Sport in the Alps. In the Past and Present. An Account of the Chase of the Chamois, Red-deer, Bouquetin, Roe-deer, Capercaillie, and Blackcock, with Personal Adventures and Historical Notes and Some Sporting Reminiscences of H.R.H. The Late Duke of Saxe.
by Baillie Grohmann, W. A
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First American Edition. Decorated Cloth. Good+. 8vo. x + 356 pp. + 2 ad supp (regarding Baillie-Grohman's other works). Spine a bit sunned. Some minor bubbling of cloth on front boards. Light shelfwear, heavier at base of spine. Slight looseness of front hinge in lower part. Pages generally clean, toned. Baillie-Grohman was a famous sportsman and Alpine enthusiast, and this work is a memoir of his adventures mostly in the Austrian Alps, which offered the best Alpine hunting/shooting at the time. Baillie-Grohman writes with a real flair, conveying the adventure, fun and tension of the hunt, and he laces his writing with erudition and interesting digressions.
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- Title
- Sport in the Alps. In the Past and Present. An Account of the Chase of the Chamois, Red-deer, Bouquetin, Roe-deer, Capercaillie, and Blackcock, with Personal Adventures and Historical Notes and Some Sporting Reminiscences of H.R.H. The Late Duke of Saxe.
- Author
- Baillie Grohmann, W. A
- Format/Binding
- Decorated Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Hunting, Shooting, Sporting
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By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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