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BALFOUR BROWNE V.R. |
The Stalking Letters And Sketches
1978.
1st Edn,.
Antony Atha Publishing.
Rugby.
131+ pages, landscape 4to, illustrated with 11 full page colour plates and many full page and text illustration by Balfour Browne. Book plate to front paste down neat single line mark to front end paper obscuring name ? One of a limited edition of 950 copies, this being No 61 of the special editions of 200 copies bound in full tan morroco with gilt title and stags head to upper cover, all edges gilt in the original slipcase. Includes the original prospectus for the book and an invoice from David Grayling for ?550 fr the book in 2009. . Balfour Browne is considered one of the foremost painters of red deer and stalking scenes. He was also a keen student of stalking and the letters that he left provide much good advice'.
[23551] |
£280.00 |
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BALFOUR BROWNE V.R. |
The Stalking Letters And Sketches
1979.
1st Edn,.
Antony Atha Publishing.
Rugby.
131+ pages, TEG, landscape 4to, Illustrated with 11 full page colour plates from paintings and many full page and text drawings by Balfour Browne. One of a limited edition of 950 copies, this being No 653, bound in 1/4 brown leather with gilt stags head and title to upper board in the publishers original slipcase, a fine copy. Balfour Browne is considered one of the foremost painters of red deer and stalking scenes. He was also a keen student of stalking and the letters that he left provide much good advice to any stalker.
[22920] |
£180.00 |
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Banwell D. Bruce |
Highland Stags Of Otago
1968.
1st.
A.H & A.W. Reed.
Wellington New Zealand.
170 pagesa, illustrated throughout with photographs with map end papers, in DJ. Some old marking to edges of the DJ from a DJ protection cover which has also left some marks to the blank margin of the map end papers. Otherwise, a very good copy of a difficult title to find. The Otago herd of red deer is the only herd in New Zealand that is descended from wild stock. Barnwell's accurate picture of the herd's Highland ancestry, going right back to before the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745. He then traces the moves leading up to the importation to New Zealand of the wild progenitors of the Otago herd, famous for its trophy heads with hunters.
[23868] |
£250.00 |
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BREADALBANE Marchioness |
The High Tops Of The Black Mount
1987.
1st thus.
Anthony Atha Publications.
Diss.
155 pages, landscape 4to., AEG, a new edition of this classic stalking title with an introduction by Robin Fleming, (the present owner of Blackmount), newly illustrated by Ian Oates with 15 full page colour plates + full page drawings + text illustrations. A limited edition of 275 copies this No 31 of the de-luxe editions signed by Robin Fleming and I R Oates with an original pencil sketch of a standing pony carrying a stag to front blank, initialed by Oates. Sporting bookplate to front paste down of L. P Unsworth (author and gun collector). Bound in a full dark blue morroco, gilt stags head to upper cover. A fine copy presented in the original blue cloth drop over box in the style of the binding with stag's head vignette. No indication of the limitation of this de-luxe edition, normally found in plain blue cloth without signatures or drawing. A finely produced book.
[23559] |
£300.00 |
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BREADALBANE Marchioness of |
The High Tops Of Black Mount
1935.
rep Edn,.
William Blackwood And Son.
xvii - 251 pages, frontis illus, and 39 full page illus from photographs, publishers' blue cloth, gilt title to the upper cover vg + bright copy. DJ present with some tears along top edge and old staining. First published in 1907, this edition republished by the executors has a memoir of the author and two extra photographs, . A memoir, recounting many years of adventures deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands.
[23246] |
£80.00 |
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