We are delighted to present our new sporting catalogue, with rare accounts of American and Asian sporting adventure, manuscript material from Frank Forester (H. W. Herbert) and notable works of angling literature, as well as golf, polo, and canoeing. Perhaps something will spark your interest.
[Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press, 1865]. UNRECORDED. Spectacular, unrecorded privately printed hunting diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala, southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865, “the best shikar trip I have ever had”. The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big..... Read More about The Hassanoor Journal by “Myself.”
Price: $20,000
V.p: v.d., 1915. A superb collection of primary documents used by George Frederick Kunz in preparation of chapter XI of his monumental work Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (1916). This archive comprises 15 individual responses to a request for information about hunting elephant in..... Read More about Archive of Correspondence concerning Elephant Hunting and Trophy Ivory hunted in Africa,...
Price: $2,500
[New York]: Privately printed, 1928. Very limited edition [no limitation specified]. Ken Callahan, in his bibliography, comments that this book "Gives a very good account of the excitement of tarpon fishing. Certainly the most attractive tarpon book, both in typography, design and particularly fine binding by The French Binders, formerly..... Read More about Tarpomania & Buck Fever
Price: $2,750
[Privately printed, n.d., ca. 1910]. With application for membership laid in. Read More about Kedgemakooge Rod and Gun Club of Nova Scotia, Ltd
Price: $1,500
London: Henry S. King, 1874. First edition. ‘The Land where all things are forgotten’: with Photographs. Ker travelled to the newly conquered lands of Russian Central Asia to report for the London Telegraph. Delays prevented him from joining the invading forces but he made an interesting trip. Read More about On the Road to Khiva
Price: $4,500
N.p: 1912. UNRECORDED. History of the Dobsis Club in the Grand Lake watershed, formed in 1872 by Harvey Jewell, Lyman B. Jewell, E.W. Dennison, Cutler Downer, V.H. Blackston, and F.A. Kennedy, with famous Rangeley guide G. L. F. Ball as Manager. In 1879, club buildings were built by Ball on..... Read More about Dobsis Club
Price: $6,000
Boston: 1915. Narrative of the adventures of the Skipper, the Judge, the Deacon, and the Doctor on a three-day canoe trip up the Charles river from South Natick to Lake Populatic, “supposed to be the head of canoe navigability.” In earlier years the party had cruised the river from South..... Read More about A Charles River Canoe Cruise. By One of the Cruisers
Price: $2,250
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, Deluxe edition, no. 55 of 75 copies, signed by author and artist. Deluxe Copy, One of 75, An Indispensable Work. A continuation of John Phillips’ A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by..... Read More about A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill
Price: $700
Stone Harbor, New Jersey: Meadow Run Press, [1995]. Tinkham, A. D. Deluxe limited edition, number 33 of 47 copies for sale (of an entire deluxe edition of 52) numbered and signed by the artist. Deluxe edition, Inscribed to Tony Lyons. Marquesa is the archaic name for the Marquesas Keys, an..... Read More about Marquesa. A Time & Place with Fish
Price: $1,250
New York: Privately Printed, 1953. First edition. A Morgan's Recollections of a Noted Sporting Club. Long Point, Ontario, is a twenty-two mile land formation jutting into Lake Erie; it is one of the greatest duck marshes in the world and home to this exclusive sporting club. The Long Point Company..... Read More about Further Recollections of Long Point
Price: $1,750
![Item #311752 [Photograph Album of Travels in Russian Central Asia and Mongolia]. Isidore Morse](/pictures/thumb/311752.jpg?v=1669653129)
[Russian Central Asia: 1899]. Some of the photographs published in: Percy W. Church, Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Gun, Rivingtons, 1901. An American in Russian Central Asia, 1899. Superb set of photographs taken by an American sportsman travelling in Russian Central Asia in 1899, documenting ethnography, landscapes, local customs, sporting..... Read More about Photograph Album of Travels in Russian Central Asia and Mongolia
Price: $8,500
[Lunenberg, Vt: Privately printed at the Stinehour Press], Christmas 1973. First edition, one of 20 copies printed. Recollections of salmon fishing and life at the Engelhard camp on the Grand Cascapedia during the summer and fall of 1973. Includes a history of Lorne Cottage, built in 1878, and a chapter..... Read More about Indian Summer
Price: $6,500
New York: 18 Wall Street, [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press], 1900. First edition. Unrecorded. The Club House address is Camp Caribou, Parmachenee Lake, Oxford County, Maine. The president at the time was Henry W. Poor (famous book collector), and the sixty members included G. B. M. Harvey, Robert..... Read More about Constitution, By-Laws, Rules and List of Officers and Members, 1900. Parmachenee Club. Organized...
Price: $2,500
New York: New York Office 309 Broad Street, [1916]. Club book of this famed sporting club, with 36 members in 1916 (ten of whom are identified as shareholders). The club held the lease of more than 120,000 acres at Lake Parmachenee in Magalloway, Maine. With records of fish caught 1905..... Read More about Constitution, By-laws, Rules and List of Officers and Members, 1916 Parmachenee Club
Price: $1,750
[N.p., New York]: 1924. “… the famous club which leased 120,000 acres around and above Lake Parmachenee in 1890...Henry Parkhurst Wells, who created the Parmachenee fly was a member, and named his famous fly after the club … Rare” — Bruns, in his note on the 1920 club history. With..... Read More about The Parmachenee Club. Certificate of Incorporation. Constitution, By-laws and Rules
Price: $1,250
![Item #313551 [Manuscript title: The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party] [and:] [Wyoming] [and:]...](/pictures/thumb/313551.jpg?v=1669653401)
[N.p., Pennsylvania: 1868-1871]. Accounts of mid-nineteenth century outdoor sport and holiday travel in central Pennsylvania, by a an earnest and occasionally lyrical chronicler. The first, The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party, is a record of a trout fishing party in the summer of 1868, to a “certain secluded..... Read More about Manuscript title: The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party] [and:] [Wyoming] [and:] [Our Summer...
Price: $10,000
New York: Advance Publishing Co, 1875. First edition. Rare first edition of this foundational work on poker. It is, along with Winterblossom's The Game of Draw Poker (1875), the earliest published work dedicated solely to poker. Blackbridge – described on the title as an attorney, though the name is possibly..... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $8,500
[N.p., New York?]: 1905. Incorporation records, by-laws (with revisions), and annotated lists of membership for this private hunting and fishing club in Ridgeway, South Carolina, organized by John Magee of Corning, N.Y., William de F. Haynes, of New York City, and Clinton G. Gilmore, of Lenox, Mass., in 1904, for..... Read More about Charter, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the Ridgeway Club. Incorporated under the Laws of...
Price: $2,250
n.p. [Washington D.C.?]: n.d. [1941]. RARE FDR Cruise to the Bahamas, 1941, Inscribed. Rare log of the Presidential cruise from Port Everglades to the Bahamas, in 1941. "Having had a desire for some time to get away from Washington for a few days of restful diversion, including some hoped for..... Read More about Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on Board U.S.S. Potomac, 19 March - 1 April 1941
Price: $7,500
London & Nairobi: Newland Tarlton & Co, [n.d., early 1920s]. Elaborate illustrated prospectus for the Juja Estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, which served as Roosevelt's base when he visited east Africa (cf. Czech, Africa, p. 139). The numerous photographs show big game trophies, the landscape and buildings of the..... Read More about Juja Estate. 19,000 acres in extent. The property of W. N. McMillan, Esq. The finest sporting...
Price: $2,250
Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1926. First edition. Recollections of hunting deer, waterfowl, wildcat, and turkey in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, on the Asheppo and Edisto rivers. Read More about The Happy Hunting Ground. Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina
Price: $2,000
Agra: Printed by T.W. Brown, at the Agra Ukhbar Press, 1844. First Edition. Early account of the Nainee Tal hill station (now Nainital) in the Kumaon region of Uttarkhand in north India, and extensive travels to Kedarnath and other sites in the Himalayan foothills and passes. These “Notes” were “originally..... Read More about Notes of Wanderings in the Himmala. Containing descriptions of some of the grandest scenery of...
Price: $9,500
[New York: Nick Lyons Books] [American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, VT, 1987]. One of 105 copies (100 for sale), numbered on frontispiece and colophon, and signed by the author. One of 100 copies. The finely produced deluxe edition of this substantial and interesting history. An essential book. Read More about American Fly Fishing. A History
Price: $1,500
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1843. First edition. VERY FINE COPY IN CLOTH. Read More about Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and...
Price: $1,500
[London: Privately printed], 1885. Substantial and authoritative account of the Seychelles Archipelago, with original photographic plates recording drawings of botanical and zoological subjects, as well as views of the islands. The narrator describes climbing the Morne Seychellois, the principal mountain of the main island (2,975 feet). Uncommon. Read More about Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings
Price: $5,500