CHAPMAN A.P.F

Lonsdale Library Volume VI. The Game of Cricket. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Seeley Service,, 1930. 8vo., with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, a bright, clean copy. With personal name-stamp on front free endpaper and rear paste-down.

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Book number: 42551

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Keywords: sporting, lonsdale library, cricket, chapman

CHAPMAN Abel

Wild Spain (Espana Agreste). Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod and Gun, Natural History and Exploration. IN FULL MOROCCO

Gurney & Jackson,, 1893. 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.

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Book number: 19498

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: field sports, spain, andalucia, hunting, shooting, wildfowling, fishing, fly-fishing, angling, abel chapman, a. chapman, w.j. buck, sports, pastimes, field sports, wild, spain, (espana, agreste)

CHARITATOS Manos

I Istoria Tou Ellinikou Tsigarou [History of the Greek Cigarette].. FINE COPY IN PRESENTATION CASE

Elliniko Logotechniko Kai Istoriko Archeio, Athens,, 1997. Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in Greek, with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board presentation case. The presentation case is modelled on a cigarette box. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 33223

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, pastimes, tobacco, smoking, cigars, cigarettes, cigarillos

CHEKE Val

The Story of Cheese-Making in Britain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Routledge & Kegan Paul,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 44570

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Keywords: mstock, cookery, gastronomy, cheese, cheesemaking, cheese-making, cheesemakers, cheke, val cheke

CHIVERS Keith

The Shire Horse. A History of the Breed, the Society and the Men. [Preface by Lord Cornwallis. Foreword by HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh.] 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Allen,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and coloured and monochrome plates; handsomely bound in full tan calf, upper board blocked in gilt, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, white silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's marbled board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY LORD CORNWALLIS (THIS COPY. NO. 87).

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Book number: 36551

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Keywords: sports, sporting, horses, horse, shire horse, shire horses, heavy horse, heavy horses, cart-horse, cart-horses, keith chivers, lord cornwallis

CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL H[arry]

The Book of the Pike. A Practical Treatise on the various Methods of Jack Fishing. With an Analysis of the Tackle employed. The History of the Fish, etc. Also a Chapter on Spinning for Trout in Lakes and Rivers. [Second Edition]. SECOND EDITION, WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE

Frederick Warne,, [1870]. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present; the guard offset as intended), 8 plates in monochrome and 17 illustrations in the text, half-title and blank preliminaries very lightly spotted; original coarse-grain red cloth, sides ruled in gilt, back lettered in gilt and blocked with a pike motif, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy in wholly unrestored contemporary themed binding. With 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end and contemporary binder's ticket of Burn & Co on rear paste-down. Lovely copy of the second edition of this angling classic, first published in 1865. AN UNUSUAL COPY IN THAT THE FRONTISPIECE IS COLOURED, WHEREAS HAMPTON STATES MONOCHROME. A third and final edition followed in 1876. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton, p.222; Westwood & Satchell, pp.168-9.

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Book number: 31795

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Keywords: sports, pastimes, fishing, angling, pike, trout, pennell,harry cholmondeley-pennell

CLARK Ronald

The Early Alpine Guides. Drawing by Christopher Chamberlain. [Introduction by Lord Schuster.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Phoenix House,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Neate *149.

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Book number: 38929

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, alpine guides, ronald clark

CLARKE John

The Australians in England, 1964. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Stanley Paul,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at creased at edges. Includes an account (and photographs) of Trueman's 300th test wicket, and full tour statistics.

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Book number: 13125

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Keywords: sporting, sports, sport, cricket, test match, australia, ashes, trueman, john clarke

CLUB ALPIN SUISSE.

L'Echo des Alpes. Organe du Club Alpin Suisse pour les Sections de Langue Francaise. 1912. [Nos. 1-12 complete.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Librairie A. Jullian, Geneve,, 1912. 8vo., First Edition thus, text in French, with numerous plates, and illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, maroon cloth sides, back with flat gilt bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 38780

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, club alpin suisse

CLUB ALPIN SUISSE.

L'Echo des Alpes. Organe du Club Alpin Suisse pour les Sections de Langue Francaise. 1913. [Nos. 1-12 complete.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Librairie A. Jullian, Geneve,, 1913. 8vo., First Edition thus, text in French, with numerous plates, and illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, maroon cloth sides, back with flat gilt bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 38781

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, club alpin suisse

COLLYNS C.P.

Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Lawrence & Bullen,, [1902]. Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with 34 plates by Caldwell; original brown buckram, vellum back, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. The author of this classic account was a surgeon at Dulverton on Exmoor

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Book number: 15277

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mstock, shelfka, red deer, hunting, deer-stalking, field sports, sporting, c.p. collyns, sports, pastimes, field sports, notes, chase, wild, red, deer, counties, devon, somerset

COLQUHOUN Kate

Taste. The Story of Britain through its Cooking.

Bloomsbury,, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Superb celebration of the development of English cooking in both its historical and social contexts. The author has much in common with David, Grigson, Ayrton and the other luminaries. A fascinating and occasionally very funny survey.

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Book number: 12434

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, cooking, meals, shopping, sports, pasrimes, sporting, kate colquhoun, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, taste

CONWAY Sir Martin

Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WANTING ONE PLATE

The Watkins Meter Co., Hereford,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 17 [of 18] plates (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile) and double-page map; original burgundy ribbed cloth, upper board letterd in white, gilt back, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Wanting the plate 'Mount Buckland' at p.190 (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile). With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE. Neate 180.

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Book number: 34062

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, rock climbing, martin conway, aconcagua, tierra del fuego, chile, peru

CONWAY Sir William Martin

The Alps from End to End. [Third Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION

Constable,, 1895. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and 99 full-page plates, endpapers mildly browned; original green ribbed cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, brown cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, hinges tender (but binding wholly sound), boards mildly faded else a bright, clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of John Francis Leigh Clare on front paste-down, and his holograph signature on front free endpaper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Clare was son to John Leigh Clare, merchant and art collector, of Toxteth Old Hall, Liverpool. Neate *176.

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Book number: 38805

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Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, conway, william conway, john francis leigh clare

COOK Ann

Ann Cook and Friend. With an Introduction and Notes by Regula Burnet. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1936. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, free endpapers very lightly spotted; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly dust-soiled at backstrip. This valuable work transcribes sections of Cook's 'Professed Cookery' (3ed; 1760) which includes the author's 'Plan of House-Keeping'. The 'Plan' is presented as an autobiographical account of her life in service at Hexham and Morpeth, together with the life of her friend 'Abigail'. The work as a whole provides a well-nigh unique account of country life in the eighteenth century; this edition (the sole modern version) includes a lengthy introduction by Burnet. Scarce, especially in this condition. See Axford, p.13; Bitting, p.69; Maclean, p.35; Oxford, p.91; Pargellis & Medley 1801.

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Book number: 20853

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Keywords: sports, sporting, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, ann cook, regula burnet, hexham, morpeth, ann cook, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, ann, cook, friend