Sporting from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

np: the Author, 2001. Fourth Edition. 4to. pp. 171, [1]. text illus. biblio. wrs. (rear wr. bit soiled). dola2433

[cLondon: c1920’s-30’s]. A series of illustrated instructional articles on proper and safe small game shooting practices including how to load, aim and carry a shotgun, the art of deception, the use of beaters and dogs, and other aspects of hunting pheasant, partridge, pigeon, duck, and rabbit. folio. [pp. 41]. mounted articles & illustrations. cloth. elala5939

[Bristol: Printed by Mardon, Son And Hall, Limited, c1952]. Privately Printed, probably in a very limited quantity for distribution to friends and family. A record of Mardon’s hunting experiences during twenty-five years spent as an administrator in the India Civil Service in the United Provinces of Agra and Ondh from 1889 to 1913. Here he recounts and presents… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Brighton: The Gloucester Press & MFG Co. Ltd., 1948]. 12mo. pp. 48. wrs. wrs. dola2393

London: John Camden Hotten, 1865. First Edition. Cohn 785. small 8vo. pp. xiii, 529. colour frontis., colour title vignette & 48 plates (incl. 1 etching by George Cruikshank; 1 so-called plate actually a text illus. - #44). several text illus. A nice copy in original gilt-stamped cloth (marginal tear in 1 leaf). elala2343a

London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd., 1912. First Edition. Including chapters on cricket in England, Ireland, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa, Egypt and the Sudan, West Africa, East Africa, India, Ceylon, Hong-Kong and Far East, British Malaya, Samoa and islands of the South Seas, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Canada (by F.F.Kelly), Bermuda, and the West Indies.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Newnes, Limited, [c1899]. First Edition. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 256. index. profusely illus. from photographs. original cloth (light staining to lower covers, lacking rear free-endpaper, inner front hinge cracked, piece torn from blank portion of title). elala5692

London: Country Life & New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1949]. Fifth Impression. 4to. pp. 248. frontis. & numerous illus. cloth (quite worn & faded, joints cracked, extremities frayed, few ms notes). original pen drawing on front free-endpaper of Scottish champion golfer Tommy Armour [1896-1968]. dola2064

London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., [1902]. First Edition. 12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 77, [1], [2]ads. ads on endleaves. numerus text diagrams. A very nice copy in original black & green stamped pictorial cloth (cloth slightly soiled). dola1061

London: John Long, Limited, 1924. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 312. frontis. portrait, 38 half-tone plates & 72 text diagrams. cloth. Near fine copy (spine bit faded). dola1071

Toronto...: Bantam Books, [1988]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 275. illus. quarter cloth. dw. Very good. Signed by the Author on flyleaf (J.Carter). dola946

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 240. with half-title. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities bit frayed). elala5530

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. First Edition. Includes a memoir of the author by C.Innes, pp. [xiii]-xxix. Westwood & Satchell p. 185. 8vo. pp. xlvii, 336 + 24(ads). with half-title. frontis., title vignette & several text illus. original cloth (rubbed, spine ends little frayed). elala5535

London & New York: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1893. First Edition. "...the Author was in the habit of setting down almost everything he did, thought, and said during fifty years, adding comments on nearly every shot he fired, how he killed, and why he missed...There are some very interesting accounts of its writer's journeys to the Continent both… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1881]. First Edition. Nissen ZBI 3842. 4to. pp. 1 p.l, v-viii, [2], 664. 28 chromolithographed plates & numerous wood-engraved text illus. (many full-page). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, endpapers preserved (corners bit frayed, few scratches to rear cover, pen stroke on title).

London: Printed for E. Curll and J.Hodges, 1739. Sixth Edition. The Compleat Gamester was the first English book on gaming and remained the standard English-language reference work on the subject until the appearance of Edmond Hoyle's Mr. Hoyle's Games Complete in 1750. It was originally published in 1674 and attributed to Charles Cotton by publishers of later editions, to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed For Samuel Bagster By R.Watts, 1815. An imposing finely bound extra-illustrated inlaid on large paper copy of the Second Bagster Edition of one of the most beloved classics of angling literature. This edition incorporates lengthy additions made by the editor, Sir Henry Ellis, Librarian of the British Museum, and Bagster himself. The inserted plates in this copy… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & New York: Routledge, Warnes, And Routledge, 1859. Third Ephemera (Edward Fitzgibbon) Edition. Coigney 75. Oliver 72. Westwood & Satchell p. 233. 8vo. pp. xii, [13]-313, [7]. wood-engraved title, 5 plates (incl. frontis.), title vignette portrait & numerous text illus. An exceptional copy in original embossed cloth (former owner's bookplate, small light stain on rear cover, spine slightly… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin, Belfast, Cork & Waterford: Browne & Nolan, Limited, 1910. First Edition. Hampton p. 66. 16mo. pp. [8]ads, vii, 199, [1]. folding map & 6 mounted colour plates of flies. gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (slightly rubbed)

London: Printed For Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1830. Sixth Edition, Enlarged and Corrected. ìThere is no doubt the Colonelís book stood unrivalled for quite fifty years as a manual on guns and shooting, and on all connected with killing game and especially wild fowl, and in many respects its contents are, with possibly a few alterationsÖjust as… Saber más sobre este artículo