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Item #249679 Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the...

Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the Baltistan and Ladak, and a....

London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. A lively account of the author's adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan, Ladakh, and Kashmir. The map of Jummoo and Kashmir with the author’s travel route is present; the map of The Great Bend of the Indus is lacking. Read More about Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the Baltistan and...

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Item #250183 Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which...

The Birth of Angling Bibliography: Heckscher Copy

Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A Catalogue of Books on Angling...

London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography: Heckscher Copy. More “the result of paste and scissors” (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by the groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, who states in the Catalogue that it “is formed upon..... Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...

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Item #250355 Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of...

Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge

Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America.

London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Read More about Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America

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Item #20214 Fishing Bamboo. John Gierach

DeLuxe Edition, One of 55 Copies

Fishing Bamboo.

New York: Lyons and Burford, 1997. No 53 of 55 special large paper copies, signed by author, artist, binder, and publisher, specially bound, with a page of original typescript manuscript and a hand-colored line drawing. DeLuxe Edition, One of 55 Copies. Read More about Fishing Bamboo

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Item #12702 FINE PENCIL DRAWING OF A PAIR OF SNIPE, signed and titled at lower right. Roland Green

Eugene Connett's Fine Drawing of Snipe by Roland Green

FINE PENCIL DRAWING OF A PAIR OF SNIPE, signed and titled at lower right.

n.p: n.d. Roland Green. Eugene Connett's Fine Drawing of Snipe by Roland Green. A very attractive work, showing two snipe in marsh land. Born in 1894, Green, a fine British artist and naturalist, contributed to a number or ornithological books in the 1930s and 40s; his book, “Wing-Tips, the identification..... Read More about FINE PENCIL DRAWING OF A PAIR OF SNIPE, signed and titled at lower right

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Item #12978 Autograph Notice forbidding hunting on the lands of 15 subscribers, headed...

An Early American Manuscript Posting Announcement

Autograph Notice forbidding hunting on the lands of 15 subscribers, headed “Advertisement” and likely intended for publication in a local...

N.p. [Colonial America]: August 6, 1767. An Early American Manuscript Posting Announcement. An intriguing document, written in various hands on fine laid paper on which appears to be a French watermark of an elaborate cartouche over the words “V. Guerevin”. It is titled “Advertisement” and reads: “This is to Give..... Read More about Autograph Notice forbidding hunting on the lands of 15 subscribers, headed “Advertisement”...

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Item #40815 The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the...

Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Junius Spencer Morgan

The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl...

Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co, 1857. Second edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Junius Spencer Morgan. With the contemporary inscription from the author, "J.S. Morgan, Esq / with regards of the author / E.J. Lewis M.D. / Dec 6th 1858". The recipient, of course, was the financier and father of J.P. Morgan;..... Read More about The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the...

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Item #249440 History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface,...

History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B.].

[np]: Privately Printed, [1933]. First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author “F.W. Lowery” on the title page. Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, the president of Consolidated Paper, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his..... Read More about History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B

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Item #10071 Acts and Laws, May 29, 1734, pp. 513-525. Massachusetts Colony Session Laws

Removing Obstructions to Fish in the Merrimack

Acts and Laws, May 29, 1734, pp. 513-525.

[Boston]: July 6, 1734. Removing Obstructions to Fish in the Merrimack. Includes an act to supply the treasury 27,371 pounds for enumerated disbursements; an act to prevent encroachments on highways and private streets; an act for the ease of prisoners for debt; an act to prevent unnecessary law suits; an..... Read More about Acts and Laws, May 29, 1734, pp. 513-525

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Item #249443 Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hounds. [Cover title:] Fixtures of the Meadow...

Rare Sporting Map of the Meadow Brook Hunt

Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hounds. [Cover title:] Fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hounds.

From Harry & Madeline Atherton, Christmas 1926. Rare Sporting Map of the Meadow Brook Hunt. A finely detailed map of sporting Long Island, depicting roads and forests and fields, with names of owners of the estates, and identifying 18 fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hunt. The map stretches from Old..... Read More about Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hounds. [Cover title:] Fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hounds

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Item #52465 The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and...

The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Poulton, Thomas, & Sigrist, Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Read More about The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and...

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Item #249813 Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the “Farm Bag” 1897 to 1925. John C. Phillips

Inscribed

Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the “Farm Bag” 1897 to 1925.

np: Privately Printed, 1926. Limited edition of 100 copies privately printed. Inscribed. Phillips says “This contains the comparative abundance of the game for each year. The only similar record, in a different region, is Pringle's Twenty Years, Snipe Shooting.” Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: “Harry L. Ferguson with..... Read More about Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the “Farm Bag” 1897 to 1925

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Item #252260 Genius Genuine ... A fine part in riding a race, known only to the author ... with...

Genius Genuine ... A fine part in riding a race, known only to the author ... with ... a full...

London: Sold for the Author, 232 Picadilly, and no where else, January 9th, 1804. Second Edition, with half-title. Printed by D.N. Shury, Printer, Berwick Street, London. Samuel Chifney (1753?-1807), inventor of the Chifney bit, was a prominent jockey and trainer, and, states the DNB, "He was long considered the best..... Read More about Genius Genuine ... A fine part in riding a race, known only to the author ... with ... a full...

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Item #32630 A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges ......

Mint in Original Plain Dust Jacket

A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges ... Revised to Date.

New York: D. Appleton, 1894. First Appleton edition. Mint in Original Plain Dust Jacket. One of the earliest and most important books on the game by the "grand old man" of American Football, athletic pioneer and legendary coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. This Appleton edition of 1894 is revised from the..... Read More about A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges ... Revised to...

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Item #252533 The Spiritual Fisherman; or, The Character, Complaint, Duty and Resolution of an...

The Spiritual Fisherman; or, The Character, Complaint, Duty and Resolution of an Evangeical Minister, attempted to be Represented and Improved...

London: printed for the author: and sold by E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXIX. [1769]. First edition, one of two issues in same year (the other is an anonymous issue dated 1769, known in a single copy at Reading ESTC T160335). Rare. No copy appears in last 30..... Read More about The Spiritual Fisherman; or, The Character, Complaint, Duty and Resolution of an Evangeical...

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