A selection of items in all fields, with a nice group of material relating to sporting clubs, the Schwerdt copy of a classic of foxhunting, manuscript and printed accounts of hunting trips, the writings of English dry fly pioneer Frederic M. Halford, and a newly published book on polo.
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New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, 2006. Prosek, James. First edition, no. 19 of 100 numbered deluxe copies. The excellent and colorful history of the famed Anglers’ Club of New York, published on the occasion of its centennial. Read More about A Century with the Anglers’ Club. With Introduction, Essays and Artwork by Club Members
Price: $1,500
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, one of 222 copies, with two sets of the extra suite of plates. Fine Copy. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. This copy with the..... Read More about The Fly and the Fish
Price: $900
[New York]: Printed by Albert B. King, 81 William St, 1894. UNRECORDED. The Carteret Gun CLub was a shooting club established in 1883 in Bergen Point at the southern tip of Bayonne, New Jersey. Until the industrialization of the Bayonne waterfront during the first world war, Bayonne was “a beautiful..... Read More about The Carteret Gun Cub. Bergen Point, N.J. 1894
Price: $2,000
[London: The Flyfishers' Club, 1984]. First edition. Number 54 of 85 copies of the deluxe edition. Read More about The Flyfishers. An Anthology to Mark the Centenary of the Flyfishers' Club 1884-1984. Written by...
Price: $900
Bismarck, N. D: The Tribune Co., Printers, 1900. Only edition. ‘The wolf is the enemy of civilization, and I want to exterminate him’. Scarce polemical guide to wolf hunting by Benjamin Corbin (1835-1912), Civil War soldier, trapper, hunter, stockman and frontier land promoter, who called himself the “boss wolf hunter.”..... Read More about Corbin's Advice or The Wolf Hunter's Guide. Tells How to Catch 'Em and All about the Science of...
Price: $2,750
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1977]. First edition, no. 70 of 125 copies with original salmon fly tipped in on colophon page, signed by both authors. Read More about Catskill Flytier. My Life, Times, and Techniques. Introduction by Sparse Gray Hackle
Price: $600
New York: Privately printed [by the Gillis Press], [January], 1909. First edition, one of 105 copies, printed for members only. In Original Wrappers. A volume of notable rarity, being the story of one of the earliest angling clubs in America, founded in 1866. Situated on a large parcel of land..... Read More about The South Side Sportsmen's Club of Long Island
Price: $6,500
[Verona]: 1795. Exceedingly rare advertisement broadside for a fencing performance organized and directed by Benedetto Lauberg, fencing teacher. The broadside lists the attendants and notes that there will be a dance interlude. Read More about Accademia d’Armi da Eseguirsi il Giorno Ventisei Agosto in San Zeno in Monte Dalli Signori...
Price: $2,500
[Portland, Maine]: Privately printed [by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press], 1941. First edition, on tipped in calligraphic colophon page: "No. 5 of This Private Edition of the Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History was prepared for F. Seymour Barr December 12, 1941..." of 100 copies. There is also a printed colophon at the back..... Read More about Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History, 1901-1941. With articles by Dr. Homer E. Fraser, Henry A....
Price: $3,000
London: George Routledge, [1910]. First trade edition. Halford’s Pattern Book. An important book by the father of dry fly angling, with Halford’s 33 famous patterns fully described and illustrated. Read More about Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The new dry fly patterns, the manipulation of dressing them,...
Price: $750
Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co, 1845. First edition. The book that established English expatriate H.W. Herbert as “Frank Forester”, the pre-eminent American sporting and outdoors writer. A rare book, and a cornerstone to any nineteenth-century sporting collection. Read More about The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as They Were There, Ten Years Ago, By Frank Forester
Price: $2,250
Paris: Flammarion, 1892. 3e édition, revue, corrigée, et considerablement augmentée. James Fillis (1834-1913) was an Englishman by birth who lived many years in France, and later in Germany and Russia, where he was master of the St. Petersburg Cavalry School. He was “acclaimed by many as one of the greatest..... Read More about Principes de Dressage et d’Equitation
Price: $550
[Newtown Square, Pa.]: N.d. [1840]. ‘Observe the conduct of every stranger’. The constitution of the Society, the Preamble of which says “Whereas, it appears that for want of some general system of action and mutual aid amongst the inhabitants of this district, much loss has been sustained and many thieves..... Read More about Preamble and Constitution of the Newtown Square Horse Company of Newtown, Delaware County, Pa
Price: $1,000
Tokyo: 1926. Rare account of duck hunting in Japan, from 1905 to 1926. Kuroda (1889-1979) was a distinguished Japanese ornithologist, author of many monographs in a career than spanned from before the first world war through the 1970s, including Birds of the Island of Java (2 vols., 1933-6), and Psittacidae..... Read More about Wild Duck Hunting at Haneda
Price: $750
1890-1901. From Kootenay to Biskra and Beyond. The hunting diaries of Charles G.R. Lee, a barrister from England who took a number of hunting expeditions in Turkey, Algeria, Canada, and the Pyrenees, during the period 1890-1901. These UNPUBLISHED hunting diaries are all written in a legible hand and the last..... Read More about Hunting and Travel Diaries. Collection of 9 Private Journals of Hunting Trips in the Rockies,...
Price: $6,500
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. First edition, first issue, with date “1892” on title-page. The classic work of late nineteenth century American fly fishing. An interesting and attractive book, “an important work on the flies in use during the latter past of the nineteenth century … exquisite colored..... Read More about Favorite Flies & Their Histories
Price: $1,500
New York: Privately Printed [by Carroll J. Post, Jr.], 1907. First edition. Diary of a fishing and waterfowl hunting trip by canoe in the Quebec woods. Read More about A Record of a Trip through Canada’s Wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo (Quebec) and to the Great...
Price: $3,000
[Printed by the Puritan Press. James Cummins Bookseller, distributor], 2020. Edition of 500 copies. Translation and facsimile text of a previously unpublished book on polo and riding by Capitaine Hervé Lavergne (1902-1944). Tim Zee, a polo player based in Singapore, recounts the background of the manuscript in his introduction. Lavergne’s..... Read More about Notes on Polo & Riding. With Original Art from the Unpublished Manuscripts … Translated...
Price: $250
Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, no. 35 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author, from a total edition of 200. Joe Bates’ Copy. Wetzel’s landmark bibliography of American angling, with an excellent history of the sport. An essential work. Read More about American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A...
Price: $1,500
Detroit, Michigan: [Printed and bound at Will and Hammond], 1889. First edition. With ALS from the author dated 9/17/[18]90 laid in presenting this copy to Mr. J.V. Dutton. An account of sailing on the Detroit River, together with fishing and camping. Winn, an Englishman living in Detroit, was the proprietor..... Read More about The Cruise of the "Angler", or Three Weeks off Hickory Point
Price: $750