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The British Sportsman or Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement; Including a most improved System of modern Farriery, and anatomical Dissections of a Horse; with concise Rules for Chusing good Horses, and the Secrets of Training them with Wind and Vigour for the Course, Field, and Road. Particular Instructions for Riding, Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Shooting, Setting, & Fishing; with the most approved Methods of Breeding, Curing, and Managing all Sorts of Cattle; particularly Oxen, Cows, Deer, and Sheep. And for Breeding, Training, and Managing Dogs, Hawks, Cocks, Doves, Pigeons, Singing-Birds, &c..

Osbaldiston, William Augustus · 1792 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$1,083.48 (€688.99 | $759.40 | £574.71 | ¥121,282)

London J. Stead pp. 664 [2]. 4to. Half leather with gilt-lettered title label, over marbled boards. 36 plates present; of 42 called-for on list at end. Front joint splitting at both ends, rear joint starting, some creasing and spotting, some page edges show repairs. A dictionary…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Listing Fellow 19th Century Luminaries

BRYANT, William Cullen · 191863 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

One page on a 5" x 7-7/8" sheet addressed to "Sir" and SIGNED "W. C. Bryant." A remarkable letter in which Bryant lists the names of a number of famous contemporaries. In full: "Enclosed is the photograph [not present] for which you have asked. Parke Godwin lived in New York; R…

Ordinale Sarum sive Directorium Sacerdotum (2 vols)

Cooke, William; Wordsworth, Christopher · 1901 · Salsus Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Book Fair 1st Edition Henry Bradshaw Society London 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 2 vols xxxii 340, 16pp; ix -753pp facsimile plates, hardback, black cloth gilt, gilt HBS crest to front boards, ex-library with usual stamps and labels HBS vols XX, XXII

An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion of that Country Under Henry II. To Its Union with Great Britain on the First of January 1801. Volumes 1, 3-5

Plowden, Francis · 1805 · Clayton Fine Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Good First Edition William F. McLaughlin, 1805-1806 Philadelphia 0 All of these four volumes (from a complete set of five) are in good condition with a multitude of flaws and infelicities. Bound in full-leather covered boards with read leather spine labels, all are scraped and s…

Birds in a Village. IN PUBLISHER'S SCARCE VARIANT BINDING

HUDSON W. H. · 1893 · Island Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Chapman & Hall, 1893. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; cloth, gilt back, front cover blocked with design of birds partly enclosing title and author's name, publisher's initials blocked in brown on lower cover, uncut, backstrip a little faded else a ver…

Pursuit _ The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder

Calder, John · 2001 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London Calder Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo grey cloth, mylar wrapped dust jacket, 621 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good very good

Bird's Nest" Hunt and His Followers

Hirshl & Adler Galleries · 1987 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987. Softcover. Color wraps. [12] pp. 4 bw, 5 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1986-1987 exhibition. Catalogue checklist of 38 works, by William Henry Hunt, John Sherrin, William Hough, and Thomas Collier, with two-page introductio…

A Country without Strikes a Visit to the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand

LLOYD, HENRY DEMAREST (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM PEMBER REEVES) · 1900 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and r…

Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Enlarged by the last Additions and Corrections of the Author. A New Edition...to which is now added A General Index.

KAMES (Henry Home), Lord: · 1807 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech...and T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1807. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 525 [526 blank]; iv, 482; vii [viii blank], 514 [515 - 516 adverts], contemporary half roan, marbled boards (slightly rubbed), rebacked, gilt rules across spines, red and…

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; And the Naturalist’s Calendar. Wih Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine. With Further Illustrations, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, and a Complete Index, by Edward Jesse.

White, Rev. Gilbert. · 1854 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Henry G. Bohn 1854. Sm. 8vo. 416pp. Bohn’s Illustrated Library.Martin pp.137-9.

Illuminated Ornaments selected from manuscripts and early printed books from the sixth tot the seventeenth centuries drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw F.S.A. with descriptions by Sir Frederic Madden K.H F.R.S. .

SHAW Henry - Frederic MADDEN : · 1833 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€2,800.00 ($3,086.18 | £2,335.61 | ¥492,882)

19. London, William Pickering, 1833, first edition , large paper edition, in-folio format ( 36,5 x 26,5 cm ) , (6) nn pp + 18 pp + 40 leaves with descriptions, and 59 etched or lithographed plates heightened with printed colouring and hand-colouring. + final addendum leaf ( comp…

A Sammelband of Six Miscellaneous Political Tracts

George Ross; Baron Henry Brougham; Peter Pangloss · 1806 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

Edinburgh, W. Bayne; R. Cadell; J. Hatchard; J. Murray; Thomas Dolby, 1806-1830 . First edition. Leather. A sammelband of six political tracts about the political state of Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. Present here are:The vanishingly scarce first edition of the…

The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland: Swift, Flood, Gratten, O&Apos;Connell

William Edward Hartpole Lecky · 1871 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1871. Leather. An important contemporary review of Irish politics from the library of Sir William Eden Bart. In a beautiful Bickers binding. A collection of the words of Jonathan Swift, Henry Flood, Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell. Previo…

THE OLD MISSIONARY.

Hunter, Sir William W. · 1896 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Henry Frownde 1896. Twenty-First Thousand. 1st Ed. Square 8vo. 138pp. + advert. leaf (loose). 5 plates by Major-General Sir Charles D’Oyly. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, sporadic spotting, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, minor marking, spine faded and bumped, …

Hermann Agha: An Eastern Narrative.

PALGRAVE, W. [WILLIAM] GIFFORD · 1872 · Tinakori Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

London, Henry S. King. 1872, Second Edition. Half-Leather, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 2 volumes: viii, 307; 320 pages. Ex-General Assembly Library new Zealand with attractive gilt stamps on front covers and spines. Leather on spines a little rubbed. Rare early edition. Go…

A Treasury of Grand Opera

SIMON, HENRY W. (ED.) · 1946 · Round Table Books, LLC

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Soft Cover. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Publisher's flexible, pictorial wraps. Illustrated with color and B&W drawings. Includes scores and history of Don Giovanni, Lohengrin, La Traviata, Faust, Aida, Car…

DANGEROUS LANDING - A First-hand story of Evasion.

Robertson, Henry Ord, DFM, · 1989 · A Book for all Reasons

£11.30 (€13.55 | $14.93 | ¥2,385)

William Kimber - Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, [iii] ads., 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimle ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in December 1942 the author was wireless operator in a Halifax returni…

The Works of the Camden Society 1838: Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. In England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. Edited by John Bruce 1839: Plumpton Correspondence Edited by Thomas Stapleton 1839: The Political Songs of England Edited and Translated by Thomas Wright 1839: A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth by John Warkworth, D.D. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell 1840: Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda Edited by Johanne Ga

Various · 1838 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, The Camden Society; Longmans, Green, and Co, 1838-1900. Cloth. An uncommon, thoroughly interesting twenty-four volume set of 'The Camden Society' publications rare to find in such a nice uniform run. An uncommon, thoroughly interesting twenty-four volume set of…

THE COVENANTER: AN AMERICAN EXPOSITION OF THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TAFT, William Howard; WICKERSHAM, George; LOWELL, A. Lawrence; TAFT, Henry W · 1919 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)

New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; x, 188, [2] pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For my friend James Scott/with many pleasant associations/golf and otherwise/Wm. H. Taft/Sept. 9th, 1919/Po…

Bearers of the Burden Being Stories of Land and Sea

William Price Drury · 1899 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd. 1899. Cloth. A fictional work on naval themes by the Royal Marine Light Infantry officer, novelist and playwright William Price Drury. Lieutenant-Colonel William Price Drury was the author of a range of plays and novels, many with naval themes. Pe…