Category: Hunting & Fishing

Seven Grand Gun Dogs

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons. (1961). New York. : 1961

Seller ID: 2332

First edition. Cloth. Slip case. No. 134 of 260 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. In the Foreword the author describes seven dogs he's known in recent years: "By any standard, these were all great dogs due to their extraordinary intel ligence and ability. These dogs were all finished workmen in the hunting field, plying their trade of finding game and retrieving it".
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An Artist's Game Bag

By: Hunt, Lynn Bogue

Price: $250.00

Publisher: The Derrydale Press. (1936). New York. : 1936

Seller ID: 2320

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrations. No. 251 of 1225 copies. Slight wear to spine extremities. This book is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of game birds, which have been over hunted. It contains many illustrations (some in color) of a wide variety of game birds such as geese, river ducks, sea ducks, rails, snipes, quail, grouse, pheasant, partridge and predatory birds.
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Synopsis of the Fishes of North America bound with many other pamphlets and off-prints by Jordan)

By: Jordan, David S. (Starr) and Charles H. Gilbert

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1882

Seller ID: 018598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bound in modern black buckram.6 x 10 inches. Small tasteful Stamford University Library label marked withdrawn on copyright page and last page of text. No other markings on the cover or the text. (Jordan was founding president of the university). 1018 pages, including index. Complete. Also bound in are the following pamphlets and off-prints: by David Starr Jordan,. & Herbert E. Copeland. "Check List of the Fishes of the Fresh Waters of North America. Circa 1876. Periodical not names. Pages 133-164. "A Partial Synopsis of the Fishes of Upper Georgia... Salem Press. 1877. Pages 3...
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American Food and Game Fishes. A Popular Account of All the Species Found in America North of the Equator, with Keys for Ready Identification, Life Histories and Methods of Capture

By: Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page and Company : 1903

Seller ID: 022284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Original leather spine label with gilt lettering is on the spine. Top edge gilt. 7 1/2" x 10 3/8." Pages (i)-xlix, 1-572, complete. Seventy-three half-tone and color plates, complete. 221 black and white, in-text illustrations, complete. A few pages, more towards the back, are unopened. Former owner's inscription in black ink on front free endpaper (a message from a niece to her uncle to whom she gave this book to). Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly age-toned. Some of the pages are coming slightly loose but are still...
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Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout, Bass, Salmon, Etc. With Plates of the Actual Material for Making Flies of Forty-eight Varieties. Illustrated; Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged

By: Keene, J. Harrington

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company : 1898

Seller ID: 022272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

3rd Edition, revised and enlarged. All tipped-in illustrations present (uncommon thus). Original publisher's gray cloth binding with gilt illustration on the front cover. Gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. 5" x 7 1/2." 159 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Sixteen additional pages of advertisements for books on related subjects published by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. A unique book with actual tipped-in materials used for making fishing flies, namely, multicolored threads and real bird feathers. These materials appear on two plates, compl...
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A.B. Frost, The American Sportsman's Artist.

By: Lanier, Henry Wysham

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lyon, Mississippi, The Derrydale Press : 1990

Seller ID: 13355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

2,500 copies printed. Reprint of the 1933 edition. xvi, 145 pages; illustrations, facsimiles; grey cloth binding with gilt lettering. Gilt edging to the pages. Very good clean copy.
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Wild Fowl Shooting. Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl: Their Resorts, Habits, Flights and the Most Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the Selection of Guns for Wild Fowl Shooting; How to Load, to Aim, and to Use Them Successful; Decoys, and the Proper Manner of Using Them; Blinds, How and Where to Construct Them; Boats, How to Build and Use Them Scientifically; Retrievers, Their Characteristics, How to Select, and How to Train Them.

By: Leffingwell, William Bruce

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Rand, McNally & Co. : 1888

Seller ID: 025345

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed by the author. Brown 3/4 leather binding with red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt illustration of a hunting dog emerging from the brush with a game bird in its mouth. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 6" x 8." 373 pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Inscribed by the author in black ink on a front flyleaf facing a printed portrait of said author: "To Robert De Paul, At request of my son Hugh William Leffingwell. Hoping that in later years, when duck shooting is but a memory, t...
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Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing

By: Marston, R. B.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, England, Elliot Stock : 1894

Seller ID: 022256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown boards backed with brown cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. 4 1/2" x 7." 264 pages, complete. Two additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Slight rubbing to the covers and spine. Slight wear to the edges of the pages. A Very Good copy. A book about Izaak Walton and his book, The Compleat Angler, and other early writers who wrote about fish and fishing.
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Max Cook: Fishing Tackle--Guns--Sporting Goods; 1653 Larimer Street; Established 1878; Denver, Colo.; 1931 Catalog

By: Max Cook Sporting Goods Company

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Denver, CO, Max Cook Sporting Goods Company : 1931

Seller ID: 020593

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper with staple binding. Front cover shows an illustration by Reginald Bolles of a man drawing a fish in a room with different kinds of fishing, hunting, and sporting goods. 7 3/4" x 10 1/2." Fifty-two pages, complete. Many black and white illustrations, complete. One plate is in color and advertises different types of fly-fishing flies. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall, but front cover has some wrinkling and the lower-left corner is missing (only affects a small portion of the cover illustration). This catalog lists descriptions, ...
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In The Alaska-Yukon Gamelands

By: McGuire, J. A.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd Company : 1921

Seller ID: 018437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 inches. 215 pages. Deckled edges. Some uncut pages. Copy contains 15 black and white photograph and 1 black and white map. Contents of this copy are, Introduction by William T. Hornaday, Enroute to the Hunting Grounds, Into the Goat and Glacier Fields, Russell Glacier, Sheep-Both White and Dark-A Digression, On the Sheep Ranges, Sheep, Moose and Caribou, Moose and Caribou, Rams and Caribou, A New Species of Caribou-Rangifer Mcguirei, Homeward Bound, Outfitting Hints and Afterthoughts. A previous owner wrote hi...
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A Man of Some Importance: The Life of Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown

By: Metcalfe, E. Bennett

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Seattle and Vancouver, James W. Wood, Publishers : 1985

Seller ID: 018974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Collector's Limited Edition: No. 107 of 1000 copies signed by the author. Quarter leather binding with cloth boards. In publisher's slip case. Former owner's book plate on front end paper, otherwise a fine copy. Haig Brown (b. 1908, d. 1976) was a British born author of books for children, on fishing and the outdoors. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 238 pages, plus colophon.
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Original Trade Card - "The Welcome Shelter.; The Cheap Store, Two Hundred Dozen Ladies' and Children's Spring Hats & Bonnets, at Mrs. D. N. Taffe's, 50 Cts. Each, Will cost you one dollar at other stores, Come in and see the largest Stock of Millinery in the city. 1025 Main St.,"

By: Mrs. D. N. Taffe's

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 023431

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a black-and-white illustration of man holding an umbrella over a lady. No date, circa 1880s-1890s. 1 3/4" x 2 3/4." The address would have proceeded to include location details and the city of Kansas City, Missouri but text has been cut off, which may have been from the original cut of the card. Trade card is very clean and intact except for age toning, slight corner and edge wear, and a few small marks on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Mrs. D. N. Taffe's, a millinery shop in Kansas City, Missouri. Trade cards are antique business cards that fi...
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My Life and Times (Edited with Additions by E. D. Cuming)

By: Nimrod (Charles James Apperley)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1927. Edinburgh. : 1927

Seller ID: 2341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrations, some in color. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Title page partially loose. Some sun fading of spine. The author recalls his boyhood on the family farm, his father's love of the church, his mother's views on propriety, the servants, away at school, begins to write, marriage, views on hunting dress, pioneer hunting correspondent, etc.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "'A Pot Full of Fish' - Trap-fishing for Salmon in Puget Sound, Washington."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Underwood & Underwood, Publishers : 1902

Seller ID: 11713

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Unnumbered stereograph on gray board (3 1/2 x 7 inch) with title on the lower left bottom, title in six languages on the backside. Image of a full 'catch' of live salmon in a net tied to piers. From the days when unrestricted commercial fishing was allowed within Puget Sound. Fine clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "A Chance of a Lifetime."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company : 1898

Seller ID: 9108

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

# 9315. Stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with printed commentary on the backside. View of a hunter with his sights on a large buck in the distance. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph."Glory Enough for One Day"

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company : 1899

Seller ID: 9107

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

# 9451. Stereograph on orange board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with printed commentary on the backside. View of four hunters with the moose they have just shot in Maine, 1898. Some wear to the edges, else a clean image.
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Fine Angling for Coarse Fish; The Lonsdale Library, Volume IV

By: Parker, Eric, J.H.R. Bazley, Antony Bridges, Edward Ensom ("Faddist"), et al

Price: $25.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company. (1930). Philadelphia. : 1930

Seller ID: 2339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First American edition. Cloth. With 159 illustrations. Also authored by: F.H. Heald, Stephen Hill, A.E. Hobbs, J.A. Milne, J.C. Moore, A.J. Rudd, Eric Taverner, Dr. W.J. Turrell, F.W.K. Wallis, & Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law. The authors write abou t: The Literature of Coarse Fishing, Tackle, Baits, a variety of fish, Knots & Splices, Wax & Varnish, The Legal Aspect of Fishing, etc.
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The Fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific Slopes Near Cajamarca, Peru; No. 7

By: Pearson, Nathan E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1937

Seller ID: 4303

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 7, pp. 87-98, pls. 12-13, 1 text fig. April 26, 1937. Some unopened pages. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. "From July to September 1923 the writer made a trip across the Western Andes of northern Peru from Pacasmayo to the Rio Maranon to collect fishes". Specimens collected included the families of: Characinae; Gymnotidae; Pimelodidae; etc. New species collected include: Chasmocranus quadrizonatus Pearson; Astroblepus supramollis Pearson; etc.
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The Fishes of the Beni-Mamore and Paraguay Basins, and a Discussion of the Origin of the Paraguayan Fauna; No. 8

By: Pearson, Nathan E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1937

Seller ID: 4304

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 8, pp. 99-114. May 28, 1937. Some unopened pages. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. "The resemblance of the freshwater fish fauna of the La Plata to that of the Amazon basin has been known since the earliest collections were made in those regions". The author writes about the Physical and Geological Features; Origin of the Fishes of the Paraguay; etc. In Summary, he writes: "The origin of the Paraguayan freshwater fish fauna can be explained by migration". He also provides a chart of the fishes of Beni-Mamore and...
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Classics of the American Shooting Field: A Mixed Bag for the Kindly Sportsman, 1783-1926.

By: Phillips, John C., And Lewis Webb Hill [editors]

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, Mass, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1930

Seller ID: 12795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

xiv, 214 pages; facsimile title pages; bibliography; green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Intro - "In this volume we have brought together what we consider some of the best of the short sketches that have appeared in American shooting literature since its beginning. We have also thought that it might be of interest to include a brief resume of the development of shooting literature in general, and check-list, of most of the books that have been published in America dealing with shooting, from 1783 up to the present time.". Very good, clean copy.
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Category: Hunting & Fishing