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Angling library of Jeffrey Norton British & European II (L-Z)

Bloomsbury 2002 103, col, b/w illus. . PB. Vg.. Auction sale 2 May 2002..

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Book number: S50454

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Fishing

Keywords: Angling; Auction Catalogue; Norton, Jeffrey

Baker, Samuel W.

Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Vol. I-II

MacMillan & Co. 1890 xii, [2], 419; vi, [2], 379, 2 frontispieces, 2 title vignettes, 25 plates. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, cont. half-calf, professionally repaired to head of one spine, raised bands and gt tooling to spine compartments; marbled boards (rubbed/scuffed), edges and endpapers. Some light, scattered foxing. A very good set.. First edition, in two volumes. Illustrated with wood engravings by Harry Dixon. 'Baker calls upon a lifetime of hunting experiences to describe a variety of big game worldwide.' Czech (Africa) p. 16; (Asia) p. 20. Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was an English explorer, naturalist, big game hunter, and writer. He is best known for his explorations of the Nile and the interior of Central Africa (he was the first European to visit Lake Albert), and for his exploits as a big game hunter..

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Book number: v40937

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: PBFA

Beard, Peter

The End of the Game

Hamlyn 1965 256, col + b/w photos. . HB. 4to, orig. green cloth. Vg in d/w. Small blind ownership stamp of Col. Ray Nightingale to endpaper, with his numerous neat, marginal ink annotations to text. Nightingale (1921-200) was born in Northern Rhodesia, served in the Kenya Regiment, King's African Rifles, and in the 1970s he was attached to the Sultan of Oman's Army. The book is annotated by Nightingale with references of considerable interest, enlarging upon Beard’s text, often with first-hand accounts of animals, people and places discussed in this work.. First UK edition. Text and photographs by Peter Beard. This book is a chronicle in words and pictures of the gradual and remorseless destruction of the central symbol of Africa's life - the animal. In a series of unique photographs the elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, cheetahs, water buck, zebras, and lions of Africa are shown living in a state of natural grace and dying with majestic courage..

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Book number: S47559

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: ABA03-2022; Africa; Big Game Hunting

Blome, Richard

Hawking or Faulconry

The Cresset Press 1929 xxxii, 123, [1], . . HB. 8vo, qtr parchment, paper-covered boards, teg. Vg in worn and slightly soiled d/w (small piece torn from spine; a few edge tears).. Facsimile edition of the falconry section from The Gentleman's Recreation, 1683. Preface by E.D .Cuming. Limited edition of 650 copies, No. 479..

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Book number: S50668

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: Facsimile Edition; Falconry; Limited Edition

Bonhams

The Angling Library of Alan Jarvis [Auction Catalogue]

Bonhams 2012 150, col illus. . PB. Vg.. Catalogue of a sale of an important angling library held on 22 May 2012..

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Book number: S39833

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Fishing

Keywords: Angling; Auction Catalogue

Bratby, M.

Grey Goose

Geoffrey Bles 1939 235, col frontis, 16 b/w plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt. Vg in d/w (minor edge wear; in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. Scarce in a well-preserved dust jacket. Frontispiece and text illustrations by Peter Scott. Reminiscences of Norfolk punt-gunning. 'Grey Goose is the name of the punt in which Mr Bratby discovered the difficult and exciting sport of goose and duck shooting. In this book he gives much useful information about the sport and tells of his own experiences in Norfolk and the Wash, in Westmorland and elsewhere. He discusses each species of wildfowl to be found in the country in large and in detail. Yet this is no treatise on ornithology. It is the highly diverting account of a modern Colonel Hawker's adventures'.

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Book number: S55710

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Shooting

Keywords: Norfolk; England; Britain; Shooting; Wildfowling

Buchanan-Wollaston, H.J.

On Statistical Treatment of the Results of Parallel Trials with Special Reference to Fishery Research

Freshwater Biological Association 1945 55, 2 fold out tables. . PB. Wrappers, spine browned. Vg.. FBA Scientific Publication No. 10..

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Book number: S29212

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Fishing

Carnegie, William ("Moorman")

Practical Game Preserving: Containing the fullest Directions for Rearing and Preserving both Winged and Ground Game, and destroying Vermin

L. Upcott Gill [1884] [iv], 570, [10]-ads, 44 figs (some full-page). . HB. 8vo, orig. red cloth, black and gilt decoration to front board, bevelled edges, spine faded; patterned endpapers, small closed tear to outer edge of front endpaper; 5 cm closed tear to sectional title to Part I. Vg.. Undated issue of the first edition (Preface dated 1884). Divided into three parts: I. Winged Game; II. Ground Game; III. Vermin..

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Book number: S53541

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Shooting

Keywords: Game Birds; Game Management

Clapham, C.S.; Robson, E.

Caves of Sof Omar

Ethiopian Tourist Organization [1966] 11, 2 maps (1 folding in rear pocket). . PB. . Sof Omar Caves is the longest cave in Ethiopia at 15.1 kilometres long. Includes information on the route through the caves and practical notes..

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Book number: S58618

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Climbing & Mountaineering

Keywords: Caving; Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa

Clark, R.

Victorian Mountaineers

B.T. Batsford 1953 232, frontis, 30 b/w plates from photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w (some edge-wear; price-clipped; in removable, protective sleeve). From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name to front pastedown.. First edition..

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Book number: S45128

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Climbing & Mountaineering

Corbett, J.

Man-Eaters of Kumaon

Oxford University Press and The Book Society 1946 xvii, 212, frontis, 3 b/w plates, maps to endpapers. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Some foxing to fore-edge. From the library of coleopterist, Guillaume de Rougemont (1945-2020), with his label. Good.. With foreword by Lord Linlithgow. Jthe author's experience of hunting man-eating Bengal tigers and Indian leopards in the Kumaon region of India (now the Indian State of Uttarakhand)..

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Book number: S54743

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: India; South Asia; Asia; Tigers; Big Cats

Crawfurd, Oswald (Ed.)

A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry, and Fishing

Chapman and Hall 1895 [x], 331, frontis, 57 plain illus (many full page). . HB. 4to (283x234mm), orig. cloth, slightly marked, bevelled boards, gilt vignette of a wildfowling scene to front board, blind-stamped stag head to rear board, patterned endpapers, teg, other edges uncut. Some foxing, mainly at beginning and end. Bookplate of Robert Ellis Cunliffe (1858-1927).. With chapters on birds of prey, the nidification of birds, and the habits of British wild birds and animals. With numerous illustrations by Frank Feller, Bryan Hook, Cecil Aldin, A.T. Elwes, E. Neale, John Beer, P. Viernzeny, Stanley Berkeley, and G.E. Lodge.Mullens & Swann p. 155..

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Book number: S55682

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: Country sports; Falconry; Fishing; Angling; Shooting

Cuming, E.D.

British Sport Past and Present

Hodder and Stoughton 1909 xv, 271, 31 col plates. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth, gt, spine detached. Some light foxing to front/rear pages. Notice of 'An Exhibition of the Original Watercolour Drawings by G. Denholm Armour illustrating "British Sport, Past and Present" .... at the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, London, ... 1909', loosely inserted.. With illustrations by G. Denholm Armour..

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Book number: S44131

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: Britain; Country sports; Fishing; Hunting; Shooting

Cumming, R.G.

Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. Vol. I.

John Murray 1850 xvi, 388, frontis, vignette title, 5 plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, dec. gt to spine and front board, worn, joint partly split, chipped with some loss, tear to backstrip. Front hinge cracked but firm. Front endpaper detached. Some light foxing.. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. Second edition. Vol. I only (of 2)..

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Book number: S48525

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Hunting

Keywords: South Africa; Southern Africa; Africa

Dawson, Major K.

Marsh and Mudflat

Country Life 1931 [vi], 100, frontis, 15 plain plates. 4to. HB. 4to (283x224mm), orig. green cloth spine and patterned cloth boards; marbled endpapers. Vg in d/w (some edge wear, minor loss to head of spine; in removable protective sleeeve).. First edition. Illustrated from original dry-points and etchings by Winifred Austen. An account of the author's wildfowling experiences, with a chapter on wildfowling in Macedonia..

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Book number: S55684

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes,Shooting

Keywords: Birds; Countryside; Ducks; Geese; Natural History; Shooting; Wildfowling