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Paris, Charpentier, Libraire-Editeur, 1860. Petit in/8 reliure demi-basane marine, dos lisse à filets et titre dorés, 312 p., seconde édition. Bords des plats frottés et coins légèrement amortis, larges rousseurs éparses. Faisait partie de la collection d'ouvrages de chasse du Commandant Garnier, auteur entre autre de "176 Anecdotes cynégétiques" & "Traité complet de la chasse des alouettes". Thiébaud, 506-507
Paris, Auguste Aubry, 1864. In/8 broché, couverture illustrée d’une vignette, xix ff. d’introduction (Chevreul), 52 pages. Couverture avec des manques en bordure. Jean Passerat est un auteur du 16è. La présente réédition propose, outre le “Chien courant”, les autres poésies du même relatives à la chasse : le cerf d’amour, comparaison d’amour et du loup, comparaison des cerfs et des amoureux, Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier, métamorphose d’un homme en oiseau. Thiebaud col. 714.
Paris, chez Auguste Aubry, 1862. Plaquette in/8 brochée, couverture illustrée d’une vignette, 30 p. Petits manques en bordure de couverture et sur le dos, tirée à petit nombre. Il s’agit bien de l’auteur des “Contes de fée” qui signait ici un poème composé paraît-il en une soirée pour répondre à un défi... Réimpression de l’édition originale de 1692, tirée à peu d’exemplaires. Thiebault col. 721.
112 pages. Features: Pictures from the season's opening hunting meets; The future of Scottish farming; Stuart MacIver follows in the steps of Burns; The Dunblane bell ringers; Why Scotland is the winter home to several duck species; Liz McAreavey; Glenshee is one of Scotland's renowned winter playgrounds; Behind the scenes at the Scottish Opera; Skiwear; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
298 pages. Features: Playthings of the Past - the Bernard Barenholtz collection of American antique toys; The Architect and the Interior - Drawings of British Country Houses; The Masterson Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hunting Lodge of Stupinigi at Turin; Westmoreland, County, Pennsylvania, Fraktur - an initial survey; The Dr. Dubs House in Natchez, Mississippi - living with antiques; Arthur J. Stone, Silversmith; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reference copy. . Book
136 pages including index and bibliography. Offers an introduction to some of the most appealing collector's items found in Canada: glassware, ceramics, metal goods, furniture, books, prints, maps, collectibles such as records and postcards, and much more. Contains 125 photographs and will appeal to all browsers and antique buffs who are looking for a general guide to Canadian antiques and collectibles. Attractive colour front cover. A very helpful reference. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Nice copy. Book
136 pages. Features: Tip-to-toe reno for Montreal home combines modern and traditional; Suzanne Dimma's transformation of her run-down rowhouse to a finely tailored home; Tu Ly' chick live/work condo; Four basement conversions; Bargain hunting for furnishings; Easy-sew wool melton accessories; Making traditional pie-baking simple; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Great cover illustration of a mountain hunting scene; Pudel Pointers; Dance for the great Northern Pike; recipes; ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
242 pages. Signed by author upon title page. Black and white illustrations. "In this, her first work, the author has managed to capture the spirit of adventure sought after by many by accomplished by few.... shares a vicarious longing for adventure and travel. Indeed, reading this book lifts the human spirit." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
167 pages. Black and white illustrations. Provides instruction on hunting wild ducks, geese, gobblers, and predatory birds - crows, hawks and owls. Gilt lettering upon maroon front board and backstrip. Minor scribbles to first four pages, otherwise unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
pp. xii, 321, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Engraved Frontis of Diana preparing for the Chase, attended by Health and Contentment + Folding Plate of a Plan for a dog kennel. Small text drawings in the style of Bewick. Title page elaborately decorated with a border of a fox hiding in leaves and hunters and hounds. Text foxed. Uncut. Lacks fly leaves. Bookplate of William Hoskins on front paste down. 240mm. Original paper boards, spine perished. Boards detached. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. Sir Peter Beckford (1740-1811), was an English peer famous as huntsman (as well as a miscellaneous writer), and the patron of the well-known Classical composer, pianist Muzio Clementi. This work on Foxhunting first appeared in 1781, and it still stands as the corner-stone of a huntsman's library. SPORTS/GAMES BX 1 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
pp. vi, 663 + Plus frontis and full page engravings. Text drawings. Inked ownership of Eugene Snyder on title page. Damp stained frontis, title page and first and last few signatures. Paper beginning to brown. Large 12mo. Original full green cloth binding, gold embossed vignette of a hunting dog on front cover. Worn and spotted with small loss top and bottom of spine. A decent copy of this famous and important dog book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PETS/2
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket, spine toned. Very clean inside. Bookseller's ticket on the inside front cover for the Samuel Weiser Bookshop in New York, a specialist in the occult. This is a reprint of the 1929 original edition, complete with illustrations on a light green paper, one fold-out. 9" high X 6" wide, 345 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
636p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
pp. (12), 238, [1] + Colored plates. 8vo. 24.5 cm. Original grained crimson cloth binding. The handsome original Derrydale edition of this wonderful work. Edition limited to only eleven hundred and fifty examples (1150). The Derrydale Press was an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan. . It was the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891-1969). Iit was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books, and issued some of the most sought after books in the field. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W42
328 p. + Wood engraved frontis portrait, and "Indian Map of Capouse Meadow". Both plates browned. Old damp stain. Early penciled ownerships of Newton?, Montville, Lancaster county, PA and J. F. Steward on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Head and tail of spine slightly worn. Excellent early history of an important region of Pennsylvania, famous for its coal and railroads. Howes H588. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 30 x2
pp. 105-157. 174 pages total + Illustrations. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, covers foxed. Limited edition. An important contribution to any study of the Pennsylvania (and/or Kentucky) Long Rifle. Also issued as: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Volume VII. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
313p. + Plus color frontis, numerous full page color drawings and numerous photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Bookseller's label. Printed by Eugene V. Connett for the Derrydale Press. Tall 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Gilt vignette of horse and jockey on front cover. Original slip case. Hardbound. Limited Edition of only 850 copies. Very handsome copy. The Derrydale Press was an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan. . It was the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891-1969). Iit was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books, and issued some of the most sought after books in the field. PRESS/W32. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
pp. xvii, 427. Plus 17 full page color illustrations. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Text type-set in England by Lund Humphries, and printed in the U.S.A. by the Meridian Gravure company. Outstanding bibliography on the horse books in the collection formed by Paul Mellon. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF8
4to [28 x 22 cm]; 516, [i, ad] pp, color frontis, over 400 color & 250 bw illus, maps, bibliog, index of plants, index of people, index of locations, index of gardens, glossary, colored endpaper maps. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, dj (slight wear at spine ends), else fine, clean with the author's signature on title page 'with best wishes, Roy Lancaster 21st November 1989'. A picture of this book is available upon request by e After a useful introduction to plant hunting in China, with brief biographies of all the main collectors, the author describes his many travels in search of plants, which includes adventure as well as botany. China is one of the richest areas of the world for different plant species. The author is an acclaimed garden writer and plant collector. A beautifully illustrated work.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 11 plates; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip lightly sunned, upper board unevenly faded at upper edge else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Le Puy, Imprimerie Peyriller, Rouchon & Gamon, 1915. In/12 broché, couverture imprimée, 3 ff. n. ch., III p., 111 p., 2 ff. n. ch. , 2 planches hors-texte sur papier glacé. Exemplaire non coupé à l’état de neuf. Ces intéressants souvenirs cynégétiques d’un chasseur du Velay, vaguement braconnier, renferment, en quelques pages vivantes, des observations originales sur les moeurs du gibier et la manière de le chasser. (perdrix, bartavelles, lièvres...). Thiébaud, 266. Rare.
Dessins de Karl Reille, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage éditeur demi-toile beige illustrée, Morainville, Paris, 1946, 42 pp. Bon exemplaire en très bon état. "Pauvre défunt M. le Curé de Chapaize ! Cette phrase, qui ne ressemble pas trop mal à une épitaphe, était le début obligé des meilleurs récits de chasse de notre vieux piqueur Denis [ ... ]" Français
8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps, appendices. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, one of the blank front free endpapers removed leaving one blank endpaper, otherwise a clean near fine copy, covers bright, no ownership marks. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Traveling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and adjacent areas, including the unexplored country on the Burma-Tibet frontier, in 1922, 1926 and 1930-31, this famous botanical explorer describes plants, nature and native customs in his usual readable way. There are appendices on zoological specimens collected and new plants he introduced to Europe that he found in Burma.
8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps. original cloth, dj (chipped at edge), near fine and clean copy in good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Travelling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and adjacent areas, including the unexplored country on the Burma-Tibet frontier, in 1922, 1926 and 1930-31, this famous botanical explorer describes plants, nature and native customs in his usual readable way. There are appendices on zoological specimens collected and new plants he introduced to Europe that he found in Burma.
