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Clive Phillipps-Wolley. Big Game Shooting. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1894.
Price: US$87.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Clive Phillipps-Wolley's first volume looking into the big game shooting sport in Africa, a highly illustrated work. The first edition of this work.Volume I only out of a total of II volumes.Part of the 'Badminton Library' an extensive series of volumes on various sports and pastimes.An extensive and exciting volume on big game shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley, mostly focusing on hunting in Africa.Illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen plates, and in-text illustrations.With contributions by Samuel W. Baker, W. C. Oswell, F. J. Jackson, Warburton Pike, and F. C. Selous.Illustrations by Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, and H. Willink.Bookplate of Philip Lancaster Brocklehurst to the front paste down. Brocklehurst was created a baronet in 1903, and was the father of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, who was a member of the Nimrod Expedition in Antarctica in 1907 to 1909. Four handwritten letters loosely inserted, to and from Brocklehurst.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Some spots to the fore edge. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Prior owner has bound in additional leaves with tipped-in illustrations facing pages 60, 324, and 338, with a tipped-in illustration to the reverse of the plate facing page 314. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$98.71 + shipping
Description: Size 5.5 x 7.75 inches. In brown boards, gilt to spine and front. Decorative endpapers. Two Volumes In very good conditions. Spines slightly rubbed at ends. Corners bumped. Rubbing to front edge of Volume 2. Handling marks. Mild foxing to edges. Pencil inscription to front endpapers of Volume 1. Inscription to title page of Volume 2. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else clean and tight copies. 453pp. 443pp. With b/w plates and illustrations in text. Volume I of the Badminton Library book on Big Game Shooting, much of which is set in South Africa. Includes elephant, lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, giraffe and more. With diagrams illustrating the approach to particular shots. Volume II includes Arctic, European and India Hunting. Stag, Elk, Chamois.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Clive Phillipps-Wolley. Big Game Shooting. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1894.
Price: US$108.97 + shipping
Description: A first edition copy of this work on big game shooting, in half morocco binding with gilt coat of arms to the front board. Part of the Badminton Library. A fascinating work on big game hunting across the world, including Africa, North America, Asia, Europe, and India. Part of The Badminton Library, the leading producers of sporting books during the late Victorian era. Edited by Henry Somerset, the 8th Duke of Beaufort.Written by British-Canadian big game hunter, Clive Phillipps-Wolley.Containing thirty-seven full page illustrated plates, collated and complete. Also including numerous in-text woodcuts throughout both volumes.Including contributions from many big game experts, including Lietenant-Colonel R. Heber Percy, Arnold Pike, Major Algernon C. Heber Percy, W.A. Baillie-Grohman, Sir Henry Pottinger, Abel Chapman, the Earl of Kilmorey, Walter J. Buck, and St. George Littledale.The first edition of this work, bound in half morocco with gilt coat of arms to the front. In the original half morocco binding with cloth covered boards and a gilt coat of arms to the front board. Externally, some shelf wear, especially to the spines. Spines are heavily rubbed and faded. Bumping to the extremities. A hole to the binding and spine on Volume II. Internally, hinges are starting but firm, particularly the front hinge to Volume II. Both volumes are firmly bound. Some light spotting to the pages. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Two. vols. xvi, 453, [1]; x, 443, [1] pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp. both vols., illustrated title pages, plates, text illustrations, photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher's cloth, white & black lettering front covers & spines, gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose (some minor soiling, rubbing, minor bumping to a few corners, slight fraying head & foot of spines), still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton, w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns, Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library, featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant, buffalo, lion, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ostriches, giraffes, lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic, the Caucasus, Alps, and substantial portion for hunting in India.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.