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SPORTS AFIELD MAGAZINE JUNE 1960

Sports Afield · 1960 · Gibson

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Sports Afield Very Good- with no dust jacket; Cover by Jack Dumas. Articles include Bassfishing, Big Fish, Small Boat, Tarpon on a Fly Rod, 1960 Big Game Guide, Of Men and Polar Bears, Return to the Alaska Highway, Where New Yorkers Fish and Hunt, Hiking and Camping Trails and m…

The Shooting Times and Country Magazine with contributions by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). A broken run from 1931, 1933, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988 to 1990. 71 issues.

Watkins-Pitchford, D. J.; Ivester Lloyd Jack, Taylor Fred J. et al · 1931 · Aucott & Thomas

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

The Burlington Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Magazine. 71 clean and tightly bound magazines, stapled spines, staples rusty, pictorial covers rubbed and worn at edges, some front covers have numbers. 20 - 25 pages per issue, photos & illustrations in the text. Nos 2561…

Hints on the management of hawks ... to which is added practical falconry, chapters historical and descriptive.London, Horace Cox, 1898. 8vo. With 11 plates and 42 illustrations in text. Original publisher's green cloth.

HARTING, James Edmund. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

VII, 268 pp.Second edition of Harting's manual on falconry and hawking, together with a historical description of practical falconry. For the present edition the author revised the original text and made considerable additions, also adding new illustrations. The plates show a h…

Practical falconry; to which is added, how I became a falconer.London, Horace Cox, 1869. 8vo. Decorated vellum (1908), with a painted illustration of a falcon on the front board and two unidentified cipher monogram below ("CEUD" and "CMF"), gilt edges.

FREEMAN, Gage Earle. · 1820 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

VIII, 89, [1] pp.Charmingly bound edition of two treatises on falconry, by the notable writer on falconry Gage Earle Freeman (1820-1903). "This little book, written from personal experience of the author, has done much to keep alive the traditions of falconry and encourage its m…

Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters

Alfred M. Mayer [ed.] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, F. Warne & Co, 1883. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this illustrated volume work on large game hunting and fishing in North America. A first edition of this volume on fishing and hunting edited by American physicist Alfred Marshall Mayer. Heavily illustrated …

Wildlife Cookery

[Laverendrye Game & Fish Association] · 1980 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Laverendrye Game & Fish Association First Edition, First Printing pp. 110, [4]. Octavo [9" x 6.5"]. Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Illustrated section separators with many period advertisements by a variety of sponsoring local …

IDIOT PROOF ARCHERY

Pellerite, Bernie; Edited by Diana LaBeau · 2007 · Robert W. Reiner

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Robinhood, 2007. [ ] Hardback, octavo, gilt titling on green textured covers, xiv + 338 pages, VG+. Tight binding, generally crisp & very clean interior (one long streak of yellow highlighting in one margin area o/w no prev. owner names & no other writing). Small spot of very li…

The Best of Corey Ford

FORD Corey Edited Jack SAMSON · 1975 · Fortuna Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Holt Rinehart & Winston edition specially printed for the friends of Sami S Svendson Inc, xvi 266pp, DW price clipped and some minor short edge tears plus a little soiling to covers, a selection of writings from Field and Stream contirbutor Corey Ford H First Edition Very Good…

A Book on Angling: With a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates Etc.

Francis Francis · 1993 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Lyon, Mississippi, Derrydale Press, 1993. Special Limited Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy of another fine publication by Derrydale Press, reprising classics in hunting and fishing and sport generally, this being contribution III to the serie…

Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum.

MERULA, Paulus. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[24], 264; 124; 59, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the most important early Dutch book on hunting ("das wichtigste Buch der frühen niederländischen Jagdliteratur" Lindner). It is divided into three "books", the first on forestry (including regulations for hunting grounds and the …

Latham’s faulconry, or the faulcons lure and cure: in two books the first concerning the ordering and training up of all hawks in generall; especially the haggard faulcon-gentle.Including: New and second book of faulconry.London, printed by Richard Hodgkinson for Thomas Rooks, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With woodcut frontispiece of "The Haggard Faulcon", second title with woodcut vignette of a gentleman riding his horse with his hawk on his arm. Second part with woodcuts in text, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials. 19th century gold-tooled calf, marbled endpapers.

LATHAM, Simon. · 1649 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)

[34], 176; [24], 144, [8] pp.The third (first handy pocket-sized) edition of two books on falconry by Simon Latham (d. 1649?), first published in 1614 and 1618 respectively. The first edition of part 1 was dedicated to Sir Thomas Monson, Master Falconer to James I, and the prese…

[Original Cloth] An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From Its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member [bound with:] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia

MILNOR, William, Jr. (1769-1848) · 1830 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,039.00 (€942.68 | £786.44 | ¥165,915)

Philadelphia Judah Dobson First Edition of this early history of America's oldest angling society, Second Issue, with portrait of Gouvernor Morris by St. Memin inserted after Introduction. Bound with the first American book on fox hunting. 8vo (220 x 140mm): viii,127,[1]; [ii],5…

The hawks and owls of the United States in their relation to agriculture.Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893. 8vo. Illustrated with 26 colour plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine.

FISHER, A.K. and C. HART MERRIAM (dir.) · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

210 pp.First edition of a survey of the influence of rapacious birds on the agriculture in the United States, published as bulletin no. 3 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Understanding the feeding pattern of these birds was crucial to…

Comptes de la venerie et fauconnerie du Roi Charles VIII. ... 1485-1486.Lyon, printed by Louis Perrin [for the compiler], 1860. 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With the title-page in red and black with the coat of arms of the compiler, 4 chromolithographed plates showing 3 stained-glass portraits and an architectural elevation, all drawn by P. Giniz and lithographed in Paris by Engelmann & Graf, 2 double-page etched views drawn by J. de Montchalin & Le Bon de Maupetit and engraved by J. M. Fugère, and a lithographic facsimile of a letter written and signed by Margaret of Austria. Half grey-brown cloth (ca. 1900?), top edge gilt, with the publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in.

CHARLES VIII, King of France, [compiled by Emmanuel Victor POURROY de l’Aubérivière, Comte de QUINSONAS]. · 1485 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

VI, 22 pp. plus plates.A remarkable bibliophile edition (limited to 50 copies) of financial accounts and other documents concerning hunting and falconry from the archives of King Charles VIII of France in the years 1485 to 1486. These documents are essential primary sources for …

All About Tropical Fish

McInerny, Derek; Gerard, Geoffrey · 1967 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

George G Harrap. Third Revised and Enlarged edition, 2nd impression. Book. VGC. George G Harrap, 1967. Third Revised and Enlarged edition, 2nd impression. Green hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, slightly faded on the edges of the front and back cover) with Dj(small tears, c…

Cranberry Portage: Gamblers and Bush Pilots, Love and Survival, in a Frontier Town [SIGNED]

Paterson, Ruth; Jack Paterson · 1970 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada McClelland and Stewart First Edition, First Printing pp. 171. 8vo. Publisher's tan boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Light bumping to spine ends, else, extremiti…

Zane Grey :Outdoorsman

GREY, ZANE ; REIGER, GEORGE (EDITOR) · 1972 · Godley Books

£42.50 (€50.94 | $56.15 | ¥8,966)

Englewood Cliffs, N. J. Prentice-Hall. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 0139838414) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with small piece missing fro…

La venerie ... de nouveau reveue, et augmentée, outre les precedentes impressions.Paris, Clause Cramoisy, 1624. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. (22.6 x 16.4 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 57 woodcut illustrations, of which 3 full-page, woodcut musical scores, head- and tailpieces, and initials. 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled black morocco, boards and spine showing an intricate motif of lions rampant within lozenges, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gold-tooled red morocco pastedowns, red edges, red silk on the first and last flyleaves. Bound by Cuyls (with CUYLS stamped in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf).

FOUILLOUX, Jacques du. · 1561 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[4], 124, [8] pp.A sumptuously bound copy of this important illustrated classic on falconry, with the intricate monogram of Amédée Rigaud as a centre piece on the elaborately gold-tooled red morocco front pastedown. From the collection of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, a …

With Gun and Guide

Thomas Martindale · 1912 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, T. Werner Laurie, 1912. Cloth. The first UK edition of this memoir by Thomas Martindale, in which the author reflects on his experiences hunting and fishing, with numerous photographic plates. First UK Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three other illu…

The sportsman's bedside book.

BB (Watkins-Pitchford, Denys) · 1948 · Aucott & Thomas

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, page edges tanned, signed by the author on the half title page, in a price clipped dustjacket which is rubbed and chipped at the edges with a small area on the front cover, possibly where a …