Merrimac, Mass: H.C. & H.W. Stevens Co, 1880s. The Massachusetts Gazetteer of 1890 said of the town: "Merrimac is a thrifty and attractive manufacturing town situated on the north bank of the Merrimack River. The principle business is carriage making, in the different departments of which, in numerous shops, some..... Read More about 12 carte de visites of a carriage line of H.C. & H.W. Stevens Co. of Merrimac, Mass

“Privately printed for Theodore Gordon Flyfishers in a limited edition of three hundred copies”. Read More about Fishing Print: “Fall Fishing,” depicting a fisherman in a river in the midst of fall foliage

New York: Abercrombie & Fitch 53-55-57 W. 36th Street, 1913. Everything for the Sporting Set: the Printer’s Copy. Copy of printer E.E. Vreeland, whose firm Vreeland Adverising Press printed this sumptuous Sales Catalogue.In 1913, after moving into Reade Street, which was not a convenient shopping location for women, the store..... Read More about Abercrombie & Fitch Co. New York. Established 1892. Ezra H. Fitch. President

London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791. Second edition. “The total want of a treatise in the English language such as the present … is the principal inducement the author has, in offering to the public what he originally intended only for his own use and amusement.” (Preface)..... Read More about An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels...

London: Henry Graves, 1894. Read More about A Difficult Bunker

London: Printed by James Tregaskis and Son...at the Sign of the Caxton Head, 1934. First edition. Excerpted from Mather's Magnalia Americana. Read More about The Rev. Cotton Mather: His Fish Story. Wherein is made abundantly clear for the first Time, the...

Privately printed, 1952. First edition. Uncommon memoir of this early sportsmen's club in the heart of the Adirondacks. Great photographs.Speare is also author of VERSES IN FRENCH CANADIAN PATOIS (1957), which includes poems relating to the Adirondacks. Read More about Hollywood Club Memoirs

London: Witherby & Co, 1911. First English Edition (both American & English editions published simultaneously). With chapters on - "A River of New Brunswick," "Tuna Fishing in the North Atlantic," "The Edge of the Great Lakes," "New Scotland," and "The Land of Evangeline." "First book seen to spell Nipigon in... Read More about A Fisherman's Summer in Canada

London: Sands and Co, 1901. First edition. Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. Read More about Sport in Europe

London: Richard Bentley, 1852. Second Edition. “Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine, “has the contemplative man’s recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages.” (Westwood & Satchell)..... Read More about Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends

Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More about Confederate Arms

London: John B. Day, 3, Savoy Street, Strand, 1876. First edition, second issue. VERY FINE COPY. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. Both issues of this... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well...