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Waters, Robert S. (editor) . NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME
PIttsburgh 1973 (1971) Boone and Crockett Club. Containing tabulations of outstanding trophies compiled by the committee on records of North American Game. 8vo., 403pp., photo illus. Near Fine in VG DJ. (a37582)
$30.00 (hunting) . RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME 1964 BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB
NY 1964. Hardcover. Lg.8vo., 398pp., photo illustrations on glossy stock. Owner signed (by hunter Len Milton). VG, light soiling on fore-edges, no DJ. (a37815)
$35.00 Nesbitt, Wm. H. and Jack Reneau (editors) . RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME 9TH EDITION
Dumfries 1988 Boone and Crockett Club. Sm.4to., 498pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine, no DJ. (a37835)
$45.00 Cranworth, Lord . PROFIT AND SPORT IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA
London 1919 Macmillan. Being a second edition, revised and enlarged, of A Colony in the Making. Large octavo, 503pp., all maps present, illustrations, index, hardcover. Top edge gilt. Good, cover worn, a few tiny snags along outer hinge, corners bumped. (a38123)
$65.00 Jenks, Albert Ernest . THE BONTOC IGOROT
Manila 1905. first edition. Department of the Interior, Ethnological Survey Publications Volume 1. Hardcover. Philippine head hunters. Sm.4to., 266pp., Many photo plates. 3/4 red leather and marbled boards. Gilt spine lettering. Good plus, slight soiling on end papers, boards a bit worn; all hinges secure and unbroken; no ownership marks. Binding firm; text clean. (a38539)
$300.00 (hunting) . WITH GUN AND ROAD IN INDIA
New Delhi 1956 Tourist Traffic Branch. 8vo, 136pp. photo illustrations, wraps. Good, very slight yellowing of all margins. (a45854)
$40.00 Snaffle (Robert Dunkin) . IN THE LAND OF THE BORA OR CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN DALMATIA AND THE HERZEGOVINA 1894-5-6
London 1897 1st Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Hardcover. Octavo, 406pp., illustrations by Harry Dixon from sketches by the author, cloth. VG, cover somewhat worn and soiled. (a50658)
$140.00 Audubon, James . A MOOSE HUNT
NY 1837. Article in The Family Magazine, or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge (1837). 4to., 3pp., removed and bound in later wraps. Good, some foxing, closed tear along lower margin of first leaf (not affecting text) (a56861)
$35.00 Roosevelt, Theodore . AFRIKANISCHE WANDERUNGEN EINES NATURFORSCHERS UND JAEGE
Berlin 1910. In German. Sm.4to., 464pp., photo illustrations, original decorated hardcover. VG, very light wear to head of spine, some light stains on cover. (a57601)
$45.00Durand, E. R.. AN AUTUMN TOUR IN WESTERN PERSIA (signed presentation copy)
NY no date (1906?) Dutton. Hardcover octavo. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering in English on spine and in Farsi on front cover panel. Much on Lur Tribes of Western Persia. Author's husband was hoping to hunt lions but seems to have only shot birds. 266p., photo illustrations, foldout map. Top edge gilt. ***Presentation copy dated Oct 1906 and signed by Ella Durand. near VG, moderate foxing throughout; closed page ends foxed, hinges not cracked; binding secure. Pictures available on request. (a61119)
$140.00Hubbard, Wilbur Ross; Mason Houghland, Sherman Haight, Jr et al . ORGANIZED HUNTS OF AMERICA 1955
Baltimore 1955 Sporting Press. Octavo, 180pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Near Fine, no DJ. (a65439)
$44.00Arkwright, Robert ; Edward C.Tabler (editor). SPORT AND SERVICE IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE DIARY OF LIEUTENANT ROBERT ARKWRIGHT 1843 - 1846
Original typescript of book published in Capetown in 1971. Final Draft, edited by Edward C. Tabler. Original typescript. 4to., 135 leaves (rectos only), in student folder. VG. (a68128)
$50.00Simpson, Charles. LEICESTERSHIRE AND ITS HUNTS: THE QUORN, THE COTTESMORE & THE BELVOIR
NY 1926 1st Knopf. Introduction by Major A. Burnaby. Hardcover. Lg.4to., 256pp., 28 color illustrations, 55 monochrome illustrations, large detailed foldout map, original cloth. A few pages uncut. VG PLUS, slight amount of foxing sprinkled here and there in text, light glue stain inside front cover. no dj. no owner marks. In removable protective glassine jacket. (a71052)
$50.00 (books) . THE LIBRARY OF NORMAN JAMES, BALTIMORE, MD, NATURAL HISTORY, AMERICANA SPORT 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
NY 1928 Anderson Galleries. Two volumes. 4to., 149pp., 136pp., monochrome illustrations, original wraps. Good, light wear, chipping on spine. 2 volumes. (a71078)
$27.00 Hull, Denison Bingham; John Paul Scott and John L. Fuller . HOUNDS AND HUNTING; THE EVOLUTION OF DOGS AND MEN
1964 University of Chicago. Two articles in one issue of Midway, pp. 22-44; pp70-80. Included in a complete issue with several additional articles. Small octavo, original wraps. VG, light soiling. (a71570)
$35.00Kinloch, Alexander A. A.. LARGE GAME SHOOTING IN THIBET AND THE NORTH WEST - 2ND SERIES
London 1876 first edition. Harrison. Hardcover. 4to., 64pp., 11 full page fine photo illustrations by photographer Arthur Lucas of the hunted animals (according to author these photographs are finer than those in First Series ) . (According to an old catalogue these are "photo-tint" photographs.) Cover of green cloth with head of yak in full gilt in center of front board. Good, inner hinges beginning to crack but binding still secure, cover worn at spine ends and corner tips; a few page corner tips creased. Interesting text including a chapter on "Directions for the Preservation of Skins, Horns and all other Trophies" . Kinloch lived 1838-1919. (a73056)
$275.00 Mason, Otis Tufton . NORTH AMERICAN BOWS, ARROWS AND QUIVERS
1893. Article at pp. 631-679, plates of bows and arrows with text description, removed from the Annual Smithsonian Report and rebound in later wraps. VG plus. (a75567)
$65.00 Piantanida, Sandro . LA CACCIA A CAVALLO NEL MILANESE
Milano 1957 1st Societa Milanese. In Italian. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 184pp., red cloth with green spine labels. VG, light wear, head of spine lightly frayed, end papers a bit browned, no DJ. (a75755)
$45.00 Brandreth, Paul . TRAILS OF ENCHANTMENT
NY 1930 1st Watt. Camping and hunting. Camping and hunting. Hardcover. Octavo, 318pp., photo illustrations, attractive full color pictorial end papers, cloth. Good, cover cloth discolored unevenly and spine very browned. Internally Fine. (a77579)
$90.00 Gale, Frederick . THE LIFE OF THE HON. ROBERT GRIMSTON
London 1885 1st Longmans Green. Grimston was businessman, sportsman and hunter. Several chapters are on his cricket-playing. Hardcover. Octavo, 322pp., original mounted original photo of a photograph by Barrraud of Grimston, blue cloth. Good, front hinge cracking, spine ends rubbed, light soiling on cover. (a77725)
$80.00 MacKenzie, John M. . THE EMPIRE OF NATURE: HUNTING, CONSERVATION AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM
1988 1st Manchester University Press and St. Martins. ISBN 0-7190-2227-4. Hardcover. Octavo, 340pp., illustrations, red cloth. Near Fine, tiny residue of price tag on endpaper, in Near Fine DJ, spine a bit faded. (a77889)
$135.00 Fergusson, Gordon . HOUNDS ARE HOME THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL CALPE HUNT
London 1979 1st Springwood. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 364pp., illustrations by Lionel Edward, Gerald Hare and Madeline Selfe, photo illustrations, large color foldout map, index, cloth. Fine in Fine DJ.. (a80683)
$79.00 Stark, Loren D. . JOURNEY - UNKNOWN SOLDIER TO THE GUARD, AMERICAN AND OTHER SELECTIONS (SIGNED)
Houston 1950 first edition. Printed Privately. Poetry by author better known for his books on Big Game Hunting. Sm4to., 45pp., illustrations by Lowell Collins, wraps with plastic spiral binding. Inscribed and signed by Stark. VG, wraps lightly soiled and light overall wear. Scarce. (a81739)
$300.00 Svendsen, Peder . REJKJAER SANDE PLANTAGE
(Denmark?) c. 1965 . no date, no publisher given. Hardcover thin octavo. Photo illus and line drawings. One text map. 47p. In Danish. Appears to be history of hedge plantages in area of Denmark called Rejkjer Plantage and also about hunting as most of the males pictured are carrying guns and many have hunting dogs with them. Scarce. (a89341)
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