Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and...
Oxford: Printed at The Theater, 1722. First edition in English. "The labor of translating this Greco-Roman author was... Read More
Price: $2,000
Sports & Games
Rare books, first editions, prints and original art related to sports and leisure. Specializing in angling/fishing, fencing, golf, polo, hunting/shooting and the Derrydale Press.
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![Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by "Sabretache." [Foreward by Gwen Aldin.]. Cecil Aldin.](/pictures/thumb/259265.jpg?v=1534806537)
Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by...
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More
Price: $250
Fine Coaching Inn Scene by Cecil Aldin
The Stage Coach.
n.p: 1901. Fine Coaching Inn Scene by Cecil Aldin. Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) remains one of the most talented and popular depictors of English life; his prints and paintings of sporting scenes, dogs, and old buildings, and his regular appearance in books and magazines brought him worldwide fame, and his work... Read More
Price: $12,500
Salmon Fishing in Canada.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”.
London: J.M. Dent, 1906. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More
Price: $300
The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne.
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain... Read More
Price: $30,000
Schwerdt Copy
The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions.
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Alken, Henry. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. Schwerdt Copy. “This book differs from the folio edition … Alken himself seems ot have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account... Read More
Price: $6,000
A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners, Costumes, Character and Field...
[London]: Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" 1930. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400, signed by Mr Schwerdt. Read More
Price: $275
Better Golf. Introduction by George W. Greenwood.
London: A. & C. Black, 1926. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
The Yacht "America." Together with material from contemporary records. With a foreword by John R. Spears.
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1925. First edition. The "America" won the Royal Yacht Club Cup at Cowes, and was the winner of the first "America's Cup", the trophy having been named after this yacht. Read More
Price: $125
Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life.
London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to... Read More
Price: $1,400
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Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location... Read More
Price: $500
UNRECORDED
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location... Read More
Price: $450
The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports.
Boston: M.M. Ballou, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Street, 1855. First edition. One of the rarest of early American illustrated sporting books, exceedingly rare in the original wrappers. As of the Van Winkle Sale only two copies were known with the wrappers; and Ernest Gee, in his Introduction to the Derrydale..... Read More
Price: $2,750
American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine.
Baltimore: Edited and Published for the Proprietor by Gideon B. Smith. John D. Toy, Printer, April & July, 1837. Rare in the original parts. The April issue has a plates (as called for) & 6 extra pages printed on the same blue stock as the wrappers. Read More
Price: $200
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More
Price: $350
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More
Price: $350
One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife
The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles...
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and... Read More
Price: $10,000
The Black Panther of Sivanipalli.
Chicago: Rand McNally, [1960]. Second impression of first American edition (from the English sheets). "Perhaps the most common of Anderson's works, this book includes hunts for the panther of the title as well as tiger near Chordi, leopard in the Hyderabad region, bison in the Gedesal forests, and other exciting... Read More
Price: $150
Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative...
New York: Scribners, 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Read More
Price: $1,500
Instructions for the Sword Exercise; Selected from Her Majesty's Rules and Regulations, and Approved of by Authority, for the Yeomanry...
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1840. Second edition. The second edition of this cavalry sword manual by Henry William Angelo, the grandson of Domenico Angelo, founder of London's School of Arms. The first edition was published in 1835 with 10 plates. Read More
Price: $650
The Angler's Guide containing Easy Instructions for the Youthful Beginner with Several Observations on fishing…Directions for the Proper Baits and...
London: Joseph Smith [James Bullock, Printer], 1828. An abridged edition of “The Gentleman Angler” first published in 1726. This edition simplified for novices in the art. VERY RARE as are the earlier editions, the only copy of this edition we were able to locate being in the British Library. The... Read More
Price: $375