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Modern Mechanix and Inventions, April 1935, Volume XIII, Number 6

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Modern Mechanix: 1935

Seller ID: 2204987

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

One inch tear to spine head, ink name, pages toned. 1935 Stapled Binding. 154 pp. CONTENTS: Building Stratosphere Air-Liners, by Allan Lockheed; Knock Down Monuments with Feathers, by Nic Sprank in Oddities of Science; American Railroads Challenge Speed Records; Racing Time for News Scoops, by Robert L. Frey; How I Judge Championship Fights, by General J.V. Clinnin; Get Cash for Puzzle Solutions - Furniture Contest Winners Get $125.00; Electrical City Built Without Chimneys, by Grace Kirkpatrick; How to Stain Your Microscope Slides, by Julian D. Corrington; Clipping Dollars from Auto Running E...
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Dersu the Trapper (Recovered Classics)

By: Arseniev, V. K.; Burr, Malcolm; Gordon, Jaimy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McPherson & Company: 1996

Seller ID: 2304323

ISBN: 0929701496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly creased. 1996 Trade Paperback. ix, 351 pp. Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure....
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Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing

By: Bacheller, Irving

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1907

Seller ID: 2202227

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, ink name to front endpaper, pages toned. 1907 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Excerpt from Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing 'Always, when our train went roaring into the quiet village, we used to look out of the car-window down across the river and a smooth stretch of fields into the edge of the little town. At a small, familiar opening in the shade trees, almost half a mile from the train, we never failed to see the ?icker of a white handkerchief. It signaled their welcome. And then - well, I doubt if any one may have in this w...
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Hawking or Faulconry [Falconry]

By: Blome, Richard

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Thames Valley Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2288971

ISBN: 0900294043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1971 Hard Cover. xxxii, 123 pp. Modern facsimile of 1929 edition. Includes fold-out engraving. Falconers will welcome the reappearance of this scarce treatise on seventeenth-century hawking.
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Fresh and Salt Water Spinning (The Barnes Sports Library)

By: Burns, Eugene

Price: $12.00

Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company: 1952

Seller ID: 2294920

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Small chips to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. 1952 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. Photographs by Clyde Childress. ...the book explains the sport of spinning and tells why spinning with fine tackle produces bigger fish. CONTENTS: Part I. Equipment--Spinning Reels, Spinning Rods, Spinning Lines, Productive Lures; Part II. Technique--How to Cast, Retrieve, Spin on a Stream, Spin on a Lake, Spin in Salt Water, Spin with a Bubble, Tie the Strongest Knots for Spinning; Part III. Fishing Trophy Fish; Part IV. How to Build a Sp...
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Death in the Long Grass

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1977

Seller ID: 2304430

ISBN: 0312186134

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 297 pp. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And...
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Death in the Dark Continent

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1983

Seller ID: 2304431

ISBN: 0312186150

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 238 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the world’s most dangerous big-game animals....
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Observations on Fox-Hunting

By: Colonel Cook; Wolstenholme, Alken and Others; de Broke, Lord Willoughby

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edward Arnold and Co.: 1922

Seller ID: 2206358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus, adding color plates to the first work published in 1826. Spine slightly cocked, light scratches to rear board, ink stamp and ink name. 1922 Hard Cover. xv, 144 pp. The work that is now placed in our hands is but little known to the present generation, though a modern Master of Foxhounds would do well to follow every word of advice it contains. The author himself was M.F.H. and carried the horn at the beginning of the last century. A study of his remarkably sound treatise on Foxhunting leaves us with the reflection that the essentials of the sport have changed but slightly since the...
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Image for The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains - The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain

The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains - The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain

By: Cook, John R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Crane & Company: 1907

Seller ID: 2187942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge of rear board faintly stained, bottom corner lightly bumped causing 1/2 inch tear to cloth revealing board beneath. 1907 Hard Cover. xii, 351 pp. 8vo. Howes C730. A firsthand account of life on the American plains, specifically treating conflict with Native Americans ('Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches') in Missouri and Kansas, and the rampant hunting of buffalo which led to their near-extinction. The first chapter also deals with the author's youth in Kansas, and provides his memories of time served as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, and com...
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon

By: Corbett, Jim; Hallett, Maurice; Lord Linlithgow

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1946

Seller ID: 2265407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

6th printing. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1946 Hard Cover. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, preface by Lord Linlithgow. Black-and-white photographs, map of man-eater territory in the Kumaon Division of the United Provinces on endpapers. Jim Corbett's own story of his experiences with the man-eating tigers of Kumaon. To the excitement of the chase and the kill, which Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett imparts in a simple and direct but vivid and dramatic style, is added a picture of jungle life that is rare in the history of literature...
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Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches; Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress, Jr., in Two Volumes

By: Cypress, J., Jr.; Forester, Frank

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Gould, Banks & Co.: 1842

Seller ID: 2304767

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Smudge on front board of volume one. Board corners of both volumes bumped, pages of both volumes lightly foxed. 1842 Hard Cover. Two volume set. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Memoir of Wm. P. Hawes; To the Memory of Cypress; Fire Island-ana, or a Week at the Fire Islands: Chapters I - VIII; Controversy Concersing the Genera, Etc., of Quail and Partridge; Bear; Collineomania; Legends of Long Islands. VOLUME TWO CONTENTS: Classic Rhapsodies; Random Reminiscences; Miscellanies; Poetical Parodies.
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The Red-Eye Fever: Adventures in the Belgian Congo

By: Dallemagne-Cookson, Elise

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Xlibris Corporation: 2002

Seller ID: 2304677

ISBN: 1401071767

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2002 Trade Paperback. More than just a tale of a crocodile hunt, it (The Red-Eye Fever) is a peek at a slice of time now gone. The look at the Congo as it stood on the verge of independence makes for fascinating reading.
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Image for The Dog. by Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, Compiled, Arranged, Edited, and Illustrated by Frank Forester - Complete and Revised Edition.; The Sportsman's Vade Mecum. Containing Full Instructions in All That Relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kennelling, and Conditioning of Dogs. together with Numerous Valuable Recipes for the Treatment of the Various Diseases to which the Canine Race is Subject. as also a Few Remarks on Guns, Their Loading and Carriage, Designed Expressly for the Use of Young Sportsmen.; Dogs, and Their Management; Being a New Plan for Treating the Animal, Based upon a Consideration of His Natural Temperament; Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Easy, and Certain Method. Whether Great Excellence or Only Mediocrity Be Required.

The Dog. by Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, Compiled, Arranged, Edited, and Illustrated by Frank Forester - Complete and Revised Edition.; The Sportsman's Vade Mecum. Containing Full Instructions in All That Relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kennelling, and Conditioning of Dogs. together with Numerous Valuable Recipes for the Treatment of the Various Diseases to which the Canine Race is Subject. as also a Few Remarks on Guns, Their Loading and Carriage, Designed Expressly for the Use of Young Sportsmen.; Dogs, and Their Management; Being a New Plan for Treating the Animal, Based upon a Consideration of His Natural Temperament; Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Easy, and Certain Method. Whether Great Excellence or Only Mediocrity Be Required.

By: Dinks; Mayhew, Edward; Hutchinson, W.N.; Forester, Frank

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Geo. E. Woodward.: 1873

Seller ID: 2201092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. vi, 663 pp. Three classic guides to the care of dogs as pets or as sporting companions, collected in one volume with new illustrations by Frank Forester. BAL 8158.
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Chronicles of a Second African Trip

By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Seller ID: 2201442

ISBN: 0961082410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the mot...
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Chronicles of a Second African Trip

By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Seller ID: 2203611

ISBN: 0961082410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. University of Rochester bookplate on front flyleaf reads 'In Celebration of Janis F. and James S. Gleason upon Receiving the Outstanding Philanthropist Award, National Philanthropy Day, November 18, 2003'. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Ea...
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Chronicles of a Second African Trip

By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987

Seller ID: 2278774

ISBN: 0961082410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first film...
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The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen (Westvaco's American Classics Series)

By: Forester, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Westvaco: 1993

Seller ID: 2299599

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's slipcase included. Slipcase edge faded. 1993 Hard Cover. 282 pp. Publisher's slipcase included. CONTENTS: The Art of the Gun; The Art of the Dog; The Field; River Fish and Fishing; Bait Fishing; Natural and Artificial Fly-Fishing; Sea-Fishing; The Art of Cooking; Westvaco's American Classics Series; List of Illustrations; Colophon.
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Valley Horses, Volume II [2]

By: Kelley, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sandres Newspapers: 1985

Seller ID: 2275138

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Faint smudge on rear wrapper. 1985 Stapled Binding. 59 pp. A second book about and for those who love Fox Hunting in the Genesee Valley.
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Valley Horses

By: Kelley, Michael Mike

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Livingston Republic, Inc.: 1975

Seller ID: 2275137

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Pencil mark on front wrapper, pencil scribbles on last page. 1975 Stapled Binding. 133 pp. A book about and for those who love Fox Hunting in the Genesee Valley.
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The Isle of Long Ago: Sporting Days

By: Kent, Edwin C.; Lee, W. Creighton

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1933

Seller ID: 2092787

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #18 of 1000 copies, hand-numbered in ink on colophon. Spine & edges toned. 1933 Hard Cover. xii, 194 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece, etched plate by W.J. Schaldach. An account of upland game bird shooting, detailing hunts for woodcock, wild fowl, ruffed grouse, and quail. Also includes sections on Tuxedo Park, salmon fishing, and trips to Florida and other locales.
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American Indian Archery (The Civilization of the American Indian Series 154)

By: Laubin, Reginald & Gladys

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2303887

ISBN: 0806123877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

4th printing. Edges lightly rubbed, owner blind stamp on title page. 1990 Trade Paperback. xii, 179 pp. Includes section of color photographs, black-and-white illustrations in text. No one knows for certain just when the bow and arrow came into use in America, but they were in use from the far North to the tip of South America when Europeans first arrived. Over the hemisphere the equipment ranged from very poor to excellent, with the finest bows of all being made in the Northwest of North America. Some of these bows rivaled the ancient classic bow in beauty of design and workmanship. The attit...
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Image for Wild Fowl Shooting, Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl: Their Resorts, Habits, Flights, and the Most Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the Selection of Guns for Wild Fowl Shooting; How to Load, Aim, and to Use Them Successfully; Decoys, and the Proper Manner of Using Them; Blinds, How and Where to Construct Them; Boats, How to Build and Use Them Scientifically; Retrievers, Their Characteristics, How to Select, and How to Train Them.

Wild Fowl Shooting, Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl: Their Resorts, Habits, Flights, and the Most Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the Selection of Guns for Wild Fowl Shooting; How to Load, Aim, and to Use Them Successfully; Decoys, and the Proper Manner of Using Them; Blinds, How and Where to Construct Them; Boats, How to Build and Use Them Scientifically; Retrievers, Their Characteristics, How to Select, and How to Train Them.

By: Leffingwell, William Bruce

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Rand McNally & Company: 1888

Seller ID: 2260762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, an apparent variant with darker cloth and no ads following text. Rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1888 Hard Cover. 373 pp. 8vo. A guide to hunting wild fowl, with chapters dedicated to numerous species, illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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Exploring the Outdoors with Indian Secrets

By: Macfarlan, Allan A.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, Stackpole Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2303844

ISBN: 0811721833

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

5th printing. Owner blind stamp on front flyleaf. 1994 Trade Paperback. 223 pp. Indian secrets on tracking through forest growth, stalking wildlife, and seeing without being seen.
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Game Birds and Game Bird Shooting (Popular Edition)

By: Pollard, Hugh B.C.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1936

Seller ID: 1890738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Near fine book in fair jacket. Ink name & date on front endpaper, jacket well worn (rubbed with significant loss from corners). 1936 Hard Cover. xv, 284 pp. Printed on laid paper. Includes six color plates from watercolors by Philip Rickman, and eight plates from photographs. A manual on rearing, preservation, and shooting of game birds by the English sportsman and shooting editor of Country Life.
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

By: Roosevelt, Theodore

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 2291428

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus (W.B. Conkey seal on copyright). Hinges loosening, edges rubbed, pencil gift note and ink date on front endpapers. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 583 pp. Original olive cloth, gilt titles, safari scene on front board depicting a herd of elephants. One of two binding variants printed by Scribner's in 1910, this often referred to as the Subscriber's Edition, which contains many more illustrations than the simultaneously issued trade edition (over 200, versus 50). Illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin...
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The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

By: Rosenbauer, Tom

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Guilford, Lyons Press: 2001

Seller ID: 2305572

ISBN: 1585740330

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Faint edge wear to jacket. 2001 Large Hardcover. This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns.
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Game Birds of North America (An Outdoor Life Book)

By: Rue, Leonard Lee, III

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1973

Seller ID: 2265089

ISBN: 0060137142

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Half-inch tear along top edge of jacket front, jacket faintly toned. Page ridges faintly foxed. 1973 Large Hardcover. x, 490 pp. Giant full-page and double page reproductions in vivid color show many birds in their natural habitats.
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men

By: Sandoz, Mari

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House: 1954

Seller ID: 2305541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

One inch by half inch chip along bottom corner of rear jacket panel, half inch by quarter inch chip along top edge of rear jacket panel, other small chips to jacket edges, faint stains on rear jacket panel. 1954 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 372 pp. In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book.
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Fishing in American Waters. A New Edition, Containing Parts Six and Seven, On Southern and Miscellaneous Fishes.

By: Scott, Genio C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The American News Company: 1875

Seller ID: 2208363

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Fore edge corners exposed, otherwise excellent - binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 1875 Hard Cover. xiv, 539 pp. 4-page publisher ad follows text. 8vo. Engraved illustrations throughout. An updated version of the work originally published in 1869. This edition adds sections on southern and miscellaneous fishes, comprising nearly 90 pages. The text discusses both rod and line fishing and fly-fishing, as well as commercial fisheries, fish culture throughout history, and ichthyology. An appendix provides ideas for cooking in the wilderness or on the water, and even mixing c...
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Morning Flight: A Book of Wildfowl

By: Scott, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Country life Limited: 1946

Seller ID: 2277969

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Eighth printing. No jacket, page ridges very faintly foxed, ink name on front endpaper. 1946 Large Hardcover. xiii, 137 pp. Written and illustrated by Peter Scott. This is a book of pictures. What is written is about the wild geese and ducks and the adventures I have had in a few short years of shooting, catching, taming, photographing, filming and painting the most wonderful birds that fly.
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