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Biblio offers selections of rare and antique books relating to all kinds of hobbies, and you can find rare hunting and gun books in the Biblio Rare Book Room. Many of the rare books featured in the rare hunting and gun books section of the Biblio Rare Book Room include detailed illustrations and interesting bindings, and there is a wide diversity of topics. Some of the rare and antique hunting and gun books focus on particular styles of rifles or hunting techniques, and others discuss the history of such hunting.

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The Sportsman's Cabinet and Town and Country Magazine, A Periodical Devoted to the Genuine...
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The Sportsman's Cabinet and Town and Country Magazine, A Periodical Devoted to the Genuine Sports of the Field and Interesting Illustrations of Natural History : Indispensably Connected with the Ramifications of the Chase, the Turf, the Stream, &c. &c.

by Johnson, T. B.

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London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1833. Complete 2 volume set. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Uniformly bound in the original green, diamond-textured cloth. Gilt lettering is still bright and shiny. NOT a library discard. Scattered foxing, affecting several plates. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO margin notes Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 428pp; 424pp. Complete with 25 plates, as called for. A complete run of this monthly magazine which ceased publication after 12 issues (Nov. 1832 - Oct. 1833). Contains much on dogs, including articles on Fox-Hounds, the Irish Wolfhound, etc. The title page continues: "Indispensably Connected with the Ramifications of the Chase, the Turf, the Stream, &c. &c. with Amusing and Instructive Anecdotes and Elegant Engravings." Index in each volume. Not in Hand.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 2 vols. 428pp. + 424pp.
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Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken uber die Falknerey. Baz namah, an early work...
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Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken uber die Falknerey. Baz namah, an early work in Turkish about falconry written for the Seljuk ruler Mehmet bin Menteshe

by Mahmud b. Muhammed el- Barjini

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Vienna: Commission C. A. Hartleben, 1840 Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original picturial hard covers with damaged spine, initial frontispiece (Ober dem Thore von Konia), title page in German with ownership by Mubarak bin Ali (seems to be from the Arabian Peninsula) in Arabic and Latin dated 1896, forrword and dedication to Philipps Augustus, xxxii, 115 p. German translation by Purgstall including partial Arabic and Latin texts, 96 p. Ottoman Turkish (Seljuk) text with 2 p. errata and picturial and floral initials in the beginning of the Turkish text. Partially water stained but generally in good condition. Limited to 300 copies..
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Through The Highlands Of Siberia -- 1904 SIGNED First Edition in RARE Dust Jacket
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Through The Highlands Of Siberia -- 1904 SIGNED First Edition in RARE Dust Jacket

by Swayne R.E., Major H. G. C.

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Used - Very Good
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1st Edition 1st Printing
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Hardcover
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London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original reddish brown cloth, gilt lettering front & spine, zebra patterned EPs. WITH publisher's rare original printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on the verso of the FFEP and with author's inscription on the short-title page. The copy in the Brooke-Hitchings collection of books in exceptional condition did not have the dust jacket and was not signed. The book offered here is in very good condition with faint thin streak on front cover (= loss of some sheen but no staining), very slight rubbing bottom edges covers & tips corners, village/county blindstamp on FFEP, other than author's inscriptions and signature there are no owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing, complete with all plates and fold-outs. The rare dust jacket has tiny loss lower rear flap corner, tiny loss lower spine corner, no tears, some minor curling at spine ends, no… Read More
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Sports and Sportsmen. Two Volumes. South Africa and Rhodesia. South Africa.
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Sports and Sportsmen. Two Volumes. South Africa and Rhodesia. South Africa.

by Cape Times (Compiled and Edited by)

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1st Edition
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Cape Town: Atkinson & Partners (S.A.) Limited, 1929., 1929. Edition Deluxe limited to 500 numbered copies, these being number 495. Two Volumes, complete. Very large, very heavy folios. Frontispiece portrait photograph of His Excellency The Real of Athlone and title page photograph, with tissue guard. xv, 624 pp.; frontispiece photograph of The Rt. Hon. Cecil Rhodes and title page photograph, with tissue guard. xiii, 526 pp. Both volumes are profusely illustrated with B & W photographs. Bound in red leather over beveled boards, 5 raised spinal bands, all edges gilt. Coated marbled endpapers. Both volumes are very tight, with the red leather unfaded and bright; interiors are bright and unfoxed. South Africa and Rhodesia has just very light rubbing and is near fine; South Africa has modest rubbing at the extremities and on the covers, very good plus. Overall a superior set and uncommon thus.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.
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Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : containing fifty plates,...
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Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : containing fifty plates, beautifully coloured, from the original drawings

by HOWITT, Samuel

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Used - Near Fine
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First
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Hardcover
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1841 1ed Foreign Field Sports Color Illustrated Hunting Fishing WHALING Howitt

An extremely valuable and impressive, color illustrated work of sport and outdoors by illustrator Samuel Howitt. 'Foreign Field Sports' is a 19th-century sports manual known for its engravings on hunting, big game animals, fishing and ice fishing, horse racing and competitions, and whaling! The whaling engravings themselves are often considered some of the most desirable views of the sport!

Note on dating and rarity: While the title page does not indicate dating, the plates themselves are dated by 1813 and 1833. William gilling was a notable London publisher from 1841-1844. Individual engravings from this work are known be extremely desirable and some sell alone for nearly $1,000!
Item number: #6293
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HOWITT, Samuel
Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : containing fifty plates, beautifully coloured, from the original drawings
London : Published by W. Gilling, [1841]. First edition by… Read More
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The shooting directory
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The shooting directory

by THORNHILL, Richard Badham

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Used - Near Fine
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First edition, true first issue
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Hardcover
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1804 1st print Thornhill Shooting Directory HUNTING Color Illustrated Sport Guns

Richard Thornhill's 'Shooting Directory' is one of, if not the best early 19th-century shooting and hunting manual. This incredible folio hunting guide is a collection of discussions on hunting dogs, firearms and gunpowder, shooting styles, and of course descriptions of game animals. While hunting books have always been popular amongst sportsmen, this particular book is known to have more draw than most because of its exquisite full-page, color engravings!

This incredibly rare and valuable true first printing includes pages 214-220 which were suppressed from later editions. These pages highly criticized the hunting ability and shooting techniques of King George III. It is certainly because of these claims that, following the publication of this book, Thornhill moved from England to live full-time in Paris.

Item number: #6702
Price: $1950
Note: Interesting provenance, belong to an infamous landlord and slaveowner.… Read More
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Essays on Various Subjects
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Essays on Various Subjects

by [Davis, J.]

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First Edition
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New York: J. W. Bell, 1835. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in blue cloth with faint vine pattern, title label on spine. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed, two previous owner bookplates to front endsheet. Written by an anonymous New York journalism and now attributed to J. Davis, of which little is known. Contains numerous on sportsmen, dogs and bird shooting. A lovely copy, housed in a custom case. Phillips, p.115.
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The Hunter-Naturalist
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The Hunter-Naturalist

by Webber, Charles

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Second Edition
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. Second Edition. Very Good. Second edition. In publisher's original dark brown cloth, with spine rebacked and corners touched up. Very Good. Lacking the color frontis. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down, light foxing throughout. Phillips, p.397.
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A Western Trip
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A Western Trip

by Schmidt, Carl E.

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Used - Very Good
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First Edition
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Detroit: [Herold Press] For private circulation only, 1904. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. First edition. Author's hand-written poem on verso of front free end paper, with his signed inscription on the following page. Bound in publisher's full calf illustrated on the front cover in gilt, with red silk end sheets and deckled edges, with 12 mounted color photographs by Henry Jackson plus 18 halftone images in the text. Very Good, with binding lightly rubbed, spine lightly creased. Fragile silk rear endsheet is partially lifted, and there is a thin strip excised from the front. A scarce and well-preserved volume pertaining to travels in Yellowstone, featuring full page color photographs of famous natural monuments.
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A Treatise on Gunnery
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A Treatise on Gunnery

by Gray, John

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First Edition
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London: William Innys, 1731. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Bound in three-quarter leather over marbled paper, with gilt tooling and raised bands to the spine. Former owner bookplate to front paste down, pages show light, old stains, toning and sporadic soiling. An important treatise on ballistics by the British mathematician, with a long historical preface beginning with ancient Greece and Rome.
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Neil Cost: Magic with Wood: A Photographic Collection of Unique and Rare Turkey Calls
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Neil Cost: Magic with Wood: A Photographic Collection of Unique and Rare Turkey Calls

by Marks, Michael F.

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Long Cane Press, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Signed by the author. Book is number 537 of the numbered and signed first edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Slight crease along the bottom edge on the front cover of the dust jacket. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Manual of Rifle Practice
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Manual of Rifle Practice: Including a Complete Guide to Instruction in the Use and Care of the Modern Breech-loader

by Wingate, George W.

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Used - The front free end paper is missing, minor chipping to back-strip, else the book is complete and has all the original pages and
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1st
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George Wingate entered the Civil War as a private in the New York State Guard. He soon discovered that the militia had very poor shooting skills, and devoted himself to correcting that failing. By the end of the war he had been promoted to Captain, and was recognized as a leading expert on marksmanship training. William Conant Church was the editor of the Army and Navy Journal. After the war he recognized Wingate's expertise and asked him to write a series of articles on marksmanship and rifle training which he published in the Journal.
These articles were immediately widely and highly acclaimed. Church and Wingate decided an organization was needed to facilitate the spread of this knowledge, and together founded The National Rifle Association. The articles from the Army and Navy Journal were collected, and along with additional material were published in 1872 as "Manual for Rifle Practice".
Wingate makes reference following the Preface that this is the Second… Read More
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DISCOVERY OF LAKES RUDOLF AND STEFANIE: A NARRATIVE OF COUNT SAMUEL TELEKI'S EXPLORING AND...

DISCOVERY OF LAKES RUDOLF AND STEFANIE: A NARRATIVE OF COUNT SAMUEL TELEKI'S EXPLORING AND HUNTING EXPEDITION IN EAST EQUATORIAL AFRICA IN 1887 & 1888.

by Von Höhnel Ludwig

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London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894. 2 volumes. First Edition. Scarcest variant, bound in the blue decorated cloth. With 179 original illustrations including 36 wood-engraved full page plates and 5 coloured maps on two large folding map sheets. Tall 8vo, publisher's original pale blue cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt pictorial designs of African tribesmen and gazelles on top covers and spines, edges untrimmed. xx, 435; xii, 397 pp. A very handsome and pleasing set of this scarce first edition in the scarcest binding colour and with a few old and occasional but small and discreet library markings. The set was part of a reference library and not a lending library, thus remains in very pleasing, as fine condition. Shelf numbers in the lower quadrant of the spines sometime discreetly coloured over in pigment matching the binding colour, only light aging to the volumes. A very attractive pair. RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE MOST PREFERRED OF THE CLOTH COLOURS. This is the scarce account of… Read More
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The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri
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The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry

by Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza

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Used - Very Good+
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1th limited (500)
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Hardcover
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(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive transparent dust jacket. See pics for overall condition.Blanc front and end papers, half title page, frontispiece with clean protective tissue, title page, dedication page in English and one in Farsi, xxiv and 195 pp and illustrated with 25 illustrations of Persian paintings, animals, and original ms. Quaritch printer's device to last leaf (see pics).Notes: - Wood; p. 519; Zimmer p. 623. One of 500 copies only. The author was a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (1772-1834) and a respected authority on… Read More
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Complete 10 vol set PETER CAPSTICK COLLECTION Derrydale #1487/2500 SIGNED Hunting Memoirs
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Complete 10 vol set PETER CAPSTICK COLLECTION Derrydale #1487/2500 SIGNED Hunting Memoirs: Safari The Last Adventure, Maneaters, Peter Capstick's Africa, Sands of Silence, Death in the Long Grass, Last Horizons, Death in a Lonely Land, Death in the Silent Places, The Last Ivory Hunter

by Peter Hathaway Capstick

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As New
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Signed Limited Edition #1487 / 2500
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Hardcover
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Rare complete ten volume set. Numbered #1487 / 2500 Limited Editions. All signed by the author. Three volumes contain personal inscriptions by the author. Leather Bound. Silk morie ribbon, raised bands, gold lettering and filigree. All edge gilt. Several volumes contain black and white photographs and/or drawings. A few have color photographs. As New condition. One volume has a faint indication of scuffing / shelf wear to the front cover's gold gilt border, as shown. Otherwise mint or near mint conditions. Shipped with the utmost dispatch. Carefully packaged against mishandling.
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