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A Marksman The Dead Shot, or Sportsman's Complete Guide; Being a Treatise on the Use of the Gun, with Rudimentary and Finishing Lessons in the Art of Shooting Game of All Kinds: Pigeon-Shooting, Dog-Breaking, Etc.
New York W. A. Townsend 1864 _ Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
282 pages. Six b/w plates illustrating the loading, carrying, and shooting of long guns. "This is the most complete sportsman's manual that we have yet seen. . . ." - Bell's Life. Chapters include: Guns, Rudimentary Lessons in Shooting, Finishing Lessons, Pigeon-Hunting, and Dog-Breaking. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages with the occasional finger smudge. Minor cover wear; heaviest at spine ends. Bright gilt decorations and lettering.
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100.00 USD
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Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners The Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle
London William Pickering 1827 First Thus Half-Leather Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Originally published in 1496 in The Book of St Alban's by Wynken de Worde. One of the earliest books on fishing in English. Said to have been a major influence on Izaak Walton. Facsimile edition. 41 pages. Frontispiece is from a later Worde edition and said to be the first illustration of a man fishing with a rod. Six wood cut figures of fishing equipment are included in the text. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; several spots of light foxing. Minor cover wear. Gilt spine lettering is in good shape.
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350.00 USD
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Goldberger, Russ J. And Alan G. Haid Mason Decoys: A Complete Pictorial Guide: Expanded Edition
Lewes, DE Decoy Magazine 2003 First Thus Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author
Scarce, definitive reference. Signed by both Goldberger and Haid on the title page. 176 pages; color photos throughout. Chapters on the History of the Mason Decoy Factory, Decoy Grading System, Mallard, Black Duck, Pintail, Bluebill & Broadbill, Redhead, Canvasback, Blue-winged Teal & Green-winged Teal, Goldeneye, Wigeon American Merganser, Bufflehead, Canada Goose & Brant, Coot, Wood Duck, Unusual Species, Shorebirds, Other Factories, McCleery Auction, New Discoveries, Value and Resoration, and more. Almost no wear. Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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150.00 USD
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Kennedy, Bruce Lee Safari Koa Chui (Trip for the Leopard)
Sioux Falls, South Dakota Self Published 1959 Hard Boards with Cloth Spine Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hanson, Lowell
Faux leopard-skin cover with gilt title plate. 42 page journal of a safari through Kenya and Tanganyika led by "the white hunter," Peter John Kingsley-Heath. Map endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Nice shape. Light wear; very slightly bowed cover.
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50.00 USD
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Koehler, Otto A. Ku-Winda (To Hunt)
San Antonio, TX Clegg Company 1956 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author
99 pages. Color and sepia photos; map. Very nice big game hunting safari book by the owner of the old Peal Brewing Company of San Antonio. Step-by-step, nuts-and-bolts, guide to preparing for and going on a safari. Documents Koehler's hunting trip to Kenya and Tanganyika. Filled with photos. Tight binding. Clean pages; previous owner has highlight one column on Koehler's list of taxidermy mountings in light green. Light cover wear. Inscribed by Koehler on the half-title.
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200.00 USD
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Phillips, John E. The Turkey Hunter's Bible
New York Doubleday 1992 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Hard-to-find, definitive book on turkey hunting. "Complete Coverage of Every Aspect of the Sport--Equipment, Techniques, Varieties, Shooting, and Bowhunting, and Much More. . . . Details for equipping the turkey hunter--choosing guns, shells, loads and accessories. . . . Techniques for scouting, learning to call. . . . Profiles Osceolas, Rio Grandes, and Merriams." 126 pages. Photos and drawings throughout. Tight binding. Clean pages. Tight binding. Some minor wear.
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75.00 USD
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Scott, Genio C. Fishing in American Waters
New York Harper & Brothers 1875 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
539 pages plus 4-page advertising section in rear. Gilt fish illustration on front cover and fishing vignette on spine. Frontispiece and in-text b/w illustrations throughout. "Fabulous lithography is reproduced. Appeals to anyone with an interest in angling, sport fishing, flyfishing, flytying, trout fishing, salmon fishing, fish hatchery origins, aquaculture, fish-culture, ecology, ichthyology, piscatorial expertise or just plain fishing," book advertisement. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Bookplate of Kit Clarke (fishing author, e.g., The Practical Angler) inside front cover. Minor wear, primarily at spine ends. Bright gilt decoration and lettering.
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125.00 USD
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Unlisted DuPont Gunpowder Advertising Envelope
Wilmington, Delaware E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company 1944 Envelope Very Good
Multicolor advertising cover features a quail on the front cover and an all-over chart standard shotgun loads for hunting and trapshooting. The cover is franked with Scott #905, postmarked at Watseka, Illinois, and addressed to Richmond Hill, New York. AICC #G41.
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200.00 USD
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Unlisted Remington Guns and Rifles Advertising Envelope
Ilion, New York Remington Arms Company 1903 Envelope Very Good
Multicolor advertising cover features a young woman holding a Remington shotgun on the front and all-over illustrations of Canada Geese and Quail on the reverse. The cover, slightly trimmed at the right edge is franked with Scott #301, postmarked at Hagerstown, Maryland, and addressed to Williamsford, Maryland. AICC #s G80 and G81
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150.00 USD
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Unlisted Winchester Repeating Rifles Advertising Envelope
Winchester Repeating Arms Company 1905 Envelope Very Good
Scarce illustrated advertising cover (envelope) for Winchester Repeating Rifles, Shot Guns, and Single shot Rifles. Illustration features a Mountain man with a Winchester lever-action rifle in the background. From a dealer, H. C. Pigott, in Philadelphia to The "American Ornithology" in Worcester Massachusetts. Franed with scott #309. Postmarked on 24 February 1905 using an American Postal Machine Company machine cancel with seven wavy killer bars. Light wear.
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425.00 USD
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Walton, Izaak (Isaak), Chales Cotton, and Sir Harris Nicholas The Complete (Compleat) Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation . . . and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicholas
London William Pickering; C. Whittingham (printer) 1836 Leather Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Thomas Southard, James Inskipp, and Others
2 volumes: [22] preliminary pages, ccxiv introductory pages; 436 text pages, [32] index pages. 61 engraved plates and vignettes. Sound binding. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. Clean pages with an occasional spot of toning; all edges gilt. Beautiful red morocco boards with six spine compartments. Bright, elaborate gilt decoration and lettering. Almost no wear; slightly bumped corners. Minor sunning. The first of the Nicolas editions and the first published by Pickering to be printed by Charles Whittingham. "This edition has been acclaimed as the finest Angler ever published," (Horne, 43) and "one of the handsomest publications of modern times, an ornament to the Angler's Library, unique of its time, and perhaps destined to remain so," (Bibliotheca Piscatoria).
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1950.00 USD
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Wells, Henry P. The American Salmon Fisherman
New York Harper & Brothers 1886 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
166 pages. Four-page advertising catalog in rear. B/w frontispiece and map. Other b/w illustrations throughout. Nice example of a classic fishing book. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Two small erasures on front free endpaper. Cover has some minor wear and soiling.
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125.00 USD
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