The Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening, in three Books
[BARKER Thomas]
Rare. Four parts in 1 volume, 1654. In 19c half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt title to black calf label. Internally, [4], [10] table, [2] Hop-Garden, 135 pp Planting 1653, [1]. [2], 46, 51-54, 47-50 pp Gardening 1654. [2], 18 pp…
Popular pastimes, being a selection of picturesque representations of the customs & amusements of Great Britain, in ancient and modern times; accompanied with historical descriptions.
[BRAYLEY Edward Wedlake 1773-1854. STEPHANOFF Francis Philip 1788-1860]
Pastimes include football, exorcism and wife selling VG 1st ed 1816 In contemporary full calf, decorative gilt edge tooling. Spine skilfully rebacked with the original laid down, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to…
Popular pastimes, being a selection of picturesque representations of the customs & amusements of Great Britain, in ancient and modern times; accompanied with historical descriptions.
[BRAYLEY Edward Wedlake] 1773-1854
Complete with all 20 pls & vignette (B&W as issued). In attractive contemporary full calf, elaborate blind & gilt box tooling, corners rubbed. Spine carefully re-laid, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Internally, frontis, [3],…
Les Stratagemes Des Echecs
[MONTIGNY Alfred]
2 parts in 1, 1st ed, VG, 3 1/4 * 4 1/8 inches. In contemporary calf boards with attractive chess board design to both covers, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. New spine, to style, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to a…
Sporting Scrap Book, Containing fifty Plates, Designed and Engraved by Himself
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
50 hand coloured plates in the original boards, [1824]. First edition, 1824, in contemporary red half calf over the publishers printed maroon boards, corners worn. Re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, frontis, title leaf, followed…
An Essay on Hunting
Country Squire [ie GOSDEN Thomas] 1780-1840
A Unique Copy, Extra illustrated. First edition in worn, maroon morocco over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Internally, portrait frontis, title page in red & black with…
The Golf Courses of the British Isles
DARWIN Bernard 1876-1961
First edition, first issue, with 64 plates, 48 of them in colour and each with a captioned tissue. In the original publishers green cloth printed gilt, corners brushed. Spine, gilt tooling and titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [8], 253…
Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa.
DRAYSON Capt. Alfred W [Wilks] 1827-1901.
VG, 2nd ed, 1860, 8 pls. In contemporary red half morocco with red cloth covers a little worn, corners and edges rubbed, some blind tooling, marks and a small tear at lower cover. Spine, gilt tooling and titles, edges worn slightly. Internal,…
The Ladies' Flower-Garden [Includes: Ornamental Annuals; Ornamental Bulbous Plants; Ornamental Perennials; British Wild Flowers; Ornamental Greenhouse Plants.
LOUDON Mrs [Jane, formerly WEBB] 1807-1858
VG, 5 volumes in 6, 1840-1860, 304 (complete) hand coloured plates, depicting 1,582 flowers! Ornamental Annuals, 1840, 1st ed, 48 pls (hand coloured), lacks half title, [5], (viii-xvi), [1], (ii-iv), [1], 2-272 pp, 207*269 mm, ink name to…
A History of Fox-Hunting in the Wynnstay Country and Part of Shropshire, From the Beginning of this Century to the end of the Season of 1884-85
PULESTON THG [Theophilus Henry Gresley Sir] 1821-1896
FOX HUNTING IN SHROPSHIRE First and only edition, in modern quarter red calf over green cloth, gilt tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles to calf label. Internally, half title, frontis, [2], [7], 8-196 pp, 14 pls (including 9 portraits), all…
The Cambrian Popular Antiquities;
ROBERTS Peter 1760-1819
1st ed, VG, 10 pls (9 coloured). In c1950s half calf, red marbled boards, corners and edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red calf label;, edges brushed. Internally, 50s endpapers, bound without the half title, [5], (vi-viii),…
The Cambrian Popular Antiquities...
ROBERTS Peter 1760-1819
1st ed, VG, 10 pls. In green half morocco with green cloth, corners and edges rubbed. Spine, title and tooling in gilt, raised bands, edges rubbed. Internally, green marbled endpapers, teg, bound without the half title, [5], (vi-viii), [1],…
Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England: including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles,
STRUTT Joseph 1749-1802
Super clean, crisp copy of Strutt's classic Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. Strutt is often called the first English social historian. First edition, 1802, in quarter red goatskin over blue cloth (by Delrue), some blind…
The Shooting Directory
THORNHILL R.B. [Richard Badham]
Rarely found as good as this! First edition, first issue (with pp 215-220; 'In the majority of copies pages 215-220 are cancelled out, it being evident from the text that the author had been a little too outspoken over a controversy concerning the…
British Sports and Pastimes. 1868.
TROLLOPE Anthony editor 1815-1882
The Earl of Carysfort's copy. Near Fine, 1st ed, 1868. In full green morocco, decorative gilt edge tooling, gilt coat of arms to upper board. Spine, faded, raised bands, gilt tooling & title. Internally, half title, [6], [1], 2- 322 pp, gilt…