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Angling & Fishing
ALBERT SMITH & Co. Ltd: Albert Smith and Co. Ltd Fishing Tackle Catalogue No. 16. Tackle that is Worth Fishing Wth.
Dominion Works, Redditch: Albert Smith & Co. Ltd. 1933. Illustrated priced catalogue. 8vo, pp.168, original printed pictorial orange wrappers; a very nice copy indeed. With loosely inserted letter from the company dated 1933, an order form and pre-addressed envelope are also loosely inserted although the gummed flap of the envelope has adhered to the order form.
£150.00
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CHALMERS, PATRICK R: At the Tail of the Weir.
London: Philip Allan, 1932. First edition. Wood engraved title vignette and head & tail pieces. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches), 277-pages. Original green cloth; spine faded and spotted otherwise very good and internally clean. Old inscription on front free endpaper.
£30.00
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GRAY, TOM SECCOMBE ("Silver Devon"): Pike Fishing. Red Letter Days - and others. With Hints on Salmon Fishing.
London: Heath Cranton, 1923. First edition. Plates and illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 228-pages, original green cloth gilt; slight rubbing to headband, a little very light spotting to binding, light foxing to prelims. Brief contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Overall very good.
£40.00
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GRIMBLE, AUGUSTUS: The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1904. Limited to 350 copies. Two volumes. Folding map to Volume 1 with 6-inch tear with no loss. Folding map to Volume 2 with 2 1/2 inch tear and some creasing. Plates & illustrations. 4to (11 3/8 x 9 inches), pages: xiv:280 & 225. Original quarter white vellum with printed paper labels. Binding dusty and marked; internally very clean.
£135.00
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GRIMBLE, A: The Salmon Rivers of Scotland. Illustated by Archibald Thorburn and others.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1902. First one volume edition. Numerous illustrations. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 inches), pages: xii:400. Original quarter white vellum; binding dust marked and a little dented on fore-margin of upper cover but good; internally very clean.
£160.00
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HUTCHINSON, HORACE G. (Editor): Fishing, The "Country Life" Library of Sport.
London: Country Life, 1907. First edition. Two volumes. Plates & illustrations. 8vo (9 3/8 x 6 inches), pages: xviii:526 & xiii:445. Recent full tan morocco, decorative border in blind to upper covers, spines gilt extra in compartments, raised bands, crimson lettering piece and circular black numbering piece, marbled endpapers, bound-in silk bookmarks. Some scattered foxing within, the bindings excellent.
Weight 2.850 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£150.00
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MARSTON, E. "The Amateur Angler": Easy-Chair Memories and Rambling Notes.
London: Sampson Low, 1911. Number 24 of only 100 copies signed by the author; also inscribed by the author on front free-endpaper. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.x:[1]:174:[2, adverts.], original 2-tone cloth, top edge gilt, no dustwrapper; binding very soiled, an ideal candidate for re-binding; internally, page edges browned, some foxing throughout, else good.
£30.00
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MOTTRAM, J.C: Sea Trout and other Fishing Studies.
London: Field Press, n.d. First edition. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 157-pages, original green cloth; some light spotting to binding, light corner crease, some light foxing; overall good.
£12.00
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SCROPE, WILLIAM: Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. LARGE PAPER COPY.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Coloured frontispiece, plates. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches), pp.268, full blue morocco ruled in gilt on spine and sides; binding extremely good; internally, page edges browned, a brown mark to one plate not affecting the image, bookplate to front pastedown.
£150.00
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SPENCE, SIR REGINALD: Game Fishes of Bombay, the Deccan ... etc. Re-printed from the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Bombay: N.H.S. 1932. 19 plates, mostly coloured. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 inches), 66-pages. Original green wrappers; a few short marginal tears, some dust marking, corners bumped. Signature on frst leaf.
£12.00
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TAYLER, JAMES: Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly-Fishing.
Folkestone: by T. Kentfield, 1893. Third edition. 8vo, pp.88:(3, index):(10, partly illustrated advertisements), original cloth, no dustwrapper; binding poor - unevenly faded and badly affected by damp, top of spine missing, spine cockled; internally, inner joints split, some pencil annotations in the margins, inscribed in ink on lower blank margin of title "Price 1/6 , post price 1/8", ink stamp to front free-endpaper.
£15.00
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WALTON, IZAAK & COTTON, CHARLES: The Compleat Angler. The Quatercentenary Edition.
Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1993. Illustrations by E. Fitch Daglish. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 367-pages. Publishers quarter burgundy morocco (faux?) gilt. Signature on front free endpaper. In excellent condition.
£28.00
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Ball Games
DAFT, RICHARD: Kings of Cricket, Reminiscences & Anecdotes with Hints on the Game. With Introduction by Andrew Lang and Illustrated by 80 Portraits of Eminent Cricketeers.
Bolton: Tillotson, 1893. Subscriber's large paper edition, signed by Daft and numbered 77. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches), pages: xiv:274:iv (the list of 106 subscribers). Original 3/4 roan, the cloth of the upper cover pictorially blocked in gilt. Endpapers browned and a little marked. Inscribed and signed by Percy de Paravicini (1862-1921), the English amateur cricketeer. Binding hopelessly repaired with sellotape - not affecting cloth sides. In need of re-backing and re-cornering and priced to allow for such.
£180.00
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GRACE, W.G: Cricket.
Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1891. First edition. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 489-pages. Original green cloth, some marking to covers but overall very good. Contemporary inscription on recto of frontispiece
£60.00
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MORRISON, J.S.F. [Editor]: Around Golf.
London: Arthur Barker, 1939. First edition. With contributions by Bernard Darwin ... Henry Longhurst .... Photographic plates. Tall 8vo, pp.246, original green cloth blocked in gilt; binding a little marked, some foxing but generally good. Contemporary inscription on front free-endpaper.
£45.00
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WARNER, P.F. Editor: Imperial Cricket. C.B. Fry & Wally Hammond association copy.
London: London & Counties Press Association, 1912 Copy No. 407 of the limited subscriber's edition of 900 copies printed. Portrait and numerous plates (3 coloured). Large 4to (12 1/4 x 10 inches), pages: xxi:503. Publisher's full maroon morocco blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, a little rubbed, indent in backstrip.
The subscriber for this volume was C.B.Fry (incorrectly listed as C.P. Fry) who has presented the volume to Walter R. Hammond. The calligraphic inscription on the front flyleaf reading, "To Walter R. Hammond on his 24th Birthday, June 19th 1927 from C.P.F with sincere regards & good wishes" (The caligrapher repeating the C.P.F error). Unfortunately a 4 inch diagonal tear into the blank lower margin of this leaf has been repaired by a lunatic with sellotape with the resultant staining. However this tear is 2 1/2 inches away from the inscription. A very nice association copy with two of the great names of British cricket: C.B.Fry (1872-1956) & Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond (1903-1965). With a newspaper cutting reporting the auction sale of Hammond's trophies & books after his death. This volume is mentioned as being the most expensive of the book lots.
Weight 4.275 kg thus extra overses postage will be requested
£450.00
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Card & Boards Games
HOFFMANN, PROFESSOR: The Cyclopaedia of Card and Table Games.
London: George Routledge, 1891. First edition. Illustrations throughout, some in red & black. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 628-pages. Original burgundy cloth; headbands bruised, wear to corners of joints, some rubbing to extremities but overall very good & free from inscriptions. Rare. Apart from the numerous card games described, e.g. Poker, Whist, etc. sections are devoted to Backgammon, Billiards, Chess, Dominoes, Draughts, & Roulette, etc.
£145.00
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LAWS, B. G: The Two Move Chess Problem.
London: George Bell, 1890. First edition. Numerous diagrams. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 116-pages. Original orange cloth blocked in black. "The Club Series". Headbands bruised, endpapers tanned, else good.
£55.00
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TEMPLAR: The Poker Manual. A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game, with Illustrative Hands and Chapters on Bluffing, and Jack-Pots. By Templar. Together with the International Code of Laws.
London: Frederick Warne, 1901. Frontispiece in red & black "Tabulated values of the Hands" & illustrations of hands in red & black throughout. 8vo (7 x 4 3/4 inches), pages vi:(1):119: (12, partly illustrated advertisements for poker tables, chips, cards, etc.), original red grained cloth lettered in gilt and decorated with 3 poker chips in colours, all edges gilt. Binding spotted and marked, spine dulled, but sound. Private book label on front pastedown and number, signature on recto of frontispiece. Tear to frontispiece tissue guard and tear into one leaf of text (without loss). Browning to title. Rare.
"In the preparation of the Code have been sought the advice and co-operation of the most experienced and well-known players, both English and American, whose valued and cordially given assistance is herby gratefully acknowledged".
£140.00
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Shooting & Stalking
HARRISON, EDGAR: A Dissertation upon Guns and Shooting, with numerous illustrations including four by J. G. Millais.
London: Cogswell & Harrison, 1901. First edition. Plates & illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: 240:(4, illustrated gun advertisements). Recent full tan calf, decorative borders in blind and gilt to upper cover, spine with raised bands, gilt hunting motifs within compartments, blocked in blind on raised bands, double crimson lettering pieces; in fine condition.
£120.00
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HOLLAND & HOLLAND: Some Notes on the History of the Holland & Holland Company (& a catalogue of their collection of guns), 71-pages, illustrations,wrappers
London: Holland & Holland, 1976. Together with a facsimile of one of their early trade catalogues. Well illustrated. 72-pages, original wrappers blocked in gilt. Both volumes 4to, excellent, in a wallet as issued.
£25.00
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HUTCHINSON, HORACE G (Editor): Shooting. The "Country Life" Library of Sport.
London: Country Life, 1903. First edition. Two volumes. Plates & illustrations. 8vo (9 5/8 x 5 4/4 inches), pages ix:328 & x:336. Recent full tan calf, decorative border in blind to upper covers, spines gilt extra in compartments, raised bands, crimson lettering piece and circular black numbering piece, marbled endpapers, bound-in silk bookmarks. Some scattered foxing within, the bindings excellent.
Weight 2.020 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£150.00
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MAYER, ALFRED (Editor): Sport with Gun and Rod in American Wood and Waters.
London: Frederick Warne, 1883. First English edition. Frontispiece & numerous engraved illustrations. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), 892-pages. Recent full tan calf, narrow border in blind to sides, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled with black lettering piece, bound-in silk bookmark; very good.
Weight 2.4 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
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Miscellaneous
ALKEN, HENRY: The National Sports of Great Britain. With Descriptions in English and French. A New edition.
Methuen, London, 1903. A reprint of the edition of 1821. Additional coloured pictorial title and 50 fine coloured plates. Large folio (19 x 12 1/4 inches). Original 2-tone cloth; binding very poor and stained. Text with occasional damp-making to fore-margin, with the very occasional slight bleed from the red dye of the binding. The plates however, apart from the last, completely unaffected. The last plate "Owling" has damp mark and bleed to the upper blank margin, the image unaffected.
Weight 3.960 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£450.00
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HEAD, CAPTAIN H. NUGENT (Editor): The Hoghunter's Annual. Volumes VIII & IX.
Bombay: Times of India Press, 1935. Two volumes bound in one. Vol. IX published 1936. Plates, a few coloured, illustrations throughout. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/2), pages: 126:152, contemporary green binder's cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing to prelims else internally very good. The binding very spotted and rubbed though sound. Pigsticking.
£80.00
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HODGSON, W.J: Skating Scenes - Humorous.
Hildesheimer & Faulkner, n.d. 4 coloured plates opening out in one continuous strip. Oblong 12 mo, original pictorial wrappers. 1 inch split on one fold, lower cover creased. Printed "With Best Wishes" on lower cover so obviously published as a greetings card/gift. Rare.
£30.00
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LEWIS, DIO: The New Gymnastics for families and schools; together with the Dumb-Bell Instructor and Pangymnastikon ... With ... illustrations. (Reprinted from the sixth American edition.) With an introduction by M. C. Tyler.. With Three Hundred Illustrations.
London: W. Tweedie, 1864. First English edition.300 illustrations in line within the text. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), pages: 268:(1, advert.), original blindstamped green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt; professionally recased, new endpapers. Spine gilt dulled else very good.
£48.00
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