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.
London: Printed only for Thomas Hope, 1760. Ninth edition. First Hawkins edition. Beautiful Contemporary Binding. Edited by John... Read More about The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds,...
Price: $1,750
[London: W. Kent, 1865]. Extract bound seperately. DEAN SAGE COPY. Read More about My First Touch of Angling by A Biggish Boy [in Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's...
Price: $150
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 79 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $500
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 341 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 16 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $375
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-28. Alken, Henry. First Edition, with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting, shooting, and the turf, but... Read More about The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects...
Price: $15,000
London: R. Tyas, 50, Cheapside; J. Menzies, Edinburgh, 1838. Second edition. INSCRIBED TO DEAN SAGE. A diminutive, popular treatise, first published in 1838. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Inscribed on first page of text. "To his friend Dean Sage S.F.C. from I.W.H. 22/8/95." and on title-page... Read More about The Angler's Hand-Book
Price: $200
[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
Price: $300
Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, [n.d., ca. 1937]. Sixth edition. Anticosti, “the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence,” was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence... Read More about The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island
Price: $750
London: John Murray, 1837. First edition. Presentation Copy to his Patron. Apperley had been obliged to resign himself to residence in France to escape debts following the sale of the Sporting Magazine in 1830, but he continued to write from his exile near Calais and produced some of his finest... Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod
Price: $1,500
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1848. Third edition. Read More about The Horse and the Hound their various uses and treatment, including practical instructions in...
Price: $300
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. First American edition. Read More about Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of...
Price: $500
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1927. First Edition, one of 250 deluxe copies, #206. Read More about My Life and Times By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) edited with additions by E.D. Cuming
Price: $150
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. A Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod
Price: $200
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod
Price: $175
London: John Murray, 1870. Alken, Henry. New Edition. Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod
Price: $200
London: Kegan Paul, 1914. Present from a Prince. Handsome standard edition of this classic sporting work, with the small engraved card of Prince Dimitri de Russie (1901-1980, nephew of tsar Nicholas II), and his handwritten birthday wishes, “Many happy returns of the day, and best wishes Dimitri” [with a flourish]..... Read More about The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod
Price: $375
London: Keagn Paul Trench, nd (c. 1900). Fourth Edition. A late but attractive edition of Nimrod's classic, handsomely bound and with excellent coloring. Read More about The Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq...by Nimrod
Price: $150
London: Keagan Paul, nd. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton
Price: $250
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...
Price: $600
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’”[Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...
Price: $475
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’” [Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...
Price: $450
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third Edition. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’” [Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...
Price: $750
London: Rudolph Ackermann 191, Regents Street, 1837. Alken, Henry. Second Edition, Reprinted (With Considerable Additions) From The New Sporting Magazine. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton...with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving,...
Price: $1,150
London: Printed and Published by M.A. Pittman, 18, Warwick Square, 1831. First edition. In Boards. Read More about Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, and their Management: In a Series of...
Price: $600