The Life of a Sportsman.
NIMROD [APPERLEY Charles James] 1777-1843
Considered one of the great color-plate sporting books of the Victorian era. VG, 1842, 1st ed, 1st issue, 36 pls (complete). In contemporary green crushed morocco by Riviere and Sons, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges a little rubbed. Spine,…
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.
NIMROD [pseud. APPERLEY Charles James 1778-1843]
Near fine, 1837, 2nd ed, 18 pls (complete). In deep red morocco by GJ Sawyer Ltd, gilt edge tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally, additional engraved title page with vignette, [3], (iv-ix), [3], [1], 2-206…
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. In green half morocco with green cloth, corners and edges rubbed. Spine, title and tooling in gilt, raised bands, edges rubbed. Internally, bound without the half title, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-360 pp, 10 pls (9 coloured),…
Large Scale Railway and Station Map of England and Wales, On 24 Sheets, Coloured to Show The Fox Hunts. Sheet 8
STANFORD Edward
Sheet 8 (only) in grubby contemporary red cloth case, black ink titles, contemp. ink name to head. Spine, faded, no title. Internally, advert to inner cover, 1 coloured sheet (52.3*67.8 cms) covering Denbigh to the West, Shrewsbury to the South,…
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 attractive 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…
The Compleat Angler The Lea and Dove edition, being the 100th edition of The compleat angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing
WALTON Izaak 1593-1683. COTTON Charles 1630-1687. MARSTON RB [Robert Bright] 1853-1927 - editor
Limited Demy Quarto Edition to commemorate the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler! Two volumes in half green morocco over green cloth, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to upper boards, corners & edges worn. Spines, rubbed, raised bands, gilt…
Oriental Field Sports; Being a Complete, Detailed and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East
WILLIAMSON Thomas 1758/9-1817 . HOWITT Samuel 1765?-1822
Contains one of the finest series of sporting plates ever published (Hardie). 1st edition, 41 hand coloured aquatints. In half brown morocco over light green cloth, by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, some gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Spine,…
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes.... With a Supplement of New South Wales
WILLIAMSON Thomas Capt 1758/9-1817
With 110 Splendid Hand Coloured Aquatint Plates 1819, Second edition of this splendidly illustrated work, [2], [1], 2-170 pp, [2] index, complete with 110 hand coloured aquatint plates, text and tissue-guarded plates generally quite clean,…