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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Alken, Henry. 326pp + 4pp ads. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Illustrated title and frontispiece, five inserted color plates and forty-three illustrations on wood by Henry Alken, engraved by Cook and Co. Housed in a custom chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. With the bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick to front pastedown endpaper. Cloth is soiled, light scattered foxing throughout, spine a bit dulled. Small bookstore labels to pastedown endpapers, previous owner's name on front endpapers. About very good in a fine slipcase. ; Octavo.
Sette anni di caccia grossa e note di viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa. Con 250 incisioni riprodotte da fotografie dell'autore, del Principe di Teano, di Mr. Seton Karr e da disegni originali di A. Villa by Scheibler, Felice - 1900
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Sette anni di caccia grossa e note di viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa. Con 250 incisioni riprodotte da fotografie dell'autore, del Principe di Teano, di Mr. Seton Karr e da disegni originali di A. Villa
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Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, 525pp. Beautiful green half morocco over marbled boards, covers tooled in blind, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold and with gilt animal motifs. Signed and inscribed by Count Felice Scheibler on the half title page. With 250 wood engravings from photographs by the author, and others. With an appendix offering advice on weapons and cameras for safari, and more. Seven years of game hunting trips, from the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia, from India to Ceylon, from Africa to Russia. Scheibler was, among other things, the founder of the Società Milanese per la Caccia a Cavallo and of the Croce Azzurra, and the promoter of the first horse show in Milan in 1885. Light scattered foxing. A bright, near fine copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo.
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The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6
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KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un expos� de l'art de les pr�parer et de les conserver.
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Paris: Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon +pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc. all with tissue guards.. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides (tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed). Portrait Frontis +hand coloured titlepage +printed titlepage +Portrait +xxiii [1]p blank +312pp. Text pages with some foxing, more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn, one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum.
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South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony
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London: Published by Ackermann and Co, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 15, [1]p. Original (or contemporary) green cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, glazed yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and fifteen numbered plates with sixteen hand-colored illustrations and fourteen in black and white from drawings by the author taken on site during a series of expeditions to the Bontebok Flats and other hunting grounds. Each scene is described in the text with details on the game and the methods of hunting. The plates are in remarkably good condition with some occasional light spots. The color illustration on plate V has a small stain, apparently done when the image was colored. A near fine copy. Abbey Travel 336. Tooley 126.; Folio.
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Big Game Shooting in Nepal (With leaves from the Maharajah's Sporting Diary)
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Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co (1933) Ltd., 1942. Original (not facsimile) dustwrapper has a 3 inch tear to the top right-hand corner of front panel and a smaller, 2 inch one at the top end of spine, and some smaller tears and creasing to the edges of dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, an old price (16 rupees which would have been 21/4 sterling, or just over a guinea, so quite expensive back then) in pencil at top corner of f/ep and original (or a slightly later) owner's gift message dated August 1946 on same page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy in not so good dustwrapper of this not-very-common hard-cover book. Deals with big-game hunting (tiger mostly, but also leopard, rhino and other animals) in Nepal in the 1930s, based around hunting trips by the hereditary Prime Minister and ruler of Nepal Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. 174pp, 12 colour and 31 b&w plates, 2 folding maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" -…
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The Big Game of North America. Its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it
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1890 1ed Big Game Hunting of North America Deer Polar Bears Caribou Wolves GoatsG.O. Shield's "Big Game of North America" is a rare, late 19th-century account of hunting, particularly deer hunting, in North America. This work includes impressive, full-page engravings and descriptions of animal characteristics, focusing on some of the most desirable game animals in North America – mule deer, caribou, moose, grizzly and polar bears, buffalo, mountain goats, cougars, wolves, and wolverines!
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The Big Game of North America. Its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it
Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co., 1890. First edition.
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The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Alken, Henry. 326pp + 4pp ads. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Illustrated title and frontispiece, five inserted color plates and forty-three illustrations on wood by Henry Alken, engraved by Cook and Co. Housed in a custom chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. With the bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick to front pastedown endpaper. Cloth is soiled, light scattered foxing throughout, spine a bit dulled. Small bookstore labels to pastedown endpapers, previous owner's name on front endpapers. About very good in a fine slipcase. ; Octavo.
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South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony
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London: Published by Ackermann and Co, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 15, [1]p. Original (or contemporary) green cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, glazed yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and fifteen numbered plates with sixteen hand-colored illustrations and fourteen in black and white from drawings by the author taken on site during a series of expeditions to the Bontebok Flats and other hunting grounds. Each scene is described in the text with details on the game and the methods of hunting. The plates are in remarkably good condition with some occasional light spots. The color illustration on plate V has a small stain, apparently done when the image was colored. A near fine copy. Abbey Travel 336. Tooley 126.; Folio.
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Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ...: with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits
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1837 Memoirs of John Mytton HUNTING Sports Color Illustrated Alken & RawlinsCharles Apperley's book 'Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton' is a fascinating biography with beautiful color illustrations depicting different hunting scenes, which fell in line with Apperley's work writing for the Sporting Magazine of London.
"This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough" (Martin Hardie).
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A Muzzle Loading Pistol You Can Build For Under $10
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R.H. McCrory,1963. Paperback. Used- Good. Book is clean and tight. Book shows some shelf wear. Light scuffing on the edges and corners. Light bumping on the bottom of the spine. Name written in pen on the top edge on the inside of the front cover. 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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The Big Game of North America. Its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it
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1890 1ed Big Game Hunting of North America Deer Polar Bears Caribou Wolves GoatsG.O. Shield's "Big Game of North America" is a rare, late 19th-century account of hunting, particularly deer hunting, in North America. This work includes impressive, full-page engravings and descriptions of animal characteristics, focusing on some of the most desirable game animals in North America – mule deer, caribou, moose, grizzly and polar bears, buffalo, mountain goats, cougars, wolves, and wolverines!
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SHIELDS, George Oliver
The Big Game of North America. Its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it
Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co., 1890. First edition.
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Sette Anni Di Caccia Grossa E Note Di Viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa
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Sette Anni Di Caccia Grossa E Note Di Viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa
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Making Duck Decoys
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Shephard Publishing Company, Montreal, 1941, Very Good Softcover, 31 pages, 5" x 7", sticker damage on front cover, short tear on title page, otherwise clean and tight.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Encyclopedia of American Gun Design and Performance: Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols, Revolvers
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USA: Winchester Press, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Second Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue boards and pictorial dust jacket, second revised edition, 2000gms, 517 pages, blank endpapers. This single volume brings together three of the most significant and useful books covering the whole realm of American firearms. Book 1 is titled Rifles, Book 2 is titled Shotguns, and Book 3 is titled Pistols and Revolvers. Book and boards are in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in good condition with light shelf wear, scuffing and chipping. Front dust jacket shows old sticker partially removed, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs 2kg and may incur additional postage..
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Best Wing Shooting in Uruguay, The
by Vigano, Galeazzo; Vigano, Diego
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South End Publishing, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Illustrator: Bedeschi, Francisco (Photographs). 160pp; Loaded with fantastic hunting and landscape photographs from Uruguay; Text written in both English and Spanish; Gift inscription on fep; Otherwise, as new condition; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Bedeschi, Francisco (Photographs). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Non-English Language::Spanish; ISBN: 9872192723. ISBN/EAN: 9789872192723. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 100703. . 9789872192723
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The Man In The Brown Suit
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703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."
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Dead-Eye Dick
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. 1982, DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE . FIRST EDITION. Used. VG/G+ Condition. Back DJ photo of author taken by Jill Krementz. Plot Summary: "Deadeye Dick is a tragic tale of "gun nuts and nukes," Vonnegut tells Miller Rudy Waltz, the protagonist, while playing around as a child in his father's upstairs gun room, fires off a round from a high-powered rifle and accidentally kills a pregnant woman as she vacuums her apartment several blocks away."
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys
by Engers, Joe, Editor
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NY: Modern Publishing, 1990. Hard cover in dust jacket. Folio. 10 3/4" x 14 5/8." 320 pp., illus hundreds of color photographs. A beautifully produced book, printed on bright, heavy coated stock. Fine in fine dj.. Hard. As New/Fine. Illus. by Buckner, Bill - Photography. Folio. Coffee Table.
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Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
by Gibson, W. Hamilton
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New York, New York, U.S.A: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Green cloth with red stamped decorations and gilt titles. Boards are heavily rubbed and edge worn with scuffing and fraying at extremities. Red decoration has darkened and faded, along with some of the gilt. Previous owner's name and address written in pencil in front and rear end papers. Pages are toned from age with scattered foxing and spotting throughout. Binding is sound. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white by the author. Comprehensive hints on camp shelter, log huts, bark shanties, woodland beds and bedding, boat and canoe building, and valuable suggestions on trappers' food, etc. With extended chapters on the trapper's art, containing all the "tricks" and valuable bait recipes of the profession; Full directions for the use of the steel trap, and for the construction of the traps of all kinds; detailed instructions for the capture of all fur-bearing animals;…
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