Felix on the Bat
London: Baily Brothers, 1855. Third edition. " ... the first [cricket manual] to give practical and illustrated advice"... Read More
Price: $1,600
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Academie Universelle des Jeux, contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1773. Nouvelle edition. Chapters on Billiards, Court Tennis, Chess, Backgammon.
Price: $250
![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=1534806401)
Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling
Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello. Libro de Re, Imperatori, Prencipi...
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...
Price: $2,500
Instructions for the Sword Exercise; Selected from Her Majesty's Rules and Regulations, and Approved of by Authority, for the Yeomanry...
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1840. Second edition. The second edition of this cavalry sword manual by Henry William Angelo, the grandson of Domenico Angelo, founder of London's School of Arms. The first edition was published in 1835 with 10 plates.
Price: $650
The Glory of the English Bow
The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by...
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.....
Price: $4,000
The Arte of Angling 1577. edited by Gerald Eades Bentley, with an Introduction by Otto von Kienbusch & Explanatory Notes...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1956. First edition.
Price: $100
Joseph Haslewood’s Copy
Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting contayned in II bookes. And now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen, and...
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.....
Price: $600
Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting. Contayned in II bookes, Writen by Roger Ascham, 1544. And now newly perused...
Wrexham: Reprinted by R. Marsh, 1788. The Fourth edition. "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 the literary...
Price: $600
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces.
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.
Price: $250
"The Bicyclers. A Farce" produced as "Curtain Raiser at the Knapp Mansion, Feb. 24, 1894"
Feb. 24, 1894. Extract.
Price: $100
Autograph Letter, signed. About fencing. "Dear Madam. I would be much obliged to you to send me the fencing master...
11 Dec 1808. Br;low was a poet, politician and a Hartford Wit.
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Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus
Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to Major James Pond.
Victoria Hotel, Southport: July 2d/'82. Barnum on His Reciepts from the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum writes to his lecture manager, Major James Pond, declining an invitation to lecture in England and revealing his gross receipts from his Barnum & Bailey’s show. Reading in part, “Thanks for your offer for.....
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A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly.
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...
Price: $250
Elephant Hunting Classic
The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter.
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life," Ltd, 1923. First edition. Elephant Hunting Classic. Born in 1880, Bell left school at 14 to make his way to Africa on a cargo ship. After working briefly on the Ugandan railway he was off to join the Klondike gold rush. After...
Price: $650
The Boke of Saint Albans Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour. With an introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, n.d. [1905]. A fine reprint of the first English sporting book.
Price: $200
Land of Elephants: Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda.
London: Putnam, Covent Garden, 1935. First Edition in English.
Price: $700
American Sporting Book Series. [Introduction by F. Phillips Willamson].
Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1994. Duncan, T. O. First Edition, one of 300 copies. A highly useful bibliography, this is also a leaf book containing tipped-in leaves gathered from imperfect copies.
Price: $150
The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen.
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.
Price: $225
Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe...
Lanham [Maryland] and New York: The Derrydale Press, [2001]. Brown, Paul. No 25 of 25 deluxe copies, signed by the author on the title page. Short biography and detailed bibliography of the great equine artist Paul Brown (1893-1958) by noted sporting dealer and bibliographer Duke Biscotti. Warmly inscribed on the title...
Price: $450
Unique Copy for the Publisher
A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill.
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...
Price: $850
One of Ten Copies
Six Centuries of Foxhunting. An Annotated Bibliography.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. One of ten copies, specially bound. One of Ten Copies. Finely bound issue of this new and already indispensable bibliography.
Price: $850
Standard Reference
Six Centuries of Foxhunting. An Annotated Bibliography. Foreword by Norman Fine.
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.
Price: $85
Know-how in the Surf.
[Sydney]: Angus and Robertson, [1961]. Revised edition of 1959 First Edition.
Price: $100
RARE, ONE OF 100
Willy Boeckl on Figure Skating.
New York: [Moore Printing Company, 1937]. First edition, Number 14 of 100 copies, signed by the author, with tipped in photograph of author. RARE, ONE OF 100.
Price: $400
Das Billardbuch. Vollständige Theorie und Praxis des Billardspiels. Mit 128 in den Text gedruckten Illustrationen.
Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber, 1895. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage.
Price: $350