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.
Victoria Hotel, Southport: July 2d/'82. Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum writes to... Read More
Price: $2,000
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
Price: $300
“Privately printed for Theodore Gordon Flyfishers in a limited edition of three hundred copies”. Read More
Price: $250
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More
Price: $500
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
Price: $400
![Abercrombie and Fitch Co. [Cover title]](/pictures/thumb/261764.jpg?v=1438725322)
[New York: Abercrombie and Fitch, 1910]. The ultimate one-stop camping and expedition outfitters. With notes by Ezra Fitch on “Secrets of the Wilderness” and “Camping Out”, including five varieties (Canoe, Pack-Horse, Tramping, Forest Cruising, and Automobile Camping). The catalogue is abundantly illustrated throughout. Read More
Price: $150
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1773. Nouvelle edition. Chapters on Billiards, Court Tennis, Chess, Backgammon. Read More
Price: $250
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
Price: $500
![A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:] The Big Game of Baltistan and Ladakh. Capt. F. E. S. Adair.](/pictures/thumb/249684.jpg?v=1438725057)
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. A Beautiful Copy. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). A superior copy in choice condition. Read More
Price: $1,750
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
Price: $250
![Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses, Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest, Lake and Random Rhymes]. Adirondacks, Edward B. Osborne.](/pictures/thumb/237400.jpg?v=1438724825)
Poughkeepsie: [Privately Printed], 1893. First edition. The Adirondacks in the 1850s. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting, fishing, and outdoor life in the Adirondacks, Michigan, and Canada in the 1950 and 1860s. Read More
Price: $300
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888. First edition. Account of a hunting trip to the Adirondacks and British Columbia by the author of The Badminton Library volumes on Big Game Hunting. Read More
Price: $200
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
Price: $350
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
Price: $550
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
Price: $65
London: Richard Bentley, 1850. First 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) Inscribed... Read More
Price: $150
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 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."... Read More
Price: $200
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Read More
Price: $350
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More
Price: $750
![Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello. Libro de Re, Imperatori, Prencipi … Historiographi, Philosophi, Legisti, Canonisti & Ecclesiasitici …. Andrea Alciati.](/pictures/thumb/256937.jpg?v=1454954666)
Venice: Baldassar di Costantini; [Comin de Tridino de Monferrato], 1544; 1540. First Italian edition of Alciati; later (?7th) Italian edition of Puteo. Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling. Two early works on duelling bound together. The Alciati was first published in Latin as De Singulari Certamine (1543) and appears here... Read More
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $6,000
New York: E.P. Dutton & company (imprint on front cover), [ca. 1907?]. Scarce Aldin Juvenile. A charming juvenile collaboration from Cecil Aldin and John Hassall. Aldin's contributions are of particular interest to youthful sportsmen, beginning with "The Nursery Harriers", which depicts in a series a drawings a whimsical foxhunt filled... Read More
Price: $150
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929. Aldin, Cecil. First Edition, Number 85 of 250 books signed by the author and the illustrator. Read More
Price: $500
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALDIN. Inscribed obn ffep "To Mrs. George Philips from Cecil Aldin." Read More
Price: $350