rubbed. First edition one of 25 large paper copies printed. Extra-illustrated with 13 wood-engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. iv 241 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo 11-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED on half-title "To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon 7th Nov. 1845" of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana. Anderdon's library included the 1653 Compleat Angler and this discourse between Angler Painter and Host is both homage to the seventeenth-century masters and an attempt to elucidate some of their sources and influences. The author intended it "for the entertainment of a few gentlemen fishers" the work being based on a tour he made along the Dove. The privately printed large-paper edition limited to twenty-five copies appeared in 1845; a trade edition in small 8vo format was published by Pickering two years later. <br /> The inscription is to his wife Anna Maria 1796-1880 the second daughter of William Manning MP whom he married on 4 March 1816. <br /> "Anderdon was an enthusiastic fisherman and a walking tour through Dovedale the country of Charles Cotton one of the earliest professors of the art of angling gave him the idea of compiling a volume on The River Dove: with some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. Printed in 1845 for private circulation and for sale two years later it contained many anecdotes of Cotton and his country life with advice on successful fishing" ODNB. Westwood and Satchell p. 1; Heckscher p. 11 Privately Printed unknown
1845230508N.p.: Privately Printed 1845. First edition one of 25 large paper copies printed. Extra-illustrated with 13 wood-engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. iv 241 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo 11-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco and green cloth titled on spine "The River Dove" between gilt rules. Front endpaper split at hinge slightly rubbed. First edition one of 25 large paper copies printed. Extra-illustrated with 13 wood-engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. iv 241 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo 11-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. One of 25 Copies Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED on half-title "To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon 7th Nov. 1845" of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana. Anderdon's library included the 1653 Compleat Angler and this discourse between Angler Painter and Host is both homage to the seventeenth-century masters and an attempt to elucidate some of their sources and influences. The author intended it "for the entertainment of a few gentlemen fishers" the work being based on a tour he made along the Dove. The privately printed large-paper edition limited to twenty-five copies appeared in 1845; a trade edition in small 8vo format was published by Pickering two years later. <br/>The inscription is to his wife Anna Maria 1796-1880 the second daughter of William Manning MP whom he married on 4 March 1816. <br/>"Anderdon was an enthusiastic fisherman and a walking tour through Dovedale the country of Charles Cotton one of the earliest professors of the art of angling gave him the idea of compiling a volume on The River Dove: with some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. Printed in 1845 for private circulation and for sale two years later it contained many anecdotes of Cotton and his country life with advice on successful fishing" ODNB. Westwood and Satchell p. 1; Heckscher p. 11 Privately Printed unknown books
