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Description: Hardcover 292 pages plus 4 pages of adverts for Stockdale new books, with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette. A new edition This volume contains 'An account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire and 'The Chance' a Poem by William Somerville. Early hunting book mainly concerning Hare hunting. chapters include Hare hunting from Xenophon, On Coursing from Arrian, Method of destroying Hares by the Hare Pipe. and an account of the hunting excursions of Asoph Ul Doulah A Very Good Book in half-leather binding with marbled covers. The spine is slightly dulled but titles are still clean front board stating to strain along spine edge but still holding. pages clean and bright. Armourial bookplate inside front cover. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
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Description: First edition. Engraved frontispiece and title page vignette by Heath after Stothard. 292. [4, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Schwerdt I, p.70 & plate 25; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 50 Contemporary marbled boards, calf tips, rebacked with new brown calf, gilt panelled spine, green morocco label, marbled edges, light waterstaining to frontispiece and title, else fine Engraved frontispiece and title page vignette by Heath after Stothard. 292. [4, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: First edition. Engraved frontispiece and title page vignette by Heath after Stothard. From the library of William Adolph Baillie Grohman, with his sporting bookplate and small ownership stamp of a pair of antlers and the initials B.G. on top corner of title-page, also with the bookplate of Westdean Library. 8vo., full tree calf, spine panelled in gilt with contrasting leather label. Spine a little rubbed, lower joint a little cracked, a small stain on pp.109/110, a little occasional browning, a good copy with an important provenance. William Adolph Baillie Grohman (18511921) was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, and a big game sportsman. A passionate collector, he amassed a large collection of furniture and European sporting art (his collection of sporting prints was sold at a special sale at Sotheby's in 1923),and in his later years he developed an erudite interest in the history and art of sport, building up an extensive library on hunting and game animals, including early ecological studies along with early treatises on hunting in many different European languages. Assisted by his wife, Florence, he produced a lavishly illustrated and authoritative edition of The Master of Game (1904), the second oldest English book on hunting, a translation (from the French Livre de Chasse 1387 of Gaston Phébus) by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York. This has a foreword by his friend and later US president Teddy Roosevelt, also an avid big game hunter. In his book on early depictions of hunting Sport in art, An iconography of sport (1913), Baillie Grohman was able to bring together a lifetime's understanding of hunting in the field with an extensive historical knowledge of early sporting art gained through his own collecting and research.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom