BECKFORD, PETER.

Thoughts on Hunting, in a Series of Familiar Letter to a Friend.

London: Cowie, Holland, & Co, 1840. New Edition. To Which is Added a Chapter on Coursing. 19cms x 12cms x 2cms. Pp.xii/346/2 (publisher's catalogue, gift message to half-title page, front free endpaper absent, professional repair to inner front hinge. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt motif to front, gilt title to spine, minor bumps to corners. G+.

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Book number: 51288

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Beckford Hunting Letters Kennel Hounds Foxes Hare Coursing Stag Hunting Riding Badgers 52693 Sport: : Hunting

NICHOLSON, ALBERT.

John Crozier, of Riddings, Master of Hounds.

London and Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, nd. (c.1906). Reprinted from "The Manchester Quarterly", January 1906. John Crozier was the Master of the Blencathra Foxhounds, Threlkeld, Cumberland. Pp.21, portrait frontispiece + 2 further black & white photo plates, owner's bookplate to inside front cover. Grey stiff card cover. VG.

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Book number: 49189

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Albert Nicholson John Crozier Riddings Master of Hounds Blencathra Threlkeld Cumberland Hunting 50669 Sport: : Hunting

PRICHARD, H. HESKETH.

Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. 1st edition. With a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. Illustrated by Lady Helen Graham, E.G.Caldwell, and from photographs. The author describes his travels in South America, Norway, Newfoundland and Labrador, hunting moose, elk and caribou. Well bound in the original red cloth. Large 8vo. 10.25" x 8.0" x 2.0". pp.14/pp.273[1p. - advert], + 55 leaves of plates as called for (some coloured). Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to front board and an image of a moose. Edges lightly rubbed and corners bumped. Spine a little faded with similar gilt titles. Top page edges gilt (now dulled). Rough-cut page edges. Toning to endpapers. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Eric Cecil Sebag-Montefiore." Light foxing throughout, but all plates in good condition. G+. ** Lt.-Col. Eric Cecil Sebag-Montefiore (1899-1991). He was educated at Wellington College and then at Sandhurst. He fought in both World Wars, gaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1947 in the service of the Durham Light Infantry. (The Peerage).

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Book number: 45541

Catalogue: Sport: : Hunting

Keywords: Hesketh Prichard Hunting Camps Wood Wilderness Moose Patagonia Cordillera Andes Labrador Newfoundland Norway Elk Canada Caribou Sebag Montefiore 47071 Sport: : Hunting