ELEY GAME BOOKLET

Eley Game Advisory Service. Booklet 19. Grey Squirrels. Shooting and Trapping. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Eley Game Advisory Service, [Fordingbridge],, [1964]. 8vo., with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Revised version of the first issue of 1931.

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Book number: 49209

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ELEY GAME BOOKLET

Eley Game Advisory Service. Booklet 20. Game on the Farm. A Digest of Game Management. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Eley Game Advisory Service, [Fordingbridge],, [1963]. 8vo., with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Revised version of the first issue of 1956.

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Book number: 49210

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ENGEL Claire Eliane

A History of Mountaineering in the Alps. With a Foreword by F.S. Smythe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Allen & Unwin,, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. Neate 243.

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Book number: 19248

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Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, matterhorn, eiger, claire engel, c.e. engel, sports, pastimes

'EPHEMERA, pseud'.

A Handbook of Angling: teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing and Salmon-Fishing. With the Natural History of River Fish amnd the best Modes of catching them. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Longman Brown Green and Longmans,, 1847. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frame borders in blind, gilt back, uncut, cream endpapers, a remarkably well-reserved bright, crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP, ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' (Westwood & Satchell). Westwood & Satchell, pp. 85-6.

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Book number: 33587

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FARLEY John

The London Art of Cookery and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant. On a New Plan, made plain and easy to the Understanding of every Housekeeper, Cook and Servant in the Kingdom. The Eleventh Edition, with new and elegant Receipts. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Scatcherd & Letterman,, 1807. 8vo., Eleventh Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved full-page illustrations in the text, fore-edge very lightly spotted; attractively bound in twentieth century tan calf, back with gilt rules, second compartment with nineteenth-century red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards unevenly sunned else a very good, remarkably bright, crisp copy. First published in 1783, Farley's work was a popular and continuing success, reaching its twelfth edition in 1811. Principal Cook at the London Tavern, Farley claims that his work 'unlike so many which are without method or order, is marked by perspicuity and regularity'. However Cagle reveals that Fiona Lucraft provides a detailed account of the author's plagiarism from Raffald and Glasse. Farley's name appears below the portrait from the ninth edition (?) onwards. Bitting 152; Cagle, 675; Maclean, pp.50-52; Oxford, p.114; Wheaton & Kelly 2066 (all recording the first edition). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 26394

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FESTING Sally

Gertrude Jekyll. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Viking,, [1991]. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates, contemporary inscription on title; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 29933

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Keywords: gardening, horticulture, gertrude jekyll, sally festing

FIENNES Ranulph

To the Ends of the Earth. [TransGlobe Expedition 1979-1982].

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, diagrams and maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 24061

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Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, ralph fiennes, ranulph fiennes, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, ends, earth

FINAUGHTY William

The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875. Rhodesiana Reprint Library Volume Twenty-Nine. With additional sketch Map, Illustrations, and new Foreword and Notes by Edward C Tabler. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo,, 1973. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and full-page map; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A big game and South African classic first published in 1916. This edition is now uncommon in its own right.

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Book number: 26816

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FINAUGHTY William

The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter 1864-1875. Reprint of the 1916 edition with additional Sketch Map, Illustrations and a new Foreword and Notes by Edward C. Tabler. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo,, 1980. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and additional full-page map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. African Hunting Reprint Series, vol. 3. High-quality facsimile reissue of the edition of 1916.

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Book number: 41105

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FISHER P.

The Angler's Souvenir. P Fisher, Esq., assisted by several eminent Piscatory Characters. With Illustrations by Beckwith & Topham. CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL CLOTH

Charles Tilt,, 1835. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece and title, 31 engraved plates, text framed within a series of repeating woodcut borders, frontispiece and title moderately spotted, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal) to a few leaves of text; original ribbed green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, back in pictorial gilt extra, very neatly rebacked, old backstrip laid down, gilt top, yellow endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. A classic of the genre. Chatto also authored 'Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland' and contributed to the Newcastle 'Garlands'. 'The work is clever and caustic, and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day' (Westwood & Satchell). SCARCE. Westwood & Satchell, p.93.

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Book number: 10707

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FITZGERALD Edward Arthur

Climbs in the New Zealand Alps. Being an Account of Travel and Discovery. With Contributions by Sir Martin Conway, Professor T.G. Bonney and C.L. Barrow. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY WITH ALL GUARDS; 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED

T Fisher Unwin,, 1896. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 48 fine (a number in photogravure or toned in sepia; all original tissue guards present) and very large folding coloured map (a few neat repairs on inner folds), some light and occasional spotting (mainly marginal); original brown buckram, upper board blocked in black, backstrip with three leather labels lettered in gilt (labels worn but all gilt entirely legible), gilt top, uncut, expertly recased, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The plate listed as facing p.162 is placed facing p.164; that listed as facing p.276 faces p.278. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *272.

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Book number: 42088

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, new zealand, silberhorn, hooker glacier, haidinger, mount sefton, edward arthur fitzgerald

FITZGERALD Edward Arthur

The Highest Andes. A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the surrounding Valleys. With Chapters by Stuart Vines and Contributions by Professor Bonney [and several others]. [Maps drawn by A.E. Lightbody.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Methuen,, 1899. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates (a number in photogravure), folding panorama on japon and 2 large folding coloured maps (one in relief) at end, a little negligible foxing here and there; original red diced cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, an unusually well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *273.

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Book number: 38806

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FLEISCHER, ed. Nat

The 1969 Ring Boxing Encyclopedia and Record Book. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

The Ring Book Shop, New York NY,, 1969. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities and little faded at backstrip. SCARCE.

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Book number: 39775

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FLEMING REID & CO. LTD

What to Knit for Baby. Fourth Series. A RARE SURVIVAL

Fleming Reid & Co., Greenock,, [c.1935]. Sq. 16mo., with numerous illustrations throughout, some very light spotting; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisement in the text. A rare survival.

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Book number: 19864

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FLETCHER J.S.

The History of the St. Leger Stakes 1776-1901. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Hutchinson,, 1902. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 3 coloured plates nd numerous plates in monochrome, free endpapers very lightly browned, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Detailed and comprehensive history of the famous Yorkshire horse race, the oldest (1776) of Britain's five classic flat races. Appendices include St. Leger at a Glance; Winners of the St. Leger and other classic races; Owners winning more than once; Winners of the Doncaster Cup; and other related data. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 31344

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Keywords: sports, sporting, horses, racing, horse-racing, turf, st. leger, st. leger stakes