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1901240301New York: Press of T.A. Wright 1901. First edition. Frontispiece and plates from photographs. 26 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Gray printed wrappers wear to yapp edges else near fine. First edition. Frontispiece and plates from photographs. 26 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Established in the 1870s by Gen. William Henry and friends and incorporated 1899 with a list of forty-eight members and two honorary members with a camp on Lake Saccacoma Quebec.<br/><br/>RARE. Not in Heller or Bruns. OCLC: 49142501 Bib. & Arch. Nat. du Quebec Press of T.A. Wright unknown books
259146np nd. Blank unused game book with each page marked for Upland Game shot pheasant grouse hare partridge etc. Over 200 pages. Oblong folio. Bound in full brown pigskin a.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf 1913. about fine. Blank unused game book with each page marked for Upland Game shot pheasant grouse hare partridge etc. Over 200 pages. Oblong folio. unknown books
1874246686London: Chapman and Hall 1874. First edition secondary binding. vi 337. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth spine titled in gilt. Very good minor rubbing. First edition secondary binding. vi 337. 1 vols. 8vo. Tiger hunting in Central India with notes on leopard. The author "also relates numerous stories from other sportsmen focusing on hunting bear rogue elephant and the like" Czech. Czech Asia p. 2 Chapman and Hall unknown books
191260725London: Rowland Ward 1912. Price list. Four different examples of this publication from Rowland Ward two with the title above one from 1904 with the caption title "Stuffed Animals: Museum Specimens All Mounted in Standing Positions" and one from 1912 with the caption title "Price List of Mounted Specimens for Museums". 4to. The lists vary from three to ten pages rectos only two include a full page illustration of a stuffed elephant one torn three include a Rowland Ward decorated cover sheet. Animals from Africa predominate but there are also specimens from India Asia Europe North and South America and Australia; prices seem to top out at $500 for an African elephant typically an entry would include common name of the animal its genus and species its sex country of origin and price. Apparently none of these lists are located on OCLC. Folded for mailing one with a receipt stamp two with ink docketing. Very good lot of scarce Rowland Ward ephemera. Brad-bound in an upper corner. #7966. <br/><br/> Rowland Ward unknown books
1930857New York: Bibo & Lang Exclusive Distributors 1930 First edition second issue. Quarto 12" x 9" 15 & 1 pages plus covers. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps.<br /><br /><p>Moderately soiled & rubbed wraps beginning to separate about 3 inches brief wear at edges & corners light foxing a Very Good copy of a fragile book. </p><p>The second issue of the first Mickey Mouse book which adds Bobette Bibo's age on the title page revises the lyrics of The Mickey Mouse Song removing "Kill Him" & adds two comic strips. The game board & adjacent perforated sheet with the games pieces so often lacking are present & uncut.<br /></p> Bibo & Lang paperback books
1898247238London: Rowland Ward 1898. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the author and two folding maps in back pocket. 506 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Mulberry cloth titled in silver. Lower inner hinge cracked spine ends rubbed. Very good. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the author and two folding maps in back pocket. 506 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. A lively account of the author's adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan Ladakh and Kashmir.<br/><br/>Very scarce.<br/><br/>A presentation copy inscribed on the half title: "Robert Frazer from his old schoolfellow the writer February 1898". Czech Asia 58 Rowland Ward unknown books
182518320French: n.p. 1825. Very good. 11 engraved cut-out figures or objects including ferryman three couples wolf goat cabbage and boat to be slotted into boat original box with engraved pictorial label colored by hand A rare children's game possibly printed by the Parisian publisher Nepveau. Contained in the box measuring 14cm x 7cm x 1cm is a complete set of figures for the two river crossing puzzles known as the 'Jealous Husbands Problem' and 'Goat Wolf and Cabbage'. The earliest account of these puzzles is in the 9th century manuscript "Propositionnes ad Acuendos Juvenes" Problems to Sharpen the Young attributed to Alcuin. In both puzzles there are only two places in the boat. In the Jealous Husbands Problem no woman can be with another man unless also accompanied by her husband. In Goat Wolf and Cabbage the wolf will eat the goat and the goat will eat the cabbage unless they are guarded by the boatman. Originally accompanied by counters and an instruction sheet now lost. The box is lightly worn else in very good condition; the figures are in fine condition except the boat which has been repaired and the cabbage which lacks the lower part of its insertion tab and one female figure lacks a hand. Rare. n.p. unknown books
04338Paris: H. Duru 1840. A Remarkable Survival<br/><br/>FRENCH BOARD GAME. Le Jeu Du Portier The Doorman's Game Par H. Duru. France ca. 1840. <br/><br/>Original hand colored lithographed board depicting 'The Five Story House" 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 222 x 172 mm. with the right hand top corner beveled as issued. Six original hand colored lithographed figures each on a wooden base average size 3 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches; 80 x 32 mm. Complete in the original card box with the top showing a hand colored lithograph of "the Five Storey House". The Board and the Figures in near fine condition the box a little soiled on the top and the corners strengthened with cloth tape.<br/><br/>The Board is lettered from top to bottom: "No. 6 "/ "No. 5 / Locart Fnt Lunetier au 3 mp" / "No. 4 / F. Sonnet M.De Dentelles" / "No.3 Clagmann Et Cie. Banquiers" / "No. 2" / "No. 1 Loge du Portier." The lid of the box is titles "Le Jeu Du Portier Par H. Duru."<br/><br/>The six figures are titled: Le Portier The Doorman; "2 Proprietaire" Owner; "3 Banquier" Banker; <br/>"4 Marchand" Trader; "5 Fabricant" Maker and "6 Ouvrier" Worker.<br/><br/>A remarkable survival. We have searched OCLC and can find no records of this game in any libraries and institutions worldwide - not surprising!!!<br/><br/>H. Duru was an early to mid-nineteenth century Parisian publisher of children's books games toys and movable books. <br/><br/>According to OCLC their other publications include:<br/><br/>Nouvelle méthode de lecture progressive ou Lecture apprise en quarante jours <br/>3 editions published between 1841 and 1851.<br/>Syllabaire universel en action 2 editions published between 1840 and 1857.<br/>Progressive Spelling Book illustrated in French and English published 1810<br/>Les homonymes illustrées published in 1835.<br/>Grammaire illustrée published in 1841.<br/>Quelques mots sur l'organisation du travail published in 1848.<br/>Alphabet chantant no date. Paris: H. Duru, 1840 unknown books
192061926Cascade Mountains and Spokane Washington and Montana 1920. Photograph album. Oblong 4to photograph album 7 x 10 inches "Photographs" gilt-stamped on upper board all of the photographs captioned in white ink on the album leaves below the images the captions have been taken from identical notes on the verso of each of the photographs. Almost all of the photographs were taken in the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon; two picturing the elk were taken in Montana and another was taken in northern California. An excellent photograph album built around the hunting trips of Spokane Washington businessman Percy Powell from his teenage years to adulthood; Powell was general manager of the Powell-Sanders Wholesale Grocers in Spokane Washington from the late 1910s. The photos are affixed to the album leaves by two corners one is badly worn several others are a little chipped or creased the images mostly dark and sharp. Contemporary gilt-stamped black photograph album tied. 8879. <br/><br/> unknown books
OTASG001Comiskey Park Chicago: Major League Baseball 1983 July 5 1983. 4pp. Original printed wrappers printed yellow red and blue. Signed by Roger Maris in blue sharpie to front cover signed by virtually every participating former player on or near their photo. Approximately 100 signatures including: Hank Greenberg Joe and Dom DiMaggio Bob Feller Larry Doby Don Larsen Lefty Gomez Frank Robinson Brooks Robinson Al Kaline Bob Lemon Charlie Gehringer Joe Cronin Bobby Doerr Roger Maris signed twice Earl Weaver Leo Durocher Buck Leonard Ernie Banks Lou Brock Carl Hubbell Willie McCovey Pee Wee Reese Willie Mays Johnny Mize Stan Musial Enos Slaughter Duke Snider Warren Spahn Willie Stargell Bobby Thomson Travis Jackson Ralph Kiner and Joe Torre. Some light wear to the extremities several creases otherwise very good. . First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Comiskey Park, Chicago: Major League Baseball, 1983 (July 5, 1983). paperback books
1915266243London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd 1915. First edition. one of five hundred sets no. 22 vols. I & IV or 111 vols. II & III. Photogravure frontispiece of King George V in each volume. With 59 colored plates and 5 monochrome plates after G. Lodge A. Thorburn V. R. Balfour-Browne and E. Caldwell; 8 tinted photogravures; 206 black-and-white plates chiefly halftone; most with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations and tables in text. Title pages printed in red and black chapter initials printed in red. 4 vols. Large 4to. Original brown pebbled morocco stamped in gilt t.e.g. rest uncut. Some rubbing to extremities occasional spotting to endsheets light traces of dampstaining in pp. 413-429 and back endpapers of vol. IV. Very good imposing set. First edition. one of five hundred sets no. 22 vols. I & IV or 111 vols. II & III. Photogravure frontispiece of King George V in each volume. With 59 colored plates and 5 monochrome plates after G. Lodge A. Thorburn V. R. Balfour-Browne and E. Caldwell; 8 tinted photogravures; 206 black-and-white plates chiefly halftone; most with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations and tables in text. Title pages printed in red and black chapter initials printed in red. 4 vols. Large 4to. Truly encyclopedic in its scope The Gun at Home and Abroad encompasses all aspects of shooting from stag hunting technique and statistics to tips on burning grouse moors in autumn to accounts of African big game hunts that blend solid observation with colorful anecdote. A lavishly produced and richly informative work documenting the sporting life of a bygone era. Phillips p. 151; Riling 1734; Litchfield p. 74; Chute 482; Czech Asia p. 45 The London & Counties Press Association Ltd unknown books
1929302295Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent."<br/><br/>The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. <br/><br/>This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets.<br/><br/>The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska.<br/><br/>The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark.<br/><br/>Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. <br/><br/>On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future.<br/><br/>Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown books
