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Complete course on hunting View picture(s) 1 BLAZE, Elzéar. Le Chasseur au chien d' arrêt. Contenant les habitudes, les ruses du gibier, l' art de le chercher et de le tirer, le choix des armes, l' éducation des chiens, leurs maladies, etc. Paris, Chez l' un des éditeurs, au dépot de la collection culinaire de Carême, 1846. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, blue sprinkled edges. With illustration of two dogs by A. Guyot on title, full-page plate "Contemplation" signed Pauquet. XXVII, 420 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A moveable hunting party View picture(s) 2 CALCAR, Elise van. Telkens mooijer. Arnhem, Van Egmond & Heuvelink, (ca. 1870). Large 8vo. Orig. illustrated colour-printed lithographed wrappers. With 4 full-page colour-printed lithographed movable plates printed on both sides of large folio leaves, which can be folded out to all sides. 6 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dutch  Hunting  Picture Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive woodcuts depicting wolf hunting View picture(s) 3 CLAMORGAN, Jean. La chasse du loup, necessaire à la maison rustique. Lyon, for Jaques du Puis, 1578. 4to. Modern green morocco, blind-stamped gilt border in slipcase.  Title-page within woodcut border and 14 large woodcuts. (1)-19 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Natural History  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most popular work on domestic economy in the country of the late 16th, and 17th century View picture(s) 4 ESTIENNE, Charles & Jean LIEBAULT. L'agriculture et maison rustique. Reveüe & augmentée de beaucoup, dont le contenu se voit en la page suyuante: avec un bref recueil des chasses du cerf, du sanglier, du lievre, du renard, du blereau, du connil, du loup, des oyseaux, & de la fauconnerie: comme pourrés voir à la fin de ce livre, avec les figures. Y joint la fabrique & usage de la jauge, ou diapason. Plus a esté adjousté en ceste derniere edition, une instruction pour sçavoir en guels temps, mois, lune, & saison, on doit semer & replanter selon le pays froid & chaud, pour faire advancer & retarder les semences & toutes sortes de graines. Dierniere édition. Lyon, Simon Rigaud, 1654. 4to. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a cow with explanatory text within borders, idem of a horse, 2 woodcut illustrations of herbs, 20 nearly full-page woodcut plans of pleasure-gardens, 10 woodcut illustrations on distilling apparatus, and 3 large woodcut illustrations on land-surveying. (16), 574, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Falconry  French  Gardens  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the liveliest and best of the shipwreck narratives View picture(s) 5 GOODRIDGE, Charles Medyett. Narrative of a voyage to the south seas, and the shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with an account of two years residence on an uninhabited island. Fourth edition. Exeter, W.C. Featherstone, 1841. 8vo. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. Lithographed frontispiece and two plates. [22], [11] - 170 pp. plus a tipped in errata. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Hunting  Shipwrecks  South Seas  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With the most attractive early 19th century hunting illustrations View picture(s) 6 JOURDAIN, [rançois Xavier Félix]. Traité Général des Chasses a courre et a tir; contenant  Des principes sûrs pour la propagation du gibier, et la  destruction des animaux nuisibles; un précis de la  législation; la meilleure méthode de dresser et soigner  les chevaux et chiens de chasse; des observations  importantes sur le choix et l'usage du fusil, et enfin  l'histoire naturelle des animaux qui se trouvent en France, et la manière de les chasser; suivi d'un Vocabulaire  explicatif des termes usités par les chasseurs, et des nouvelles fanfares que l'on sonne en chasse. Paris, Audot, 1822. 4 vols. Contemporary uniform gilt half calf, with first owner's name F.C. Raben stamped on lower end of spine. With 20 engravings and 16 aquatints, one folding, all engraved in black, by Susemihl in the first 2 vols.; and 58 engravings and 2 aquatints by Susemihl in the 2 supplement vols., representing several traps and birds; and 12 pp. of musical scores at the end of volume one.  (4), XIV, 311 (=313), (3); (4), 24, 323, (3); VIII,192; (4), 24, 175, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to behave like a prince View picture(s) 7 KOLBE VON WARTENBERG, Johann Casimi. Väterliche Instruction an seine Kinder, nummehr zum dritten mahl auffgeleget, Mit einer ganz neuen Vorrede, wie auch unterschiedenen sehr nützlichen Nachrichten, das Wartenbergische Hauss, und dessen einzigen noch übrigen Erben, den itzigen Herrn Grafen von Wartenberg betreffend. Berlin, Johann Michael Rüdiger, 1704. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by I.W. Heckemaur, title printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and woodcut vignette on separate title for the genealogy of the House of Kolbe von Wartenberg. [88], 296, [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arithmetics  Calligraphy  Education  Fencing  Fortification  Hunting  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Dutch edition: on the practical use of a newly invented life jacket View picture(s) 8 LA CHAPELLE, Jean Baptista de. De Scaphander. Of de Konst om in de diepste Wateren dryvende te gaan en allerhande werk te verrigten. Amsterdam, G. Warners & Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1777. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers (back cover loose), uncut. With 4 engraved plates on 2 large folded sheets by B. de Bakker after the plates in the original French edition, charmingly illustrating the water-jacket and water-pants discussed in the text. (2), VIII, 139, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Swimming  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hunting in all its aspects View picture(s) 9 LANGEL, Le comte de. Guide et hygiène des chasseurs. Contenant des recherches historiques sur l'origine de la chasse, l'art de dresser les chiens et les chevaux, des notices sur les differérentes espèces de Gibier à poil et à plume. l'Hygiène des chasseurs et des chiens, la fabrication de la poudre et du plomb à giboyer, celle des poudres et amorces fulminantes, la description du fusil Robert et des avantages qu'il offre sur les autres armes à feu, la législation ancienne et moderne sur la chasse et les ports-d'armes; enfin, un aperçu de tout ce qui peut intéresser le chasseur. Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, Bohaire & Madame Huzard, (after 1836). 8vo. Original wrappers, with title and illustration of a chasing dog in ornamental borders lithographed on front cover and announcement of another publication in same ornamental borders lithographed on back cover, uncut. Engraved frontispiece of 2 hunters in different costumes, beautifully water-coloured by hand and the buttons of their jackets heightened with gold, 1 engraved folding plate showing the shotguns and pistols of the model by J.A. Robert and 4 woodcut tailpieces of chasing dogs and hunting still lives. (4), VIII, 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British birds before they were shot View picture(s) 10 MILLAIS, John Guille. The natural history of British game birds. London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. Folio. Original gilt red cloth. With 18 chromolithographed plates, and 17 photogravures  of game birds, beautifully drawn within their natural environment by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais, and with 2 ills. after photographs by T. Tait. XI, 142 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Colour Printing  England  English  Hunting  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the history of early 19th-century sporting life View picture(s) 11 NIMROD (= Charles James APPERLEY). Memoirs of the life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major of the north Shropshire yeomanry cavalry, with notices of his shooting, driving, racing, eccentric, and extravagant exploits. London, Rudolph Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery & N. S. M Office, 1837. 8vo. Contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt foxheads and horseshoes title lettered in gold, both covers with gilt tooling and gilt foxheads as cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, (RODT & SON). Engraved title with aquatint vignette of Mytton's tomb, with 18 handcoloured aquatints after designs by H. Alken & T.J. Rawlins, aquatinted by E. Duncan and H. Alken with hunting scenes and social events. IX, (1), 206, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aquatints  Colour Platebooks  Hunting  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of an expedition to Madagascar View picture(s) 12 POLLEN, François P.L. Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dependances, d'apres les decouvertes de Francois P.L. Pollen et D.C. van Dam. 1re partie: Relation de voyage. Leyden, J.K. Steenhoff, 1868-1877. 5 parts. 4to. Gatherings loose in original beige wrappers as issued. With 48 lithograph plates, mostly tinted or chromolithographed, 2 lithograph maps (of which one folding of Madagascar& isle Mayotte), lithographed after the drawings of F. Pollen or  J.G.  Keulemans by P.W.M. Trap and Keulemans, depicting events during the expedition, customs and costumes of the natives (shark fishing, turtle & monkey hunting) etc., steelengravings in text. 240 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Hunting  Natural History  South Africa  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hunting with a gun View picture(s) 13 ROBINSON, H. Conseils sur chasseurs sur le tir, les armes, munitions et illustrations du chasseur. La chasse en plaine et les différentes chasses des oiseaux savages; suivie d'une table alphabétique de tous les gibiers à poil et à plume avec des renseignements détaillés sur chacun d'eux. Paris, Brussels, Leipzig, A. Goin, Widow and son of Schnée, 1860. Large 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, red and blue mottled edges. With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops. 219, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Art  Hunting  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the libraries of Guillaume de Lamoignon and Pierre Théodore Noël du Payrat View picture(s) 14 SAVARY, Jacques. (=Jacques TIMENT). Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV Deo-Datum. Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt and decorated spine with pasted title label, sprinkled edges. With woodcut vignette on title, wood head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (2 blank, 6), 72, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Horses & Horsemanship  Hunting  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Poem with the rules of tournaments and carrousels View picture(s) 15 SAVARY, Jacques. (=Jacques TIMENT). Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV Deo-Datum. Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. 19th century boards, covered with marbled paper, red sprinkled edges. With woodcut vignette on title, and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (6), 2, 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Horses & Horsemanship  Hunting  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a classic hunting manual View picture(s) 16 TÄNTZER, Johann. Der Dianen Hohe und Niedere Jagd-Geheimnisse. Darinnen die gantze Jagd-Wissenschaft ausführlich zu befinden: Mit grosser Arbeit inventiert und beschrieben. Hiernächst ist, Als ein neuer und besonderer Theil mit beygefüget Der Edle Hirsch-gerechte Jäger, kurtz, doch gründlich verfertiget von Johan Wilhelm von Pärson. Leipzig, Im Weidmannischen Buch-Laden, 1734. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half vellum. With title printed in red and black, separate title to Von Pärson, fine engraved frontispiece showing Diane and her female companions hunting in the woods, engraved headpiece with portrait for the dedication, engraved armorial headpiece at the beginning of text, and numerous hunting plans, views of landscapes and mountains, animals to hunt, hunting dogs, and all sorts of hunting traps and devices on 59 double-page engraved plates, incl. 20 full double-page illustrations, 5 double-page plates with 2 or 3 illustrations each, 2 double-page plates with 4 to 5  illustrations each, and 32 double-page plates with 6 illustrations each. (20), 198, (2); 122, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Hunting  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A German view on hunting View picture(s) 17 THON, Christian Friedrich Gottlieb. Volledige jagersschool of kort begrip der geheele jagt. Een hand- en leerboek in Alphabetische orde voor jagers, vogelaars, landbouwkundigen en liefhebbers van de natuurlijke historie. Naar het Hoogduitsch vertaald door D. Bomhoff. Arnhem, J.G. Meijer, 1835. 8vo. Original printed boards. With frontispiece of a staghunt and two folding plates, one showing the tracks of various animals and hunting spears and knives and the other showing different sorts of traps. (8), 588, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting sportsman's manual View picture(s) 18 [CUISIN, J.P.R.]. L'école du chasseur, suivie d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse a piston, sans  pierre, a foudre, a système, a foudre fulminante; avec la manière de s'en servir, etc. Paris, Lécrivain, 1822. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With folding lithographed frontispiece and 9 full-page lithographed plates showing guns, nets for bird catching, fishing rods, etc., and all kinds of hunting and fishing devices. (4), 402 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Amsterdam edition of a popular manual on hunting birds and fishing View picture(s) 19 [FORTIN, François]. Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers:  & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage très curieux, utile & recreatif pour toetes personnes qui font leur selour à la campagne. Par F.F.F.R.D.G., dit le Solitaire inventif. Suivant la copie de Paris. Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1695. 5 part in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed, richly gilt and lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, engraved title 'Les ruses innocentes de la chasse et de la Pesche', 66 numbered plates, 9 of which are folding, woodcut vignette on title, head- and tail pieces and initials. (10), 58, (4); (4), pp. 59-122, (4); (6), pp. 123-186, (4); (4), pp. 187-232, (2); (6), pp. 238-292, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fishing  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The gentlemen's guide to hunting and fishing View picture(s) 20 [FORTIN, François]. Les Ruses Innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les Oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de Bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux Secrets de la Pêche dans les Rivieres  & dans les Estangs. Et un Traité tres-utile pour la Chasse. Et la Maniere de faire tous les Rets & les Filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With title printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial to the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, of which 50 illustrate hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. (16), 445, (1 blank), 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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