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La Bonne Idée. 1937. In-4 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Plats abîmés. Manque en coiffe de pied. Intérieur bon état. 257 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte et de photos en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte. Grande carte dépliable en couleur du Pays Basque français (légèrement déchirée). Couverture détachée. Cahiers se détachant légèrement. Préface de Marcel Prévost. Illustrations de J. Oberthür. Suivi de deux études de chasses locales par H. Botet de Lacaze et H. de Saint-Blanquat.
Paris Nouvelles Editions de la Toison d'Or 1950, In-folio broché, couverture illustrée rempliée, 172 pages. 48 superbes planches d'études au crayon de B. RIAB. Exemplaire hors commerce. Très bel exemplaire.
Nouvelles Editions de la Toison d'Or, 1950. Grand In/4 broché, couverture illustrée rempliée, 172 pages, 48 planches h.-texte de Riab. Un petit accroc au bas de la couverture. Exemplaire numéroté. Bel ouvrage sur les gibiers de montagnes, de plaines, de bois, de mer et de marais : Alouettes, bécasses, cailles, faisans, col-verts, chamois, bartavelles, perdrix, sangliers, coqs de bruyère, et beaucoup d'autres. Livre peu commun. Mouchon, 1274-75.
P., Nouvelles Editions de la Toison d'Or, 1950. In folio broché, couverture à rabats, 172 pp. avec 48 planches d'études au crayon de B. RIAB. Couverture légèrement defraichie, rousseurs en angle de 2 pages et dans la marge de 2 autres pages, mais bonexemplaire.
Windsor, Hylton Lacy ,1970. In-8 à l'italienne, cartonné, 64 pages, nombreuses illustrations dont quelques unes en couleur.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part VI - Robert Wilton, a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, recounts his experiences, tells the true story of the tragic end of Rasputin, and discusses claims that the Czar is alive - article with photos of the Czar, his family, and Rasputin; The Most Savage of Beasts - John A. Jordan describes the strange tactics and danger of hunting the African Buffalo; A Hero of the Soudan - How the first Civilian's Victoria Cross was won by Sergeant J.J. Farmer - article with photo; My Niggers - humorous account of the writer's experiences of Gyppies at a camp along the Suez Canal; My Wanderings in Little-Known Angola - interesting article with many excellent photos; The Mechanically-Minded Skipper - Tobias Meddling of the 8-thousand ton ship Peerless; Capturing Seventy-Nine Germans Single-Handed - Canadian officer Captain MacDowell tricked Germans into surrendering at Vimy Ridge; The Battle for the Lake - German warships are ousted from the great inland sea in Central Africa, Tanganyika; Our Grizzly Bear Record - Francis Dickie and his companion set a new world's record for killing Grizzly bears in the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; Pipe Town - where Brier pipes are made for the "Tommies" and the "Poilus" - article with excellent photos; A "Rice Wedding" in Java - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Some Strange Escapes From Germany - Part I - how prisoners of war escaped from the Germans in WWI; My Escape From Russia - Madame Semenoff describes her escape from Petrograd after the Bolsheviks took over; Canada's Water Miracle - The Bassano Dam, the world's longest, built in Alberta, Canada - article with excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - Part I - a member of the Natal Mounted Police describes how an Englishman was murdered by a Zulu medicine-man and accomplices so a portion of the body could be used to make an effective love medicine; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 268-352, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Front cover photo portrait of Captain James Blaikie - taken prisoner after his ship, the S.S. Caledonia, was sunk by submarine on december 4th 1916. The struggle of land-power against sea-power. Submarine photos. Full-page photo of British small naval dirigible used for submarine hunting. Photos of survivors of the Ivernia, torpedoed January 1st, 1917. Photos of piracy on the high seas - the sinking of the Nantes by the Mowe. Covers secured by tape. Many tears to back cover along fold. Book
large 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm]; [vi], x [i] 408 pp, frontis, plus 60 plates, folding map partly colored at end (short tear at stub), index, title page printed in red and black. original decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, cover lightly rubbed, interior near fine and clean copy, signed by author on the half title plage. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wilson was one of the prime botanical collectors in China and Japan in the early 1900's, introducing many species. Besides his descriptions of the plants he found, including some fascinating adventures in little explored places, he describes the geography, the native peoples and tribes, temples, timber trees, cultivated gardens and fruits, agriculture plant products, tea and tea-yielding plants, etc, during his extensive explorations, including Szechuan, Ancient Kingdom of Pa, Sungpan Ting, the Chino-Tibetan border area, Tachienly, Omei Shan, Laolin. 'He crossed the Laolin from north to south, probably the only European to have done so' [Coats - The Plant Hunters, p. 120]. There is also a much more common unsigned edition printed at the same time.
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; 2 volumes, xxix, 248; ix, 276 pp, 127 plates from photos, map endpapers, index. original green cloth with gilt title lettering, edges lightly rubbed, near fine set, interior is clean and unmarked, the dust jacket for volume I is present (bit chipped at spine end, small hole, not price clipped) & is scarce. A picture of this book is a Wilson, originally worked for Kew and later became the keeper of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, was one of the most important plant collectors of his time, having traveled extensively in China and Japan, where he found many new species which were introduced to the west for the first time. These included lilies, rhododendrons, azaleas, hydrangea, cherries, jasmine, etc. This work surveys his many travels, including Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the tropics of America, China, Japan. He provides excellent descriptions of plant life including orchids, as well as natural history, the people he encountered, and a good overview of previous plant exploration. This copy also includes the loose article, "On the Trail of E. H. Wilson", Eliot Tozer, extracted from Horticulture, November 1994, which describes Wilson's progress as a plant hunter, from the beginning of his carreer through his many discoveries, including of the regal lily, numerous new rose species, over 5.000 species of plants and seeds of over 1,500 other plant species, including 2,000 new to science. The article contains several illustrations, including his portrait.
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; 2 volumes, xxix, 248; ix, 276 pp, 127 plates from photos, map endpapers, index. original green cloth with gilt title lettering, spine a little faded, interior is clean and fine, in very good covers. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wilson, originally worked for Kew and later became the keeper of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, was one of the most important plant collectors of his time, having traveled extensively in China and Japan, where he found many new species which were introduced to the west for the first time. These included lilies, rhododendrons, azaleas, hydrangea, cherries, jasmine, etc. This work surveys his many travels, including Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the tropics of America, China, Japan. He provides excellent descriptions of plant life including orchids, as well as natural history, the people he encountered, and a good overview of previous plant exploration.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, and 23 full-page and 9 vignette wood-engravings in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the author's 'Owl' device, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip. The number of stories has been reduced from the twelve of the first edition to nine; those excluded being 'No Eel for Nog', 'Mewliboy', 'Chakchek's Raid on London', 'The Yellow Boots' and 'The Old Pond'. Two stories are revised - 'Bill Brock's Good Turn' becomes 'The Epic of Brock the Badger' and 'A Day with the Jelly-Dogs' becomes 'My Day with the Beagles'. One new story, 'Redeye', is added. In this Cheaper Edition the dustwrapper carries the illustration from p.283 (stag in river) on front panel, tailpiece from p.286 (stag lying) on backstrip and advertisements for 'Tarka', 'Swallows' and 'Peregrine' on rear panel. VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Matthews, p.36.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; orange boards, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. First published in a limited, privately printed edition earlier in the same year. Matthews A15/1931b.
Montbel, "Les aventuriers voyageurs", 2006, in/8 broché, 281 pages. Illustrations en noir. Les récits d'un des plus célèbres chasseurs en Afrique australe, avec de nombreuses anecdotes sur les populations locales et la vie quotidienne. En 1850, le jeune William Baldwin, dévore un livre qui vient de paraître et qui deviendra célèbre, Five years of a hunter's life in the far interor of South Africa de R. Gordon Cumming. Quittant alors la maison de commerce qui l'emploie, il n'a qu'une seule idée, partir pour l'Afrique australe. De Durban (Port-Natal) aux chutes Victoria en passant par le désert du Kalahari, Baldwin sillonne le sud-est africain à la poursuite du gibier, jusqu'en 1866. Il y rédige son journal de chasse qui reste aussi un document passionnant sur la vie des Boers, des Zoulous, des Cafres, des Bochimans et des Hottentots
in-4° 80 pp., nombreuses illustrations en couleurs et en noir, cartonnage illustre plastifie. Bel exemplaire. [QU-5]
In 8. Dim. 23x16,5 cm. Pp. 184. Terza edizione del 1936 di questo volume sulla caccia di Wilhelm Munnecke. Si tratta di una serie di resoconti di avventurose battute di caccia grossa a Sumatra e Ceylon All'interno sono presenti otto planches fuori testo che mostrano scene di caccia. Alla fine una mappa. Bella copertina editoriale. In ottime condizioni. Copertina editoriale in tela in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. Third edition of 1936 of this volume about hunting by Wilhelm Munnecke. It is a series of resuming of adventurous big hunting in Sumatra and Ceylon. Inside there are eight planches representing scenes of hunting. A map at the end. Beautiful editorial cover. In very good conditions. Editorial cloth cover in very good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in very good conditions with occasional foxings.
Editions Payot, atlas visuels, série "Comment vivent-ils ?", volume 9, Lausanne, 1995. In-8 (20 x 16 cm) cartonnage éditeur illustré en couleurs, 82 photographies en couleurs et en noir, 32 feuillets non paginés.
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; xii, 281 pp, illus, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, bookplate on endpaper, dj (short tear, not price clipped), fine and clean in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of the better introductions to plant hunting, second only to Alice Coat's classic book, which helped spark the interest in this area. Covers early collectors, the influence of Nathaniel Ward, later collectors in most parts of the world, and an interesting chapter in case you want to start to collect plants yourself.
453p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, in blue cloth with small pastedown
Book shows light wear to covers only, straight spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 63 pages with text to p. 48 then b&w photos.
pp. xi, 112 + Plus thirty two plates of lion photographs. Endpapers foxed. Penciled ownership of Mary F. W. Lewis. 4to. Original full tan cloth binding, slightly worn. An early study of African lions. AFRICA/1
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 62 pages. 10 1/2"w x 12 1/8"h. Previous owner's name sticker inside. Colorful illustrations by Gino D'Achille.
London, ard Lock and Co vers 1870. In-8 pleine percaline verte éditeur au plat estampé d'un motif doré (tigre). XVI + 440 pages. 120 Illustrations dans et hors texte en noir. Frontispice en couleurs. Ex-libris. Le premier feuillet est détaché, sinon bel exemplaire dans sa reliure éditeur.
190p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
Flammarion, Editeur, Paris, 1968. In-8 cartonnage éditeur illustré, 281 pages, planches photographiques hors-texte sur papier couché. Fusils : choix, munitions, tir... . Les chiens : races, pedigree, le choix d’ un chien, l’ élevage, le dressage... Le gibier de plaine : perdrix rouge, caille, canepetière... Gibier de plaine et de bois : lièvre, faisan, bécasse. Les grands animaux : sanglier, chevreuil, cerf. Les oiseaux aquatiques. La chasse en montagne : coq de bruyère, gélinotte, grouse... Edition originale. Kaps, 209.
FLAMMARION. 1964. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Quelques rousseurs. 281 pages- nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte
