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The Art and Practice of Hawking

MICHELL, E.B. · 1900 · Tinakori Books

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

London, Methuen & Co. 1900, First Edition. Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xii, 291 pages, photogravue frontispiece and two other photogravures, 10 b/w plates. Old bookplate on front endpaper, foxing on edges and a few pages. Good.

Sport in Asia and Africa.

DANE, SIR RICHARD. · 1921 · Chilton Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, 1921. 1st edition. Big game, shooting and fishing in Asia and Africa. Chapters include: Some Tiger and Panther Stories; The Patli Dun; Mahser Fishing; My First Expedition to British East Africa; A Week of Disaster; Four Days; Borneo; A Shhot in India …

The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, May, 1925, Vol LV, No. 325: Early California Seaplane Fishing / Wild Tribes of the Amazon

TAYLOR, MERLIN MOORE; HOGG, JOHN EDWIN; ELLIOTT, RICHARD; MARTIN, MINNIE; HENDERSON, J.R.; DOMVILLE-FIFE, C.W.; WEBB, HARRY E.; RAYNE, MAJOR H.; METHLEY, M.M.; DENNIS, JOAN; BROOKE, W.; CHARLES, BERNARD; BARNS, T. ALEXANDER; BARROW, R. GRANVILLE · 1925 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

New York: The International News Company, 1925. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Nicholson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Crozier, Frank. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wi…

Sport in Classic Times

BUTLER, ALFRED JOSHUA · 1975 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Los Altos CA, William Kaufmann. 1975, Facsimile Reprint. (ISBN: 0913232130) Hardcover. Ex-Library, Not the athletic sports of the Olympics, but field sports - a survey of hunting and fishing in ancient Greece and Rome."As might be expected, hunting and fishing are the two main t…

OUTDOOR STATE OF MIND

Simms, Richard · 2007 · Gibson

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Lulu First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. Front of DJ has sticker wear; Signed by Richard Simms. Collection of essays; B&W Illustrations; 267 pages; Signed by Author

M. Or N. "Similia Similibus Curantur.

George John Whyte-Melville. · 1853 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London , Ward, Lock & Bowden, c1870. Cloth. A work of Victorian fiction by the Scottish novelist George John Whyte-Melville. Whyte-Melville published his first novel, Digby Grand, in 1853, which was a huge success. He went onto publish twenty-one novels and became a popular writ…

Five Years' Hunting Adventures in South Africa Being An Account of Sport With The Lion,Elephant,Buffalo,Rhinoceros,Camelopard,Ostrich,Hippopotamus,Wildebest,Koodoo,Hyaena

Roualeyn Gordon Cumming · 1850 · Richard Thornton Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Simpkin,Marshall & Co This is a Good Only Copy of this Book in Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.There is some staining marks to the edges of the front and rear boards.Corners are a little bumped.There is one former owner's bookplate to the front pastedow…

Delle caccie ... libri quattro ...(Colophon: Naples, Lazaro Scoriggio, 1626). 4to. With an engraved title-page and 13 full-page engraved illustrations (plus 8 repeats) on integral leaves. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

RAIMONDI, Eugenio. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[56], 635, [1 blank] pp.Second edition (with new and more extensive illustrations and some additions) of one of the most noted Italian books on hunting, also including falconry, fishing and husbandry. On pp. 41-78 ''the different kinds of falcons and hawks are described, as well…

De libera venatione speciatim Suevo-Memmingensi. Auctioritate illustris iureconsultorum ordinis praeside Godofredo Daniele Hoffmanno philosophiae magistro iuris utriusque doctore sacri caesarei palatii comie serenissimi Wurtembergiae ducis consiliario iuris publici et feudalis professore publico ordinario pro licentia summos in utroque iure honores rite capessendi ad diem V. Maii MDCCLIII.Including: Appendix sive adiuncta dissertationis: Recensio adiunctorum.Tübingen, Johann Philipp Erhardt, 1753. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (18.5 x 15.5 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved folding map (18.5 x 27 cm) of Memmingen and the Bosserhard by J.F. Rupf, and with an elaborate woodcut headpiece (with a rising phoenix) and a factotum in the form of a person with shield and spear. With: KESSEL, Johann Erhard (Stephan Christoph HARPPRECHT VON HARPPRECHTSTEIN, praeses). Sciagraphiam liberae venationis Germanicae imprimis vero Svevicae, vulgo Die freye Purts-Gerechtigkeit favente supremo numine annuente amplissimo Ictorum ordine publicae ventilationi sistit praeses Stephanus Christophorus Harpprecht, U. J.D. Prof. Jur. Extra-ordin. & serenissimi principis Hohen-Zollerensis Consiliarius.Tübingen, literis Eitelianis [= Johann Konrad Eitel], 1702.Ad 2 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments.Modern brown decorated paper over boards.

SAYLER, Johann Wilhelm von (Gottfried Daniel HOFFMANN, praeses). · 1760 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[2], 70, 20; 24 pp.Two rare 18th-century dissertations "Jagdrechtliche Hochschulschrifte" from the University of Tübingen, on the subject of hunting in Memmingen and the Bosserhard (or Booser Hart), the general area around Memmingen between the rivers Iller and Gunz. Free huntin…

Bawleymen: Fishermen and Dredgermen of the River Medway (Signed)

Coombe, Derek · 1980 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£35.50 (€42.55 | $46.90 | ¥7,489)

Pennant. First Edition. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. ~~Signed by author~~VG 1st ed 1980 Pennant hardback, no jacket as issued, illustrated. Minor corner and spine-end shelf-wear and toning to pages only, unmarked. Immediate dispatch Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weigh…

Barbel: A Lifetime's Addiction (Signed)

West, Trefor · 2005 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£52.90 (€63.41 | $69.89 | ¥11,160)

Whacked It Publications. First Edition. Collectable - Good Condition. Good. Signed by Author. ~~Signed by Trefor West~~Good+/Good 1st ed 2005 Whacked It Publications paperback, illustrated. Adhesive residue along inside front hinge, water-related faded marks to inside lower edge…

Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage très curieux, utile & recreatif pour toetes personnes qui font leur selour à la campagne. Par F.F.F.R.D.G., dit le Solitaire inventif.Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1695. 5 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page and 66 numbered engraved plates (9 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and binding edges.

[FORTIN, François]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[10], 58, [4]; [4], 59-122, [3], [1 blank]; [6], 123-186, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 187-232, [2]; [6], 238-292, [3], [1 blank] pp.Third edition, the first printed in Amsterdam, of a popular hunting and fishing manual. It teaches everything about the "true gentleman's sports and recre…

Bannock, Beans and Rabbit Stew - Tales of a Pioneer

THOMAS, ARA (SIGNED) · 1983 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

Mayerthorpe, Alberta: Self-Published, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 391 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Several pages of nice photographic plates. The author, born in 1903, recounts his life with considerable emphasis on his times in the wild hunting, trapping and f…

Professional Guide's Manual

HERTER, GEORGE LEONARD & JACQUES P. HERTER · 1958 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Waseca, MN: North Star Guide Association, 1958. 10th Edition. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet covers have some rubbing, bumping, creasing and wear and tear. There is one repaired tear to the…

Traité de fauconnerie.Leiden & Düsseldorf, Arnz & Co., 1844-1853. Elephant folio (55.5 × 73.5 cm). Tinted lithographed title-page with a pictorial border comprising 11 scenes of hawking by J. B. Sonderland, 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falconry equipment by Portman and Von Wouw, and 10 (of 12) hand-coloured lithographed plates of hawks by Wendel after Joseph Wolf (8 mounted on paperboard). Stored loosely in the original publisher’s cloth-backed printed boards.

SCHLEGEL, Hermann & VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST, Abraham Henrik. · 1815 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€75,000.00 ($82,663.65 | £62,569.95 | ¥13,200,316)

[4], 90, VI, [2] pp.First and only edition of a superb work, the finest work on falconry that has ever been produced both on account of the beauty of the plates and general accuracy of the text. The lifesize illustrations of the birds are by far the finest ever produced in any b…

Rattle and Clinker, the Half Bred Dog and Terrier Bitch. First Edition of the Aquatint

Alkin, S., artist; Percy Roberts, engraver · 1822 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822. Color aquatint. 13.5 x 21.5 cm. Tears in lower margin. Published in The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects and fancy pursuits; containing every thing worthy of re…

The Manitoba Trappers' Guide to Better Quality Fur

Burns, Bob (Preface); Don MacTavish (Illust.) · 1976 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$24.95 (€22.64 | £18.89 | ¥3,984)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Government of Manitoba, Department of Renewable Resources and Transportation Services Ninth Printing, Revised Edition pp. 122. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white drawings, maps, illust…

Far Pastures [SIGNED] ; "A lively series of word-pictures of Canada's west from horse to helicopter".

Patterson, R.M. · 1963 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Sidney, BC Gray's Publishing Canada First Edition, First Printing pp. 290. Octavo. Publisher's light-green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Various black-and-white photographic plates. No detectable flaws to extremities, pages uniformly toned, else, without bl…

Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ...Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume.

HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. · 1515 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Frontispiece plus [8], XXXII, [2], 115, [2], [1 blank] pp.; 48 ll.First printing in any language of three important manuscripts on falcons and falconry: a 12th-century Turkish treatise on falconry by Mahmud Ibn Mehmed al-Bargini, "Baz nama" [= Falcon book] (in the original Turki…

Ways of Living in Manitoba

ANONYMOUS · 1945 · John Thompson Books

CA$25.00 (€15.89 | $17.52 | £13.26 | ¥2,798)

Manitoba, Canada, Department of Mines and Natural Resources. 1st Printing. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Solid with a corner crease on the back cover and the covers show light wear. The interior is unmarked. "Illustrated articles from The Keystone Province, especially pr…