London: Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. George CATLIN. Cloth. [NATIVE AMERICANS] [ILLUSTRATED]. W. and A.K. Johnston, Printers, in Edinburgh and London. Later printing. Quarto; 530pp in 2 volumes; publisher's original gilt-stamped cloth re-backed; gilt tops' fore-edge and bottom untrimmed (deckle); ownership to front pastedowns; one..... More
London. Leather bound. [NATURAL WORLD] [SPORT: FISHING]. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey, 1792. Fifth Hawkins edition, with additions. 12mo; First part: lxxxii, 267, [1]pp + [3]plates; Second part: xxiv, 111pp +[10]pp..... More
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. Boards. 8vo square (8 3/16” x 8 ¼”); [82]pp; white parchment-style boards, gilt-lettering on spine; blue endpapers; 20 color plates; blue presentation box with color onlay to top, sunning to titled edge, light crease to front bottom corner else fine, in a very..... More
New York: Random House, 1971, February. Alicia Bay Laurel. First edition thus. Wraps. [LIFE STYLE]. First edition thus. 4to; 173pp + [16]index and appendix, + [1] “magical books” + [2] constellation illustration + [2] moon; stiff tan pictorial wrapper; owner’s bookplate on verso front wrapper; pictorial title page; line drawing..... More
Camden, South Carolina: The Premier Collection, The Premier Press, 1985. Ogden M. PLEISSNER and Robert NISBET. Full leather. [SPORT: FISHING]. Fold-out map: The Atlantic Salmon Rivers of America Limited edition, 1553/3000. 4to (12 ¼” x 9 ¼”); 219pp; navy goatskin, gilt-stamped lettering, borders, and fishing lure ornaments, jumping salmon in..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1924. Cloth. [SPORTS]. 8vo; 62pp; navy glazed cloth over board, blind stamped borders, gilt lettering on spine; bookplate on front pastedown; black line drawings in text; fine. This lecture on rowing was first presented in 1907, and the first edition was published in 1909. The..... More
New York: Antheneum, 1990. quarter bound cloth. First edition, first printing. 8vo; xvi, [ii], 365pp; quarter-bound in black cloth over cream boards, blind-stamped lettering to front, silver-stamped lettering to spine; b&w pictorial endpapers; b&w illustrated plates on glazed paper; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-689-11960-7..... More