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| FREDERICK, SIR CHARLES ET AL : THE EARL OF LONSDALE (ED.) The Lonsdale Library Vol. VII Fox-Hunting London: Seeley, Service & Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige buckram boards with gilt titles on sunned spine, foredge of boards a little soiled, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, previous owners letter bearing gift inscription pasted to ffep else internally clean and bright, illustrated with numerous plates in colour and b/w, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 368 pp. VG . GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.5 US$ 41.35 | JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3509 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd.. | ||
| LOCKHART, ROBERT BRUCE My Rod My Comfort. London: The Dropmore Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 3822886017. Quarter vellum over green buckram boards with gilt titles on spine and gilt decoration to upper board, teg others untrimmed, internally clean and bright and unopened, illustrated with wood engravings by J. Gaastra, No.94 of an edition of 550. The book is contained in a card slipcase that accounts for the fine condition of the book. Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart is best known for his book "Memoirs of a British agent", as well as being a prolific military and political historian. This book is more personal, being the memoirs of a life long fisherman, from his boyhood in Scotland, through his time abroad and to his return to Speyside, 4to 11" - 13" tall, vi + 75 pp. NF . GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 131.75 US$ 198.48 | JP¥ 17074] Book number: 8147 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd.. | ||
| SCROPE, WILLIAM 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 the Red Deer, and a Short Description of the Scotch Forests; Legends, Superstitions, Stories of Poachers... London: John Murray, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary full brown morocco with gilt titles and rules on spine and elaborate gilt decoration to boards, some rubbing to edges and corners, corners bumped, aeg, amorial bookplate on front pastedown, previous owners inscription on flyleaf, engraved frontis and vignette title page and 10 other engraved plates after Landseer and the author. William Scrope (1772-1852) had two passions, deer-stalking and salmon fishing, and he wrote two outstanding books, 'The Art of Deerstalking,' and 'Days and Nights of Salmon-fishing in the Tweed' and both are important books on their subjects. In this work he descibes how deer were hunted in the Highlands of Scotland using deerhounds in an age prior to the introduction of modern rifles, tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall, xix [i] + 436 pp. GBP 695.00 [Appr.: EURO 762.5 US$ 1149.53 | JP¥ 98889] Book number: 8161 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd.. |
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