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Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: 8vo mayor. Tela editorial color vino tinto; título dorado en lomera; cortes verticales sin desbarbar. Lomo un poco empalidecido.xx, 472 pp; 51 ilustraciones a toda plana fuera texto y muchas más entre texto; un mapa a doble plana impreso en negro y azul. En papel mate.Obra apreciada sobre la caza en España. Las ilustraciones en gran parte d'après dibujos de los autores hechos 'in situ'. Incluye la caza de jabalí, íbice, la pesca, tauromaquia, banderolismo, gitanos, y mucho sobre la naturaleza en general. Al final un glosario de términos empleados en español/inglés. 'An excellent book on sport in Spain.' Schwerdt Ex Libris heráldico. Provenencia: Biblioteca de Ian Robertson. Schwerdt I p.103. Foulché-Delbosc 822. Farinelli III p.433. Palau 67 043 & II p.355.
Seller: Paul Orssich HISPANIC STUDIES, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$241.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Former owner's name on front page. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$242.54 + shipping
Description: 250mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). 472pp. 174 plates and line drawings and folding map. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with new endpapers. Ex lib with usual stamps and markings. Minor creasing to prelims. Foxing to frontis folding map and to prelims. Deckled fore-edge and marbled endpapers Black hardback half-leather cove on marbled boards
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$303.07 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn. Panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: xx, 472 pages, 51 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm. Subjects: Hunting Spain. Game and game-birds Spain. Natural history Spain. Game and game-birds. Spain Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$307.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this highly illustrated work from Chapman and Buck. First edition. Large paper edition. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy-four images, fifty-two of which are on plates, including a coloured map. Collated complete. An exciting piece of travel and sports writing from the authors' time in Spain, with chapters on the boar-hunt in Sierra, the fighting bull of Spain, wild camels, the Spanish ibex, trouting, experiences with eagles, bird-life, and wildfowling. Written and illustrated by Abel Chapman, an English hunter-naturalist who contributed to saving the Spanish ibex from extinction and helped in the establishment of South Africa's first game reserve, and Walter J. Buck, a British wildlife enthusiast. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: 1893, London, Gurney and Jackson, first edition, small 4to, ppxx + 472 + (iv), colour two page map frontispiece, black and white illustrations mainly by the authors, complete, red cloth. Spine and top edge of front cover sun faded, otherwise very good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn. Panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: xx, 472 pages, 51 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm. Subjects: Hunting Spain. Game and game-birds Spain. Natural history Spain. Game and game-birds. Spain Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$413.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pp. x, 472. Plates and illustrations. Early half oasis morocco. A handsome and complete copy of this rare work.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Price: US$442.73 + shipping
Description: xx 472 pages, 4pp advs, pages uncut, 174 illus mostly by the author, coloured map, large paper edition 10 3/4" x 7". Signature of G Blaine Nov 1923 to front blank presumably Gilbert Blaine, author of Falconry in The Sportsman's Library there are numerous references to birds of prey in the book. Bound in in the publisher's dark blue cloth. The authors describe a little-known land over 20 years, they have undertaken sporting expeditions into various parts of Spain. Wildfowling and shooting episodes also include much on the Ibex including hunting, also sheep goat etc. Chute 090
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$501.76 + shipping
Description: xx 472 pages, 4pp advs, pages uncut, 174 illus mostly by the author, coloured map, this is the large paper edition 10 3/4" x 7" in the publishers dark blue cloth, signature of G Blaine Nov 1923 to front blank presumably Gilbert Blaine, author of Falconry. The authors describes a little known land over 20 years, they have undertaken sporting expeditions into various parts of Spain. Includes much on the Ibex including hunting, also sheep.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$526.14 + shipping
Description: Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 51 plates, numerous photographs and wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and double-page map in blue and black, some very light and largely neglible browning to a few leaves; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down, and 4pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end. A bright copy of a field sports classic. Chapman and Buck describe in detail over two decades' field sports in a Spain long passed into history.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom