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Amiot-Dumont, Paris, broché950. Grand In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée, 197 p., 54 photographies de l’auteur en noir et blanc h.-texte sur papier couché. Un palpitant récit sur la chasse du gros gibier au Tchad et en Oubangui. Mouchon, 1188-89.
8vo., Second Edition, with 32 coloured plates on 16 and very numerous monochrome photographs and facsimiles in the text; original ivory pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Published two months after the first edition. Extremely scarce
Chez l’auteur, Paris, 2001. 191 pages, In/4 cartonnage éditeur illustré en couleurs d'une peinture de Pierre Roussia, illustrations in-texte en couleurs, graphiques. Manuel pratique : les principes de base, armes, optique et munitions, le placement de la balle, le tir en chasse silencieuse, le tir en battue, un comportement du chasseur favorisant la qualité du tir...
n-12, 299 pages, illustre h.t. n/b, 1 carte, broche, jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
Editions France Empire, 1954. In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée, 302 pages, illustré de 20 photographies h.-texte sur papier couché. Dans son remarquable ouvrage, l’auteur brosse un tableau extrêmement vivant des péripéties de ses chasses, il nous donne également de précieuses indications sur les moeurs et habitudes des tigres, ainsi que sur les légendes et superstitions qu’ont inspirées aux indigènes de Malaisie ce seigneur de la jungle. Edition originale. Kaps, p. 130.
Editions France Empire, 1954. In/8 broché, 302 pages, illustré de 20 photographies h.-texte sur papier couché. Edition originale. Exemplaire non coupé, manque la jaquette. Dans son remarquable ouvrage, l’auteur brosse un tableau extrêmement vivant des péripéties de ses chasses, il nous donne également de précieuses indications sur les moeurs et habitudes des tigres, ainsi que sur les légendes et superstitions qu’ont inspirées aux indigènes de Malaisie ce seigneur de la jungle. Kaps, p. 130.
Editions France Empire, 1954. In-8 broché, sans la jaquette illustrée, 302 pages, illustré de 20 photographies h.-texte sur papier couché. Dans son remarquable ouvrage, l’auteur brosse un tableau extrêmement vivant des péripéties de ses chasses, il nous donne également de précieuses indications sur les moeurs et habitudes des tigres, ainsi que sur les légendes et superstitions qu’ont inspirées aux indigènes de Malaisie ce seigneur de la jungle. Edition originale. Kaps, p. 130.
Un défaut en haut de jaquette sous protection transparente . Préface de Malcolm Macdonald , commissaire général en Extrême-Orient pour le Royaume-Uni . Traduit de l'anglais par Jane Fillion . Des photographies en noir et blanc sur papier couché hors-texte . - 302 p. , 450 gr.
France Empire 1954. In-8 broché sous jaquette de 302 pages illustrées. Très bon état
8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; xvi, 406, [i] pp, tinted frontis, extra title page with vignette of Chinese wedding, 15 other illustrations including map and plates. original pictorial wraps, cover slightly rubbed at edge, but clean and near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Fortune was the first plant collector to travel in China after the conclusion of the Opium War, as a botanical collector for the Horticultural Society of London starting in 1843. Travel was not allowed for more than 30 miles past Shanghai, but undaunted "he set off by boat from Shanghai, in Chinese costume complete with shaved head and pigtail" (see Coats p. 101-110 for details), and was the first westerner to reach Soochow and many other parts of China, collecting large numbers of plants and seeds. The book contains two chapters on the cultivation and manufacture of tea with suggestions on the possibilities of developing a tea industry in India, and contained new knowledge about the production and processing of tea. In fact, this book and his later books and plant collecting (as an employee of the East India Company) lead to the Indian tea industry. As a result of the travels described here he found numerous new plants including anemones, chrysanthemums, jasmine, forsythia, honeysuckle, etc. Besides plants and horticulture, the author also describes the people and geography. This was his first book. Cordier p. 2115. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue p. 102. This is a nice production reprinting the first edition, which is very scarce.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 406, [i], [16 page John Murray's catalogue] pp, tinted frontis, extra title page with vignette of Chinese wedding, 15 other illustrations including map and plates. orig simulated brown leather, decorated in gilt and red, gilt lettering, a. e. g., marbled endpapers, original ribbon bookmark, very fine and clean, with the original publisher's prospectus containing a good historical introduction and a loose bookplate. Fortune was the first plant collector to travel in China after the conclusion of the Opium War, as a botanical collector for the Horticultural Society of London starting in 1843. Travel was not allowed for more than 30 miles past Shanghai, but undaunted "he set off by boat from Shanghai, in Chinese costume complete with shaved head and pigtail" (see Coats p. 101-110 for details), and was the first westerner to reach Soochow and many other parts of China, collecting large numbers of plants and seeds. The book contains two chapters on the cultivation and manufacture of tea with suggestions on the possibilities of developing a tea industry in India, and contains new knowledge about the production and processing of tea. In fact, this book and his later books and plant collecting (as an employee of the East India Company) lead to the Indian tea industry. As a result of the travels described here he found numerous new plants including anemones, chrysanthemums, jasmine, forsythia, honeysuckle, etc. Besides plants and horticulture, the author also describes the people and geography. This was his first book. Cordier p. 2115. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue p. 102. This is a fine production reprinting the scarce first edition, with all the plates and text. A lavishly illustrated and historically accurate photographic reproduction of the original.
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!
8vo., with engraved frontispiece, engraved title, numerous fine engraved illustrations (a number by Bewick) in the text and and double-page engraved plan, preliminaries lightly spotted, some sidelining and occasional annotation in a neat contemporary hand; handsomely bound in red straight-grain half morocco BY BUMPUS, marbled boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, remarkably crisp copy. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Beckford's famous collection of twenty-four extended letters was first published in 1781. 'The corner-stone of a huntsman's library' (Gee).
4to [27.5 x 19.5 cm]; ix, 167 pp, maps including large folding with route in red, facsimiles, illus, bibliog, index. original simulated leather, gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean copy, in dj (short tear at edge, lightly foxed), with the original prospectus for the book, with a loose dedication to author from the Botanical Magazine, signed by author. A picture o Contains a loose review of this book in German. The book, besides reproducing the original works, includes a detailed introduction by Gilmour and short essays by a number of other authors on different aspects of the work, including R. E. Latham, R. Rose, P. W. Richards, C. E. Raven, appendices, etc
20 pages. Features: The Bad and the Beautiful - Topless opera photo of Joanna Simon in "Bomarzo" and intimate photo of Vanessa Redrave with Franco Nero from "A Quiet Place in the Country"; Great one-page retro color-photo ad for the Hostess electric Hot Tray; Death Row is Crowded with Waiting Men - it seems only the poor are executed; Young World features content on Kyle Johnson (son of Lt. Uhura of the Star Trek series) with photo, as well as Cathi Krisiloff, a cowgirl from Parsippany, NJ - with photo of her riding horse; Teach Your Preschool Child Yourself; Super retro color 3/4 centerfold Libby's ad promotes their "Bucko" contest; Quaint half-page ad for E.A. Carey tobacco pipes offers a 30-day no-risk purchase - with photo of Mr. Carey; Mushroom recipes; Fantastic 2/3-page retro color-photo ad for Bates Floaters shoes; Hunting the Great Boar - former Harper's Bazaar editor Joie McGrail describes the hunt with her husband Bill McGrail; Nostalgic back cover ad features "Archie"-style cartoons to promote free color photo film offered by Famous Brand of Philadelphia. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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.
Features: Boys will be - Men, a boxing story by Jonathan Brooks; Lost from the Fleet, a seal hunting adventure by George Allan England - II; Use What You Have by Margaret Warde; The Adventures of William Tucker - X, by George Halsey Gillham; What Was He Like at Work? - 6 - Woodrow Wilson; Four Ways with a Filet Crochet Pattern; A Scientific Way to Construct Model Sailboats; From Girl to Girl - fifty years of college; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Lost from the Fleet, by George Allan England - 1; President Lincoln's Beaver Robe, by C.A. Stephens; The Epidemic at Hemingway's, by Ruth and Robert Osborne; The Adventures of William Tucker - IX, by George Halsey Gillham; Hunting with Bow and Arrow, by Edward W. Frentz; Fact and Comment; The Miscellany Page - hands of good men; This Busy World - Mussolini on Democracy, Did Civilization begin in Brazil?; Poise instead of shyness. The Bobbed Monkey - E.W. Frentz. Cleansing Delicate Garments - lovely Ivory Soap Flakes ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
4to [24 x 19 cm]; ix, 274 pp, 16 chromolithographed plates including the frontis from paintings by J. L. Macfarlane, portrait of J. Coles, index. orig pictorial gilt cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, gilt vignette of orchid on cover, a. e. g., cover slightly rubbed, minor foxing on some leaves, mostly marginal, hinges cracking but firm, endpaper inscription, very good copy, interior excellent. Boyle wrote several books on orchids, of which this is his scarcest and most attractive, especially the colored plates. The stories of how the orchids were found are quite interesting. Most chapters include lists and descriptions of numerous orchid species and hybrids. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue 35. The plates include Zygo-Colax, Laelias, Cattleyas, Lycaste, Cypripediums, Odontoglossums.
320p., illus. The author was a professional game trapper for zoos. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
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.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Volcanic Eruption on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides in 1913 - article with spectacular photos; The Mad Mule - a mine mule turns murderer at the Blue Mountain Mine in Butte, Montana; The Mystery of Crowhurst Aylmer - a remarkable romance from 1890 is narrated by a life insurance manager; Whale-Hunting With A Camera - A fascinating account of the work of scientific naturalist-photographer H.J. Shepstone - the first man to secure a complete set of striking photographs of the various species of whales 'at home' in the water, and being harpooned, at a time when they were already facing extinction; An Accessory After the Fact - An English mining engineer's queer experience in Mexico; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part I - J. Campbell Besley and his expedition discover the source of the mighty Amazon high in the mountains of Peru and follow it down to the Atlantic, time and again fighting for their lives against savages and forces of nature; The Buried Treasure - the extraordinary experience of travelling salesman R.D. Morrison in North Carolina; The Hermits of the Alps - The lonely life of herdsmen who take their herds and flocks to high mountain pastures each summer - article with great photos; In Search of Adventure - Part III - The Story of a Chequered Cruise; Fighting a Giant Saw-Fish - James Willoughby describes a monster catch and the battle he put up - article with great photo of the fish, 14.5 feet long; A Capture of Dacoits - an account of an exciting day's work in the Punjab; and more. pp. 6 [ads], 482-576, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
