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19381003G22Bath: George Bayntun 1938. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 10" by 8". Not Stated. A scarce first edition copy of this abundantly illustrated account of cock-fighting from the notebooks of Herbert Atkinson with the letters of John Harris. A very scarce work.The first edition.In the publisher's original red cloth binding. With the original price clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece nine coloured plates and twelve monochrome plates from paintings and drawings by the author. Collated complete.From the note-books of Herbert Atkinson one of the original founders of the Oxford Old English Game Club in 1885.Together with the life and letters of John Harris the Cornish Cocker. Edited with an introductory memoir by Game Cock. In publisher's original cloth binding. In the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is smart with sunning and spotting and a closed tear to the head of the front joint and chipping to the head of the spine. Near Fine George Bayntun hardcover
1837156409Kabul and elsewhere: 1837-41 & 1859. Correspondence chess A carefully assembled collection of material connected to players in the "great game" including Colonel Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly both famously beheaded at Bukhara Major Henry Rawlinson the political agent at Kandahar and Captain Sir Alexander "Bukhara" Burns. The material mounted on album leaves with accompanying newspaper clippings and other ephemera is tied together by Connolly and Stoddart's dramatic death. Sent on a mission to secure an agreement of friendship between Britain and the Emir of Bukhara in 1838 Stoddart was arrested by the emir on charges of spying and imprisoned. Conolly the intelligence agent credited with coining the term "great game" in an 1840 letter to Rawlinson arrived in Bukhara in late 1841 to negotiate his compatriot's release. Both men were killed in June 1842 and became household names back home. In the first two letters Burns writing about a year before he was killed by a mob in Kabul shares his views with Rawlinson on the latest moves in the "great game". He writes of Stoddart's short-lived release from prison and of the importance of Conolly's current intelligence-gathering in Central Asia. Shah Shuja "is surrounded by a parcel of harpies" and Burns advises caution about the use of British troops to prop up the Shah's rule: "Nothing contributes so much to lower the King's power as the employment of our troops against Afghans & I would avoid it if possible." As for Lord Auckland the governor-general "does not have great faith in the sincerity of Russia in abandoning her Khiva designs but it gives us time." The third letter from Conolly to Rawlinson discusses local news and offers a lighter-hearted window onto the life of a political agent far from home. He has swapped the diplomatic chessboard for the card table: "We miss you very much - especially at whist" the previous night's rubber being "stale and flat but not unprofitable for I won 9 rupees." This letter is mounted with a page of Stoddart's notes on taking navigational bearings which Stoddart gave to Rawlinson before departing for Central Asia in 1837. The final piece touches on the wider appeal of the Stoddart-Conolly story. Writing to the Cornish baronet Sir Hugh Molesworth almost two decades later Dr Joseph Wolff mentions his second expedition to Bokhara mounted to ascertain the fate of the two men and how the profits from the two editions of his best-selling Narrative of a mission to Bokhara 1845 were sufficient to finance a parsonage and schoolhouse in his living. a Sir Alexander Burns to Major Henry Rawlinson 21 December 1840 Kabul. ALS bifolium written across all sides. b Sir Alexander Burns to Major Henry Rawlinson 20 January 1841 Kabul. ALS bifolium written across all sides. c Captain Arthur Conolly to Major Henry Rawlinson 1840 Kabul. ALS bifolium and single sheet written across 5 sides addressed on final side remains of wax seal. d Colonel Stoddart's autograph notes on taking navigational bearings single sheet written one side. Endorsed on verso by Rawlinson "Given to me by Col. Stoddart on his departure for Bokhara in 1837. H. Rawlinson"; later note to the same effect but in a different hand below. e Revd Dr Joseph Wolff to Revd Sir Hugh H. Molesworth 31 August 1859 Taunton Somerset. ALS bifolium written across 3 sides. 4 autograph letters and single sheet of notes totalling 17 sides of manuscript tipped to or mounted on stubs to card album leaves 370 x 265 mm with laid-down material 11 newspaper clippings 2 printed illustrations sheet of manuscript later brief captions in manuscript. Letters and sheet of notes generally well preserved staining and creasing as expected stubs occasionally just touching text but no loss to sense: a very good collection. unknown
1999AME_9780205286966Allyn & Bacon 1999. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Allyn & Bacon hardcover
177228703Paris: Chez Debure l'aîne 1772. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary stained calf citron morocco label spine gilt. Some rubbing surface worming on lower cover else very good. 1 vols. 8vo. Commentary on the environmental and game laws. Chez Debure l'aîne unknown
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A9781345214376Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781345079364Hardback. New. hardcover
0364077549.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1330410866.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260873934.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
189020151France 1890. 48 playing cards on thick stock. 86 x 56 mm. Wood engraved designed with stencil color versos alike with wood engraved grid fields. Excellent condition. A fine deck of cards for the game of Aluette a trick-taking game commonly played in France. Made up of four suits—batons coins swords and cups—the deck is dealt to players clockwise and played in “tricksâ€; the highest card wins and the player who threw it take the rest of the pile. <br /> Although it is a French game Aluette uses Spanish suits indicating that the game may be older than the creation of French playing cards. It is also called “La Vache†in some circles because one of the cups cards features a cow. B.P. Grimaud was the primary producer of Aluette decks but not that offered here. However the basic imagery on the cards closely follows Grimaud’s of the mid-late 19th century. unknown
19263630762Barcelona.: Litúrgica Española. 1926. Paperback. Good. 18 cm. 4 v. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Litúrgica Española. paperback
0267286325.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
SKU0625052W. H. Freeman 2015-12-11. paperback. New. 7x0x9. New Textbook Ships with Tracking W. H. Freeman paperback
SKU0497404W. H. Freeman 2015-12-11. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking W. H. Freeman paperback
0656746017.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1390364674.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
188959410Paris: n.p. 1889. 4to. 10.5 x 10.75 in. Six individual puzzles individually postcard sized approx. 3.5 x 4.75 in. w/ colour chromolithograph image dissected onto nine wooden pieces each 1 small piece has been supplied in facsimile for upper corner of the Cairo street puzzle. All contained w/in the original deep red paper-covered wooden box raised bed w/in the box to hold the puzzles lid w/ decorative gilt title lettering minor shelfwear very minor rubbing still a VG nearly complete artifact. Very scarce original souvenir puzzle game issued for the fourth great Paris World’s Fair celebrating through pomp and events the Centennial of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession and attracted over 61000 exhibitors as well as 32 million visitors many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower. This puzzle celebrates several of the pavilions at the Exposition including Palais des Beaux-Arts designed by Joseph Brouvard filled with painting and flanking the Eiffel Tower providing visitors; the Palais de Trocadero held over from the famed 1878 Exposition celebrating the renewal of Paris following the Franco-Prussian War; as well as the Ministere de la Guerre which featured an Arms & Armour exhibition as well as displays of knightly tournaments assorted uniforms and cannon. The Maison Egyptienne and Rue au Caire would fuel the Orientalist movement and fascination with the Middle East among artists writers and the industrial arts well into the 20th Century. These boxed puzzle games were quite popular souvenirs as well as educational tools in the Belle Epoque and have become remarkably scarce. No copies in Worldcat. n.p., unknown
20162-178130047XTauris Academic Studies 2016. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.25x10.20x1.00 inches. Tauris Academic Studies paperback
178130047X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2016126133I.B.Tauris. New. 2016. Paperback. 178130047X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . I.B.Tauris paperback
42797Boston: Rust Craft n.y. Heavy stock 6" X 3½" printed envelope that opens to reveal two pockets one containing 16 heavy stock 5" X 3" printed cards and the other containing a single heavy stock bifold 6" X 5" printed card. Very good. Printed envelope faintly age toned and lightly edgeworn with small discreet archival mends along couple of weakened folds; cards near fine with the occasional small foxing. This pioneering greeting card company was founded in Boston by Fred Rust in 1906 and their product line also included packets such as this noted as product number "599". Each of the 16 cards contains several clever word play questions such as #1 "When did the fly fly" and the last #49 "When was beef the highest" The bifold "Answers to Conundrums" card lists all answers "1. When the spider spied her" and "49. When the cow jumped over the moon". Undated although the typeface and style suggest perhaps 1920s vintage. The charming printed envelope front actually appears hand colored and shows a young man and young woman facing each other in front of a large window; "Conundrums" title below includes the rhyming explanatory stanza: "Each conundrum here will show / How quick we are -- perhaps how slow! / If slow there are surely others too / Just as slow as me and you!" Quaint and complete -- and also scarce. Rust Craft unknown
58264-57Paperback. New. Cooking the Sportsman's Harvest paperback
0282640746.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19982081002108801438Futami shobo 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Futami shobo paperback
