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1886238620Cairo 1886. Each 4 pp. Some rubbing. Each 4 pp. Gezira Sporting Club is the largest multi-sport facility in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 and was originally called Khedivial Sporting Club. Both of these programs are annotated in pencil by an unknown spectator - "all that didn't run have a heavy black mark. All that won have a light one and are marked 1 2 or 3 as the call may be." As stipulated on the rear of each program pari mutuel betting was the order of the day. unknown
1840308474Newtown Square Pa. 1840. Title in 4 lines text in double columns of 65 lines. 1 vols. 13 x 10-3/4 inches. Old folds a few archival tissue reinforcements on verso chiefly at margins not affecting the text. Title in 4 lines text in double columns of 65 lines. 1 vols. 13 x 10-3/4 inches. The constitution of the Society the Preamble of which says "Whereas it appears that for want of some general system of action and mutual aid amongst the inhabitants of this district much loss has been sustained and many thieves and other villains have escaped. Therefore be it Resolved that we this day form ourselves into a Company for the protection of property known by the name style and Title of Newtown Square Horse Company of Newtown Township Delaware County and State of Pennsylvania for the detection of Horse Thieves and the recovery of stolen property."<br /> <br /> The Constitution comprises 23 sections outlining the aims of the Company and giving the text of hand bills to be printed to offer rewards for stolen horses.<br /> <br /> Section 15th. Members are enjoined strictly to observe the conduct of every stranger coming into their neighborhood without any known business to diligently watch the movements of all suspected persons to acquire a habit of noticing all travellers and horses that come in their ways .<br /> <br /> Undated but a notice in the Delaware County American for 22 February 1840 identifies James Lewis of Marple as the Secretary and given the address "at the Sign of the Fox Chase Richard Millison proprietor". Not in OCLC unknown
1892253514Paris: Flammarion 1892. 3e édition revue corrigée et considerablement augmentée. Title page vignette illustrated with 36 plates. xiv 2 425 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Grey printed wrappers rebacked. Text block toned else fine. In custom red half morocco slipcase. 3e édition revue corrigée et considerablement augmentée. Title page vignette illustrated with 36 plates. xiv 2 425 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. James Fillis 1834-1913 was an Englishman by birth who lived many years in France and later in Germany and Russia where he was master of the St. Petersburg Cavalry School. He was "acclaimed by many as one of the greatest horsemen and riders of all time" Grimshaw. This work first published in 1890 here in the third edition with a new preface and expanded to include the 30-lesson riding course taught by Fillis in Brussels and one additional plate. The work was translated into English by Capt. M. Horace Hayes as Breaking and Riding 1902.<br /> <br /> Uncommon. Mennessier de la Lance I:483-4; Grimshaw pp. 66-7 Flammarion unknown
1877238489London: Hodder and Stoughton 1877. Seventh edition. Albumen print frontispiece; vi 2 248 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt; rubbed at head of spine front hinge repaired with tape remnants of sticker to front paste-down cracked at title page; very good with frontispiece photo exceptionally fine. Seventh edition. Albumen print frontispiece; vi 2 248 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Harry Houdini's copy with gift inscription to him on the front free endpaper in pencil dated 1923 from Edw. W.P. Colusa. Hodder and Stoughton 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. 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
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
1937316007Kansas City Missouri: The Brown-White Company 1937. First edition. Frontispiece. 352 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy in attractive dust jacket spine ever so slightly faded else fine. First edition. Frontispiece. 352 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "For Jim. From his friend R. L. Sutton" on the front free endpaper with an original gelatin photograph of a trophy tarpon loosely inserted. Bruns S338; Callahan p. xix "a major book" The Brown-White Company unknown
188434446Leiden: n.p. 1884. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers faint traces of wear at spine spotting to top of front wrapper else a fine copy of a scarce item. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. An interesting combination of exotic letterpress and color lithography. The text printed in Javanese deals with a big game hunt and illustrated by four plates printed in delicate green brown red and blue tints. They depict a campsite; the hunter and guide in dense cover aiming at a tiger; the hunter holding his rifle as dogs flush out a wild boar; and two groups of hunters and guides with one group carrying a recently killed deer. [n.p.] unknown
1910240280Privately printed 1910. Illustrated from photos throughout. 27 pp. final 7 pp. ads. Tall 8vo. Illustrated green wrappers. Fine. Illustrated from photos throughout. 27 pp. final 7 pp. ads. Tall 8vo. With application for membership laid in. Not in Heller or Bruns [Privately printed unknown
1859221749London: The Field" Office.and Ward and Lock 1859. With 6 hand-colored etched plates after Leech. viii 115 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full mottled polished tan calf t.e.g. by Riviere . Fine. Leech John. With 6 hand-colored etched plates after Leech. viii 115 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Schwerdt II p. 28; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 255 The Field" Office...and Ward and Lock unknown
1859219233London: The Field" Office.and Ward and Lock 1859. First edition. With 6 hand-colored etched plates after Leech. viii 115 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original full blue pebbled cloth a.e.g. with orange endpapers with diamond shaped binder's ticket of Burn on back pastedown. Almost fine in blue cloth slipcase. Leech John. First edition. With 6 hand-colored etched plates after Leech. viii 115 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation copy inscribed on flyleaf "Presented to Mr. Perry Wallington M.P. with the best compliments of John Mills July 29th 1859." Schwerdt II p. 28; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 255 The Field" Office...and Ward and Lock unknown
1801306156London: Printed for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow by W. Glendinning 1801. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn joints cracked but sewing sound lacking spine label text block roughly trimmed occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums problems parlor tricks and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards magic squares magic lanterns feats of artificial memory and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy" by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities including chapters on arithmetic "To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them &c." "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter" and amusing "secrets" "To make people in a room have a hideous appearance". Toole Stott 240 Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning unknown
1919307722Boston 1919. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Post bound album in black leather over limp boards edges rubbed front joint tender. A few photographs loosened but all present and complete one photo folded at left edge long ago. Black cloth folding box red morocco spine label. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent and fully captioned photograph album of summer trout fishing and camping in the Rangeley district at Loon Lake Maine and other places of interest. The photographer is unnamed but evidently from Boston or the north shore with some connections further south on Long Island.<br /> <br /> The album records two trips to Maine: the first to Loon Lake in 1915 and the J. Lewis York family fishing camp including several fine images of York often with a bear cub on a lead 66 photographs on 17 leaves ; and the second undated to Green Lake Mike Marr's camp at Indian Pond to Squaw Mountain Pond with Fred Lessor guide and to Moosehead Lake and the Kennebec 36 photographs on 9 leaves. <br /> <br /> Three trips to Nova Scotia in 1914 1919 and 1923 to the Kedgemakoogee Rod and Gun Club on Kedgemakoogee Lake the Shelburne River and other trout fishing excursions 139 photographs on 37 leaves. In the June 1923 trip Irving Lake Dam on the Shelburne is described as the best fishing water of the trip. A few participants are identified: E.L. Matlack O.H. Muir and Wilson Forrest and the unidentified grinning angler with a large string of trout may well be the compiler. <br /> <br /> As well as scenes from the Piping Rock Horse Show Long Island noting Miss Lansdale up in several snapshots 22 photographs on 5 leaves; and a trip to Atlantic City at the end with the Shriners parade and seaside scenes 27 photographs on 7 leaves. Cf. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 186 for a similar album unknown
1915314436Boston 1915. Typescript with 16 mounted photographs with typed captions below. x 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brick cloth titled in gilt. Minor rubbing to spine ends; some toning. Very good plus. Typescript with 16 mounted photographs with typed captions below. x 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Narrative of the adventures of the Skipper the Judge the Deacon and the Doctor on a three-day canoe trip up the Charles river from South Natick to Lake Populatic "supposed to be the head of canoe navigability." In earlier years the party had cruised the river from South street as far as Natick.<br /> The party of four embarked at a boat house in South Natick and by paddle and portage soon left the town behind. The first night they camped in a pine wood. The second day they faced windy conditions and passed the Medfield Insane Ayslum where they took on fresh water from a spring. Their maps were meager and out of date and they first had to navigate "the mystic maze of the maddening Medfield Meadows" before entering the oxbows of the Charles passing ruined factories and difficult portages on their way to the Lake where they made camp for the second night. The return trip was swiftly accomplished on the final day.<br /> <br /> A handsome little volume with light-hearted prose and excellent photographic illustrations often caption with witty remarks. "Dedicated to the girls who stayed at home" on the first page of the text - and as soon as the party returned to South Natick they called their wives and dashed for the train back to Boston. unknown
173410071Boston 1734. Woodcut of Royal Arms. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound; slight browning and minor imperfections near fine. Woodcut of Royal Arms. 1 vols. 4to. Includes an act to supply the treasury 27371 pounds for enumerated disbursements; an act to prevent encroachments on highways and private streets; an act for the ease of prisoners for debt; an act to prevent unnecessary law suits; an act to exempt anabaptists from being taxed for the support of ministers; an act to regulate the choice of town officials; an act to prevent the obstruction of the passage of fish in the Merrimack River; an act for erecting the new town of Halifax in the county of Plymouth; an act for dividing the town of Enfield and erecting a new town called Somers; an act creating the town of Litchfield at a place called Naticook near the Merrimack. Shipton and Mooney 3792 unknown
1926249443From Harry & Madeline Atherton 1926. Folding map "Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hunt" 9 x 16-1/2 inches on a 12 x 18 inch sheet backed with cloth and folded. Pastedown with printed text within floral border with riding helmets and crossed whips. Fox mask vignette on title page; stannding hound as tailpiece. 8 pp. Square 32mo. Red satin wallet binding upper cover printed in gilt. Minor edge wear text and map fine and fresh. Folding map "Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hunt" 9 x 16-1/2 inches on a 12 x 18 inch sheet backed with cloth and folded. Pastedown with printed text within floral border with riding helmets and crossed whips. Fox mask vignette on title page; stannding hound as tailpiece. 8 pp. Square 32mo. A finely detailed map of sporting Long Island depicting roads and forests and fields with names of owners of the estates and identifying 18 fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hunt. The map stretches from Old Westbury to the estate of R.C. Thomas just over the Suffolk County line. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 251 From Harry & Madeline Atherton unknown
254865Far Hills NJ: Meadow Run Press 1996. De Luxe Edition copy no. 9 of 67 copies for sale signed by author and artist. With two drawings and 12 tipped in color plates reproducing watercolors by John Swan. 116 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original beige cloth blue morocco spine fore edges uncut as new in matching cloth folding box with morocco spine label by BookLab in Austin Texas. Swan John. De Luxe Edition copy no. 9 of 67 copies for sale signed by author and artist. With two drawings and 12 tipped in color plates reproducing watercolors by John Swan. 116 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A superb book a collection of observations reflections and experiences by one of the great angling writers of this or any generation. McGuane's diverse pieces on fish and fishing range geographically from his beloved Montana to the Andes to the Russian Arctic and in subject from equipment "A rod better have a great reason for being over nine feet or under eight. Nine is a wonderful length for a trout tarpon and billfish rod. It's a length the human body likes." to picturesque angling companions and the enduring challenges of the sport. John Swan's watercolors are a worthy enhancement This de luxe edition was sold out on publication and it is easy to see why. Meadow Run Press unknown
237123Stone Harbor New Jersey: Meadow Run Press 1995. Deluxe limited edition number 33 of 47 copies for sale of an entire deluxe edition of 52 numbered and signed by the artist. Illustrated by A. D. Tinkham. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco gilt-and blind-stamped. With an additional suite of six black-and-white photographs from the original negatives of underwater landscapes taken in the Marquesas by the author in a printed folder housed together in a linen cloth drop-box with morocco label gilt. Tinkham A. D. Deluxe limited edition number 33 of 47 copies for sale of an entire deluxe edition of 52 numbered and signed by the artist. Illustrated by A. D. Tinkham. 1 vols. 8vo. Marquesa is the archaic name for the Marquesas Keys an "extraordinary place which rises with an elevation not much greater than a sandbar along the seam of . . . the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean . . . 25 miles west of Key West this unique atoll is the most remote area of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge" Introduction. An account of time spent by the author in this fantastic area including accounts of fishing for Tarpon fly-fishing boating shark attacks and much more.<br /> <br /> <br /> This copy is inscribed on the half-title "To Tony - Who has contributed so much to the sport of fly fishing and its literary expression . Best wishes from the Tropics Jeffrey Cardenas Key West May 1996."<br /> <br /> With TLS from Cardenas to Tony Lyons about the purchase of the book and how happy he is that Tony and Nick Lyons have it. Meadow Run Press 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
1866301956New York: Francis Hart and Company Printers 1866. First edition. 173 pp. 8vo. Original cloth front joint cracked but holding nicely some minor soiling bookplate to front pastedown spine and upper board gilt some very minor dampstaining to margin of first few leaves. First edition. 173 pp. 8vo. Scarce privately printed account of a cruise from New York up the east coast to Mount Desert Maine. The party numbered 19 passengers six of whom were women and a crew of seven. Commencing on July 19 1865 this high-spirited account includes a day by day account of the voyage. Not in Toy; Not in Morris and Howland Francis Hart and Company, Printers unknown
1950238882Various places 1950. 17 x 12 inches and smaller most approx. 8 x 10 inches or smaller. Old pin holes some soiling or wear occasional losses generally very good. 17 x 12 inches and smaller most approx. 8 x 10 inches or smaller. Interesting group of photographs of Nantucket angler Gardner D. Marsh "the first great surf caster. Dressed in killer black hip boots and foul weather jacket Gardiner sic despite the primitive bamboo rod and heavy braided nylon line practically invented modern surf casting could lay his drail in the mouth of a bluefish 100 yards off Smith Point in the face of a 20-knot sou'westerly. He taught us all but peccadilloes did him in and he was deported from the island ended up in Florida much to our loss" C.S. Lovelace Memoirs of a Lost Island 2007 pp. 35-6.<br /> <br /> Gardner Duane Marsh was a graduate of St. Albans School and Dartmouth College class of 1941 a veteran of the Army Air Corps and a long-time fixture in Nantucket. His renown extended to other waters for Kip Farrington called him "the great Atlantic caster from Nantucket" Fishing the Pacific Offshore and on 1953 p. 113.<br /> <br /> - Portrait of GM and George Heinold inscribed "To Gardner Marsh if there is a better surf caster I haven't met him. Many thanks for teaching me how to handle the long sticks I never used one that long before George Heinold" Heinold 1916-1982 was a columnist for Outdoor Life.<br /> <br /> - GM holding "Striped Bass from the Surf Nantucket Island" 42 & 35 lbs. <br /> <br /> - GM holding two striped bass 41-1/2 and 35 pounds before a hardware store window with display of tackle.<br /> <br /> - GM with S. Kip Farrington on the beach beside a parked station wagon with the notation "World's no. 1 Angler any fish any water" Farrington holding a rod the two men holding a large lure between them.<br /> <br /> - GM with Chisie Farrington on the beach beside a parked station wagon both holding rods with the notation "only woman in world who ever caught 2 Broadbill in one day & 1 world record she holds now" with a worn and torn example of the same photograph similar notation.<br /> <br /> - GM with three striped bass hanging from the sign of the Eel Point Anglers Club with losses at top and bottom right.<br /> <br /> - GM with large striped bass noted 62-3/4 pounds and dated 1950 on the mount.<br /> <br /> - GM with trophies for catching most game fish on the Atlantic coast during the 1950 season surfcasting from Nantucket Island 600 fish bass and blues 6131 lbs.<br /> <br /> - GM with two striped bass captioned on mount "A fine November day on 'The Point' at Hatteras - before the bridge & the people".<br /> <br /> - Group of nine photographs of a trip to Cape Hatteras November 1950 captioned on the glass cracked.<br /> <br /> - Home made plaque with relief sculpture of two whales logo of Cabo Blanco Fishing Club Peru and medallion of St. Francis signed Gardner Duane M- on back<br /> <br /> - Group photograph of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity Dartmouth GM fifth from right top row captioned on back "I am 21 years old here just prior to going to 2nd World War for 4-1/2 years"<br /> <br /> - St. Albans School baseball team GM fifth from left seated note on back of frame "I am 18 years old here unknown
1899314237N.p.: privately printed 1899. 11 leaves: Title with text on verso and 10 leaves printed recto only. 1 vols. Small oblong 16mo 2-3/8 x 3-7/16 inches. Original wrappers upper cover with lithographed image of the main event described in the text neatly backed to style with green diaper-grained cloth neat repairs to crease in upper cover and lower outer corner. 11 leaves: Title with text on verso and 10 leaves printed recto only. 1 vols. Small oblong 16mo 2-3/8 x 3-7/16 inches. A souvenir and reminder of the early days of the summer cabins on Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire. A humorous story told in verse: five friends Lu Jim Kid Jule and Harry have taken a cabin for the summer fishing feasting and drinking beer. One of their number drinks too many beers in an attempt to drown his sorrows after a fishless day. The following morning hung-over he wanders into the brush and encounters a bear according to him. The bear goes one way the man another but despite a thorough search no further sign of the bear is found during the following day and by evening doubts are cast on the hung-over fisherman's version of events: "Are you sure your bear wasn't a mule"<br /> <br /> Rare: no other copy recorded. privately printed unknown
18832646951883. An original 'front-of-house' board visible area: 30.5 x 22.5 inches with seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs visible area: 5 x 3.5 inches. 1 vols. Frame size 34 x 26. Oak frame over matted board with seven openings for photographs. Photos somewhat faded the card mat soiled. An original 'front-of-house' board visible area: 30.5 x 22.5 inches with seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs visible area: 5 x 3.5 inches. 1 vols. Frame size 34 x 26. An original 'front-of-house' board with calligraphic manuscript text in red and black ink 'Mastr. C Brown / "Young Nimrod" / Champion Wing And / Rifle Shot of the World / as he appeared before / H.R.H. the /Prince of Wales / Prince Christian / and / various Members / of the / Royal Family.' the board acting as a custom matt for seven cabinet-sized albumen print photographs of Master Brown in uniform or in shooting kit all with gun in hand two with an accompanying gundog. <br /> <br /> It is not possible to be certain but this 'board' looks like it was used in the lobby of a venue where 'Young Nimrod' was appearing possibly doubling as the 'card' which was used to identify his 'act' as he performed on stage. In any case it is a remarkable survivor from the age of P T Barnum Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley and a reminder of a time when the borders between sport theatre and spectacle were blurred to the delight of appreciative audiences in the UK Europe and the US.<br /> <br /> In addition to showing great natural talent Charles Brown also had the advantage of being the son Thomas Brown the proprietor of the South London Shooting Ground at Nunhead. By the time he was eight 'Youing Nimrod' was already shooting to a very high standard see below for some of his most memorable scores. The Prince of Wales a keen shot was an occasional visitor to Nunhead and on the 3rd April 1882 at the Royal Aquarium Westminster Master C. Brown gave an exhibition of glass ball shooting before the Prince and his guests: this is probably the occasion referred to on the present board.<br /> <br /> A contemporary account of 'Young Nimrod is given by Basil Tozer: "Last but not least comes Master Charles Brown of Nunhead alias "Young Nimrod" a boy not yet in his teens but who may fairly be termed the juvenile champion wing-shot of the world. Young Nimrod began shooting at the early age of seven and has from the time of his first essay made wonderful progress in the art. His name is well known in connection with shooting and he is frequently a topic of conversation at pigeon shooting reunions. The guns employed are of small caliber i.e. double and single 20 24 and 28 bores thereby making his performances all the more creditable. He was greatly eulogised upon his skill by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales before whom he gave an exhibition in glass ball shooting some years ago. Annexed are some of Young Nimrod's best scores: <br /> <br /> First match at pigeons shot at Nunhead on December 18th 1882. To kill 34 blue rocks i.e.rock-doves out of 50 with a 28-bore gun at 15 yards rise. A strong wind favoured the birds rendering the task an extremely difficult one. Second match shot at Dawlish South Devon on the 28th December following. To accomplish the same feat under similar conditions. <br /> <br /> It may here be well to remind the reader that Young Nimrod was at this time but eight years of age. His next performance worthy of note took place on January 25th 1883. This was an attempt to shoot 70 pigeions out of 100 at 18 yards rise and 80 fall using his 28-bore Greener . This he achieved in splendid style. He again backed himself to reapeat the same at the Union Club Hendon on the 2nd April 1883 and actually grassed 75 of Hammond's blue rocks out of the century 61 of which were killed with the first barrel. These figures speak for themselves and the boy's unerring aim added to his cool calm demeanour whilst shooting would do credit to any veteran sportsman - not to mention a child of nine. His expertness with the rifle is equally laudable. Young Nimrod's finest performance took place at Nunhead on 25 May 1885 when he broke 1047 glass balls in one hour the first hundred being disposed of in six minutes fifty seconds. The guns employed were two 24-bores and a 20-bore. In February 1883 he undertook to shoot 420 double rises out of 600 at the Agricutural Hall on three consecutive days. This he accomplished by destroying 513 out of the 600 in double shots. In the same year he scored 88 " kills" out of 100 clay pigeons. On the 2nd March 1884 Master Brown was tasked by his father to pierce 60 wooden balls out of 100 with a .380-bore rifle standing at ten yards rise the balls were thrown up by hand in front of him. Total. 83 out 100" Basil TOZER. Practical Hints on Shooting. London: 1887 pp. 358-360 & p.377 Litt: J.H. JONES "Young Nimrod." Being a brief sketch of the life of C. Brown. London: 1884. unknown
1978910632Springfield Va.: Society for American Baseball Research 1978. Scarce first three volumes 1978 1985 1992; illustrated in black & white; some scuffing to cover of vol. two; 125/158/184pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG/No Jacket. Society for American Baseball Research Paperback
192952465London: The Nonesuch Press 1929. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. 1 vols. 8vo. Original full brown niger morocco spine and adjoining portion of covers slightly darkened else fine in original slipcase. Provenance: Ashley Montagu. Poulton Thomas & Sigrist Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautifully produced volume the title page alone went through 27 revisions and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Dreyfus 61 The Nonesuch Press unknown
