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 about Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello....

London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It..... Read More about The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed...

Wrexham: Reprinted by R. Marsh, 1788. Fourth edition. Joseph Haslewood’s Copy. “Not only is this the most renowned work on the subject of archery in English, or for that matter in any language, but its publication marked the beginning of the decline of the prejudice in favour of Latin as..... Read More about Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting contayned in II bookes. And now newly perused....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. Inscribed "To Robert Howard Russell/ with affectionate regards/ John Kendrick Bangs/ May 16, 1896. " Publication date March, 1896. Rusell was Bangs's publisher for "Emblemland." and a famous publisher in the 1890s and beyond. A nice association. Read More about The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces

11 Dec 1808. Br;low was a poet, politician and a Hartford Wit. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. About fencing. "Dear Madam. I would be much obliged to you to...

Worcester, Mass: Isaiah Thomas, 1787 [i.e., 1944]. Facsimile of the first Worcester edition issued by F. G. Melcher in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Fine facsimile of the first of the children’s books produced by John Newberry, originally published in 1744. The first American edition was..... Read More about A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and...

London: Elliot Stock, n.d. [1905]. A fine reprint of the first English sporting book. Read More about The Boke of Saint Albans Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour. With an...

London: Putnam, Covent Garden, 1935. First Edition in English. Read More about Land of Elephants: Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda

Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing, 1992. First Edition, no. 16 of 81 copies. With extra colored plate laid in and 2 errata leaves. One of 81 copies only. Read More about The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen

Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Unique Copy for the Publisher. A continuation of John Phillips's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by author and--most happily--an alphabetical index by TITLES (which Phillips did not..... Read More about A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. First edition. Standard Reference. Bibliography of the literature of foxhunting, comprising descriptions of books published in Britain and the United States through the year 2000, with biographical notes on selected authors.New and already indispensable. Read More about Six Centuries of Foxhunting. An Annotated Bibliography. Foreword by Norman Fine

Philadelphia: J.W. Pepper, S.W. Cor. 8th & Locust Sts, 1884. A collection of music to accompany roller skaters. Marvellous 19th century illustration of skaters at play, including falls and wipe-outs. Read More about The New Skating Rink Journal