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Item #JLR0791 Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the...

Williamson, Thomas, Captain; illust. Samuel Howitt

Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals: as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents. . . The whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, Who served upwards of Twenty Years in Bengal; the drawings by Samuel Howett, made uniform in size and engraved by the first artists under the direction of Edward Orme

Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall.....

Price: $25,000

Item #JLR0774 A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: including a...

Thornton, [Thomas,] Colonel; illust. [Joshua] Bryant

A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that country with general observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: strictures on the customs and manners of the French People; with a view of the comparative advantages of sporting in France and England. In a series of letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To which is prefixed, an account of French wolf-hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire, Illustrated with upwards of eighty correct and picturesque delineations from original drawings from nature, by Mr. Bryant, and other eminent artists. In two volumes

Two volumes. London: James Cundee at Albion Press for Longman, Hurst, Reese, and Orme; and C. Chapple; 1806. “First and only edition.” Quarto (12 1/8” x 9 ½”, 307mm x 242mm).Vol. I: a4 b-h4 i1 B-Y4 Z2 χ1 [$2 signed]. 120 leaves, pp. i-vii (half-title, blank, title, blank, dedication, blank.....

Price: $4,500

de Garsault, François-Alexandre Pierre

Art du paumier-raquetier, et de la paume

[Paris?] 1767. Folio (18” x 12”, 458mm x 305mm): π2 A-H2 I2(–I2) [$1 signed]. 19 leaves, pp. i-ii (title, blank) iii-iv 1-34. With 5 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary grey wrappers. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Entirely unsophisticated, with some peripheral chips or wear. Text-block more or less tanned.....

Price: $9,500

Item #JLR0646 Trattato del giuoco della palla di Messer Antonio Scaino da Salò, diviso in tre...

Scaino, Antonio

Trattato del giuoco della palla di Messer Antonio Scaino da Salò, diviso in tre parti. Con due tavole, l’una de' Capitoli, l'altra delle cose piu notabili, che in esso si contengono

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON TENNIS Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, et fratelli; 1555. First edition. Sextodecimo in 8s (16mo; 5 9/16” x 3 11/16”, 141mm x 94mm): binder’s blank, *-**8 A-I8 K8(K5+χ2, K6+2χ2) L8(+3-6χ2) M-V8 (–V8 blank), binder’s blank [$4 signed; –*1]. 187 leaves, pp. [32].....

Price: $58,000

Item #JLR0432 The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling,...

Cox, Nicholas

The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Wherein These Generous Exercises are largely Treated of, and the Terms of Art of Hunting and Hawking more amply Enlarged than heretofore. Also the method Breeding and Managing a Hunting Horse. Whereto is prefix's A large Sculpture, giving easie Directions for Blowing the Horn; And other Sculptures inserted, proper to reach recreation. The Fourth Edition, To which is now added, a Perfect Abstract of all the Forest-Laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this time, as do any way relate to the several kinds of Game above mention'd

London: J. Dawks for N. Rolls, 1697. Fourth edition. Octavo (7 ½” x 4 11/16”, 192mm x 120mm): binder’s blank, A-Gg8 Ggg4 Aaa-Fff8 Ggg4, binder’s blank [$4 signed; –A1, A2, Aaa1; H2 mis-signed “I2”]. 296 leaves, pp. [8] (engraved title, blank, title, blank, 4pp. epistle) 1-88, χ85-88, 89-138; 21-91; 32-78;.....

Price: $1,750

Item #LM0002 Il Falconiere di Jacopo Augusto Tuano primo presidente del parlamento di Parigi, e...

de Thou, Jacques-Auguste and Pietrus Angelus Bargaeus

Il Falconiere di Jacopo Augusto Tuano primo presidente del parlamento di Parigi, e consigliere intimo di Arrigo Quarto dall'esametro latino all'endecasillabo italiano trasferito, ed interpretato. Coll'uccellatura a vischio di Pietro Angelo Bargeo pubblico professore in Pisa poemetto pur latino, similmente tradotto, e commentato. Ozii, e ameni studii di G. P. Bergantini C. R.

Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1735. First edition in Italian. Quarto (11” x 7 15/16”, 279mm x 200mm): a4 b-d4 π4 A-Dd4 c4 2a-h4 i2 [$2 signed]. 166 leaves, pp. [40] (blank, engraved frontispiece, title page, blank, 8pp. dedication, 21pp. preface, 2pp. verses, 2pp. privilege, 3pp. dedications) 1 2-214 215-216 217-223, blank.....

Price: $1,500