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1933261113New York: The Derrydale Press 1933. Published in an edition of 250 prints. Each print 12-1/2 x 17. Fine some short marginal tears repaired on verso Fox slightly trimmed lettered print of Hound with old crease. Custom half morocco box. Published in an edition of 250 prints. Each print 12-1/2 x 17. Kirmse's superb heads of Fox and Hound in proof state<br/><br/>"These two magnificent prints are the finest we have published" - Connett cited in Ordeman. Ordeman The Derrydale Prints 2006 pp. 69-73 107 The Derrydale Press unknown books
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 books
1871313551N.p. Pennsylvania 1871. Ink on paper with pencil and watercolor drawings throughout including rural scenes and pictures of camp life 2 finely executed leaves depicting 11 and 7 named angling flies two individual drawings of flies and several watercolors of trout. 256; 276; 10 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Brown half morocco finely rebacked preserving spines; the third manuscript in folded sheets unstitched. Boxed in three seperate black or blue slipcases. Clean and fresh. Ink on paper with pencil and watercolor drawings throughout including rural scenes and pictures of camp life 2 finely executed leaves depicting 11 and 7 named angling flies two individual drawings of flies and several watercolors of trout. 256; 276; 10 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Accounts of mid-nineteenth century outdoor sport and holiday travel in central Pennsylvania by a an earnest and occasionally lyrical chronicler.<br/><br/>The first The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party is a record of a trout fishing party in the summer of 1868 to a "certain secluded little dell deep in the old hemlock woods shut in on all sides by the Allegheny mountains with scarce passage way allowed for one of the brightest and most romantic little trout streams in the Pennsylvania woods." The party included Marriott the chronicler; Browny the Nimrod of the party and the artist whose neatly finished drawings punctuate the narrative; Kelley the fisherman; Pankey; and Miller. The party left the West Philadelphia railroad depot on 3 July joined for the Harrisburg leg of the trip by Charley V- "one of the best fly fishermen in Philadelphia" who was on his way to a small stream above Altoona. After delays their train crossed the Susquehanna where they saw a Fourth of July party in possession of one of the islands in the river and at last reached North Point where the wagon to take them up the creek awaited. Marriott writes simply and with an eye for scenic detail and an ear for the wit of his friends. He alludes to Dickens and quotes Dr. Bethune on the habitat of the trout fisherman: "His choice is the swift river the rock-broken stream; and he walks hopefully on from one jutting cliff to another making his fly fall lightly as a drop of snow on each turn of the wave or under the out-eaten turf or over the deep dark pool."<br/><br/>The second with a pictorial title of the mountains of Wyoming county Pennsylvania recounts a trout fishing trip to Bowman's Creek northwest of Scranton with companions Browny Jim Will and Tom. During their climb to Harvey's Lake several flocks of wild pigeons flew overhead and though they had but one gun between them "a long single-barrelled revolutionary looking affair" Tom was "ubiquitous." Later describing their campsite under an enormous hemlock Marriott writes "And Reader have you ever slept in a hemlock bed . The resinous odor is an agreeable one and a great promoter of sleep." <br/><br/>The third much shorter manuscript is the preliminary pages only of a return visit to Bowman's Creek in the summer of 1871; the party gets just beyond Bethlehem.<br/><br/>Remarkable group of manuscripts providing a glimpse of daily life on summer vacations long ago. unknown books
1938260500Boston: Privately Printed by Geo. H. Ellis Co 1938. First edition one of only 30 copies this copy numbered in ink "Seven. Illustrated with 28 photographs on 14 plates and 5 hand-colored plates after old prints and a photograph; with folding map tipped in on rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark blue grained leatherette title gilt on upper cover. A fine fresh copy. First edition one of only 30 copies this copy numbered in ink "Seven". Illustrated with 28 photographs on 14 plates and 5 hand-colored plates after old prints and a photograph; with folding map tipped in on rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. E.H. Rawls Copy. In his Foreword the author states: "These sketches were written for the members of the Moisie Salmon Club. The sole purpose was to give information to them of the waters and conditions of the Moisie River and its branches above the places customarily fished by them.". The Moisie is one of a network of navigable rivers running about 110 miles northward from the St. Lawrence in eastern Quebec; old and well worn portage paths testify to the antiquity of the route along which for hundreds of years Indians have hunted and fished. For salmon and sea trout it is one of the richest areas known. It is not surprising that the Moisie Salmon Club was founded to reap the benefits of this bounty; what is surprising is that so much care attention and expense has been lavished on a book limited to only 30 copies. The text consists primarily of the author's descriptions of areas north of the more usual fishing sites based on his explorations as a sportsman with guides. In addition to five colored plates which tend to establish the romantic mood of the region there are 28 superb reproductions of sepia photographs printed on special photographic-type paper to convey both the look and the actual feel of the originals. The book's 78 pages conclude with an Index and inside the back cover is mounted a folding map of the area described.<br/><br/>The book is rare not in Wetzel or Heller not seen by Bruns and the only copy we know of to appear at auction - a worn copy - brought $1870 at the Netz sale in New York in 1986.<br/><br/>This copy bears the ownership signature of E.H. Rawls on the front flyleaf: pages 12 to 19 comprise Edward H. Rawls' own account of his 1929 trip to the East Branch Chute and Cran Serré of the Moisie River where he was the first to take salmon on a light rod above the falls in defiance of "the old story retold until believed by everyone that salmon would rise ot the fly above the rapids". Palmer notes that Rawls' exploits prompted the club to build the Webster trail and develop the upper river.<br/><br/>A choice association copy. Not in Wetzel or Heller; Bruns: "Not seen"; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 151 Privately Printed by Geo. H. Ellis Co unknown books
1668222879London: Printed for Richard Marriot and are to be sold by Charles Harper 1668. Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches; 140 x 83 cm. Full dark green morocco spine extra gilt boards with triple fillet border gilt turn-ins a.e.g. by Riviere. Five leaves in first gathering closely trimmed affecting catchwords 1/8-inch scuff at bottom of front board. A fine copy superbly bound in custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches; 140 x 83 cm. Excellent copy of this Walton first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous. Coigney 5; Horne 5; Oliver 5; Pforzheimer 1051; Westwood & Satchell p. 219; Wing W 665 Printed for R[ichard] Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper unknown books
1931261098New York: The Derrydale Press 1931. 6 vols. Image size is apx.10-1/4 x 8 inches each plate measuring apx. 13-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches including margins. Fine condition. In six custom blue half morocco folding boxes. 6 vols. Image size is apx.10-1/4 x 8 inches each plate measuring apx. 13-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches including margins. The six portraits each set in an appropriate background are of: SAMUEL MORRIS ESQ. Foxhunter first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club America's oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON "Napoleon of the Turf"; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS Yachtsman owner of the "America" and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS ESQ. Angler author of The American Angler's Book who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT ESQ. "Frank Forester" the father of American sporting literature. Published in an edition of 250.<br/><br/>UNIQUE SET OF THE ORIGINAL PRINTING PLATES FOR ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS SPORTING PRINTS SERIES. Ordeman pp. 24-25 & p. 56 The Derrydale Press unknown books
1835314038London: Thos. McLean 1835. First edition. 18 colored plates. R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 1 vols. Oblong folio 14-14 x 10-14 inches. Full green modern calf title in gilt on the upper cover by Aquarius. Duke of Gloucester bookplate. Fine. Reeve R.G. First edition. 18 colored plates. R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 1 vols. Oblong folio 14-14 x 10-14 inches. 1. "The Disappointment or Retreat in a Shower---Gallantry at a Discount." March 2nd 1835. 26 Haymarket. R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 2. A Frost. March 2nd 1835. . R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 3. "Repose in the Mail." March 2nd 1835. R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 4. "An Alarming Reason." March 2nd 1835 . R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 5. "A Faithfull Ally." June 2nd 1834. 6. A Signal of Distress or the Xmas Visitor. March 2 1835." . R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 7. "Just in time." June 2nd 1834. 8. A Lazy Horsekeeper for the Mail." June 2nd no year 9. "An Affair of ther Moment." June 2nd 1834 10. "A Lesson for the Horsekeeper. " June 2nd 1834. 11. "An Insubordinate Gate Keeper." March 2nd 1835. . R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 12. "A Passing Remark." June 2nd 1834. 13. "Accidents will Happen to the best Appointed Coaches----!" June 2nd 1834. 14. "A Flood Tide. Ship a hoy!!!" June 2nd 1834. 15. "A Practical Lesson." June 2nd 1834. 16. "An Indiscreet Artist." June 2nd 1834. 17. "An Accomodating Fare or Gallantry before Comfort. Go Outside with pleasure to accomodate a Lady." June 2nd 1834. 18. "A Race Team. " June 2nd 1834. Siltzer p.192 J. Watson issue; Gloucester Sale 695 £6000 all in Thos. McLean unknown books
1881251619Colophon:"Newe Castle upon Tine: by Andro Reid for yee author 1881. Second Edition one of 100 copies printed. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts etchings hand-colored ornaments etc. by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's blind-stamped morocco gilt t.e.g. Finely rebacked preserving original spine. Fine. Cloth slipcase. Second Edition one of 100 copies printed. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts etchings hand-colored ornaments etc. by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Only Copy Bound in Morocco. The much enlarged edition of one of the most curious and beautiful books in all of angling literature printed for "those who have in vain searched for the Edition of 1859" of which only 40 copies were printed. "With one or two exceptions the volume contains all the old plates and nearly as many new ones all displaying the humorous feeling and the artistic skill which give Mr. Crawhall's works 'a place apart' among angling books." Westwood & Satchell. <br/><br/>PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE:<br/>"For my beloved wife Margaret B. Crawhall June 27th 1881."<br/><br/>John Simpson noted that this is the only copy that he has seen bound in morocco all other copies in black calf to the same pattern. Westwood & Satchell p. 70 by Andro Reid for yee author unknown books
1929267526New York: Derrydale Press 1929. First edition no. 26 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author. Color frontispiece after Harrington Bird and three other color plates 46 halftone plates illustrations in text. xxvii 3 218 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. Full blue morocco with emblematic gilt tooling t.e.g. by MacDonald. Fine. First edition no. 26 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author. Color frontispiece after Harrington Bird and three other color plates 46 halftone plates illustrations in text. xxvii 3 218 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. One of the great large-format Derrydale Press titles of the 1920s and a classic work on the Arabian horse "the aristocrat of the equestrian world."<br/>A superior copy of the deluxe edition. Siegel 25; Frazier B-19-D; Podeschi 364 Derrydale Press unknown books
1929254360New York: The Derrydale Press 1929. Deluxe Edition Number 3 of 50 Copies Printed on Large Paper Signed by Burke and Connett. Hand-colored frontispiece colored title-page vignette and 10 colored illustrations of various birds by Edgar Burke. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarters maroon morocco gilt unopened at top edge. Spine very lightly faded light rubbing at joint some offsetting from frontispiece. Laid in to quarter crimson morocco slipcase with leather label on upper cover. Burke Edgar. Deluxe Edition Number 3 of 50 Copies Printed on Large Paper Signed by Burke and Connett. Hand-colored frontispiece colored title-page vignette and 10 colored illustrations of various birds by Edgar Burke. 1 vols. 4to. One of 50 copies. Includes illustrations of the Quail-Bobwhite Ruffed Grouse Ring Necked Pheasant American Woodcock Wilson's Snipe Canada Goose Black Duck Canvasback Widgeon and Mallard. With booklabel of Samuel B. Webb and another. Siegel 24; Frazier C-10-D The Derrydale Press unknown books
1898240138New York: The Fishes of North American Publishing Company 1898. First edition. 40 chromolithographic plates after Harris by J.L. Petrie 4 plates mounted as issued; numerous illustrations in text. 138 pp. 1 vols. Folio 18-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches. Original half morocco. Spine perished covers detached. Internally fine. First edition. 40 chromolithographic plates after Harris by J.L. Petrie 4 plates mounted as issued; numerous illustrations in text. 138 pp. 1 vols. Folio 18-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches. Bruns B80; Litchfield 65; McGrath p.197; Nissen ZBI 1840; Wetzel 153; Bennett p.51 The Fishes of North American Publishing Company unknown
1899303436Stevenson Conn: J.S. Stewart Printer and Bookbinder Middletown Conn 1899. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. 41 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Brown boards gilt. Corner and edge wear spine chipped front board discolored at upper left. Ownership stamp on front fly leaf verso. Somewhat tanned otherwise internally clean. Good plus. Laid into a quarter red morocco and cloth drop box. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. 41 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. A Western Hunting Rarity. A rare work privately printed listed by Eberstadt in 1953 at $300. "Isbell went to California as a young man by way of Cape Horn in 1852 and from that time until 1870 except for two trips back to his home in Connecticut he hunted or worked in the mines of California and Idaho. He learned fairly soon that hunting could often be more profitable than working as a miner though in the end he seems to have accumulated quite a stake from mining. He tells some great hunting stories and his account of life in Idaho where he went after hearing about the gold discoveries there in 1862 is most interesting" - Streeter. "One of the more sought of western narratives" - Eberstadt. Howes I 87 "b" G NYP Y; Eberstadt 132:361; Graff 2162; Streeter 4118; Kurutz 355a. Not in Heller or Phillips or Cowan [J.S. Stewart, Printer and Bookbinder, Middletown, Conn unknown books
1899311752Russian Central Asia 1899. Some of the photographs published in: Percy W. Church Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun Rivingtons 1901. 77 Kodak photographs in album mounts captioned in ink. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary Kodak Souvenirs album in blue cloth over bevelled boards manuscript labels. Presentation on inside front cover "With Isidore Morse's compliments to Evelyn J Mardon. Some of the photographs published in: Percy W. Church Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun Rivingtons 1901. 77 Kodak photographs in album mounts captioned in ink. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. An American in Russian Central Asia 1899. Superb set of photographs taken by an American sportsman travelling in Russian Central Asia in 1899 documenting ethnography landscapes local customs sporting trophies wapiti ibex roedeer and camp life and Chinese and Russian officialdom.<br/>Captions indicate the Hotel at Tashkent Mongol weddings a "Kirghiz swell". Kalmuk officers shikaris Mongol soldiers Chinese soldiers and cooks Russian settlers "Mongol Buddhist & Tranchi Mussulman" French & Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries Kirghiz shikaris "Nora - shikari" several portraits "Towing barges on Tekes river affluent of the Ili" "Boundary pillar between Chinese & Russian territories at Naryakul" "Jargilan valley at Kulja" "Jimbuk Mongol shikari" and many others.<br/>This album is similar in composition to an album presented by Morse to the Royal Geographical Society in 1990 and contains an identical number of photographs. The recipient Evelyn J. Mardon 1867-1958 was a member of the Indian Civil Service and hunted big game around the world. Percy W. Church used a small selection of Morse's photographs to illustrate the portions on sport in the Tekes country in the Tien Shan mountains in Chinese Turkestan 1901 the account of his journey with J.V. Phelps to Yarkand and Kuldja and Tashkent plates at pp. 60 70 108 132 one titled "Morse's shikari" corresponding to a photograph of Nora in this album. H.H.P. Deasy also reports a chance encounter with Morse at the Kili Pass In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan 1901.<br/>Isidore Morse was a son of Leopold Morse a merchant and five-term congressman from Massachusetts. He and his brother Tyler Morse Harvard 1898 inherited considerable wealth at their father's death in 1892. Isidore took part in the 1903 Macmillan expedition to the Blue Nile and subsequently served with an English regiment at Anzac in 1915 where he was wounded and lost an arm.<br/>An excellent visual record largely unpublished and unexplored.<br/> <br/>With: Church. Percy W. Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun. Illustrated with folding map at back. xii 207 pp. London: Rivingtons 1901. A near fine fresh copy with Buenos Aires English High School prize label to front flyleaf. A couple of short tears at folds of map. Church credits Morse's photographs at the end of his preface. Cf. Geographical Journal XVI:4 p. 380. For published book see: Czech Asia p. 47 "excellent descriptions of the terrain and of the indigenous peoples"; Cordier 2863 unknown books
1938312786N.p.: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman 1938. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White printed wrappers stapled. Very good. Some minor wear. Green quarter morocco slipcase. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July 1938 by a party of six who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen comprising: Evan A. Evans Louis M. Hanks Roy F. Tomlinson Theodore G. Montague William S. Kies and George I. Haight to whom authorship is attributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The last page of text records their catch by weights. Rare. Wetzel p. 171 tentatively ascribed to William Kies. "A rare work."; Bruns K-45 not seen; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 105. OCLC 2 copies Princeton Wisconsin Historical Society Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman] unknown
1943311404Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed 1943. One of approximately 40 copies. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 1 vols. 4to. Text in blue morocco gilt hackles in 11 captioned mounts in original blue morocco folding box. Fine. One of approximately 40 copies. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 1 vols. 4to. Rare. Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text all in the original full leather folding box. A superior copy of a rare work. Hampton's Angling Bibliography p. 32 Privately printed unknown books
1937261048Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed 1937. One of approximately 40 copies. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations. 31 pp. With 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 1 vols. 4to. Text in blue morocco gilt hackles in 11 captioned mounts in original blue morocco folding box. Circular angling bookplate of F.W. Sims. One of approximately 40 copies. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations. 31 pp. With 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 1 vols. 4to. Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text all in the original full leather folding box. A superior copy of a rare work. Hampton's Angling Bibliography p. 32 Privately printed unknown
1747230553Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers 1747. First edition. Printer's ornaments at beginning and end of text. 4 95 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf neatly rebacked and repaired front and rear free endpapers renewed. First edition. Printer's ornaments at beginning and end of text. 4 95 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. The Rare First Taverner's Copy. Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker's name appears in the first edition in the second his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779 Charles "was considered the most finished fly-fisher of his day." The work went into many editions: this the first is a rare book indeed.<br/>This particular copy has a distinguished provenance. The rear pastedown bears an interesting ownership inscription dated 1758 of John Rogers from the borough of Stone in Shropshire; and the front pastedown bears the following inscription linking this rare incunable of fly fishing to two modern masters: "John Waller Hills to Eric Taverner."<br/>For Hills see pp. 130-6 of Robb's Notable Angling Literature; Taverner is author of Trout Fishing from All Angles and Salmon Fishing both titles in the Lonsdale Library The Making of a Trout Stream etc. etc. Westwood & Satchell pp. 39-40; Heckscher 251: ESTC T112413 dating this edition 1758; Gingrich Fishing in Print pp. 69-74; Sage Catalogue p. 41 Printed by M. Olivers unknown books
1930259369New York: The Derrydale Press 1930. Deluxe Edition Number 74 of 75 copies with signed etching by Schaldach. 64 plates 5 in color by Lynn Bogue Hunt Edgar Burke William Schaldach A.B. Frost Bert Cobb et al. xxiv iii 249 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt with decorative running border on both covers featuring birds and dogs and enclosing title on upper cover panelled spine gilt with game bird vignettes and title t.e.g. by Stikeman N.Y. Some faint traces of rubbing to front joint. Fine. Brown half morocco clamshell box. Deluxe Edition Number 74 of 75 copies with signed etching by Schaldach. 64 plates 5 in color by Lynn Bogue Hunt Edgar Burke William Schaldach A.B. Frost Bert Cobb et al. xxiv iii 249 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Siegel notes "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work" and Frazier states "Certainly one of the handsomest of the great big beautiful Derrydales that Connett produced . one of the most ambitious projects that he attempted". One of the most highly sought-after of Derrydale titles and magnificent in this deluxe edition. Siegel 45; Frazier C-11-D; Biscotti p. 92 The Derrydale Press unknown books
1938312786N.p.: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman 1938. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White printed wrappers stapled. Very good. Some minor wear. Green quarter morocco slipcase. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July 1938 by a party of six who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen comprising: Evan A. Evans Louis M. Hanks Roy F. Tomlinson Theodore G. Montague William S. Kies and George I. Haight to whom authorship is attributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The last page of text records their catch by weights. Rare. Wetzel p. 171 tentatively ascribed to William Kies. "A rare work."; Bruns K-45 not seen; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 105. OCLC 2 copies Princeton Wisconsin Historical Society Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman] unknown books
1890312761London: Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited 1890. 3 mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Contemporary full black morocco over stiff card covers ruled in silver upper cover with text in blindstamp edges silvered decorative endpapers. Finely rebacked to style; edges rubbed. Black morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 3 mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. A signed presentation copy from the author John Bell-Irving to Douglas Jones. <br /> Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and partner in the Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson and a director of the Hong Kong Electric Company. Jones was Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton of Shanghai. <br /> "The greatest pleasure in up-country shooting trips" Bell-Irving claims "is the idea of perfect freedom far removed from business cares and beyond the reach of letters and telegrams." Succinct account of many hunting trips after pheasant waterfowl deer and other game with observations on weather and conditions and game bag. Bell-Irving and Jones are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br /> <br /> A SUSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF SPORT ALONG THE YANGTZE OVER THREE DECADES.<br /> <br /> EXCEEDINGLY RARE. OCLC 42241800 Princeton Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited unknown
1879140945510Springfield OH: No Publisher 1879. A rare piece of ephemera documenting women's baseball in the 19th century. Bifolium inscribed on four sides covering guests who stayed at the hotel in the first week of September including the eight members of the Red Stockings of New York and the same number of Blue Stockings of Philadelphia identifying each by name and position: catcher first base pitcher second base right field left field and manager; with the note "Female Base Ball Club Game at 2:30 this P.M." large sheet boldly inscribed naming New York players Misses M. Stacey M. Addison T. Sheldon R. Howard K. Moore L. Gray J. Arnold & K. Taylor; and Philadelphia players Misses E. Clifford G. Lostbaum J. Howard A. Brooks M. Pierce B. Lewis M. Harding and H. Howard. Very Good with some discoloration boldly written and easily read. 17 1/2" x 11 1/4". <br /> <br /> <p>The following is taken from an article in the September 2 1879 issue of the Springfield Ohio Republic Times: "The party of abandoned creatures professing to give exhibitions as Female Base Ball players about the country came here yesterday Monday and after being driven around town on show proceeded to the base ball grounds on the Fair Grounds and played a few innings of a burlesque base ball game. There were only eleven of the players so-called and a difficulty arose in consequence as to making even sides. It was finally arranged by putting the biggest and smallest player on the same side giving the odd one to the other. The score was 999 to 1001 when the game closed on account of darkness. A couple of hundred reprobates who would be ashamed to let their wives and grown-up children know where they were crowded the home plate and foul ball lines and a sprinkling of rising young candidates for penitentiary records gazed upon the game from the seats. There is nothing to be said of this part of the exhibition excepting that it was more degrading than anything that has struck the town since the last 'living statuary' show. A beer stand did a good business near the diamond field the 'boys' seeing to it that the players did not go thirsty." <p>Our reporter then goes on to explain a fight that began next between the team business manager Clark Frankhouse his assistant and a young Black man named Ben Hayes. A follow-up piece on the following day declares Hayes sustained only minor injuries. "The only real damage by the affair has been to the peace and dignity of the city of Springfield." Copies of newspaper reports included with lot.<br /> <br /> <p>Debra Shattuck author of the book Bloomer Girls said in an interview: "The earliest female professional baseball teams including the Female Blue Stockings of Philadelphia and Female Red Stockings of New York 1879-were comprised of teenagers and young women drawn primarily from the ranks of circus and theatrical troupes. Few had experience playing baseball. They spoke of their uniforms as "costumes" mimicked mannerisms of male players "kicking" at umpires for example and purposely incorporated humor into their games forming bucket brigades to relay balls in from the outfield skipping around the bases etc."</p> . [No Publisher] unknown
1747240579Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers 1747. First edition. Printer's ornaments at beginning and end of text. 4 95 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf neatly recased some worming. Signed "E. Elisha Shrewsbury" on title page and inked below printed author name "of Ludlow Shropshire." Laid into a full brown slipcase and chemise by Macdonald. First edition. Printer's ornaments at beginning and end of text. 4 95 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker's name appears in the first edition in the second his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779 Charles "was considered the most finished fly-fisher of his day." The work went into many editions. This the first is a rare book indeed. Westwood/Satchell p. 39: "The first edition appeared in the name of Richard Bowlker the father but in the second printed by Baskerville Charles Bowlker seems to lay claim to the work. He says in the preface 'I have been a practitioner in this art near 26 years and according to my practice and experience have contrived considered and fitted this for publication' . Charles was considered the most finished fly-fisher of his day." Heckscher 251: "Rare." Sage Catalogue p. 41: 'Very scarce." Gingrich Fishing in Print pp. 69-74; ESTC T112413 Printed by M. Olivers unknown
1955237320New York 1955. 8 x 10 in.; and sketchbook leaves approx. 8 x 10 in. Sway Back Reunion" matted and framed fine. Sketchbook leaves fine. Brown Paul. 8 x 10 in.; and sketchbook leaves approx. 8 x 10 in. Paul Brown Drawings. Interesting collection of drawings by the famed American illustrator Paul Brown chiefly connected to the Calvary Squadron A of New York City based at the armory on Madison Avenue and 94th/95th streets.<br/><br/>"Sway-Backs Reunion" is a humorous sketch of an elderly horse and a boozing cavalryman demonstrating Brown's characteristic energy of line.<br/><br/>The pencil sketches offer an interesting glimpse of Brown's working style and comprise: <br/><br/>- "Remember": 21 drawings of fallen soldiers and horses Our Buddies The Lost Patrol Last Call - Taps; "We must not forget" with Squadron A pennants ; a kneeling GI beside a fallen comrade. One drawing inscribed "To 'Phil' Brady Sincerely Paul Brown" 5 signed Paul Brown 3 signed"PB" and 12 unsigned preliminary drawings. <br/>The sketch of Squadron A pennants demonstrates a visual continuity between the crossed sabers of the cavalry troop and its 1941 redesignation as the 101st Cavalry. Its members fought gallantly in Germany and Austria during WWII.<br/><br/>- Two sketches for the "Sway-backs Reunion": drawings of a cavalryman offering his horse drink from a mess kit both signed "PB".<br/><br/>- Three unsigned sketches: "Coming in for the night" a man at a gate with two horses and a foal entering; well dressed horseman in top hat with rider coming over a fence in distance; sketch of foal and two dogs at play. unknown books
1915314481N.p. Massachusetts 1915. With 128 silver print photographs including 2 maps and 66 pp. typescript. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Cloth covered boards post mounted album leaves. Generally fine. Cloth folding box. With 128 silver print photographs including 2 maps and 66 pp. typescript. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Hunting in the Sheslay River British Columbia 1915. Superb record of an expedition by Harvard graduates of the class of 1915 Richard Bullock of Fitchburg Mass. and Robert Winthrop Kean of the prominent New Jersey family in the Carriar district of British Columbia. The party went in via Wrangell Alaska in late August 1915 and experienced a few delays reaching the former Klondike gold rush village of Telegraph Creek. Bullock and Kean crossed the Sheslay River beyond Telegraph Creek with two Tahltan Indian guides Billy Fann and Ludecker a cook and a packer and reached the Juni river in late August. When Bullock bagged a large ram on 1 September high up on a mountain ridge "after taking several photographs . then set about removing the head and scalp which proved a short job for Billy" who packed the head down to camp. <br/><br/>Bullock's account was published in Outing Magazine March through May 1918 as "Hunting Days in the Cassiar." Kean's account of the trip was published as chapter 15 Hunting Big Game in his memoirs Fourscore Years: My First Twenty-Four 1974. An extract accompanies this album.<br/>A well documented and engaging account of remote mountain sport. unknown books
1890312761London: Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited 1890. 3Â mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Contemporary full black morocco over stiff card covers ruled in silver upper cover with text in blindstamp edges silvered decorative endpapers. Finely rebacked to style; edges rubbed. Black morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 3Â mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Presentation Copy. A signed presentation copy from the author John Bell-Irving to Douglas Jones. <br/>Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and partner in the Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson and a director of the Hong Kong Electric Company. Jones was Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton of Shanghai. <br/>"The greatest pleasure in up-country shooting trips"Â Bell-Irving claims "is the idea of perfect freedom far removed from business cares and beyond the reach of letters and telegrams." Succinct account of many hunting trips after pheasant waterfowl deer and other game with observations on weather and conditions and game bag. Bell-Irving and Jones are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br/><br/>A SUSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF SPORT ALONG THE YANGTZE OVER THREE DECADES.<br/><br/>EXCEEDINGLY RARE. OCLC 42241800 Princeton Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited unknown books
