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Price: US$220.72 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: John Murray, London, 1838. 1st Edition . Fair. First edition of this classic. 8vo, Xviii + 436pp, illustrated by engravings & lithographs after paintings by Edwin & Charles Landseer, & by the author. Quarter leather binding with blue cloth boards, binding worn & bumped particularly at spine (see pictures). Ex library with bookplates etc on front pastedown & endpapers, stamp on first page, number on spine, no other obvious library markings. Inner book has occasional grubby marks, pencil annotations & chipping, tear to one page (see picture).
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Fine binding of full leather, richly decorated spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Binding a little worn and scuffed at ends of spine, about very good. Sporting-themed private bookplate on front pastedown and small name label of someone of the same surname, likely the next generation to own the book. The bookplate covers partially a bookseller's ticket from a bookshop in New York 22, a post-WW II form of address. Owner's name in a contemporary hand, likely the first owner, on the blank preceding the frontispiece; on the same page is a catalog clipping from the London antiquarian firm of Bumpus offering another copy of the book, that one bound by Riviere; they describe the book as "one of the most interesting ever written" and extol the virtues of the first edition over inferior reprints. The closing episode of Season 2 of Downton Abbey, set in Scotland, includes a bit of deer stalking.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1838 ). 1838 1st edition. Large 8vo (170 x 264mm). Ppxx,436. Engraved plates by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. Green pictorial cloth gilt. Recased in original cloth. Staining throughout. Lacks frontispiece. * Full title:- "The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the Scotch forests; legends; superstitions; stories of poachers and freebooters, &c., &c. By William Scrope, Esq., F.L.S., and member of the Academy of San' Luca, Rome. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer, Esqrs., and by the author." * Water-staining to the lower part of the text throughout. Lacking one plate - the frontispiece - but otherwise complete and plates in very good condition. Newly recased in original green pictorial cloth, gilt, rather used and slightly stained. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 436pp. With twelve engraved lithograph plates including frontispiece and additional engraved title. Some spotting and foxing as usual. Bookplate. In diced calf, with inner dentelles. Nicely rebacked with elaborate gilt spine, raised bands. Corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy of this sporting classic.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$506.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in half leather over marbled boards with some slight rubbing to edges and some minor overall shelfwea and slight foxing, top edge gilt, marbled end papers but overall in Very good condition. First edition, pp xix, 436, frontis and title vignette plus ten full page plates after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and by the author. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall 8vo. Pp, xix, 436. Engraved and printed title pages. Steel engraved frontis. (and title page vignette) and 10 lithgraphic plates - all as called for. Full morocco, raised bands, gilt, inner dentelles. Aeg. Hinges rubbed with a 3 inch split top of front hinge, Corners bumped and worn with loss. Prelims. a little foxed, otherwise a fine binding.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1838 ). 1838 1st edition. Large 8vo (170 x 264mm). Ppxx,436. Engraved plates by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. Green pictorial cloth gilt. Inner hinge tender, head & tail of spine frayed, inner hinges tender, corners bumped. A good copy of the first edition. Full title:- "The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the Scotch forests; legends; superstitions; stories of poachers and freebooters, &c., &c. By William Scrope, Esq., F.L.S., and member of the Academy of San' Luca, Rome. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer, Esqrs., and by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
SCROPE WILLIAM. THE ART OF DEER-STALKING. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, 1838.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, OCTAVO, HALF LEATHER BINDING OVER MARBLED BOARDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS. 12 ENGRAVINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS AFTER E AND C LANDSEER AND THE AUTHOR. LEATHER RUBBED AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE, SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS AND THE EDGES OF SOME PLATES, TIGHTLY BOUND AND A VERY GOOD COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1838 ). 1838 1st edition. Large 8vo (170 x 264mm). Ppxx,436. Engraved plates by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. Green pictorial cloth gilt. Inner hinge tender, tear to page 90. Some fading to spine with some wear to the bottom edge otherwise a very nice clean and complete first edition copy. Full title:- "The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the Scotch forests; legends; superstitions; stories of poachers and freebooters, &c., &c. By William Scrope, Esq., F.L.S., and member of the Academy of San' Luca, Rome. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer, Esqrs., and by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1838 ). 1838 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 250mm). Ppxx,436. Engraved plates by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. Publisher's full brown leather gilt, all edges gilt. Some foxing to the plates, quite heavily in place, else very good copy in an attractive and original publisher's leather binding. Full title:- "The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the Scotch forests; legends; superstitions; stories of poachers and freebooters, &c., &c. By William Scrope, Esq., F.L.S., and member of the Academy of San' Luca, Rome. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer, Esqrs., and by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Scrope, William.. The Art of Deer-Stalking;. John Murray., London., 1838.
Price: US$737.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: '.Illustrated by A Narrative of a Few Days Sport in The Forest of Atholl, with Some Account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer.' xix + 436 pp + plates as called for. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep and different previous owner on ffep. A little light foxing but a fine hardback, beautifully bound ( by Zaehnsdorf ) in red half morocco on marbled boards with marbled eps and teg.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1838 ). 1838 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 250mm). Ppxx,436. Engraved plates by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. A handsome Hatchards full leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine title & vignettes, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt. Some tanning & use but a very good copy. Full title:- "The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a narrative of a few days' sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the Scotch forests; legends; superstitions; stories of poachers and freebooters, &c., &c. By William Scrope, Esq., F.L.S., and member of the Academy of San' Luca, Rome. Illustrated by engravings and lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer, Esqrs., and by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$855.94 + shipping
Description: xix 436 pages, TEG, illus with frontis and 10 full page engravings and lithographs by Edwin and Charles Landseer, contents clean and tight with some occasional spotting to outer blank margin of some plates, bound in half dark green morroco with title and gilt stags head within decorative ruled borders to spine compartments, bound by Root & Son, the original cloth front and rear, cloth sides and spine bound in at rear, some even light fading to spine, a vg attractive copy of his deer stalking classic using Scotch deerhounds, the Irish wolfhound, muzzle loading rifles etc. Schwerdt Vol II 154/55 f
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: xix, 436 pp. Added engraved title (with a dampstain to one corner) and eleven other plates (most tinted lithographs) after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and the author 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth. First edition. Neat old repairs to half-title; some ink spotting to the cloth; bumped at corners; text clean; some foxing, mostly marginal, to some of the plates (one plate trimmed, with some edgewear; a tight and sound copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Scrope William. The Art of Deer Stalking.. John Murray, London, 1838.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full title: 'The Art of Deer Stalking; Illustrated by a Narrative of a few days' Sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer, and a short description of the Scotch Forests; Legends; Superstitions; Stories of Poachers, Freebooters etc. etc. Illustrated by Engravings and Lithographs, after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer Esqrs., and by the author'. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page preceding printed title page, and 10 further tinted lithograph plates (as called for), pp. xx, 436. Later full green polished calf bound by Marks and Co, of 84 Charing Cross Road, London, gilt frame to upper and lower cover with tooling, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and emblems, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In superb condition, the faintest of spotting to first title page, otherwise totally free of foxing. Size: Tall 8vo
Seller: Peter Blest Booksellers, Maidstone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, both engraved after paintings by Edwin Landseer and dated 1839. With 10 additional sepia toned lithograph plates; other figures in the text. xix, [i], 436pp. Tall 8vo, beautifully bound by Riviere & Son in 3/4 forest green morocco; gilt-decorated spine with deer head motif; marbled endpapers. London: John Murray, 1838. First edition. A scarce book. Both joints neatly repaired; 3 plates have faint dampstain in corner, otherwise a very nice clean copy with minimal foxing. Spine and extra title are dated 1839 but title states 1838 and this is definitely not the "new" 1839 edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1401.97 + shipping
Description: xix (i)- 436 + xvii (iii) - 298, two volumes, top edges gilt, a matching pair bound by Bickers & Sons in a full crushed dark green morroco with the original cloth front and rear cloth binding bound in at the rear. The covers with gilt lined borders with ornate corner pieces. The spines in 6 compartments with gilt titles and central gilt motif within ruled borders. The Deer Stalking, illustrated with frontis and 10 full page engravings and lithographs by Edwin and Charles Landseer and the author. The Salmon Fishing illustrated with13 lithograph and wood engravings by L. Haghe, T Landseer and S. Williams from paintings, includes flies coloured by hand. A fine set of Scropes classic titles of fishing and stalking in Scotland. Schwerdt Vol II 154/55, WS 191 £950
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom