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London: Stipple Publications. Distributed by Sotheby's Publications, 1989. First edition. 12 color plates and 662black and white illustrations. xix, [i], 414 pp. 1 vols. Folio. First edition. 12 color plates and 662black and white illustrations. xix, [i], 414 pp. 1 vols. Folio. A Catalogue Raisonné of the engravings of the 18th Century British artist, George Stubbs (1724-1806) - amazingly accurate depictions of humans, horses, tigers and other animals - notes on the use of the catalogue - chronology - prints associated with Stubbs - the life of George Townly Stubbs with a checklist of his engravings - portraits of George Stubbs - addenda - bibliography - index.

London: Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty Henri Merke was principal engraver, 1807. from the First edition. 4 colored aquatint plates Number 25, by H. Merke after Samuel Howitt's Drawings. 4 vols. Image 14-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches. Uniformly framed and glazed in curly maple. Some fading and browning. Howitt, Samuel. from the First edition. 4 colored aquatint plates Number 25, by H. Merke after Samuel Howitt's Drawings. 4 vols. Image 14-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches. Williamson spent 20 years in Bengal. Howitt was the brother-in-law of Thomas Rowlandson. British Sporting Artists, 165 "The most beautiful book on Indian Sport in Existence. Another edition was published in 1808. It is greatly inferior to the First edition." Abbey Travel 427; Nissen ZBI, 4416; Schwerdt, vol. II, p. 297; Tooley (1954), 508

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of 950 copies. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of Frost's work. xvi, 154 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original tan cloth, gilt printing on upper cover and printed brown label on spine, very faded, inner hinge split. Frost, A.B. First Edition, one of 950 copies. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of Frost's work. xvi, 154 pp. 1 vols. 4to. An important book. Siegel 67; Frazier L-1-a

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, one of 950 copies. 62 plates. 1 vols. 4to. Original tan cloth, some cover wear, internally fine. First edition, one of 950 copies. 62 plates. 1 vols. 4to. Siegel 67; Frazier L-1-a

[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. First Edition. One of 500 copies. 47 pp. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Original black boards, yellow marbled endpapers. Spine with some wear and loss at head of spine, else fine. Bookplate. First Edition. One of 500 copies. 47 pp. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Siegel 34; Frazier B-8-a

Hot Springs, Virginia, 1939. First edition. Photographic Frontispiece with the author shooting and his dog. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Japan vellum spine and gray brown boards. First edition. Photographic Frontispiece with the author shooting and his dog. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. With an inserted presentation card, an Autograph note, signed "from Fay and Rachel " with envelope. Heller 2:686

London: Constable, 1911. First edition. Photographic illustrations and map. xvi, 437 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth. Very slight rubbing at edges, corners bumped, hinges weakening; ex-library, with stamps and label on rear endpaper. Very good. First edition. Photographic illustrations and map. xvi, 437 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An interesting narrative, focusing mainly on shooting the horned game of the mountains of Central Asia, with much discussion of the geography and natives of the various regions. Scarce.

[Boston], 1734. Woodcut of Royal Arms. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound; slight browning and minor imperfections, near fine. Woodcut of Royal Arms. 1 vols. 4to. Removing Obstructions to Fish in the Merrimack. Includes an act to supply the treasury 27,371 pounds for enumerated disbursements; an act to prevent encroachments on highways and private streets; an act for the ease of prisoners for debt; an act to prevent unnecessary law suits; an act to exempt anabaptists from being taxed for the support of ministers; an act to regulate the choice of town officials; an act to prevent the obstruction of the passage of fish in the Merrimack River; an act for erecting the new town of Halifax in the county of Plymouth; an act for dividing the town of Enfield and erecting a new town called Somers; an act creating the town of Litchfield at a place called Naticook near the Merrimack. Shipton and Mooney 3792

Long Beach, Calif: 310 East Broadway, 1924. First edition. Illustrations from photographs. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 153 mm). Blue cloth binding with 666 Catalina Cup device in gilt on upper cover; minimal wear. Half blue morocco gilt slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrations from photographs. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 153 mm). INSCRIBED. Presentation copy, inscribed on initial blank, "With best wishes - Thos McD Potter". This volume comprises articles on fishing, the Tuna Club, and the Southern California Rod and Reel Club, by Thomas McDaniels Potter, a pioneering Catalina angler. They were first published in the Catalina Islander, Judge Ernest Windle, proprietor. Judge Windle wrote the tribute to Potter which appears on pp. 7-10. Rare. Bruns P-124; Wetzel p. 198

[Clifton, New Jersey: Amwell Press for] The National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1982. First edition, no. 55 of 1000 copies signed by George Bird Evans and Jim Rikhoff. Illustrated by the author. Foreword by Kay Evans. 213, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red rexine. Slipcase. Very fine copy. First edition, no. 55 of 1000 copies signed by George Bird Evans and Jim Rikhoff. Illustrated by the author. Foreword by Kay Evans. 213, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition, issue with Scribner's seal on verso of title (published simultaneously with subscriber's edition). Illustrated frontispiece portrait, map, numerous photographs and drawings. xv, [i], 529 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original cloth, t.e.g., rest uncut. Very good. First trade edition, issue with Scribner's seal on verso of title (published simultaneously with subscriber's edition). Illustrated frontispiece portrait, map, numerous photographs and drawings. xv, [i], 529 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Roosevelt's highly interesting account of his travels through British East Africa, the Congo, and the Sudan in pursuit of all manner of big game. The narrative is gripping and the scientific content of enduring significance. Czech p. 238; Riling 1701; Hand R266

Missoula, Montana: The Boone and Crockett Club, [1995], 1995. Limited edition, no. 73 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Publisher's quarter maroon morocco and patterned paper siudes, all edges gilt, in open-faced cloth and paper over boards slipcase. Limited edition, no. 73 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Limited edition version of Gray's 1930 work.

Missoula, Montana: The Boone and Crockett Club, [1995], 1995. Limited edition, no. 34 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Publisher's quarter maroon morocco and patterned paper siudes, all edges gilt, in open-faced cloth and paper over boards slipcase. Limited edition, no. 34 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Limited edition version of Gray's 1930 work Originally issued in an excerpt only in the supplement to The Sportsman magazine, Vol. VIII, No. IV, October, 1930.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. No. 46 of 200 copies. Hand-colored aquatint engraving, signed by the artist lower left. 13 x 20 inches. Matted, framed, and glazed. Fine. No. 46 of 200 copies. Hand-colored aquatint engraving, signed by the artist lower left. 13 x 20 inches. Connett published two drypoints by Boyer in 1929, and this colored trout-fishing print in 1936, followed by a salmon fishing print in 1937. The Derrydale catalogue noted: "This is the only colored, modern trout-fishing print available. It was carefully planned by Mr. Boyer and Eugene V. Connett to be authentic in every detail.". Ordeman (2005) pp. 28, 103 (noting limitation of 250)

Highland Park, Illinois: Edward Smith Manufacturing Co, 1935. In pictorial yellow printed box. Fine. An Assortment of 6 different games.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First Edition, one of 850 copies. Erratum after p. xxi. Illustrated with 60 drawings by Paul Brown, and 70 photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth. Fine copy in rare pictorial red dust jacket by Brown. Laid into a half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. Brown, Paul. First Edition, one of 850 copies. Erratum after p. xxi. Illustrated with 60 drawings by Paul Brown, and 70 photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. IN DUST JACKET. Frazier B-17-a; Siegel 35; Podeschi, p. 375 (Deluxe ed.)

[N.p., Vancouver, 1961. Illustrated by Lew Saw (Alan Pratt, Seattle Times). 15 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated self-wrappers. Illustrated by Lew Saw (Alan Pratt, Seattle Times). 15 pp. 1 vols. 4to. RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and "one Indian" (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the Kvichak River in western Alaska. The camp was operated by Grenold Collins, and the party visited it on the recommendation of Lee Richardson. The narrative is whimsical and informative, the illustrations are in a lightly comic style. The back cover illustration is of the Skyomish Sunrise fly for steelhead. It is probable that just a few copies were printed, for the participants and their friends. Interesting and RARE. OCLC 41828006 (2 copies, Univ. Alaska, Univ. British Columbia)

[Modoc County, California, 1926. 107 photographs, most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches, but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches, mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin, or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. Contemporary three-quarter leather and patterned paper photo album, string-tied. Boards quite rubbed and worn. The photographs in quite nice condition. Very good overall. 107 photographs, most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches, but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches, mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin, or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. An evocative portrait of deer hunting and other outdoor activities in northern California in the mid-1920s. Many of the activities depicted took place in Modoc County in the far northeast of the state, while other camps were made in Shasta… Read More

1890. With 106 original gelatin silver photographs (one real photo post card) mounted on both sides of twelve album leaves, most 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, a few 2 x 3-1/2 inches. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Red morocco album, boards ruled in blnd, turn-ins gilt, a.e.g., for G.P. Putnam's. Rubbed but sound. Very good, internally clean and fresh. With 106 original gelatin silver photographs (one real photo post card) mounted on both sides of twelve album leaves, most 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, a few 2 x 3-1/2 inches. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent album of photographs of outdoor Colorado at the turn of the century, including railroad, ranch, and mountain scenes, a rural graveyard, and several hunting and camping trips in the back country in summer and winter. A summer bear hunt shows two pelts; the winter bear hunt features a party of four on horsebak with dogs. There is some good-nature mugging for the camera, too. Trophies include black bear, wolf, elk, and deer.

New York: Privately Printed for the Author, 1939. First edition, one of 200 copies in Baskerville type on W & A All Rag paper by William E. Rudge's Sons, New York. Decorations by Serge P. Petroff. 33 pp. 1 vols. Slender 4to. Quarter blue morocco and boards. Fine. First edition, one of 200 copies in Baskerville type on W & A All Rag paper by William E. Rudge's Sons, New York. Decorations by Serge P. Petroff. 33 pp. 1 vols. Slender 4to. "The adventures of the good ship Lancastria on a trip to the Bahamas," according to Bruns. Actually a trip on the Northern Star from Nassau to Bimini -- and a bad one at that! Bruns S-191; Heller 2:862