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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First American edition. With numerous illustrations and photographs from life. 356 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue decorated cloth, t.e.g. Extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped, upper inner hinge starting. Very Good. First American edition. With numerous illustrations and photographs from life. 356 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
Sport in The Alps in the Past and Present. ...... some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by Baillie-Grohman, W. A. (1851-1921) - 1896
by Baillie-Grohman, W. A. (1851-1921)
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Sport in The Alps in the Past and Present. ...... some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
by Baillie-Grohman, W. A. (1851-1921)
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London: Adam & Charles Black, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued.
Half navy-blue leather with five raised spine bands and decorations on to lighter blue cloth with an emblem in gilt. All edges gilt. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 356 pages with index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with sun-fading on the spine and a scuff on one lower corner. Offsetting onto the endpages. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece; full-page b/w prints and drawings in text.. A classic account of Alpine sport, mostly in the Austrian Alps including chamois-stalking, stag, roebuck, and other big game. "Sport in the Alps is altogether one of the most complete existing accounts of a fascinating subject . excellent dissertations on the history of sport." [Times]
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William Adolph Baillie Grohman was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, a big game sportsman, and a pioneer in the Kootenay region of British Columbia.
Full 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 black-cock with personal adventures and historical notes and some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
REF: Speake, 101; Publisher's Advert; Mather & Crowther v14, 472
Half navy-blue leather with five raised spine bands and decorations on to lighter blue cloth with an emblem in gilt. All edges gilt. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 356 pages with index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with sun-fading on the spine and a scuff on one lower corner. Offsetting onto the endpages. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece; full-page b/w prints and drawings in text.. A classic account of Alpine sport, mostly in the Austrian Alps including chamois-stalking, stag, roebuck, and other big game. "Sport in the Alps is altogether one of the most complete existing accounts of a fascinating subject . excellent dissertations on the history of sport." [Times]
Background Information:
William Adolph Baillie Grohman was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, a big game sportsman, and a pioneer in the Kootenay region of British Columbia.
Full 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 black-cock with personal adventures and historical notes and some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
REF: Speake, 101; Publisher's Advert; Mather & Crowther v14, 472
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- Date Published 1896
- Keywords Hunting; Europe; Switzerland; Austria
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Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present. An account of the chase of the chamois, red-deer, bouquetin ... with personal adventures and historical notes and some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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SPORT IN THE ALPS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT
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New York: Charles Scribner, 1896. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xv,356pp.+ [2]pp.(ads)pp. Octavo. Photogravure frontispiece, plates from photos and drawings, and illustrations in text. Original blue pictorial cloth, gilt top edge, other uncut. Spine slightly faded and a few private hand stamps of outfitter F. H. Riggall Twin Butte, Alta internally. very good 1896
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