London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More about Indian Pigeons and Doves
Price: $400
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London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Eleventh edition. Read More about The Art of Angling [together with] The Complete Troller, by Robert Nobbs
Price: $125
London: Macmillan, 1896. A wonderful item, with explicit instructions as promised in the title, and enhanced with a colored folding plate featuring a completed stocking of striking elegance. Read More about Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings: how to knit them with plain and fancy turnover tops
Price: $250
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. New edition, with index. A scarce and classic work of big game hunting in the mountains of Central Asia. Read More about Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas
Price: $200
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1788. First edition. Read More about Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting...To which is...
Price: $400
Hidden House Center Conway, NH: June 25, 1928. Reading in part: "It would give me great pleasure if I could contribute to the proposed Club Volume. Unfortunately I have made no trip which had as its object hunting, exploration or natural history. My advanced years for some time debarred me..... Read More about T.L.S. To George Bird Grinnell, Honorary President of The Boone & Crockett Club
Price: $150
[Montreal]: Published by the Montreal Hunt, [1953]. First edition, # 72 of a limited edition. The standard work written by Professor Cooper of McGill University. Read More about The History of the Montreal Hunt. Foreword by H. Henry Higginson
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Barre, Massachusetts: The Imprint Society, 1970. One of 1950. Read More about The Compleat Gamester or, Instructions How to Play at All Manner of Usual and Most Genteel Games....
Price: $100
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First Edition, No 826 of 950 copies. Shooting and angling stories, elegantly illustrated. Read More about John Tobias, Sportsman
Price: $100
[England]: Ca. 1920. C. Crosley. GRAND NATIONAL. A spirited, somewhat stylized, picture of two horses, jockeys up, taking the water jump at Aintree, with a suggestion of landscape in the background. We have not been able to trace this artist, but he was almost certainly a professional, drawing with a...... Read More about An attractive pastel “'Over the water' - Liverpool Grand National”, signed and titled by the...
Price: $400
New York: The Sporting Gallery & Bookshop, 1939. Second printing. Frazier describes this book as "after Derrydale", noting the illustrations by Ball and the connection between Melvin E. Stone and Connett. Uncommon. Read More about The Fox’s Prophecy
Price: $200
[New York]: [The Derrydale Press], 1928. Unrecorded Derrydale Press Printing. A beautifully designed and printed piece of letterpress, printed on fine deckle-edge laid paper, the text enclosed within a border of double rules. Connett, a faithful alumnus of St. Paul's School, had preserved this example in a folder containing other..... Read More about “William Hamilton Foster”. An announcement of the death of Mr. Foster, Vice-Rector of St....
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London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817. Second edition. Read More about Kunopdia. A Practical Essay on Breaking or Training the English Spaniel or Pointer. With...
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Remington, Frederic. First edition. With Remington Illustrations. Remington is at his best here in 19 drawings of horses and horsemen from many lands . This is a PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: "To Miss Henry A Budd / a...... Read More about Riders of Many Lands
Price: $275
London: Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head, in Pater-noster-Row, [after 1764]. Third [?] edition. Nice Copy of an Early Sporting Classic. A very nice copy of this basic and scarce work, which went into numerous editions, some bibliographically confusing. This is most probably the third edition, following the first edition..... Read More about The Complete Sportsman, or Country Gentleman's Recreation
Price: $300
N.p: Ca. 1880. Victorian Foxhunting Drawings. Evidently the work of an enthusiastic amateur, these drawings are of more than routine interest as they appear to be caricatures of actual people. In one of them, a group of hunters are conversing with several gunners, including a carefully depicted sportsman in French..... Read More about English Foxhunting Drawings
Price: $450
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. First edition. Read More about Life and Writings of Frank Forester. Henry William Herbert. (Edited by David W. Judd
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. Second edition. Read More about Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod and Gun
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Lamont, Pennsylvania: DSL Enterprises, 1998. First edition. Signed. Read More about George Harvey: Memories Patterns and Tactics. Foreword by Joseph B. Humphreys. Testimonial by...
Price: $110
New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. First edition. Ordeman notes a limitation of 250 signed prints; this copy, uncolored, is not signed. Connett announced the print as the first in a series but issued no further scenes. Read More about Uncolored Lithograph: "American Horse Show Scenes, Rochester"
Price: $400
Calcutta: W. Newman, 1895. Third edition. Angling in British India. Not in Westwood & Satchell supplement; a scarce book, and an interesting one, with various angling localities described by officers of different Army units stationed in the area. Read More about North Punjab Fishing Club Anglers' Handbook … Thoroughly revised and corrected up to date, with...
Price: $250
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. Later edition. Read More about The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the...
Price: $150
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Ball, Robert. First edition thus, of the classic first printed in 1727. Read More about Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting - Flying. With a foreword by Col. H.P. Sheldon
Price: $150
N.p: Privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee [at the Press of August Becker, Brooklyn], 1926. Reprint of the London edition of 1848. While there is disagreement as to whether this volume is one of the Derrydale Press works Frazier states: “But the book and its design, paper, binding, and style..... Read More about The Meynellian Science or Fox Hunting Upon System
Price: $200
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme…, 1819. Third edition. Tom Moore’s Boxing Poem. Three editions appeared in the first year of publication. Hartley claims there are two issues of the third edition, one with 4pp. of ads in front, the other with 12 pp. of ads in the rear. This copy..... Read More about Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix. By One of the Fancy
Price: $300