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1885255024Leeds: Goodall and Suddick Cookbridge Street 1885. First edition limited to 250 copies. Numbered No. 24 on the half-title. 12 lithograph plates 11 hand-colored. v i 15-63 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later full black morocco a.e.g. In slipcase. First edition limited to 250 copies. Numbered No. 24 on the half-title. 12 lithograph plates 11 hand-colored. v i 15-63 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pritt notes "since I first fished the Yorkshire waters now more than twenty years ago I have made a point of recording every matter of moment . and in this book the results of those observations are set forth" Marston Supplement p. 251; Robb p. 211; Hampton Modern Angling Bibliography p. 76; Coleby Regional Angling Bibliography p. 70 Goodall and Suddick, Cookbridge Street unknown books
1899261378London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. Ltd. Bouvere Street 1899. Hand colored engravings and additional illustrations by John Leech Browne Alken and others. Printed at the Whitefriars Press. 11 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco spines gilt t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons. About fine one hinge started. Bookplate of Ellerton Pratt Whitney and Ellen Sargent Whitney. Hand colored engravings and additional illustrations by John Leech Browne Alken and others. Printed at the Whitefriars Press. 11 vols. 8vo. An fine set of Surtees' imperishable sporting novels and Ninrod's Mytton with the original illustrations attractively bound. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 358-64 Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ltd., Bouvere Street unknown books
1865232850London: Bradbury and Evans 1865. First Editions. Handcolored plates mostly by John Leech and many textual drawings. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in full tan calf gilt spines contrasting red and green title labels a.e.g. by Riviere three hinges off. First Editions. Handcolored plates mostly by John Leech and many textual drawings. 5 vols. 8vo. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1884313800Denver: Chian Hardy & Co 1884. First edition. Map at front illustrations in text. 151 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter morocco gilt. Bookplates of James Augustine Farrell and Edward Sands Litchfield. First edition. Map at front illustrations in text. 151 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Litchfield Copy. The author of this work was a Denver judge who signed the work using the pseudonym "Bourgeois" at its end. Wetzel p. 140 "the first book that dealt exclusively with trout fishing in the Rocky Mountains"; Bruns F130 Chian, Hardy & Co unknown books
1883244032Methuen Mass: Chas. E. Trow & Co. Printers 1883. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 5 plates. 2 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth a.e.g. Slight rubbing to spine ends else fine. Old stamp of "Reading Room T. Wharf" on four leaves. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 5 plates. 2 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "N W W- from the author" with ink signature of "AE Norton Boston Mass." below.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Joseph Warren Smith published portions of these memoirs which include "Fishing Biddeford Poole Maine" and accounts of shore and deep-sea fishing on the New England coast in the Methuen newspaper before assembling this charming book. Smith was also the editor of Joe's Log 1900 the diary of a tragic canoe trip on Lake Sebago.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Uncommon. Bruns S202; Heller 2:991 Chas. E. Trow & Co., Printers unknown books
190056228New York: Doubleday Page 1900. First American edition. Frontispiece portrait 24 plates and 2 maps one colored numerous text illustrations vol. I xxiv 267 pp; frontispiece 6 plates text illustrations xi 288 pp vol. 2. 2 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth t.e.g. Fine. First American edition. Frontispiece portrait 24 plates and 2 maps one colored numerous text illustrations vol. I xxiv 267 pp; frontispiece 6 plates text illustrations xi 288 pp vol. 2. 2 vols. 8vo. Account of the famous explorer's life by his son based on his letters and journals. Contains much on his encounters with buffalo elephant rhino and hippo. It also contains a considerable amount of information on his friendship and adventures with David Livingstone which led to the discovery of Lake Ngami and the Zambesi River. Czech p. 124int/WH/9 10/24/19 Doubleday, Page unknown books
186256503London: S.O. Beeton 1862. Twenty-fifth thousand. Woodcuts from designs by Harden Melville and William Harvey coloured illustrations from water-colour drawings by J.B. Zwecker Harrison Weir and Harden Melville portraits of celebrated hunters from original photographs and 6 maps showing habitats of animals and plants all over the world. xii 426 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red polished calf spine richly gilt marbled edges and endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed else a fine copy. Twenty-fifth thousand. Woodcuts from designs by Harden Melville and William Harvey coloured illustrations from water-colour drawings by J.B. Zwecker Harrison Weir and Harden Melville portraits of celebrated hunters from original photographs and 6 maps showing habitats of animals and plants all over the world. xii 426 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Riling 778 S.O. Beeton unknown books
1862213602New York: Charles Scribner 1862. Photo Frontispice portrait of General replacing original frontispiece. which is placed at beginning of text 34 illus. including vignettes. x 2 502 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth rebacked laying down original spine. Very good. Photo Frontispice portrait of General replacing original frontispiece. which is placed at beginning of text 34 illus. including vignettes. x 2 502 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sabin 58140; Welch 257 Charles Scribner unknown books
1857240009New York: Derby and Jackson 119 Nassau St 1857. First edition. xvii i 19-341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maroon blind-stamped cloth gilt lettered spine. Spine slightly faded else fine. First edition. xvii i 19-341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hunting in New York state in the area between the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain. Bruns H53 Derby and Jackson, 119 Nassau St unknown books
1875259869London: Grant & Co 1875. First edition. Frontispiece and headpiece to chapter I. viii 253 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters morocco fine. First edition. Frontispiece and headpiece to chapter I. viii 253 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Leisurely essays on angling in England Ireland and Wales originally appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine. Westwood & Satchell p. 191 Grant & Co unknown books
1887240372New York: Printed for the Author 1887. First edition. 15 pp. Printed by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company N.Y. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Original limp blue cloth fine. First edition. 15 pp. Printed by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company N.Y. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Dedicated to Grover Cleveland this slim 16-page work quotes the angling references in Washington's diaries and gives brief descriptions of his angling hosts and companions. Interesting for this and for the author's conviction expressed in his dedication to President Cleveland that "No good fisherman was ever a bad man and history will bear out the assertion that the best Presidents have been the best fishermen." Bruns M224-225 Printed for the Author unknown books
1887254667New York: Printed for the Author 1887. First Edition. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Original blue cloth fine inner hinge starting. Laid in full blue cloth dropbox paper label. First Edition. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Dedicated to Grover Cleveland this slim 16-page work quotes the angling references in Washington's diaries and gives brief descriptions of his angling hosts and companions. Interesting for this and for the author's conviction expressed in his dedication to President Cleveland that "No good fisherman was ever a bad man and history will bear out the assertion that the best Presidents have been the best fishermen.". Bruns M 224/225 Printed for the Author unknown books
188719273New York: Printed for the Author 1887. First Edition. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Original blue cloth fine. First Edition. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Dedicated to Grover Cleveland this slim 16-page work quotes the angling references in Washington's diaries and gives brief descriptions of his angling hosts and companions. Interesting for this and for the author's conviction expressed in his dedication to President Cleveland that "No good fisherman was ever a bad man and history will bear out the assertion that the best Presidents have been the best fishermen.". Bruns M 224/225 Printed for the Author unknown books
1842312787London: Published by the Author 1842. First edition. Illustrated with plates. Frontispiece of nine flies and a "picker" engraved title plate titled "Fly Fishing". Pp. i contents ii blank; 1-38. 1 vols. 16mo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Purple embossed contemporary morocco a.e.g. Some browning at edges of plates minor rubbing to extremities. Both Heckscher bookplates. Bookplate of George Heir. Very good. Custom red morocco backed slipcase and matching cloth chemise. First edition. Illustrated with plates. Frontispiece of nine flies and a "picker" engraved title plate titled "Fly Fishing". Pp. i contents ii blank; 1-38. 1 vols. 16mo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Heckscher Copy. Heckscher copy of the rare first edition with 38 pages. Later editions of this widely reprinted work were expanded to 48 and subsequently 130 pp. See Westwood & Satchell pp. 32-3; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 86; BL shelfmark 785.d.34 Published by the Author unknown books
1889231710N.p. Cookham England 1889. Pen and ink on paper each of the 18 drawings titled opposite two-page spreads title in the drawing. One inserted sketch on a folded leaf annotated on verso in the hand of the recipient. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Black morocco backed notebook ticket of J. Tillyer & Co. Oxford. Binding broken spine perished internally fine. Pen and ink on paper each of the 18 drawings titled opposite two-page spreads title in the drawing. One inserted sketch on a folded leaf annotated on verso in the hand of the recipient. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Rural Fun in Cookham 1889. Album of drawings from the pen of William G. Spencer of Cookham Berkshire. Opposite the title leaf is a dedication "A.D.C. with love from William Spencer June 1889". The scenes depict a year's worth of rural amusements: "Snow-balling" "Field Hockey" "Football" "Leapfrog" "Marbles" "A Running Race" "Merry Anglers" "Rounders on Cookham Moor" "Quoits" "The School Great" "Punch & Judy" "The Paper Chase" two-page spread "Tug of War" "The Village Drum & Fife Band" "Merry Archers" "Cricket. The Winning Run. Great Excitement" two-page spread Guy Fawkes Day" and "On the Ice" signed "W.G.S. 1889".<br/><br/>The annotation on a loosely inserted sketch of a rustic "with the sun in one hand and a watering-pot in the other" identifies the artist as William Spencer "as a boy" and is signed "A. D. Coleridge." Arthur Duke Coleridge 1830-1913 was clerk of assizes on the Midland circuit and author of Eton in the Forties by an old Colleger 1896; and Reminiscences 1921 edited by J.A. Fuller-Maitland.<br/><br/>William Spencer 1846-1928 "Pa" was a music teacher and organist who lived at Fernlea in Cookham and was father of eight children and "was described by an acquaintance as 'a patriarchal figure who cycled around Cookham reciting Ruskin aloud'"ODNB. His eldest son William the artist of this album was a child prodigy pianist who went on to become a professor at the Bern Music Institute. William "most certainly was a draughtsman. Indeed he had to decide between a career in art or one in music and decided on music . My feeling is that both Pa and Will may have been associated with the London Bach Choir which A.D. Coleridge helped set up in 1875" Ken Pople personal communication 2006.<br/><br/>William's two younger brothers were British artists Sir Stanley Spencer 1891-1959 and Gilbert Spencer 1893-1979; all received an unconventional late Victorian education at home. Stanley spent much of his life in the village of Cookham where the Stanley Spencer Gallery is now maintained in his memory.<br/><br/>Unusual and interesting. unknown books
1851244476London: Longman Brown Green and Longman 1851. Third edition re-written and greatly enlarged. xii 186 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary three quarters morocco and marbled boards edges red. Minor rubbing else fine. Third edition re-written and greatly enlarged. xii 186 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman unknown books
1841244426Axminster: Printed and Sold by E. Wills with 4 lines of booksellers below 1841. First edition. 61 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Pebbled cloth. Fine. Laid into full crimson clamshell drop box. First edition. 61 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed and Sold by E. Wills [with 4 lines of booksellers below] unknown books
1841240264Axminster: Printed and Sold by E. Wills with 4 lines of booksellers below 1841. First edition. 61 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth spine rebacked in green cloth. Bookplate of Hugh Tempest Sheringham a nice association. Drawing in pencil on back free endpaper. First edition. 61 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed and Sold by E. Wills [with 4 lines of booksellers below] unknown books
1865100267New York: D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway 1865. First edition. Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. 224 pp. 4 pp. ads. 8vo. Brown pebbled blind-stamped cloth gilt fishing scene on upper board and spine cloth frayed at spine ends light foxing throughout. First edition. Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. 224 pp. 4 pp. ads. 8vo. Early Baseball Reference. Chapter five pp. 48-55 contains the earliest fictional reference to the game of baseball including choicing up sides by grabbing the bat. Precedes Everett's CHANGING BASE 1868 which Grobani labels the first novel to incorporate baseball into its plot. INSCRIBED "Presented to Mrs. J.M. Casey By the Rector for their little and much loved daughter May M. Casey. Through thye auspices of his son. Alfred B. Beach.". D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway unknown books
1865212289New York: D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway 1865. First edition. 224 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brown pebbled blind-stamped cloth gilt stamped fishing scene on upper board and spine. Lower board lightly soiled last page of ads with closed tear else near fine. Incribed in pencil on ffep "Chriny Wilmerding from Papa Christmas 1866. First edition. 224 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Early Baseball Reference. Chapter Five of this work contains the earliest fictional reference to the game of baseball. D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway unknown books
1865212297New York: D. Appleton and Company 1865. First edition. 224 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth gilt fishing scene on upper board and spine. Lower joint fraying extremites rubbed foxing throughout first signature detached. Gift inscription. Angling and shooting bookplate of William Naden. First edition. 224 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Early Baseball Reference. Chapter Five of this work contains the earliest fictional reference to the game of baseball. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1868238430Paris: Legé & Bergeron 1868. Albumen prints on card with photographers' imprint on rear one captioned on rear in pencil. Image: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. Near fine. Albumen prints on card with photographers' imprint on rear one captioned on rear in pencil. Image: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. Copcutt published an account of his adventures on Mont Blanc in PUTNAMS Oct. 1868: "Up and Down Mount Blanc."<br/><br/>Striking images of Copcutt with ice ax gloves hat sun goggles and rope. In one image he poses heroically gazing at imaginary peaks. In the other he reclines on a white sheet simulating snow in an attempt to convey his struggle towards the summit. Legé & Bergeron unknown books
1869303331Albany 1869. 2 pp. on ruled paper; 3 pp. on letterhead of H.W. Sage & Co. Wholesale Lumber Merchants Albany N.Y. 8vo. First letter fine; second letter with a few blotted words small paper flaws along one fold very good. 2 pp. on ruled paper; 3 pp. on letterhead of H.W. Sage & Co. Wholesale Lumber Merchants Albany N.Y. 8vo. Two intimate letters from Dean Sage member of the prominent Albany firm of lumber merchants founded by his father H.W. Sage. The first is to his prospective sister-in-law Jennie Jane née Curtin 1847-1893 after learning of her engagement to his brother Will. He welcomes her to the family and writes "I think I have never longed so much to meet a person I have never seen." The second letter is to his brother Will William Henry Sage 1844-1924 recalling their great love for each other from boyhood to the present "in spite of our frequent quarrels."<br/><br/>Dean Sage 1841-1902 is remembered as author of a great late-nineteenth century sporting book The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing 1888 and as one of the great American angling collectors. unknown books
1899313461New York: Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy presentation inscription from the author on front flyleaf wrinkled with two small staple holes at top of flyleaf. Bookplate of F.P. Williamson. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. An outstanding record of outdoor life and sport in southern Louisiana being Pringle's account of his shooting near the Teche and Attakapas country. "I shot almost altogether on the Camperdown and Cypre-Mort grounds; both very extensive inland marshes with low prairies and sloughs adjacent."<br/><br/>Pringle was the son of the distinguished South Carolina politician John Julius Pringle and here he recounts in elaborate detail and with marvelous photographs his hunting experiences over twenty years from 1867 in the bayous of Louisiana. It is also an account of the ecological consequences of the conversion of marshlands to agricultural purposes: with draining of the swamps and the extension of the New Orleans and Opelousas Railway now the Southern Pacific to Franklin the snipe came no more. Pringle also calls attention to the destruction of northern nesting grounds and the effect upon snipe populations.<br/><br/>"The most valuable record of game we have. Completely accurate with tallies of game killed each day and natural history notes" -- Phillips.<br/>"Pringle's careful record stands unique on our shores . Twenty Years Snipe Shooting offers an unique insight into an era of southern history and near forgotten lifestyle." -- Mathewson. <br/>"A very rare book; only a small number were privately printed" Gee.<br/><br/>This copy is inscribed by Pringle to Mrs. Haig Thomas. With an interesting letter from Walter McIlhenny loosely inserted recalling family connections with Pringle and snipe hunting. Phillips pp. 301-2; Howes P620 "aa"; Riling 1477 only a small number printed; Litchfield 66; Heller 2:741 Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press unknown books
1891255346Edinburgh: Printed by Neill & Co. Ltd. for the Author 1891. Edition de Luxe No. 180 of 300 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated by author. 110 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Crimson calf and marbled boards fine. Fothergill George A. Edition de Luxe No. 180 of 300 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated by author. 110 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 143 Printed by Neill & Co. Ltd. for the Author unknown books
