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1788018066John Stockdale 1788. New edition. Octavo pp 6 292 booksellers' catalogue 4 pages a large contemporary inscription on the first blank pages untrimmed a very clean wide-margined copy recently bound in quarter cloth and boards with paper label on the spine. Lacking the frontispiece plate and the vignette which are mentioned on the title page; the title has no date or publisher it is followed by an errata page. Boards. Good. John Stockdale Hardcover
1710375AG1710. Cambridge c. 1710. Original copper engraving hand-coloured. 41 x 21 cm. Minor lesions to left outer margins. Small defect to left side of the engraving. A stunning example of Blome's famous Hunting Treats in beautiful handcolouring. Beautifully framed. Richard Blome 1635-1705 was a publisher and cartographer from the Kingdom of England. Richard Blome's cartography flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century. He produced a great amount of maps but none were original and he was often accused of plagiarism although usually made no attempt to hide his sources. His maps were attractive and quaintly designed and they still retain their nostalgic look. Blome's series of county maps were combined in the Britannia based on the latest editions of mapmaker John Speed and was published in 1673 but was not a success. It was followed in 1681 by an issue of smaller maps entitled Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd. Most of his work was engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar Richard Palmer and Francis Lamb and embellished with dedications to county dignitaries which were added or omitted in later editions. Wikipedia unknown
178925714London: T. Cadell. Fine with no dust jacket. 1789. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Appears to be a contemporary binding. The spine label says "Beckford on Shooting." Other sources say the author is Acton or Marolles. There is no author listed in the text. In addition there is a pencil notation on the title page barely legible which seems to describe the author as Beckford. However it is so faint as to be illegible. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 303 pages . T. Cadell hardcover
175625335London: C. Henderson Under the Royal Exchange. Very Good. 1756. Hardcover. According to the Whitehall Evening Post this poem was published 6 March 1756. There is no date on the work which is bound in modern boards with a leather spine. The printer is correct for the first printing. However there were subsequent printings some of which were evidently unauthorized. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 36 pages . C. Henderson, Under the Royal Exchange hardcover
1790200098AG1790. London John Deeley c.1790. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 61 cm x 46.5 cm. Frame Size: 77 cm x 63 cm. In very good- condition. Minor abrasion with slight tear to upper part of engraving. A wonderful scene by John Nost Sartorius illustrating a late 18th century British fox hunt in rich clear engravings by J. Neagle and J. Peltro. Plate IV shows the bad/good culmination of the hunt one's opinion depending on whose side one takes - the hunters or the hunted as the team of riders and excited hounds have captured the fox. The differing expressions on the riders' faces are fascinating. The accompanying lines of verse from William Somerville's 'The Chase' 1735 read as follows: "A chosen few / Alone the sport enjoy nor droop beneath / Their pleasing toils. The unerring hounds / With peals of echoing vengeance close pursue. / Listen! now they are at him again. Now Reynard / Look to yourself. It is just up with him. / What a crash they make; the whole wood resounds. / That turn was very short. There now; / Aye; now they have him. Who-hoop. Further inscription reads: 'To Charles Boldero Esqr of Aspeden Hall Herts. This Print is dedicated by his much obliged and obedient Servant John Harris.' John Nost Sartorius 17551828 was an English painter of horses horse-racing and hunting scenes. He is considered the best-known and prolific of the Sartorius family of artists. Wikipedia unknown
1790200097AG1790. London John Deeley c.1790. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 61 cm x 46.5 cm. Frame Size: 77 cm x 63 cm. In very good condition. Some minor traces of browning and paper imperfections to outer margins only. A wonderful scene by John Nost Sartorius illustrating a late 18th century British fox hunt in rich clear engravings by J. Neagle and J. Peltro. Plate III shows the beginning of the hunt as the team of riders and hounds have lost the scent. The lines of verse from William Somerville's 'The Chase' 1735 read as follows: "Here Huntsman from the height / Observe you Birds of prey; if I can judge / 'Tis there the villain lurks; they hover round / And claim him as their own. / Was I not right / See! there he creeps along: Ha! yet he flies / Nor yields to black despair but one loose more / And all his wiles are vain." Further inscription reads: 'To William Bowman Esqr of Clapton. This Print from the original Picture in his Poessession is most respectfully Inscribed by his much obliged and obedient Servant John Harris.' John Nost Sartorius 17551828 was an English painter of horses horse-racing and hunting scenes. He is considered the best-known and prolific of the Sartorius family of artists. Wikipedia unknown
1783AQ21810London: Printed for the benefit if any of the Whippers-in 1783. 30pp. With a half-title. Not in ESTC. Bound after: BLANE William editor. Essays on hunting. Containing a philosophical enquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Scent; Observations on the different Kinds of Hounds with the Manner of training them. Southampton. Printed and sold by T. Baker 1781 xxvii 1 135pp 3. With a final leaf of errata. ESTC T71428. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece later expertly rebacked preserving contemporary spine panel. Rubbed and a trifle bumped. Recent bookplate of James Fagan Scharnberg to FEP scattered foxing. A remarkably rare survival of the second edition printed in the year after the first of an anonymous impassioned polemical pamphlet defending the practice of hunting following an article within the Monthly Review for September 1781 that had labelled all those who partook in in the sport as 'barbarians'. This remarkably rare work is bound here with the first edition of a collection of text on hunting edited by landowner William Blane 1750- 1835 extracted from An essay on hunting. By a country squire London 1733 with additional essays by John Smallman Gardiner reprinted from The art and the pleasures of hare-hunting London 1750. James Fagan Scharnberg 1938-2019 Master of Basset Hounds for Skycastle French Hounds Pennsylvania the only pack in the U.S. composed of French roughcoated bassets who amassed one of the finest private hunting libraries in America. He authored a number of books and articles on hunting notably editing a volume of the collected fox hunting articles of Sir Newton Rycroft. OCLC records copies of the first mentioned work at a single location BL. ESTC records copies of the second mentioned work at four locations in the British Isles BL NLS Oxford and Royal Veterinary College; and a further six in North America Kansas Michigan New York Pennsylvania Transylvania and Williams College. . Second edition. 8vo. Printed for the benefit, if any, of the Whippers-in unknown
176712978N.p. Colonial America 1767. 1 vols. 8-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. Some stains old folds some cracking but all present and attractive overall. 1 vols. 8-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. An intriguing document written in various hands on fine laid paper on which appears to be a French watermark of an elaborate cartouche over the words "V. Guerevin". It is titled "Advertisement" and reads: "This is to Give notes to all Persons that we the subscribers do forworn all Persons from hunting with Gun or Dogs on our Lands / August ye 6th 1767" Below this are the signatures of 15 individuals four of whom unable to sign have made their mark on the document under their name. Among the legible names are those of Laurence Riley William Abbott Lener Thomas Dutten Richard Von Cade James Reed Edward Stevenson John Jouller John Abbott Dennis Morris Jacob Morris Mary Morris Woolma Donovan Foster Donovan.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Although there is no indication of where this document originated we believe it to have been in the American Colonies--possibly in view of the names in the area around New York. While the posting of individual property was and is commonplace it is highly unusual to find a group doing so collectively and this would most likely happen if each of the holdings was relatively small. The nature of the notice suggests that the properties were contiguous and were probably farmland. In the England of the day the number of small independent farmers owning contiguous property was not large--small farmers usually worked as tenants to a large landowner who typically enjoyed hunting and shooting over his estates. In addition it was far more common in America than in England for members of the same family to have land adjacent or in proximity to one another as may have been the case above with the Morrises and Donovans. Small farmers were the backbone of Colonial America and this document is a tribute to their spirit of enterprise and independence which was soon to come to fruition in another form.<br /> <br /> A UNIQUE AND FASCINATING DOCUMENT AND A RARE ITEM OF COLONIAL AMERICANA. unknown
1782AQ22072Spitzbergen: Printed for the benefit if any of the Whippers-in 1782. 30pp. Later buff wrappers. Housed in custom red cloth folder with green morocco lettering-piece armorial bookplate of Gloucester to front flap. A trifle creased scattered foxing early ink date to text of first page of text. Armorial bookplate to verso of upper wrapper of Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt 1862-1939 who's extensive collection of books manuscripts prints and drawings relating to hunting hawking and shooting was sold after his death in a series of sales at Sotheby's 22nd May 1939-11th March 1946. A remarkably rare survival of the first edition of an anonymous impassioned polemical pamphlet defending the practice of hunting following an article within the Monthly Review for September 1781 that had labelled all those who partook in in the sport as 'barbarians'. The Monthly Review published a rather excoriating response in their July issue for 1782 Vol. LXVII. The imprint giving the place of publication as 'Spitzbergen' is clearly spurious perhaps a thinly-veiled rather puerile jest OCLC records two copies at the British Library and none elsewhere. Not in ESTC. First edition. 8vo. Printed for the benefit, if any, of the Whippers-in hardcover
17386<p><strong>First Edition - The copy of king Louis Philippe I</strong></p><p><strong>Exceedingly rare hunting treatise on Bird trapping </strong><em><strong>pipée </strong></em><strong> AS A METHOD TO protect and preserve bush animals from birds of prey</strong></p><p>Simon Jean-Baptiste. <em>Moyens de conserver le Gibier par la destruction des oiseaux de rapine ; Et les Instructions pour y parvenir. </em><em>Traité de la pipée Chasse amusante & divertissante très-convenable aux Dames. </em>Paris Veuve Prudhomme 1738.</p><p>12° 163 x 10 cm contemporary full leather binding gilt decoration and title at compartments pp. 4 – first blank <em>recto</em> of second page engraved frontispiece xxvii 3 84 4 engraved handcoloured frontispiece original silk bookmark perfectly preserved red edges.</p><p>Hand coloured full page engraving at frontispiece representing a birds trap with the Latin <em>motto</em> "<em>Silentio Decipiuntur</em> Deceived in Silence"</p><p>Only three complete copies of this first edition recorded in worldwide libraries WorldCat</p><p>Extremely rare treatise on Birds Trapping <em>pipée</em> which as the author specifies in the preface can be considered the first and most complete popular and infomrative work on this hunting technique.</p><p>This method of hunting now prohibited and already discussed in Simon's time is based on the preparation of traps usually poles leaning against trees or branches sprinkled with a sticky substance towards which a team of beaters lures the birds with decoys.</p><p>Simon tries to valorise this hunting method not considering it only as it was mainly considered at the time a fun pastime perfectly suitable for ladies but as a very useful hunting method to control the number of birds of prey and therefore preserve bush animals otherwise destined to be their victims.</p><p>Book Structure:</p><p>· Hand coloured engraved frontispiece</p><p>· Title page</p><p>· Preface</p><p>· Table of Contents</p><p>· Chapter I – On the hunting methods of the "<em>pipée" </em>in general</p><p>· Chapter II – On the preparation of the "Glue" for the traps</p><p>· Chapter III – How to optimize the glue</p><p>· Chapter IV – On Glue in general</p><p>· Chapter V – About the best locations to prepare the traps</p><p>· Chapter VI – How to choose the tree and how to prepare it</p><p>· Chapter VII – Where to hide the hunt beaters</p><p>· Chapter VIII – IX How to set up the traps</p><p>· Chapter X – About the best time of the day to start the hunting</p><p>· Chapter XI – About the decoys in hunting</p><p>· Chapter XII – The best season for "<em>pipée"</em></p><p>· Chapter XIII – The best weather to practice Hunting</p><p>· Chapter XIV – Which are the birds usually captured with "<em>pipée"</em></p><p>· Chapter XV – How to build a perfect Hunting Team.</p><p>· Printing Authorization</p><p>· King's privilege</p><p>Simon Jean-Baptiste early XVIII century - 1762 was a French Lawyer member of the Parliament and Royal censor from 1742 to 1762. He was author of works on bees birds hunting and cosmography.</p><p>Census: exceedingly rare edition. Only three copies of this first edition are recorded in Worldcat plus one imperfect:</p><p>· 2 in USA Yale imperfect Berkeley</p><p>· 1 in Sweden Kungliga biblioteket</p><p>· 1 in France BnF.</p><p>Conditions: Perfect copy of an exceedingly rare hunting treatise with an important noble provenance and with hand colored illustration.</p><p>Provenance: I. From the prestigious <em>Bibliothèque royale de Louis-Philippe au château d'Eu </em>with his ownership stamp at title page. Louis Philippe 6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850 was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 the last King and penultimate monarch of France and <em>Château d'Eu</em> served as his summer residence. II: handwritten shelf location notes at front and back fly leaves.</p> Veuve Prudhomme
