London: Fuller, [1816]. First edition. 'First issue of a well drawn and finely coloured set of plates representing shooting accidents, not easily met with in perfect state' (Schwerdt). The plates each bear the publisher's name and date Feb. 1, 1816. Read More about Sporting Discoveries or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, being hints to...

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...

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

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...

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

Paris: Devamber, 43 bould. Malesherbes, nd [1918]. Plates are: Le Bon Français Cultive la Terre, Le Bon Français Travaille pour nos soldats, Le Bon Français Se Bat pour son Pays, Le Bon Français Assure la Reprise des Affaires, Le Bon Français Souscrit à l"Emprunt et Echange son Or contre des..... Read More about Le Bon Français

Paris: Devamber, 43 boulevard Malesherbes, nd [1918]. Plates are: Les Bleuets, Les Cadets, Les Marie-Louise, Les Tapins. EACH IS SIGNED BY ARNOUX in the lower right. Read More about Quatre Canon françois. Mis en Images par Guy Arnoux

Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1834. Third Edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell). Read More about The Fly Fisher's Guide

Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. “One of the text books of the fly-fisher.” (Westwood & Satchell). Read More about The Fly Fisher’s Guide

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, 1855. First edition in Book Form; published in parts the previous year. Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p.192: "On only one plate, no.4, with twenty five panels showing harmonious arrangments of colour, does there appear to be..... Read More about The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours

London: 1880. Read More about Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir

Paris: A. Barraud, 1878. No. 8 of 258 (of 260) copies on papier vergé fort. First edition under this title, and the first to include the plates. The first appearance of Prost’s text was with the title “Traités du duel judiciaire,” published in 1872 by Léon Willem in an edition..... Read More about Traicté de la Forme et Devis Comme on Faict les Tournois par Olivier de la Marche, Hardouin de...