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Paris, Crédit-Lyonnais, 1967; in-folio, 120 pp., reliure d’éditeur pleine toile, sous emboitage. Édition originale hors-commerce imprimée par Draeger. Bon état.
Paris, Plon, 1894; in-8, 122 pp., broché. Illustré par Crafty. Bon état.
64574Basil Blackwell Oxford. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. 1922. . pp. iv blank viii 83 iii blank. Quarter linen over boards printed spine label uncut and unopened boards a bit dusty else a very good copy. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. 1922. hardcover
AQ22589s.i.: s.n. s.d. 9 leaves. Contemporary Kodak limited brown cloth album. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Ticket of Middlesbrough based chemists Middleton & Co. to FEP. With 24 black and white photographs two pasted to FEP the remainder loosely inserted. Contemporary manuscript notes to verso of 12 photographs. One photograph naively repaired with clear tape. A turn of the century photograph album containing images of a hunting expedition to Taob Himachel Pradesh Western Himalayas India. The unidentified white hunter - visible in several of the images - mentions in his succinct captions his 'coolies' his shikari hunting guide and the huts and bridges built by the expedition. Notably three of the photographs depict the hunter displaying bear skins and in another a member of his 'staff' exhibits an ibex head. . Small quarto. [s.n.], [s.d.] hardcover
1960128108Publisher's Development 1960s. Good. First printings stapled softcover 4tos cover prices and page count vary about 66-76pp each color wrappers. Vintage magazines featuring articles and imagery of guns and ammunition for the hunting-shooting-adventure enthusiast. All but one have color centerfolds. Very Good Plus overall with light foxing rubbing and toning tiny ink or pencil on the front; a few with scuffs small tears stains or creases.Seven issues: 2/1964 no cf as issued 3/1967 8/1967 2 copies 2/1968 8/1968 5/1969. Publisher's Development paperback
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
1902106449<p>32mo pamphlet original pictorial wrappers illustrated 24 pp. Normal aging; otherwise near fine. A rather scarce title on trapping that appears to have been published in a few editions. OCLC/Worldcat locates copies of the 1905 and 1911 installments but no copies of the 1902 edition. Provides illustrated details on how to trap raccoons shunks and mink. This is a promotional pamphlet on trapping put out by the American Trap Company. OCLC. </p> Daily Market Record,
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
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
306802New York The Macmillan Company 1904. First edition. 8vo. 27 b/w illustrations and gravures. Index. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devices minor rubbing else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown minor rubbing else fine. 284 pages. Includes 3 chapters on hunting methods provisions and equipment. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts. The list of illustrations lists a frontispiece titled "The Beginning of the Slaughter" which is not present in this copy. Chapter I "The Musk-Ox" by Caspar Whitney. Chapter 2 "The Bison" by George Bird Grinnell. Chapter 3 "The Mountain sheep: His Ways" by Owen Wister. Chapter 4 "The White Goat and His Ways" by Owen Wister. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1904. hardcover
189050043Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co. 1890. Thick 8vo. 581 pp. plus 19 pp. illust. publ. ads. including those for Winchester rifles Smith & Wesson revolvers Lefever hammerless guns and Parker Bros. Hammerless Shot Gun the Northern Pacific Railroad and more. Frontisp. 26 plates numerous text illust. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth over beveled boards gilt lettering & illust. of big horn sheep on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear very slight bumping to corners NF copy. First edition of this fascinating anthology of accounts on big game hunting including Elk Hunting in the Olympic Mountains Moose hunting in the Rocky Mountains the Columbia deer in the Pacific Northwest the Grizzly Bear the Polar Bear Big Horn Sheep in the Rocky Mountains Alligator hunting in Florida and many more. Rand, McNally & Co., hardcover
306804New York The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition so stated. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece and 19 b/w halftone illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Charles Livingston Bull and A.B. Frost. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devices small scratches else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 598 pages. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts. Includes chapters on: Snow geese; Canada geese; Willets; Bluebill; Shovellers; King Rail; Green-Winged Teal and others. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903. hardcover
1902306789<p>First edition so stated. Thick octavo. Frontispiece and eight illustrations by L.A. Fuertes A.B. Frost J.O. Nugent and C.L. Bull. Index. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devicesminor rubbing else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 429 pages. Includes chapters on the turkey family partridges grouses plover and "Quail and Grouse on the Pacific Coast". Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover
189038452Sampson Low Marston Searle Rivington 1890. 8vo. First Edition with trade advertisement endpapers some light offsetting from endpapers to title; original green cloth upper board framed and lettered in gilt gilt back gilt top bevelled boards uncut a remarkably well-preserved bright crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. EXTREMELY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sampson Low Marston Searle Rivington, hardcover
662084S.l., 1789 in-8, 16 pp., dérelié. Mouillures.
11414Hanoi, G. Taupin et Cie, 1939. 1 booklet, soft illustrated covers, 41 pp., with many black and white illustrations and a large folding map of the hunting places, a very good copy.
13290Hanoi, G. Taupin et Cie, 1939. 1 booklet, soft illustrated covers, 41 pp., with many black and white illustrations and a large folding map of the hunting places, a very good copy.
1950101338Paris, Payot, coll. « Bibliothèque scientifique » 1950 In-8 22 x 13,5 cm. Reliure pleine basane rouge, dos à nerfs, 197 pp., 65 dessins, table des matières. Exemplaire en bon état.
195162170London: Museum Press Ltd. 1951. 8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Black publisher’s cloth silver lettering on spine slight shelfwear very slight rubbing minor foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art photo of author on palanquin atop an Indian elephant minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG/VG copy inscribed by author on ffep. First edition inscribed of this informative memoir by the author detailing his service with artillery in British-India Colonial Army tiger hunting in India Iraq and on the borders with Afghanistan prior to World War II. Of additional interest is his section on the sparsely populated region of India Ladakh bordering Tibet. Museum Press, Ltd., hardcover
20028800Zeiss, Wetzlar, 2002. 145 S., OBroschur. Durchgängig mit überwiegend farbigen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar. Good copy.
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