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: John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784. Fourth Hawkins Edition. Nice copy of this edition, a reprint of... Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation … In Two Parts … With...
Price: $1,000
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: 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
London: Printed and Published by M.A. Pittman, 18, Warwick Square, 1831. First edition. In Board. Read More about Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, and their Management: In a Series of...
Price: $400
London: John Murray, 1837. With an “Extract from The Road” for September 1st, 1892, laid in the back containing a notice on the spread of Glanders (some spotting). Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod
Price: $500
London: A.H. Baily, 1838. First edition. Read More about Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports
Price: $850
London: Rudolph Ackerman, 1843. First edition. Read More about Hunting Reminiscences: Comprising Memoirs of Masters of Hounds; Notices of Crack Riders; and...
Price: $150
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More about Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego
Price: $200
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, 1903. Read More about Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of...
Price: $250
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great marlborough Street, 1843. First edition. Read More about Nimrod Abroad
Price: $750
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Read More about Beyond the Ural Mountains. The Adventures of a Siberian Hunter. Trnslated and Adapted by Michael...
Price: $75
New York: Peck & Snyder, 124 Nassau Street, 1878. With great ad for tennis field on the last page of ads. Read More about The Archer's Complete Guide or, Instructions for the Use of the Long Bow. By an Expert
Price: $350
London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It..... Read More about The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed...
Price: $4,000
Van Buren, AR: Thayer Bros. Print, n.d., ca 1890s]. First edition. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas, … and to procure the stocking of the streams and..... Read More about Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and...
Price: $250
London: The Angler Limited, 1895. First Edition. An expert's treatise on all aspects of fish ponds and fish culture, primarily trout. Read More about An Angler's Paradise and How to Obtain It
Price: $125
[Harrisburg, Pa.]: Stackpole Books, [1992]. First edition, Deluxe Issue , #47 of 203 copies, signed by the author. Read More about Trout Unlimited's Guide to Pennsylvania Limestone Streams
Price: $85
Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Company, 1897. Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music. “How many times I've wandered with a home-made rod and line / To the softly running brook and shady glen...”. An attractive turn-of-the-century angling item. Read More about When I Was a Boy: sheet music
Price: $150
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1956. First edition. Read More about The Arte of Angling 1577. edited by Gerald Eades Bentley, with an Introduction by Otto von...
Price: $100
Grypeswaldiae: Ant. Ferdin. Roese, 1792. Second edition (first ed., 1738). Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (February 22, 1705 - September 27, 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology." Artedi was born in the province of Ångermanland. Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in..... Read More about Petri Artedi sueci Genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum...
Price: $1,000
[Asbury Park, New Jersey]: 1924. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. “New Record Tuna Catch” by Claude E. Holgate mentions Zane Grey. Van Campen Heilner (author of Salt Water Fishing, 1937) was president of the club..... Read More about Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924
Price: $750
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1927]. First American edition (from British sheets). NEVER HAD IN SLIPCASE AND DJ'S. The standard, abundantly illustrated wor. Read More about Dogs: Their History & Development
Price: $550
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Wardle, Arthur. First American Edition, one of 500 copies. Fine and very scarce Derrydale import, for which Connett tipped in a new title-page and added the Derrydale imprint. Read More about The Practical Dog Book. With Chapters on the Authentic History of All Varieties … A...
Price: $450