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BURTON, Richard F.
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. 1852
£5,000
First edition of an early Burton title, nominally a record of the sport of falconry as practiced by the landed gentry in Sindh, but also a significant record of their culture as the...
Large duodecimo. Original brown ribbed cloth, titles to spine gilt, rules to boards in blind. Housed in a quarter red morocco solander box with marbled paper boards.... Read more
JAMES, F. L.
The Unknown Horn of Africa: 1888
£3,000
First edition. "While primarily a work of exploration and adventure in Somaliland, the author does partake in a few hunts for kudu, lion, and assorted antelope near the River Webbe....
Octavo. Original dark olive cloth on bevelled boards, title gilt to spine, brown surface-paper endpapers. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece heightened with gum... Read more
WALTON, Izaak, & Charles Cotton.
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, 1836
£2,500
First Pickering edition, large-paper copy. Edited by the noted antiquarian Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas and printed by the younger Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, himself a...
2 volumes, tall octavo (270 × 176 mm). Nineteenth-century green morocco by Riviere, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, covers panelled in gilt with... Read more
(TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven.
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry. 1908
£2,500
First edition, one of 500 copies. "A very important work by a falconer who flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century … gives a detailed account of falcons as well as...
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the upper board, top edge gilt.... Read more
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Natural. 1952
£1,750
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top and bottom edge of covers faded. An excellent copy in the somewhat marked and rubbed... Read more
WALTON, Izaak, & Charles Cotton.
The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. 1760
£1,500
First Hawkins edition. Originally published in 1658.
2 volumes bound in one, octavo (177 × 110 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, double-line rule to boards and raised bands gilt, hand-written paper label to spine,... Read more
CHAPMAN, Abel.
Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-game and Bird Life. 1921
£1,500
First edition. Exceptionally uncommon in jacket. "Chapman recounts his journey to Khartoum, then up the White Nile into Uganda. He hunted gazelle in the arid regions of the Sudan,...
Octavo. Original green combed cloth, title gilt to the spine, large solid block of a wart-hog boar to the upper board, and an outline of a Cape Buffalo to the lower,... Read more
KITTENBERGER, Kálván,
Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa 1903-1926. 1929
£1,500
First US edition, same year as the UK, and from the same sheets. First published in Hungarian in 1927. With the scarce dust jacket. "This book ably describes the author's encounters...
Octavo. Original brown combed cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 126 photographic plates,... Read more
[SURTEES, R. S.]
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Handley Cross; Ask Mamma; Plain or Ringlets?; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Hawbuck Grange; Hillingdon Hall. n.d.
£1,200
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in early 20th century tan half-calf, with gilt titles and raised bands on spines, gilt rules to boards, top edges gilt. With many hand-colour illustrations....
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in early 20th century tan half-calf, with gilt titles and raised bands on spines, gilt rules to boards, top edges gilt. With many hand-colour... Read more
RICE, William.
Tiger-Shooting in India; 1857
£975
First edition. Uncommon. "Rice, a lieutenant in the Bombay Regiment, describes in great detail various encounters he and his shooting party had with tigers and other game in India's...
Octavo (252 × 172 mm) Later plum half calf on linen boards, black morocco label, small floral devices to the compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.... Read more
[ASTLEY, Philip]
Astley's Projects, in his Management of the Horse; 1804
£975
In 1768 Astley established his first "'riding school' in a fenced wayside field on Lambeth Marsh named Halfpenny Hatch. Styling himself the English Hussar, he promised such feats as...
Octavo (170 × 105 mm) largely unopened in the publisher's boards. Folding frontispiece. Slightly rubbed, a large part of the spine chipped away, upper hinge... Read more
DEMIDOFF, E[lim], Prince San Donato.
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus. 1898
£950
First edition. "Hunting on the sprawling hunting preserve of Grand Duke Mikhailovitch, the author bagged tûr near the Kisha River, with additional hunts after ollen and aurochs....
Octavo (218 × 156 mm) Contemporary tan pigskin on linen boards, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from the author's photographs,... Read more
MILLAIS, John Guille.
British Deer and Their Horns. 1897
£875
First edition, first impression.
Folio. Original brown cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in black, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 18 plates, illustrations... Read more
(MAGNÉ DE MAROLLES, Gervais François) ACTON, John (transl.)
An Essay on Shooting. 1789
£875
First edition, uncommon, "The total want of a treatise in the English language such as the present, possessing either science or extent, is the principle inducement the author has,...
Octavo (173 × 108 mm) Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label to the spine, compartments formed by single chequered rolls. Half-title bound in. A little... Read more
BALDWIN, William Charles.
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi 1863
£650
First edition, a book most frequently encountered in the second edition issued in the same year with a slightly variant title, and the third edition of 1894. "A work of early sport...
Octavo (211 × 127 mm). Later nineteenth-century half-morocco on marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and dark tan labels to the spine, spine gilt in... Read more
FRASER, Thomas Gamble.
Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India. 1881
£650
First edition. Uncommon "autobiography based on Fraser's journals presenting his military experiences as well as those of sport. Near Bombay he participated in pig sticking, while...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spine and upper board, "bamboo" panel in blind to the boards, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. Very slightly... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
My African Journey. 1908
£650
First edition, first issue, only printing. My African Journey was the first book to derive purely from Churchill's journalism, as distinct from his work as a war correspondent....
Octavo. Original pictorial red cloth, title gilt to spine, pictorial decoration to upper board in blue, grey and black enamel. Frontispiece and 46 other plates, 3... Read more
[APPERLEY, Charles James]
Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. 1837
£600
Second edition, with eighteen plates (instead of twelve in the first).
Octavo (240 × 149 mm). 20th-century full red polished calf, spine with purple and green morocco labels, gilt rules, dated in gilt at foot, covers with double gilt... Read more
HERBERT, Henry William as “Frank Forester”
Field Sports in the United States, 1848
£425
First Edition. Herbert was born in London in 1807, educated Eton and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1831 his debts forced him to emigrate to the United States where he taught Latin at...
Octavo., 2 vols. Lightly browned, front hinge of Volume I slightly tender, but overall a very good set in the publisher's forest green embossed cloth, a little... Read more
(BADMINTON LIBRARY) WALSINGHAM, Lord, & Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey.
Shooting. Field and Covert & Moor and Marsh. 1886
£375
First Edition. Large Paper Copy. Limited to 250 copies only of which this is number 132.
2 volumes. Quarto. Original blue half morocco, titles to spine gilt, tan cloth boards, rule and supralibros to centre of boards gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated by A.... Read more
GRIMBLE, Archibald.
Highland Sport. 1894
£350
First edition.
Quarto (284 × 215 mm). Early twentieth-century green half morocco by Bayntun, spine gilt in compartments, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
LEVESON, Henry Astbury.
The Forest and the Field. 1867
£275
First edition. "The entertaining work of big game hunting adventures includes hunts after gorilla and hippopotamus in the region of modern Gabon, though most action takes place in...
Octavo. Original green moiré cloth, title gilt to the spine, gilt block of "the Tiger's last meal" to the upper board, blind panelling to both boards. Mounted... Read more
FRANCIS, Dick.
The Sport of Queens. 1957
£250
First Edition, First Impression. The literate jockey's autobiography. His first published book.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, further photographic illustrations throughout. Owners... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. 1905
£250
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and 48 half-tone plates Contemporary... Read more
MORAES, Dom.
Green is The Grass. 1951
£225
First edition.
Small octavo. Original green grey cloth, spine lettered in black, in dust jacket. 8pp. of photographs. Slight rubbing at extremities, endpapers slightly toned, dust... Read more
