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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 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)
$140.00Durand, 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)
$50.00Kinloch, 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 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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