MILLAIS John Guille

The Wildfowler in Scotland. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF MILLAIS IN SCOTLAND

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1901. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 8 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), 2 plates in colour, and 50 illustrations in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned; original half vellum gilt, blue-grey boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Millais' sojurn in the Highlands was partly for the purpose of collecting specimens for his well-known portrayals of surface-feeding and diving ducks.

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Book number: 31246

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Keywords: sporting, field sports, wildfowling, shooting, scotland, millais, john guille millais

MILLER, K.M.

Lonsdale Library Volume XIX. Motor Cruising. [With Contributions by] H.P. Allen, Sir Charles Allom, J.R. Barnett, George Corderoy [and many others]. NEAR FINE COPY

Seeley Service,, [1947]. 8vo., with frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth boards, upper board lettered in gilt, brown buckram back blocked and lettered in gilt, brown top, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 42554

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Keywords: sporting, lonsdale library, motor cruising, motor yachts,

MILLER Lynn

Woodcarving and Design.

Pitman,, [1936]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 11196

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Keywords: sports, pastimes, carving, woodcarving, handicrafts, crafts, wood, lynn miller, sports, pastimes, woodwork, woodcarving, design

MILLS John

The Life of a Foxhound. Illustrated by J.A. Shepherd. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1921]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title and half-title, 6 fine coloured plates and and very numerous line illustrations in the text, free endpapers browned; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip (moderately faded) laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of Major Henry Kenny Clough; it bears his armorial bookplate on front paste-down and appropriate inscription on front free endpaper.

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Book number: 29838

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Keywords: sports, pastimes, field sports, hunting, foxunting, fox-hunting, foxhounds, dogs, henry kenny clough

MILLS Derek

The Salmon Rivers of Scotland. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Cassell,, [1984]. 8vo., Second Impression, with illustrations and numerous maps (a number folding); green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37281

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Keywords: sports, sporting, angling, fishing, fly-fishing, salmon, scotland, salmon rivers, derek mills, neil graesser

MILTON Howard

Kent Cricket Records 1815-1993. Incorporating all First-Class Matches 1864 to 1993 and all Important Matches 1815 to 1863. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPU IN WRAPPERS

Limlow Books, [Royston],, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 10701

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Keywords: sporting, sports, pastimes, cricket, kent, howard milton

MITCHELL Abe

Essentials of Golf. Edited and arranged by J. Martin. [Fifteenth Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1936]. 8vo., Fifteenth Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, some very light and scattered spotting; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in green, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mitchell's golfing classic was first published in 1927. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 38688

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Keywords: sporting, golf, mitchell, abe mitchell

MON OUVRAGE

Mon Ouvrage. Tous les Travaux de Dames. No. 285. 1 Janvier 1935. A RARE SURVIVAL

Edition de la Societe du Petit Echo de la Mode, Paris,, 1935. Small broadsheet, 32pp, with coloured front and rear covers and double-page centre spread, and numerous illustrations and patterns in the text; fore-edges lightly browned else a very good, copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 15166

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Keywords: sewing, needlework, tapestry, crochet, mon ouvrage, french magazines, mon ouvrage

MON OUVRAGE

Mon Ouvrage. Tous les Travaux de Dames. No. 277. 1 Septembre 1934.. A RARE SURVIVAL

Edition de la Societe du Petit Echo de la Mode, Paris,, 1934. Small broadsheet, 16pp, with coloured front and rear covers and double-page centre spread, and numerous illustrations and patterns in the text; fore-edges mildly browned and chipped with minor loss at centre outer edge else a very good, copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 15168

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Keywords: sewing, needlework, tapestry, crochet, mon ouvrage, french magazines, mon ouvrage

MOORE Adolphus Warburton

The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. Edited by Alex. B. W.Kennedy. [First Trade Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF AN ALPINE CLASSIC

David Douglas, Edinburgh,, 1902. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 21 fine photographic plates in gravure (all original tissue guards present), 20 smaller photographs as chapter heads and 10 maps in the text, endpapers mildly browned; original pale green buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), joints very lightly rubbed, short split in paper of upper hinge (but binding entirely sound), a well-preserved, bright, cleam, crisp copy. With the engraved bookplate of Herbert Cooke on front paste-down. One of the greatest Alpine memoirs. Moore climbed with Whymper and Horace Walker, and was a member of the party which made the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge. Originally published privately in 1867 in an edition of 100 copies. The plates are remarkable for their extensive and detailed captions. Moore's later diaries, currently unpublished, are held by the Alpine Club. Neate *535; Perret 3086 'edition la plus interessante pour l'alpiniste'.

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Book number: 39013

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, rock-climbing, alps, alpine, aw moore, adolphus warburton moore

MORPHY Countess

Mushroom Recipes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Herbert Joseph,, [1936]. 8vo., First Edition; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at upper edge of front panel. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 32147

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Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, mushrooms, fungi, edible fungi, countess morphy

MORRIS Helen

Portrait of a Chef. The Life of Alexis Soyer, sometime Chef to the Reform Club. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

University Press, Cambridge,, 1938. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy. Standard biography of the 'Gastronomic Regenerator'. SCARCE.

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Book number: 42712

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Keywords: pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, cooking, recipes, chefs, soyer, alexis soyer, reform club

MORRITT Major H. E.

The Constant Fisherman. With an Introduction by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard. 2300 COPIES WERE PRINTED

A&C Black,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss and two or three short closed tears. Complete with dustwrapper, not seen by Hammond (see p.218). Ransome's foreword echoes his review of the author's 'Fishing Ways and Wiles' and repeats the story of Morritt's contribution to Ransome's invention of the elver fly. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Hammond B31.

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Book number: 18364

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Keywords: angling, fishing, fly-fishing, morritt, arthur ransome, raymond sheppard,

MORRITT Major H. E.

Fishing Ways and Wiles. [Second Edition]. With an Introduction by Lord Howard de Walden. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Jonathan Cape,, [1950]. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and 4 illustrations (3 full-page) in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of the first edition of 1929.

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Book number: 10462

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MUMMERY Albert Frederick

My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus. With an Introduction by Mrs. Mummery and an Appreciation by J.A.Hobson. Second Edition (fourth impression). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF A CLIMBING CLASSIC

T Fisher Unwin,, 1908. 8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, plates in photogravure and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on title, free endpapers lightly browned; original oatmeal buckram, backstrip with leather labels (chipped at edges) framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. Mummery's classic account was first published in 1895. In this, arguably the best, edition the frontispiece of Aiguille Verte is replaced by the author's portrait. Neate *555.

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Book number: 39001

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, rock-climbing, alps, alpine, caucasus, mummery, albert frederick mummery