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WHEELER, Arthur O., et al. The Canadian Alpine Journal, 1912. The Alpine Club of Canada, Banff, AB, 1912.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 151 p. 23 cm. B&w plates, some of which fold out. Grey card covers. Lists offiers for 1912-14, including Hon. President Sir Sanford Fleming. Articles on mountaineering in Jasper Park, Mount Robson Region, Southern Selkirks, Ptarmigan Lake region, more.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Beaumont William Comyns. The Bystander January 17, 1912. London, 1912.

Price: US$30.79 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Pp. vi (adverts) 108-156 & adverts vii-xii. Illustrated. Contents include: The King, Sir Derek Keppell, Hunting in Nepal, Winter Sports, Sudanese Wildlife & more. Occasional wear & stains. Else good.

Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland

Beaumont William Comyns. The Bystander January 10, 1912. London, 1912.

Price: US$30.79 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Pp. vi (adverts) 53-104 & adverts vii-xii. Illustrated. Contents include: Duchess of Westminster Skatingm Mrs Asquith, Winston Churchill, Winter Sports, India, Youthful Celebrities & more. Occasional wear & stains. Else good.

Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland

Cowper, Frank. Yachting and Cruising for Amateurs. L. Upcott Gill, London, 1912.

Price: US$36.39 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Being Practical Directions upon all matters connected with Fore-and-Aft Sailing Craft; With Detailed Suggested Cruises around the British and adjacent Coasts." Illustrated with Drawings, Diagrams, Maps etc. Dark Blue Cloth cover with imitation leather texture. Bright Gilt lettering to front & spine. Gilt Anchor on spine. 166 Pages, 550g, 7 7/8" Tall. Front hinge slightly cracked. Original owner's inscription, dated 1911, on free endpaper. A few underlinings on a few pages and some occasional small spots of light foxing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom

Country Life. Country Life magazine Vol XXXII No.831, 7th December 1912, CLIVEDEN Buckinghamshire Seat of Mr Waldorf Astor pt 1. Portrait of Viscountess Ingestre and Her Children. Duke of Atholl's Highland Ponies.Skiing prospects in Switzerland. Sport in British East Africa. Frank Brangwyn and his Art. Fur Seals of the North Pacific pt 1. Fallow Deer. The Heron and the Fishery. Poaching Today.. Country Life Ltd, George Newnes Ltd., London, 1912.

Price: US$38.34 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A single special double length original issue disbound from a compilation. As was common this had been bound without the exterior cover or end-page adverts but contains all the copy and has never been folded. About 72 pages, all on glossy paper, well illustrated. In the title line is firstly details of the main multi-page article, followed by the name of the 'Girls in Pearls' front page portrait, and then some other articles of interest. If you would like more information about any item please ask seller. Interior in nice clean condition. 14 x 9 inch, will be despatched with board protection.

Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom

. Spalding's Boxing Guide: An Accurate Instructor of the Science of Self Defense. Rules of Boxing. Spalding's Athletic Library No. 6. British Sports Publishing Company [1912], London, 1912.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Corners of many leaves creased and dog-eared. Lacking original wrappers. Modern paper wrappers with facsimile of the title page as label on front wrapper.; No date [c. 1912 from dated advertisement]. 140 pages + [20] pages advertisements. Numerous illustrations. Page dimensions: 171 x 129mm.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall

Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand

Compiled and Edited by "The Sportsman".. British Sports and Sportsmen. Hunting.. British Sports and Sportsmen,, London, 1912.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: 645pp + 133 photogravure plates. No 274 of 1000 printed. Offered as a reading or reference copy. Whilst 90% of the book is in good clean condition both ends have been effected by moisture.in the outer top corners, mostly in margins. Please see pics attached for a better idea of condition, pics 4 & 5 show worst pages near front & back, at front pages up to about page 12 effected & at rear about last 15 sheets. There is a very slight rippling to the top of all pages. Very heavy overweight book - Weighs about 10 Kg, additional P&P will apply, please ask for a quote before ordering, unlikely to be viable to ship overseas.

Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom

Fur, Feather & Fin Series. Series editor Alfred E.T. Watson.. THE HARE. By the Rev. H.A. MacPherson and others. Fur, Feather & Fin Series. 1912 reprint.. Longmans, Green, & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1896). (1896) 1912 3rd impression. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,263. Engraved plates by G.D. Giles, Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Oatmeal-coloured cloth, printed in red & brown, with elaborate image of grouse and hare on upper board, white end-papers - uniform with other titles in this series. Spine slightly faded else a very good copy. Chapters on natural history by Rev. H.A. Macpherson, shooting (and hawking) by Hon. Gerald Lascelles, coursing by Charles Richardson, beagling by G.H. Longman, harriers by J.S. Gibbons and cookery by Col. Kenney Herbert. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. The series was renamed "The Fur, Feather and Fin Series" part way through publication when it was decided to include volumes on salmon, trout and pike & perch. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

CUMING,, E.D.. With Rod and Gun. From British Sport Past and Present. With illustrations by G. Denholm Armour.. London, Hodder,[1912]., 1912.

Price: US$59.13 + shipping

Description: 4to. vi+140pp. Colour illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, a very good copy. . Plates tipped in on green heavy stock.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

Cunisset-Carnot (A.M.), and le Roy (G.).. LA PECHE. By A.M. Cunisset-Carnot and G. le Roy. Sports Bibliotheque.. Pierre Lafitte & Cie. Paris. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$59.78 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1912). 1912 1st edition. 8vo (148 x 199mm). Ppxii,378,iii[ads*]. B/w photographs and illustrations. Slightly re-touched photograph tipped to grey cloth, embossed titles in white cartouche to upper board and spine. Stains to cloth, slight foxing and occasional annotation in India ink. Good. This is a detailed and comprehensive manual introducing all aspects of fishing as practised in France. Part I covers freshwater fishing - chub, barbel, carp, trout, salmon, perch, pike. Analysis of the water is examined in greater depth than is usual in British books, as are numerous techniques with nets of various types, as well as spears, snaring pike and catching fish by hand, also baits of various sorts, including a section on gruyere. The chapter on poaching, "le braconnage", shamelessly discusses fishing with dynamite, an explosive device using grapeshot ('mitraille'), chemicals, poaching by night, and a contraption for foul-hooking fish called the 'five-wired harp'. Part II covers sea fishing, a broad term which includes foraging and the use of several different sorts of net and fish trap. * The final three pages contain adverts disguised as "practical advice". This includes recommended makes of rod for the Concours Internationaux de Lancer, "choice of hooks", and mysteriously absent from all British fishing books of the period, "paper undergarments and sport. Against the cold and wet, for the practice of all the sports - hunting, aviation, mountaineering, yachting, motor sports, the only rational protector, it is paper." Crabbe's paper undergarments were only available from "Au Voyage d'Automobile" of, 12 Chaussee d'Antin, Paris. Remarkably, this is still a sporting goods shop, although now home to spectacles and prescription optics for the sportsperson with dubious eyesight. Text in French, obviously, but this is no barrier to anyone who remembers a bit of school French and knows the subject. Quite scarce, and a good read for for the adventurous angler. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Cranworth, Lord.. A Colony In The Making.. Macmillan,, London, 1912.

Price: US$59.78 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: xiv, 352pp, photos, large folding map. '.or Sport and Profit in British East Africa.' With signature and relevant annotations by Richard Cashmore, District Officer Kenya and later member of the Pearce Commission on Rhodesia. Some underlining (biro and pencil) Good reading copy only. 1.4kg

Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom

Cranworth, Lord.. A Colony in the Making.. Macmillan., London., 1912.

Price: US$62.38 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: xiv, 359pp, photos, folding map. Sport and commerce in British East Africa. Medium wear to boards, some spotting, couple of passages highlighted in biro (!), otherwise good. 1.2kg

Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom

Lord Cranworth. A Colony in the Making, or Sport and Profit in British East Africa. Macmillan & Co., London, 1912.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Numerous photographic plates, folding map to rear. 8vo. Bound in modern quarter green leather, red panel gilt, raised bands, t.e.g., foxing throughout to the text, generally light though a little heavier to front and rear, at least one plate loose, small corner tear to map, otherwise a very good reference copy for the shelves. xiv, 359pp.

Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom

Col. Thomas Astell St Quintin. Chances of Sports of Sorts in Five Continents. William Blackwood and Sons, London and Edinburgh, 1912.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue buckram with gilt lettering, 445 pages, 58 illustrations. Slight nick in front board and the merest foxing on ffep otherwise very good plus.Thomas St Quintin 1840-1918, pioneer of British polo. Played in the first game in England with the 10th Hussars. The book describes in some detail the beginnings of polo in England. Octavo. 1.1 kilos

Seller: Blacklock's Rare Books (est 1988), Egham, United Kingdom

Fur, Feather & Fin Series. Series editor Alfred E.T. Watson. Shaw (L.H. de Visme).. SNIPE AND WOODCOCK. By L.H. de Visme Shaw. With chapters on Snipe and Woodcock in Ireland by Richard J. Usher, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather & Fin Series. 1912 reprint.. Longmans, Green, & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1903). (1903) 1912 reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,298. Engraved plates after Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Cloth titled in brown & red (gilt omitted). This reissue has white end-papers and no advertisements at rear. Cloth slightly stained but bright, Very clean internally. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Fur, Feather & Fin Series. Series editor Alfred E.T. Watson. Shaw (L.H. de Visme).. WILD-FOWL. By L.H. de Visme Shaw, with chapters on shooting the duck and the goose by W.H. Pope; Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather & Fin Series.. Longmans, Green, & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1905). (1905) 1912 re-issue. Ppx,278. B/w plates after Archibald Thorburn & Charles Whymper. Cloth titled in brown & red (gilt omitted). This reissue has white end-papers and no advertisements at rear. Spine faded, end-paper name and bookplate. Good-plus. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Lord Cranworth. A Colony In The Making or Sport And Profit In British East Africa. Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1912.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: Original green cloth boards in good condition despite a little wear to the extremities. Spine discoloured with shelf wear to the top and base. Top edge gilt. Binding still fairly tight. Small pencil signature to the front free endpaper. There is foxing throughout although the pages are generally clean and legible. Illustrated with black ad white photographic plates, folding map to the rear.nbsp; pp. nbsp; xiv 359.nbsp;

Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom

Adams, Rev. Joseph. [Corrigeen ]. TEN THOUSAND MILES THROUGH CANADA. The Natural Resources, Commercial Industiries, Fish and Game, Sports and Pastimes of the Great Dominion.. Frederick A. Stokes Company. xx + 310 p. No Date [1912]. 1st US Ed., New York:, 1912.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 790016. Adams, Rev. Joseph. [Corrigeen ] . TEN THOUSAND MILES THROUGH CANADA. The Natural Resources, Commercial Industiries, Fish and Game, Sports and Pastimes of the Great Dominion. 12mo. illus. with Fifty Illustrations and a Map. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. xx + 310 p. No Date [1912]. 1st US Ed. [Cat. 71.] 79-0016 rx.---Adams travelled from Quebec to Vancouver and back by train; fished trout and bass in Ontario; trout and salmon in BC. Comments on hunting along the way, with chapter on big game of BC. With fold-out route map, appendix on the Game Laws of the Provinces, and on Equipment. Bruns A-40 Original red cloth slightly sunned on spine; gilt beaver on front cover. Very Good no DJ. $65

Seller: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, U.S.A.

Adams, Joseph. Ten Thousand Miles through Canada: The Natural Resources, Commercial Industries, Fish and Game, Sports and Pastimes of the Great Dominion. With fifty illustrations and a map. Frederick Stokes, New York, 1912.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition, from British sheets with a new title page. 8vo. xx, 310 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, folding map. Bruns A-40. Phillips, p. 14: "Contains chapters descriptive of big game, wild fowl, game fish, etc." Bookplate, else very Good. Original gilt-stamped decorated red cloth (spot on spine unevenly faded). (#6783).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Lord Cranworth. A Colony in the Making, Or, Sport and Profit in British East Africa. London: Macmillan & Co., 1912.

Price: US$66.28 + shipping

Description: First edition (first printing). Hardback. Physically 9" x 6" (1.4 kg); (xiv) 359pp; Index; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Black & white plates; Appendices (5); Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191196|| Condition: Poor. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with rubbing to the leading edge of both boards. Lining papers grubby. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Tissue guard to the frontis torn, if complete. The contents complete, clean and tight but lacking the map to the rear. A reading copy.

Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom

Cranworth, Lord. A COLONY IN THE MAKING or Sport and Profit in British East Africa. Macmillan, London, 1912.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: the possibilities of gain and recreation in the Highlands of East Africa; Binding: Orig. green cloth gilt; Condition notes: small tear to top of spine, map missing, slight foxing to eps., O/W V. Good; Illustrations: 38 B/W; Maps: 1 folding at end; Pages: xvi + 352; Edition/printing: 1st

Seller: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, United Kingdom

Lord. Cranworth. A Colony in the Making. Or, Sport and Profit in British East Africa.. Macmillan, 1912.

Price: US$77.97 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition without Jacket on very worn green cloth spine is starting to split very slightly on back and front board has some light markings gilt lettering to spine with gilded warrior to frontis - collectable - will send out 1 st class post

Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom

CRANWORTH, Lord.. A Colony in the Making; Or Sport and Profit in British East Africa.. 1912, 1912.

Price: US$83.99 + shipping

Description: London: Macmillan, 1912. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt (spotted and rubbed). Top edge gilt. (xvi, 360pp.). With frontisp., 32 full-page plates and fold. map at end. 1st edition.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

anonymous. British And Irish Handbook & Guide 1912 Containing Lists Of C.T.C. Hotels with tariffs, Farm & Boarding houses, Country Lodgings, Taverns, Consuls, Repairers etc Sold To members Only 1/-. Cyclists' Touring Club Euston Road London, 1912.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Description: 1st edition thus. 12mo. (2) + 246pp. Publisher's green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front & spine, gilt logo on front. Printed eps. Covers :few faint grubby marks. Contents : very clean, tight & unfoxed. VG.

Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Joshua Taylor. The Art of Golf. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, London, 1912.

Price: US$90.97 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: An illustrated guide to golfing, with a chapter on the evolution of the bunker. Dated from the British Library. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Missing one plate to face page 78. A comprehensive guide to the sport of golf, with a chapter on the evolution of the bunker. Other chapters provide tips on grip, drive, balls, putting, and rules. Written by Joshua Taylor, an English professional golfer. With publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Fur, Feather & Fin Series. Series editor Alfred E.T. Watson. Shaw (L.H. de Visme).. SNIPE AND WOODCOCK. By L.H. de Visme Shaw. With chapters on Snipe and Woodcock in Ireland by Richard J. Usher, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Fur, Feather & Fin Series. 1912 reprint.. Longmans, Green, & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$90.97 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1903). (1903) 1912 reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppx,298. Engraved plates after Archibald Thorburn and Charles Whymper. Cloth titled in brown & red (gilt omitted). This reissue has white end-papers and no advertisements at rear. Single end-paper name (John Tylor) o/w a near fine copy. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Rogers, John [Sir]. Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland. London Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1912, 1912.

Price: US$94.77 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st Edition. [xii] 275pp. Quarto. Publisher's green cloth; title and author in gilt with ornament in same to front. Spine title in gilt; minor shelfwear to foot, crown slightly creased. Edges of boards lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Former owner's name in ink to front fly. Illustrated frontis; 20 B/W plates from photographs and illustrations, 2 maps. Initial pages slightly bent at lower edge; textblock edges lightly foxed. very good The author's edited diary comprising of two years' travel and hunting in British Columbia and Newfoundland.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

CUMING, E.D.. With rod and gun, from 'British sport past and present'. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.

Price: US$95.26 + shipping

Description: 1st ed thus. Illustrated by G.Denholm Armour. Colour plates tipped-in on thick green paper pages. Page fore-edge foxed. Red cloth faded at board edges, with browned spine; gilt lettering & vignette on front board bright; gilt on spine very dull & worn. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth with gilt

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Thomas Martindale. With Gun and Guide. T. Werner Laurie, London, 1912.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first UK edition of this memoir by Thomas Martindale, in which the author reflects on his experiences hunting and fishing, with numerous photographic plates. First UK Edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three other illustrated plates.This is a hunting and fishing memoir by Thomas Martindale, intended to ease the minds of 'men living in such a babel of discordant noises' by focusing upon the 'excitement' of hunting and outdoor exercise. The author reflects back on his time hunting and exploring in New Brunswick as well as Northern British Columbia.Contents include 'Off for the Woods', 'Tracks of Big Game', 'Fierce and Extensive Forest Fires', 'Spearing Salmon in the Northwest', and 'British Columbia Birds'.Thomas Martindale (1845-1916) was an American merchant, author, and big game hunter. He founded the first health food store in the United States, named 'Martindales', which is still in business today.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Minimal bumping to head and tail of spine with light wear to the extremities and bands of joints. A few marks to boards. Offsetting to endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper.Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, with light age-toning to margins of text. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Fur, Feather & Fin Series. Series editor Alfred E.T. Watson. Senior (William).. PIKE AND PERCH. By William Senior ("Red Spinner," Editor of "The Field"), with chapters by "John Bickerdyke" and W.H. Pope, Cookery by A. Innes Shand. Fur, Feather & Fin Series.. Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1900). (1900) 1912 reissue. Small 8vo (130 x 197mm). Ppvii,279. B/w plates by George Roller & from photographs. Oatmeal pictorial cloth gilt. * The reprint has plain white end-papers (1st edition has black), and spine titling in red rather than in gilt. Slight foxing, owner's name else very clean copy. Natural history and sport. Another fine title in this excellent series. Chapters: The pike of fable and fancy; The pike of fact; Pike fishing in lakes; Small waters and typical days; Pike fishing in rivers; The ancient art of trolling; Some foreign relatives; The spinning bait and its tackle; Modern methods of spinning; Float-tackle and its uses; Paternostering and ledgering; Pike in trout waters; Perch and perch fishing; Artificial perch culture; The perch of the river; The perch of still waters; The cookery of the pike and perch. This series of monographs by the most experienced sportsmen of the day are still of immense value as the most detailed and comprehensive works ever published on British game species. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

THE SPORTSMAN. British Sports And Sportsman: Hunting. 1912, Numbered Limited First Edition.. British Sports and Sportsmen, 1912.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Number 534 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. xiii, [i] & 645 pages. BINDING: Publishers green cloth over beige cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. CONDITION: Front inner hinges cracked;, front endpaper torn; title page trimmed down; one page of introduction torn along the inner margin and repaired; otherwise a good copy. Size: Large Folio

Seller: Ely Books, ELY, CAMBS, United Kingdom

ROGERS, Sir John. Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland. Chapman & Hall, London, 1912.

Price: US$99.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hunting and fishing holidays in British Columbia and in Newfoundland circa 1908/9. 275pp, photo illustrated, maps. Interior is clean but with some foxing at ends of book. Binding sound, no weakness to hinges. Unmarked. Some light wear to green cloth, wear to tips, small [1/2"] slit to cloth at edge of spine. Weight, 720g. Reduced by 20% Size: Thick 8vo

Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada

Cox (Harding) & Lascelles (Gerald).. COURSING AND FALCONRY: The Badminton Library. By Harding Cox and Gerald Lascelles. 1912 reprint.. Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1892). (1892) 1912 reprint. 8vo (135 x 194mm). Ppxiv,413,ads. B/w plates by G.E. Lodge & others, illustrations. Decorative brown cloth, printed in black, blue, white and gilt, with design of a sportsman's study on upper board & a hare on spine, uniform with other titles in the series. End-paper name, slight use but a very good copy. This is a combined volume consisting of two separate books: Coursing, by Harding Cox, and, Falconry, by the Hon. Gerald Lascelles. "A few hints only are necessary to explain the object which these volumes are put forth. There is no modern encyclopaedia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British sports and Pastimes, can turn for information. .The Badminton Library is offered to supply the want." The two books published here as a pair must still be amongst the least-thoroughly covered of the British Sports, and both retain their interest and utility. Chapters include - Coursing: The Waterloo Cup; A treatise on breeding; Practical greyhound breeding; Treatment of saplings; The greyhound in training; Enclosed coursing; Some celebrated greyhounds of the past; Opinions of noted coursers; Description and points of the greyhound; Some English coursing clubs, by Charles Richardson. Falconry: Introductory - the modern falconer, implements used, glossary of terms; The peregrine - eyasses, hacking - hawks, training - game hawking - records of sport - magpie hawking; The peregrine - passage hawks - advantages of - how caught - mode of training - heron hawking - rook hawking - gull hawking - passage hawks for game - lost hawks; Gerfalcon - kite hawking - hare hawking - merlins - how managed - lark hawking - the hobby - the sacre - the lanner - shahins - sport in India - other varieties of hawks used in falconry; The short-winged hawks - goshawks - how obtained - training - entering - rabbit hawking - various flights - the sparrow hawk - managment - blackbird hawking; Celebrated falconers - Scotch, Dutch, and English clubs - The Falconers' Club - Colonel Thornton - The Loo Club - The Old Hawking Club - Amateur falconers - famous hawks - records of sport; General management - mews - blocks - perches - bow-perch - bathing - condition - feeding - castings - imping - moulting - various diseases - general hints. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Cranworth, Lord. A COLONY IN THE MAKING Or, Sport and Profit in British East Africa.. Macmillan & Co. Limited, London, 1912.

Price: US$110.46 + shipping

Description: xiv, 360pp. Pub. green cloth, gilt. 38 illustrations, foldout coloured map at the rear [fine]. The top of the front board is soiled affecting the first few top edges but a fine sine and an excellent reading copy. Size: large 8vo

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Rogers, Sir John. Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland. Musson, Toronto, 1912.

Price: US$113.72 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good, with some wear to extremities, and sunned spine and top of front cover. The front pastedown bears the owneship signature of William M. Halliday, the author of Potlatch and Totem. The Canadian edition is scarce.

Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada

Cuming (E.D.). (Edward William Dirom Cuming). (1862-1941).. WITH ROD AND GUN: FROM BRITISH SPORT PAST AND PRESENT. By E.D. Cuming. With illustrations by G. Denholm Armour.. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1912., 1912.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1912). ND (1912) 1st edition. 4to. Ppiv,140. Illustrated with 14 colour plates by G. Denholm Armour, tipped-in on heavy green cartridge paper. Red cloth, spine & upper board titled & decorated in gilt. Slight foxing and signs of ownership but a good-plus copy. Chapters on partridge, grouse and pheasant shooting, wildfowling, coursing, salmon, trout, pike and other fishing, deer-stalking and coursing, and falconry, each with attractive colour plates tipped onto green card. A handsome book. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

CRANWORTH Lord. A Colony In The Making or Sport and Profit in British East Africa. Macmilland and Co, Africa, 1912.

Price: US$149.45 + shipping

Description: xiv 359 pages, TEG, illus in b/w from photographs, large folding map at rear, foxing to front and rear end paper and closed page edges, oval ownership stamp to FEP, contents clean and free of foxing, publishers green cloth, gilt title and native vignette to upper cover. The author provides information on big game, its location, methods of stalking and the game reserves. Czech 69.

Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom

WHEELER, Authur O. et al.. [Chinese Canadian] 1912 Canadian Alpine Journal * with * 1912 Special Number. The Alpine Club of Canada, Banff, AB, 1912.

Price: US$151.63 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Two volumes : Vol. IV the 1912 issue, 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. [vi], 151, ads ; and the Special Number 1912 issue, 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. [iv], 97, both volumes are complete with all maps, plates, diagrams and fold-outs, with the same large fold-out map of Mount Robson, at rear. Side stapled paper wraps are in fine order w. date in pencil on spines, text w. some minor browning and spotting - mostly near text edges, else clean and unmarked throughout. It is interesting to note that along with climbing greats such as Conrad Kain and Edward Whymper, Mr. Jim Pong is also honored in this issue, with the inclusion of his full-page portrait for being the Head Cook at all of the Club's Camps since their inception in 1906. He is also mentioned within the "Report of the 1911 Camp", as having the uncanny ability to interpret and act on ". hands signs understood alone by the one and only perfect Camp Chef, smiling Jim Pong, and the thing was done." n.b. At time of listing, we have a complete run of the Canadian Alpine Journal available dating from 1907-1969, please inquire.

Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada

. British Sports and Sportsman 1 vol HUNTING. The Sportsman, 1912.

Price: US$158.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition No.104 - Internally Very good+ with all full page illustrations tissue guarded. No name - the endpapers very clean & bright.Gilt titles to leather spine bright & clean as is the front board with leather corners. (see scans) Top/tail of spine with some wear but complete - 4 raised bands with gilt decoration starting to fade. A very small mark to front board (appears to have been caught on something). see scan. Tips of leather corners with minor wear.A very good copy possible just sat on the shelf for the past 100 years - please note weight of over 6 kilos & extra postage from all areas. An allowance will be made to UK customers. Posting from Cornwall. STSTD

Seller: Collina Books, PENZANCE, CORNW, United Kingdom

Rogers, Sir John. Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland. Chapman and Hall, London, 1912.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. With 2 maps, 8 plates from drawings by the author, and 217 half-tones. xii, 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. O'Dea, Bibliography of Newfoundland, 1550; Edwards, A Bibliography of British Columbia: Years of Growth 1900-1950, 3039 With 2 maps, 8 plates from drawings by the author, and 217 half-tones. xii, 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Lardner, Captain E. G. Dion. Soldiering and Sport in Uganda. Walter Scott, Ltd., London, 1912.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, pp. Xxi, 289. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, 57 more full pages of photographs, 1 fold-out map, glossary. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with gold spine titles. Binding bumped at both ends of spine, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss of cloth. Minor spotting to endpapers and title page. Binding slightly cracked, but sound. Dion Lardner was a British army officer who in late 1909 was seconded to the King's African Rifles under the Colonial Office in the British Empire's newest colony - the Uganda Protectorate. He did not see combat while in Uganda, but he did travel all around the country and was present on the Uganda-Congo border when the border was re-drawn to slightly expand Uganda. Lardner started in Mombasa in the British East Africa Protectorate and took the Uganda Railway. He travelled throughout the Central Africa Lakes region - crossing Victoria Nyanza, before continuing north between Lakes Kioga and Albert Nyanza, and then heading west all the way to Lake Kivu. Because Uganda was undeveloped he walked throughout most of his journey. This book focuses on the natural beauty of the region and includes his experiences as a soldier and hunter. He hunted elephant, buffalo, and hippopotamus. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 289 pages

Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.

The Sporting Life and Sportsman, edited by. British Sports and Sportsmen : Breeding Agriculture Country-Life Pursuits. Sports and Sportsmen, Ltd. N.d. [c. 1920's], London, 1912.

Price: US$253.41 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This is copy no. 623 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. xiv, 491 pp. Large thick folio. Full dark red morocco with gilt lettering to front board. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Minor marks to boards. Internally clean. Title-page in red & black. Tissue-guarded full-page photogravures. Numerous in-text illustrations. In Near Fine condition. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. Folio

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Cowther Smith, H. F. [Horace Francis].. A Croquet Alphabet : Rhymed and Pictured by H. F. Crowther Smith.. Banbury [England], Engraved and printed by Henry Stone & Son Ltd. [c. 1912] -, 1912.

Price: US$267.29 + shipping

Description: 4° (25 x 19 x 1 cm). Unpaginiert (30 Bll. = 60 SS.), davon 26 Farbtafeln in Merhrfarbenoffset. Druck a. satiniertem Papier ('Kunstdruckpapier'). OKart. (wenig bestossen, marginal etwas fleckig). Vorsatzspiegel blass stockfleckig, fl.Bll. gebräunt / Endpapers browned and with slight foxings. Etwas Alters u. Gebrauchsspuren. Neueres Exlibris a. Vorsatz, Erwerbsvermerk dat. 1990 a. hint. Vorssatzspiegel. Gesamthaft weitgehend sauberes, recht gutes Exemplar / Over all quite a clean and good copy. - - Preface given 'Long Ditton, Surrey, December, 1912' - Vgl. British Library (Jisc nur mit diesem Standort) - Provenienz: Auktion Zischka & Kistner, München 1990 (hs. Notiz) - Alphabetisch geordnete humoristische, karikierende Darstellungen mit gegenübergestellten zweizeiligen witzigen Reimen. Vorangestellt sind die kurzen 'Explanations', in welchen Crowther Smith die 'dramatis personae' in ihrer Bedeutung kurz vorstellt. Es sind dies meist Club- und Vereinsmitglieder oder sonstwie prominente Krocketspieler und Turnierteilnehmer, e.g. "N for the neatness with which Bunnell Burton / Will put you through three hoops and 'out' you for certain". Dazu stellt sich der Autor mehr oder weniger diskreterweise unter 'X' vor: "X-cuse me for putting myself in the book / But I wanted to show you how I think 'I' look." -- "Horace Francis Crowther Smith (1873-1959) was a competent player who won the Champion Cup in 1914. Unfortunately he created bad feeling by keeping the Cup until he had the opportunity to defend his title, and was forced to return it in 1918. He had resigned as an associate during the War and the Council, incensed at the trouble and expense about the Cup, refused to reinstate him until he apologised, which was not until 1924. He was also runner-up in the Open championship of 1919" (from: sussexcountycroquetclub org uk, online, with reference: The History of Croquet, Col D M C Prichard, London, 1981 p. 85). - Sprache: en

Seller: Franz Kühne Antiquariat und Kunsthandel, Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland

W R Ogilvie Grant and six Others. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. The London and Counties Press, 1912.

Price: US$305.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: pp XII, 441. 1st printing. No 581 of 950 with 26 find coloured illustrations, all captioned, tissue guarded. 2 edges untrimmed. Fully bound. International shipping by quotation.

Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom

TITANIC ;-. MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS - MAY 1912 - OFFICIAL FILE COPY - Documenting the Investigations into the tragic sinking of the Titanic.. Manchester. Thurs. May 2nd to Fri. May 31st, 1912.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: PUBLISHER'S OFFICIAL FILE COPY. Thick Elephant Folio. Half Contemporary Calf (worn) Comprising all varieties of daily 'one halfpenny' issues (including 'Special', 'Extra', 'Final' and 'Cricket' issues) documenting fascinating reports of an array of murders, drownings, sport , suffragettes and most importantly a day by day , issue by issue account of the various investigations into the sinking of the Titanic ! Commencing with a report on Thurs. May 2nd ;- Titanic Disaster - British Court of Inquiry - About 300 Witnesses summoned ! - and on Fri. May 3rd - Mr Ismay sails for England ! - Titanic Inquiry Resumed in London - Survivors in Attendance ! - Safety at Sea by Sir E.Shackleton ! - 21 knots - Titanic's speed never reduced - Attorney General's Story of the voyage - 'Look out' Man's Story - The Collision - A Terrible Experience ! - and then each day (apart from Sunday !) through until Wed. May 29th 1912 - Senator Smith reports - Astounding Speech to Congress - Serious Titanic Charges - British Board of Trade Blamed ! - The whole Totalling 25 extensive contemporary 'eye-opening' Titanic related articles in all ! SUPERB ! (Due to size and great weight carriage will be expensive ! or collect for Free !)

Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom

Sporting Life, Sportsmen [ed.]. British Sports and Sportsmen: Past and Present part I and II Hunting. Sports and Sportsmen, London, 1912.

Price: US$383.37 + shipping

Description: A superb group of limited edition volumes on British sports and sportsmen of the past, and hunting. Illustrated throughout. Limited editions to one thousand copies,Past and Presentvolumes being number 635, whileHunting is copy number 713. Profusely illustrated throughout, with two hundred and thirty six plated toPast and Present,andtwo hundred and seventy seven plates toHunting.Three volumes extensively discussing sportsmen and hunting. The 'British Sports and Sportsman' series containing a variety of volumes on sporting subjects in Britain.Undated. Dated from copies of the same volumes on Library Hub c1913. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent with only minor shelfwear and minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Minor faint scattered spotting to fore edge, affecting only the occasional page, particularly to first and last few leaves. Volume on hunting not as affected by spotting. Otherwise, pages are generally bright and clean throughout. With two hundred and thirty six plates to past and present volumes, and two hundred and seventy seven plates and illustrations to volume on hunting. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

SPORTSMAN THE. (Compl. and ed. by).. Hunting.. 1912, 1912.

Price: US$416.57 + shipping

Description: London: "British Sports and Sportsmen" 1912. Thick folio. Or.hf.cl. Spine gilt. T.e.g. (XIV646pp.). With full-page photogravure plates each with a protective tissue-guard title-vign. and num. illusts. Ed. lim. to 1000 numbered copies. Fine.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

LEIGHTON, Robert. The New Book of the Dog. A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs and their Foreign Relatives, with Chapters on Law, Breeding, Kennel Management, and Veterinary Treatment. Cassell and Company, London, 1912.

Price: US$436.73 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Cassell and Company, 1912. Large quarto, xvi, 624 pages with numerous illustrations ('photographic portraits of famous dogs') plus 21 full-page colour plates. Light brown gilt-pictorial cloth printed in dark brown, all edges gilt; covers slightly flecked, marked and rubbed, with the spine lightly sunned; replacement endpapers; an excellent copy of a handsome publication.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Wain, Louis. In Storyland with Louis Wain. Raphael Tuck nd [1912], London, 1912.

Price: US$495.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Raphael Tuck 6786. An oversized book bound in glossy boards on thickly woven "Untearable" paper illustrating scenes from tales and folklore in coloured lithographs nearly filling each page. The subjects range widely including Bluebeard, Robin Hood, Sindbad, Robinson Crusoe, Jack in the Beanstalk and various sports and games ; the characters are mostly cats with the occasional dog and each page has two to four line captions in verse. The title page calls for 24 full colour illustrations but there are only 20 although there are 4 duotone illustrations in red and black. I believe it safe to assume that four plates are missing although one of the probable missing - Robinson Crusoe - is used for the front cover. The pages, although they generally seem to be genuinely untearable or at the least difficult to tear, are however subject to creasing and several of the pages are creased horizontally all the way across and several vertically from top to bottom. One page - Cinderella on the recto and Setting the Fashion on the verso is actually torn for an inch or so along that vertical crease. The main reason for the difficulty in speaking with absolute certainty about the number of plates is the book's extreme scarcity. I have been unable to locate no other copies listed for sale, in auction records, in OCLC (including the British Museum), or in extensive searches through relevant catalogues and consultation with other booksellers. The book is listed in Dale and the date given as 1912. Apart from the creasing the boards are worn with some staining and many of the pages are frayed at the edges. There is a large piece missing from the rear endpaper. A large book, special shipping considerations may apply for overseas orders.

Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada

The Sportsman, compiled and edited by. British Sports and Sportsmen : Racing Coursing and Steeplechasing. In two volumes. British Sports and Sportsmen 1911, London, 1912.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: In 2 volumes. This is copy no. 559 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. xv, 272; ix, 273-620 pp. Large thick folios. Full dark red morocco with gilt lettering to front boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to spines. Internally clean. Title-pages in red & black. Tissue-guarded full-page photogravure portraits. In-text illustrations. In Near Fine condition. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. Folio

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

WARNER, P. F. Editor. Imperial Cricket. C.B. Fry & Wally Hammond association copy.. London: London & Counties Press Association, 1912.

Price: US$584.80 + shipping

Description: 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

Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

. [Photo Album]: British in India 1910-1912. India, 1912.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A group of 45 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2.5" x 3.5" to 3.5" x 5.5," some captioned on the verso. Roughly half the images are tipped on black album pages and with the rest in mylar photo pockets, and all bradbound to a stiff cardboard sheet. The photos are near fine with some edgewear. A photo album of British expatriates in India between the years 1910 and 1912. The album begins with a group of men hunting with views of their camp and the men with the skins of tigers and lions. The men are seen in candids with Indians and posing in tents with their dogs and at an outdoor table set up for a meal. The album continues with photos of a trip to the Afghan border in a horse-drawn carriage and a wealthy woman being transported in a chair. A small photograph shows the Royal Pavilion during the Delhi Durbar, when King George V was crowned King-Emperor of India. There are images of city markets with pedicabs and rickshaws as well as snake charmers and Bazaars with fruit sellers, a dentist, and barber. Another photo shows military units competing in a "tug of war" and sack race. An interesting collection of British expatriates in India complete with hunting and travel throughout the country.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

SHELDON, Charles. The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: A Hunter's Experiences While Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Just a touch of rubbing at the spine ends, a fine copy with the gilt lettering bright. Inscribed by the author: "J.B. Townsend Esq. from C. Sheldon. September 24, 1912."

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

the Sportsman " Editor and Compilator. British Sports and Sportsmen : Hunting. "British Sports and Sportsmen ", 1912.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Type: Z Volume II being pp 169 - 324. No date - c 1915. Appears to be part of the limited edition publishedas one of a thousand printed bound in full leather boards with gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine with 5 raised bands to the spine - though there is no number page included. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated with one illustration plate of each sportsman described to support their biographical text. There is a split of 2 cm to the leather at the head of the spine and loss to the head of the spine. There is rubbing to the spine strip edges and patchily to the spine strip with no loss of the gilt embossed lettering. Rubbing to the top corner of the rear board. Several indentation marks to the rear board. A little foxing to the half title page and title page and the last page of the book. Internally fresh and clean.

Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

the Sportsman " Editor and Compilator. British Sports and Sportsmen : Big Game Hunting and Angling.. "British Sports and Sportsmen ", 1912.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Type: Z xiiipp; pp 593. Limited edition being number 750 out of a thousand printed. Bound in full leather boards with gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine with 5 raised bands to the spine. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 70 full page photogravue plates with tissue guards - as called for. Numerous other b/w illustrations throughout also support the text. The front board is sprung from the spine strip, still being attached by the front inner cloth strip. There is rubbing to the spine strip edges and to the head and tail of the spine with some splitting and loss to the head and tail of the spine. A little rubbing to the spine strip with no loss of the gilt embossed lettering. Some rubbing to the corners of the boards and to the periphery of the boards. There are a couple of indentation areas to the front board measuring no more than 2.5 x 1.5 cm in area. Several of the tissue guards have creases to the corners and a few have several creases to them. Light crease to the lower corner of about 100 pp of the textblock, suggesting a previous bump though this if not obvious. Occasional slight finger soiling - the rest of the textblock is fresh and clean. A very good copy.

Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

the Sportsman " Editor and Compilator. British Sports and Sportsmen : Past and Present Volume I. "British Sports and Sportsmen ", 1912.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Type: Z xxiiipp; pp 168 and an equal number of illustrations pages, being engravings of the sportsmen contained within this volume ( there being 219 in total). Limited edition being number 750 out of a thousand printed. No date - c 1912. Bound in full leather boards with gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine with 5 raised bands to the spine. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. There is some splitting to the lower half of the rear outer hinge, though the board remains firmly attached. The front board though is shaken and appears attached by only a couple of cords. There is rubbing to the head and tail of the spine with some loss to the leather at the head of the spine and several splits to the leather at the tail of the spine. Some scratches and an area of rubbing of 2 cm x 0.5 cm in size to the spine strip with no loss of lettering. There is also a circular area of loss diameter 0.7 cm at the tail of the spine with loss of the 'LO' in London embossed to the tail of the spine. A few light areas of rubbing to the board periphery. A little slight foxing to the head of the half title page and title page. Occasional slight finger soiling - the rest of the textblock is fresh and clean. A very good copy.

Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Kuhnert, Wilhelm. Animal Portraiture. Being fifty studies by Wilhelm Kuhnert. Accompanied by a series of original articles by R. Lydekker, F.R.S.. Frederick Warne, London, 1912.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. With title page drawing and 50 mounted full color plates. vii, 105 pp. 1 vols. Folio. A splendid assemblage of Kuhnert's superb paintings. The plates measure 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in.; each is mounted on a recessed card mat, with tissue guard, and each is accompanied by a brief article on the species depicted. Subjects include both birds and animals, and range from bison to hamsters, including a number of less-than-familiar subjects: capercaillie, Abyssinian green monkey, mouflon, spiny ant-eater, and auk. Each creature is placed in a naturalistic setting, and painted with meticulous care. An admirable work in a superb binding. Full tan morocco gilt, upper board preserving original gilt pictorial cloth within a gilt tooled border, a.e.g. for Asprey. Fine With title page drawing and 50 mounted full color plates. vii, 105 pp. 1 vols. Folio

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

INDIA -. India Nov 1911 till Oct. 1912' (titled thus on verso of front free endpaper). An album of photographs compiled by Charlotte Kelly.. , 1912.

Price: US$4288.50 + shipping

Description: [No place, c. 1912]. Oblong 4to. Original full embossed Indian crocodile leather, bevelled edges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 248 photographic prints, 60 x 105 or 90 x 115mm, the photographs window-mounted in groups of four recto-and-verso on 31 leaves, each with applied white border, most captioned in white beneath, some leaves also dated either 1911 or 1912 in the centre; a further six photographic prints hinge-mounted onto the verso of the rear free endpaper, the smallest 40 x 60mm and the largest 65 x 105mm; boards slightly bowed, extremities slightly rubbed and chipped, slight cracking on hinges, some images a little faded, occasional slight creasing, but otherwise very good; provenance: Charlotte Kelly (1877-1963, compiler), and by descent. A remarkable photographic record of a tour through India from November 1911 to October 1912, undertaken by Captain Julian Kelly, an officer in the British Army, and his wife Charlotte. The majority of the photographs appear to be by Charlotte Kelly, who was evidently an enthusiastic and talented amateur photographer, and are distinguished by their composition and variety of subjects; they include not only the more obvious, well-known views that one might expect - such as the Taj Mahal and the Golden Temple, Amritsar - but also depictions of wildlife and sport, and typical Indian scenes and types, including 'Drawing Water' and 'Temple Attendant', and conclude with a record of an expedition to the mountains of north-east Kashmir. The Kellys appear to have journeyed to India via the Suez Canal (a group of four images of the Suez Canal and Aden are dated 19-23 November 1911), and then travelled widely through central and northern India, to Rajasthan in the west, Uttar Pradesh in the east and the Punjab in the north. The monuments depicted include the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra; architecture in Lahore; the Golden Temple, Amritsar; Curzon House and the Mutiny Memorial, Delhi; 'The Residency, Lucknow'; 'Caunpoor Memorial Well'; 'One of the Maharana's Gardens Udaipur'; and the Galta Temple. More scenic views show Udaipur, the Khyber Pass Road, and a camel caravan on the Khyber Pass Road. Scenes of Indian life and characters include 'Bathing in the Sacred Ganges Benares', 'Bathing in Sacred Ganges', 'Camels Loading for Kabul', and 'Elephants near Delhi', and 'Temple Attendant', 'Drawing Water', '1st Lancer Trumpeter', 'Carrying Water', 'Pounding Corn', 'Watering the Fields', and 'Our Boatman and Family'. Similarly, aspects of Anglo-Indian life are also represented; the Kellys arrived in India at around the same time as King George V and Queen Mary, who had left Britain on 11 November 1911 for the great Durbar, held in Delhi on 12 December 1912, 'the most spectacular ceremony in the history of the British empire. The king-emperor declared Delhi the new capital and laid its foundation-stone' (ODNB). A sequence of ten photographs illustrate the Durbar Pavillion, the King and Queen, and the attendant ceremonies. The second half of the album depicts a climbing and sporting expedition to Kashmir, which saw the Kellys travel north to Srinigar with companions and the Dal Lake. En route, 'Pig Sticking', 'Crocodile Shooting', 'Spearing Fish', and 'Native Polo' are recorded, as well as 'A Yak'; other images show 'A Kashmeri', a motor car crossing a bridge in Kashmir, and a 'Tonga on Kashmere Road', and views of Srinigar, Dal Lake (Srinigar), and 'A Floating Garden. Dall Lake'. From Srinigar they travelled with ponies to Manasbal Lake in the Jhelum Valley, where they camped, before progressing to Gurais, where they encamped again. The party then ascended the 'Konipatri Pass' (13,500 feet), which is illustrated by a number of photographs, followed by views of Vishensar and Sonamarg, and hunting scenes of 'My First Bear', 'My Second Bear', 'The Beaters', and 'Miss Simmonds Brown Bear'.

Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom