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1846252887London: G. Routledge 1846. New Edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. Original cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Dean Sage. New Edition". Two hand-colored engraved plates of flies "including many never before figured." Pp. iv 9-67. 1 vols. 16mo. A diminutive popular treatise first published in 1838; this is the 4th edition according to Westwood & Satchell. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Westwood & Satchell p. 9; Heckscher 62; Sage p. 9 this copy G. Routledge unknown
1890314089Van Buren AR: Thayer Bros. Print 1890. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Printed wrappers. Pale staining to upper corner of each page one or two spots else very good. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas . and to procure the stocking of the streams and woods of our State with fish and game."<br /> <br /> We were unable to discover any further information on this particular club.<br /> <br /> "The Sportsman's Creed" eight rules for sportsmen to aid in the preservation of fish and game including "Never be a fish-hog" printed on the rear wrapper with this sound advice: "Cheer Up Sportsmen The less Fish and Game you have the more there will be to get."<br /> <br /> UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Thayer Bros. Print unknown
1944242401Worcester Mass: Isaiah Thomas 1944. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Full-page frontispiece and illustrations after woodcuts in the text. 1 vols. 16mo. Crimson polished calf spine gilt t.e.g. Fine. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Full-page frontispiece and illustrations after woodcuts in the text. 1 vols. 16mo. Fine facsimile of the first of the children's books produced by John Newberry originally published in 1744. The first American edition was printed by Hugh Gaines in 1762 although no copy of that edition is known. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Contains the first mention of Baseball in America the woodcut captioned such at p. 43. Henderson p. 7; Hamilton 115; Welch 778.2; Rosenbach 120 "One of the most influential and important books in the history of juvenile literature." Isaiah Thomas unknown
1911263515New York: American Sports Publishing Company 1911. First edition. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait frontis illustrations photographs and plates some folding. xix11-542 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bright blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt depiction of Uncle Sam at bat on the upper cover. Front inner hinge with nearly imperceptible conservation repair. An unusually fresh tight copy of a book most often seen in deplorable condition. First edition. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait frontis illustrations photographs and plates some folding. xix11-542 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. One of the key works in the literature of baseball by one of the prime movers in its codification and development. In addition to his pitching career which began in 1865 Spalding helped organize the National League cofounded the Spalding sporting goods company and published the first official rules guide for the game. This book was published four years prior to his death. American Sports Publishing Company unknown
1895244662Boston: Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street nera Milk Street. Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street 1895. Illustrated throughout. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout. 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A rare trade catalogue of 19th-century baseball gear profusely illustrated with wood-engravings of products offered by Wright & Ditson -- including Spalding bats and mitts catcher's masks bases shoes uniforms and caps and score books and other miscellanea. Wright & Ditson was later acquired by Spalding. Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street (nera Milk Street). Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street unknown
1940234945N.p. 1940. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. Mounted to stiff card captioned at top in ink "Joe Dimaggio = Joe Louis" and at bottom with typed slip "Joe Louis Slugging Outfielder & Joe Louis." Narrow light vertical stain through the length of the image slight overall toning. Black-and-white gelatin print. 1 vols. 8 x 6 inches image; 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches mount. Rare photograph of the two legendary athletes posing playfully side by side Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder Louis standing with his fists clenched ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin. According to biographers Engelberg and Schneider Joe Louis was Dimaggio's first boxing hero: "Dimaggio saw several of Louis's fight including his first fight with Billy Conn. It took place at the Polo Grounds in New York one month into Dimaggio's monumental hitting streak in 1941 . " DIMAGGIO: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT p. 369. unknown
1846232320New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co 1846. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary cloth-backed green boards. Some light scattered foxing; Very Good. Frontispiece illustration showing pitcher and a batter repeated on p. 23 with the caption "The Play Ground." Numerous engravings. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Charles Sanders was the author of a very successful series of school readers. His first primer was published in 1840 with the same image and the "Pictorial Primer" appeared in 1846. American Imprints cites two other edition of the Pictorial Primer in the 1846 volume; OCLC adds two more. The American Antiquarian Society dates this edition as "between 1846 and 1850" based on the imprint. A new edition of the "Pictorial Primer" copyrighted 1858 has a baseball-playing illustration with the same caption but a different image. American Imprint 46-6243; Block Baseball before We Knew It p. 209 Published by Mark H. Newman & Co unknown
1923246618Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1923. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. A few spots on last two leaves of text else fine. Benson Frank W. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. Mill/well/26/1 Houghton Mifflin unknown
1929245993Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Printed at the Riverside Press 1929. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. Label scuffed else very good. Bookplate of G. Peabody Gardner & Rose Gardner. Benson Frank W. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. The Flying Pintail etching original to this volume is item 275 in the catalogue and was produced in 1927. Houghton Mifflin Company [Printed at the Riverside Press] unknown
189613803London: Macmillan 1896. Folding colored frontispiece and other photos in text. 35 1 pp. 1 vols. Thin 4to. Original printed blue boards a little worn front inner hinge cracked else near fine. Folding colored frontispiece and other photos in text. 35 1 pp. 1 vols. Thin 4to. A wonderful item with explicit instructions as promised in the title and enhanced with a colored folding plate featuring a completed stocking of striking elegance. Macmillan unknown
1688254004Napoli Naples: Carlo Porpora 1688. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. Mid-eighteenth century Italian polychrome enameled binding of full brown calf covers with two gilt-rolled panells central strap and scroll device built up from gouges surrounded by pointellé flowers with remnants of blue and red enamel edges gilt guaffered and painted with floral and hare design front free endpaper removed bookplate. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. A history of ancient sport and games in Italy first printed in 1641. This copy in an elaborate eighteenth-century Neopolitan enameled binding with all edges gilt gauffered and painted. Graesse IV p. 113 Carlo Porpora unknown
1913238650New York: Privately printed 1913. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "Mr. & Mrs. A. B. P- names partly effaced with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby St. L. 5/18/14"<br /> "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" Heller.<br /> An important and rare book. Plum Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716 Privately printed unknown
2005314149Missoula Montana: The Boone & Crockett Club 2005. Number 82 of 100 copies signed by Robert Model President and the two editors Buck Buckner and Jack Reneau plus Illustrator Ken Carlson on the bottom of his colr plate "Advancing Shadows. Illus. xxiv 904pp. Thick 8vo. Half black leather and patterned sides. Fine in slipcase. Number 82 of 100 copies signed by Robert Model President and the two editors Buck Buckner and Jack Reneau plus Illustrator Ken Carlson on the bottom of his colr plate "Advancing Shadows" Illus. xxiv 904pp. Thick 8vo. The Boone & Crockett Club unknown
1935314743St. Albans: Fisher Knight & Co. Ltd 1935. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Publisher's limp red roan decorated in gilt a.e.g. About fine. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Signed by the author to the title page dated November 1935. Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd unknown
1859315009New Haven: T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street 1859. Illustrated throughout. Engraved frontispiece of factory printed by F.F. Oakley Boston. 97pp. Oblong 4to 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. Bound in publisher's blind stamped brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Inner hinge repaired else Fine. Illustrated throughout. Engraved frontispiece of factory printed by F.F. Oakley Boston. 97pp. Oblong 4to 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street unknown
185629750Paris: Amyot 1856. First edition. 20 engravings on 10 sheets. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half blue cloth wrappers bound in trimmed. Some browning and spotting else very good. First edition. 20 engravings on 10 sheets. 1 vols. 8vo. Ramée's work on transporation history with the plates showing various carriages. Rittenhouse 68 Amyot unknown
2015Atlantic-97815075953672015. Paperback. New. paperback
2015Atlantic-97815075953672015. Paperback. New. paperback
187135285Dubuque Iowa: O. A. Bronson Jr. 1871. Pp.13 last page text printed on inside back wrapper small photograph tipped in; Pp. 2 15-24 18 printed in red; Pp. 12 page numbering confused self wrappers this last interfiled with previous issue; Pp. 37-52; Pp. 53- 64; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp.16 self wrappers. Illustrations of chess boards. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with front wrapper only for yearly volume wrappers for Parts II IV and V bound in several parts in self wrappers. Title browned losses in lower outer margin from gnawing browning of some leaves else very good. Pp.13 last page text printed on inside back wrapper small photograph tipped in; Pp. 2 15-24 18 printed in red; Pp. 12 page numbering confused self wrappers this last interfiled with previous issue; Pp. 37-52; Pp. 53- 64; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp. 12 self wrappers; Pp.16 self wrappers. Illustrations of chess boards. 1 vols. 8vo. First volume of this chess journal. The early volumes were called "Dubuque Chess Journal" and "Brownson's Chess Journal" then in 1876 the title was changed to "The American Chess Journal "and then in 1877 returned to "Chess Journal."¶ The portrait photograph is inserted between a problem by Edward H. Courtnay and problems by Ludwig von Bilou. O. A. Bronson Jr. unknown
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
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
1890229570London: Richard Bentley and Son 1890. First edition. 8 tinted plates drawn and lithographed by John Sturgess plus one woodcut and diagrams. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial light brown cloth stamped in black decorative endpapers. Bookplate of Franklin Jones Willock on front pastedown. Near fine bright copy with very slight rubbing at spine tips and edges. First edition. 8 tinted plates drawn and lithographed by John Sturgess plus one woodcut and diagrams. 1 vols. 8vo. "Corbett was one of the last 'gentlemen coachmen' who drove commercial stages for the pleasure of driving. Recommended highly for its valuable data on driving four horses . " Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse 21 Richard Bentley and Son unknown
190143275London: Longmans. Green and Co 1901. Fifth edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown morocco and cloth boards t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons for Sotherans. Fifth edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Longmans. Green, and Co unknown
1882231031London: Richard Bentley & Son New Burlington Street 1882. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. viii iv 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Very good headcap chipped some foxing. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. viii iv 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine lithographs by Sturgess. Not in Rittenhouse Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street unknown
1882213937London: Richard Bentley 1882. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Spine slightly bumped hinges cracked else very good. First edition. 12 lithographic plates drawn and lithographed by J. Sturgess. 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine lithographs by Sturgess. Not in Rittenhouse Richard Bentley unknown
