ESSEX HUNT, COACHING, ETC
Sporting Incidents; Being a Collection of Sixteen Plates...
New York: Henry T.Thomas, 1893. One of 1000 copies, unnumbered. ESSEX HUNT, COACHING, ETC. A colorful and celebrated... Read More
Price: $6,500
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Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat.
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
![Abercrombie and Fitch Co. [Cover title]](/pictures/thumb/261764.jpg?v=1534806685)
Abercrombie and Fitch Co. [Cover title].
[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
An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels … also, instructions for attaining...
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=1534806083)
A Beautiful Copy
A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:]...
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
Sport in Europe.
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
![Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90 [Manuscript Title]. Alaska, Thomas Gilbert Bowick.](/pictures/thumb/310356.jpg?v=1546461657)
Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890
Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90...
V.p: 1889-90. Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890. Album of drawings and photographs by an accomplished amateur artist, Thomas Gilbert Bowick, during a hunting trip in Oregon and Alaska with his brother John Robie Bowick in 1889 and 1890. The brothers, apparently of English extraction, were part owners... Read More
Price: $22,500
Deluxe Issue
Confederate Arms.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More
Price: $750
Forty Fine Ladies.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929. Aldin, Cecil. First Edition, Number 85 of 250 books signed by the author and the illustrator. Selection of foxhunting verse (collected from Punch), with Aldin’s deft illustrations. Read More
Price: $500
INSCRIBED BY ALDIN
Berkshire Vale. Poems by ….
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALDIN. Inscribed obn ffep "To Mrs. George Philips from Cecil Aldin." Read More
Price: $350
![Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by "Sabretache." [Foreward by Gwen Aldin.]. Cecil Aldin.](/pictures/thumb/259265.jpg?v=1534806537)
Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by...
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More
Price: $250
Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”.
London: J.M. Dent, 1906. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne.
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain... Read More
Price: $30,000
A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners, Costumes, Character and Field...
[London]: Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" 1930. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400, signed by Mr Schwerdt. Read More
Price: $275
Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life.
London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to... Read More
Price: $1,400
UNRECORDED
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location... Read More
Price: $500
UNRECORDED
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location... Read More
Price: $450
The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports.
Boston: M.M. Ballou, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Street, 1855. First edition. One of the rarest of early American illustrated sporting books, exceedingly rare in the original wrappers. As of the Van Winkle Sale only two copies were known with the wrappers; and Ernest Gee, in his Introduction to the Derrydale..... Read More
Price: $2,750
The Black Panther of Sivanipalli.
Chicago: Rand McNally, [1960]. Second impression of first American edition (from the English sheets). "Perhaps the most common of Anderson's works, this book includes hunts for the panther of the title as well as tiger near Chordi, leopard in the Hyderabad region, bison in the Gedesal forests, and other exciting... Read More
Price: $150
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 79 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More
Price: $500
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 341 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More
Price: $500
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 16 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production. Read More
Price: $375
Presentation Copy to his Patron
The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod.
London: John Murray, 1837. First edition. Presentation Copy to his Patron. Apperley had been obliged to resign himself to residence in France to escape debts following the sale of the Sporting Magazine in 1830, but he continued to write from his exile near Calais and produced some of his finest... Read More
Price: $1,500
Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men … To Which are Added Nimrod's Letters...
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. First American edition. Read More
Price: $500
The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. A Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More
Price: $200