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The Angler's Week-End Book

TAVERNER, ERIC; MOORE, JOHN · 1935 · Clausen Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London, Seeley Service & Co. Ltd. 1935. Green and Blue Cloth, 12mo over 6¾" 7¾" tall. Ill.: Margot Hamand Woodcuts. Hard Cover, Beautiful, gift quality copy; Signed and Inscribed by Author John Moore on Half Title Page. Illustrated end papers. Blue Top Edge. Tall 12mo. Green Clo…

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 (€688.86 | $759.25 | £574.69 | ¥121,242)

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…

Wild Norway: with Chapters on Spitzbergen, Denmark, Etc.

Chapman, Abel · 1897 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Edward Arnold London xiii, 358, [2 - ads] + 16 - ads, frontis, 15 b/w plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, light bump to top corner of front board; a few nicks to foot of spine, with short tear neatly refixed, nevertheless an attractive copy with protective acetate sleeve…

And to the Eskimos.

Ledyard, Gleason H., · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Chicago, Moody, (1956). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Work of the Eskimo Gospel Crusade began in 1946 to serve the race of people who inhabit the Arctic coast & live by hunting &. fishing. DJ & endpapers tanned on edges, DJ edge wear.

Irish Bogs: Sport and Country Life in the Irish Free State

Seigne, J.W. · 1928 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Longmans, Green and Co. London xii, 249, b/w frontis, 30 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine slightly faded, gilt title to spine and front board. Endpapers slightly browned. Vg. Name of British entomologist, J. Balfour-Browne (1907-2001) to endpaper.. First Edition. A scar…

A Better Way? A Study of Humane Trapping in Manitoba

Burns, W.R. · 1967 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Department of Renewable Resources and Transportation Services MG-482 pp. 29. 8vo. Illustrated stapled card covers. Many black and white photographs, tables, charts and illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound b…

Bull Cook, Recipes and Practices

HERTER, GEORGE LEONARD · 1957 · S. Howlett-West Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Waseca, MN: George Leonard Herter, 1957. 4th Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers of the booklet h…

The Complete Family-Piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts.

COMPLETE FAMILY-PIECE. · 1741 · Forest Books

£424.63 (€508.99 | $561.00 | ¥89,584)

London: Printed for C. Rivington; S. Birt; T. Longman; C. Hitch; and J. Clarke, 1741. Third edition, 12mo, xii, 4, 526 pages, 60 unnumbered pages, title page rather soiled, rest of text bright and clean, later calf, lightly rubbed, leather title label to spine. The first editi…

Herring Fishermen of Kintyre and Ayrshire

MARTIN, ANGUS · 2002 · Tinakori Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

House of Lochar Isle of Colonsay. 2002, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 194 pages, b/w photos. More than 140 years of Scottish fishing history as told through the fishermen's own memories and traditions, concentrating on the time when the crews worked with oar and sail. Fine.

Then and Now - a History of Niton and Foley Timber, Alberta

THE NITON HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE · 1988 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.04 | ¥47,898)

Alberta: Trail Printing/The Niton History Book Committee, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Wolfe, Marilynn. 380 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Includes dozens of family histories plus sections on: Tie and Timber Camps; Homestead; Trapping, Huntin…

Trout Fly Recognition

Goddard, John · 1976 · Ariel Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Adam & Charles Black Green bds with crisp Gilt title (fresh with sl. speckled bottom edge, sl canted cnrs) pp 222 with prortrait frontis, photo illus and a list of over 150 artificial fly dressings by John Veniard (tight and clean, with gift inscription to ffep) Original wrapper…

The old man and the sea

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST · 1952 · Tinakori Books

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1952, First English Edition. Hardcover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 127 pages. First printing of the English edition. Ex-library. Good.

AN OUTDOOR JOURNAL

CARTER, Jimmy · 0 · Charles Agvent

$218.80 (€198.52 | £165.61 | ¥34,940)

New York. Bantam. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President in full "Best wishes to/Bill --- -/Jimmy Carter/12-88" on the front endpaper. Most books on the market signed by Carter have been done at readings in a rushed manner to satisfy the…

The Sportman and Naturalist in Canada. Or, Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds and Fish of that Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

KING Major W. Ross · 1866 · Island Books

£360.00 (€431.52 | $475.61 | ¥75,949)

Hurst & Blackett, 1866. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (wanting original paper guard), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original paper guards present) and 13 engravings in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; original green cloth, …

Natural History & Sport in Moray collected from the Journals and Letters of the late Charles St. John

St. John, C. · 1863 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Edmonston and Douglas Edinburgh xlvii, 336, frontispiece, title vignette, text illus. . HB. Small 8vo (186x125mm), cont. half morocco, slightly rubbed to corners, raised bands to spine, gilt and black rules between compartments, gilt title, marbled endpapers and edges. Vg. Armor…

Forty-Five Years of Sport. Edited by Arthur T. Fisher.

CORBALLIS, James Henry. · 1891 · John Turton

£53.36 (€63.96 | $70.50 | ¥11,257)

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891 1st edition. 8vo. x[ii], 502pp, frontis. Original decorated green cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes slightly rubbed with very slightly wear to spine tips. * Hunting, shooting, deer-stalking, salmon and trout fishing, falconry and golf.

Précis de Fauconnerie [...] suivi de l’Éducation du Cormoran. Niort, L. Clouzot, 1887. 8vo. With 4 black and white lithographed plates. Contemporary red morocco-backed cloth.

SOURBETS, Georges; Camille de SAINT-MARC. · 1853 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[3], [1 blank], 123, [1] pp.Rare first and only edition, one of only 150 copies, of "a neat summary of nearly all that is necessary to be known in order to tame, train, and fly a hawk successfully" (Harting). Two years before the present publication another manual for hawking an…

Good Shot! A book of rod, gun, and camera.

Holland, Bob, Dan & Ray, · 1946 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st ss. G in G DJ. Hunting and fishing photo essays. Red cloth boards, water stain front book cover. DJ spine worn, chipped.

Il Falconiere.Venice, Giambatista Albrizzi, 1735. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, title vignette, portrait and 9 engraved vignettes, some with falconry themes. Contemporary vellum.

THOU, Jacques-Auguste de. · 1553 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[34], 50, [18], 223 pp.First Italian edition of a poem about falconry, in hexameters, here including the Latin original and another instructional poem by P.A. Bargeo. "First and best Italian edition of de Thou’s famous Latin poem on hawking with an Italian translation" (Schwerdt…

Traditional Crafts and Skills. Life and Work in Mediaeval and Renaissance Times

HUSA, VACLAV [& JOSEF Petran & ALEBA Subrtova] · 1967 · Antiquariaat Schot

€9.60 ($10.58 | £8.01 | ¥1,690)

London, Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1967. Original publisher's gray cloth hardback, gilt title on red label spine, colour illustration frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: frontispiece, 228pp., 187 numbered bl.& wh. and colour plates & illustrations, introductiory essay with 27 unn…