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Please note: First page not present. Pencil jottings to page 3 else unmarked with above-average wear. Full page engraving of The Late General Sir W. Knollys, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. Two engraving under the heading "The Cholera in Egypt - Its Source and Cause. Wonderful two-page engraving entitled "The Dispute Between France and China - Examining and Packing Chinese Manufactured Rifles at the Arsenal, Shanghai. Garden party at Chelsea Hospital - text and illustrations. Classified ads. Supplement: a portion of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn. Two-page engraving entitled "Our Fishing Industries - Line Fishing for Cod". Half-page illustration of "Volcanoes of the World". Some pages loose but present. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
Front cover sketches of Tamatave, Madagascar, Surgeon-General W.G. Hunter - Government Medical Advisor in Egypt, and Mr. John Marshall, New President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Topics: Mr. Waddington appointed French Ambassador to England. Cholera in Egypt. Echoes of the week. Opening of the Homes for Little Boys at Swanley by the Prince and Princess of Wales - 7 sketches on one page. The Prince of Wales at Work - 10 sketches on one page. Presentation of Regimental Colours. City Echoes. The Playhouses. Music. Evening Fete at the Fisheries Exhibition - several sketches on one page. Sketches in Cairo - 3 sketches on one page. Round about Paris. Uproar about plan for a second Suez Canal - Sketches of personalities involved on page 88. Education. Benevolence and Self-Help. 7 sketches of Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Chinese manufacture of great guns. General Home News. Classified ads. Supplement includes Chapters VII and VIII of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn. The Wimbledon meeting. Our fishing industries - with splendid 2-page engraving entitled 'Shrimping at the Mouth of the Thames'. Obituary. Chess. Wills and Bequests. Classifieds ads. 9 sketches of various fishing boats from the International Fisheries Exhibition. Engraving of Captain Matthew Webb - the celebrated swimmer who drowned last Tuesday in his attempt to swim the whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls. *Excellent* 2-page engraving entitled "War Preparations in China - Welding a Coil for a Great Gun at the Arsenal, Shanghai". The Church. Sonnets. The Inland Parcels Post. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Average wear. Magazine
Features/Photos: Field Marshall Lord Harding of Petherton; Her Majesty's tour of Australia; Mr. Thorneycroft wins; Beth Shean in Israel - Archeaological section number 2128; The Camiuras' of Brazil - Fishing and Social Habits; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: The British attack on rebels in the Sultanate of Brunei; Discoveries which make Kition the most ancient city of Cyprus; John A. McCone; Problems of preservation and city planning in modern Venice; Commercial fishing techniques; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
4 pages. Cover photo of Jack Owens plus photo of Jack Owens on the beach of Oahu Island helping the locals pull in their Hukilau nets. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this charming vintage item. Sheet music
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations; black full bonded leather gilt, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers, silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES. Includes appendices of rod and reel models and manufacturing dates.
An unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots on front edpaper and side page ends. Tears to edge worn dust jacket. 216 ages. Appears to be a second printing.
in-12° (129 x 193 mm), 24 pp., 19 colour plates of flies, illustrations. Integral pictorial plastic cover. Bel exemplaire - Plastic cover slightly soiled but a very good copy. [NV-34]
With fifteen plates plus other illustrations in the text. 142 pages. Soiling and marks on front and back covers. Previous owners name on front free endpaper.
pp. xiii, 240 + Plus Frontis and full page drawings by Churchill Ettinger. All edges gold. Marbled end papers. Front paste down and first fly leaf damaged at top edge. 8vo. Original handsome full blue leather binding, gold lettered spine and front board with decoration of a fisherman in gold. Hardbound. Limited edition of two thousand and five hundred copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin at the Derrydale Press. There is also a 1939 edition of twelve hundred and fifty copies. A very nice example. GAMES BOX 1.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a little bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 240pp.. A comprehensive and factual view - based on the authors' experience - of the pleasures and techniques in the sport of coarse fishing.
8vo., First Edition, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original brown tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 242 pages; many photos.
376p., illus. Foreword by Corey Ford Hardbound Very good condition; edgewear to padded leather boards
Vg (no dj, high quality linen-weave card covers,a very clean tight bright copy internally fine condition, the corners of the front cover are slightly curled) octavo 352pp. First edition. Up-to-date information on where to fish, supported by detailed maps of each water.
In-16 gr., tela editoriale, sovraccoperta figurta a colori (piicc. manc. al dorso), pp. (6),186, con 12 deliziosi disegni dell’autore, all’inizio di ogni capitolo. La pesca con l’amo “is a sport, an art, a little of a science” come precisato nella Prefazione. "Edizione originale", ben conservata.
Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean.
Clean, unmarked books with tight bindings. Later printing. Oblong: 10 7/8"w x 8 3/8"h. 48 pages each. Detailed drawings of costumes and equipment of the frontier scout, "a man for all seasons, He was able to converse in a myriad of tongues, and possessed an intimate knowledge of Plainscraft as well as a unique understanding of nature, human and otherwise."
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 192pp. A countryside book with a wealth of information on the role of hunting, shooting, stalking and fishing.
151 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
London, 2004, 4to cop. ill. pp. 32 con num. ill. Asta di 250 volumi con schede spesso ragionate e valutazioni per singolo testo.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of one of the scarcest titles in Jenkins' sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series.
Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, First Impression, with a coloured frontispiece, 128 fine coloured plates, 117 plates in monochrome and pictorial endpapers, small neat signature on half-title; original series binding of green coarse-grain pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, blue sprinkled edges, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper (retaining original price of 12/6), the latter lightly age-soiled and browned at backstrip. Lovely copy of a scarce title in this much sought-after series. First published in 1925, Jenkins' mammoth compilation was the first illustrated guide to all our fish since 1884. This second edition is revised by the author with new appendix and text drawings. Very scarce in this condition. Marren, p.158.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED, with 10 coloured plates amd numerous line illustrations in the text, some mild and generally inoffensive age-staining; original green cloth, gilt backs, small tear at extreme head of backstrip of first volume else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp set. Extremely scarce
Folio 250p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
