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G. & M. Clyde Bell |
The How-To-Do-It Shooter's and Trapper's Book (Catalogue)
nd circa 1920.
Clyde Guide Book No 41.
G & M Clyde Bell,.
Glasgow.
64 pages, 4to illustrated throughout, the first 17pages are a guide to the sportsman covering buying and using guns , game and wild fowl shooting, trapping, dogs, etc. The remaining pages are a catalogue for various shotguns includes various bores, hammer and fine sidelocks, automatics also cartridge pistols, a gun with 3 barrels 2 barrels for 4.10 and one for.22. Also sporting and shooting requisites including traps nets etc. Pictorial staple bound pictorial paper covers some chipping and creasing to corner a few odd marks to the contents.
[23917] |
£60.00 |
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Gabriel, Ronald |
A Sheep Hunter's Diary: Thirty Years of Mountain Hunting for Ibex and Sheep
2014.
1st Edn.
Safari Press.
Long Beach, CA.
xvii ? 413 pages illustrated in colour from photographs, b/w drawings by Gordon Allen + colour maps. Publishers' blue cloth with gilt title and sheep head in black to the upper cover, in matching blue slipcase. A fine copy, limited to 250 copies signed and numbered (152) by the author and artist. Hunting wild sheep and Ibex.
[23473] |
£150.00 |
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GARDNER MRS. ALAN |
RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A WINTER'S TRAVEL AND SPORT IN NORTHERN INDIA
1895.
1st Edn.
Chatto and Windus.
xvi 336, top edge gilt large 8vo, ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR AND TWO DRAWINGS BY F. H. TOWNSEND. Inscription to the title page, "With the Authors Compliments and Thanks July 1907" crease to upper corner of front-end paper with small 2cm split, and chip to top edge. Publishers 2 tone 1/2 cloth brown spine over dark red boards, the original spine relayed showing some old loss to head and tail, some discoloration to the spine clot and corners. Gilt title to the upper cover fade mark to part of the rear cover.VG -. Nora Gardner accompanied her husband on a sporting trip through Kashmir and the Punjab. The hunting episodes are mainly related to her husband, she did try her hand at shooting a leopard released from a cage. An entertaining blend of travel, observation, and sport. Czech 84
[23507] |
£280.00 |
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GIBBONS A.St.H. |
Exploration And Hunting In Central Africa 1895-96
1898.
1st Edn,.
Methuen.
xi - 408 pages, 48pp adverts, the adverts dated 1901 as all copies we have handled, 8 full page illus by C Whymper, 25 photographs and map, some light spotting to title page and offsetting from newspaper cutting relating to Gibbon's career there is also a loose page obituary of Gibbons. Armorial bookplate of William Nathaniel Fraser to front paster down. A vg copy in the original blue cloth with gilt hunting scene to upper board, the cloth clean and bright. Captain Gibbons hunted in Barotseland for about 10 months, and he gives full description of the regions of the Upper Zambesi, and related episodes of hunting buffalo, lion, roan, eland, wildebeest etc. Mendelssohn 594, Czech 105
[22282] |
£520.00 |
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GLOSSOP Captain B.R.M. |
Sporting Trips Of A Subaltern
1906.
1st Edn,.
Harper and Brothers.
xii 245 pages, 2 pages advs, frontis and 23 plates from photographs, some foxing to contents, publisher's blue cloth, blind stamped title and antelope head to upper board. The author hunted lion, gazelle, oryx, rhino etc in Africa, goral, karkur, sekow and bear in India with some pig sticking and other game with a spear. he failed to bag a tiger. Czech Africa 108, India 87.
[20527] |
£125.00 |
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Greenfield, Joseph C. |
BWANA BABU
2006.
1st.
Safari Press.
Long Beach, CA.
x- 188 pp., Illustrated in colour from photographs and b/w chapter heading drawings. Bound in publishers' green cloth gilt title to upper cover and buffalo head in black, with matching green cloth slipcase. Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. A fine copy hunting for buffalo lion etc.
[23247] |
£80.00 |
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GREENWOOD James |
Wild Sports Of The World A Boys Book Of Natural History And Aventure
1862.
1st Edn.
S O Beeton.
xxii - 426 pages, all edges gilt,10 colour plates of hunting scenes, + wood engravings to text, 6 folding maps showing the habitat of animals and plants of the world. Small armorial bookplate and library case no for Easton Neston Library to front paste down. Presentation inscription from George Hesketh (owner of Easton Neston) to verso of front end paper Bound in the publishers blind stamp plum cloth, gilt title vignette to upper cover ornate gilt decorated spine. Even fading to the spine and edges. A very good copy in the original state of the 1st edition of a popular title which ran to many editions. Hunting big game around the world with detailed references to various big game animals. Includes portraits of famous sportsman and traveller's, and over 100 woodcut illustrations in the text.
[22089] |
£90.00 |
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GREGORY J.W. |
The Great Rift Valley Being the Narrative Of A Journey To Mount Kenya And Lake Baringo
1896.
1st Edn,.
John Murray.
xxi 422 pages, AEG, colour frontis, full page and text illus, 2 lge folding maps, some offset mark to 2 pages inner margin from bookmark, college presentation bookplate to front paste down, foxing to first 2 blank end papers and 1/2 title page o/w contents clean and free of foxing, contemporary full prize red binding, circular gilt armorial crest of the College of Preceptors to upper board, gilt tooled spine in six compartments with contrasting title label, bottom rear corner bumped, light rubbing to spine edge. Primarily a work of exploration giving some account of the geology, natural history, and anthropology of the region. mainly in the unknown highland of the Mt Kenya Region. the author does describe a rhinoceros hunt and lion hunt. Czech 112.
[20233] |
£280.00 |
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