 | Oriental Field Sports - Captain Thomas Williamson - Volume 1
Condition Very Good
Published by Edward Orme, London 1808
Being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East.
The whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic and curious anecdotes taken from the manuscripts and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson who served upwards of twenty years in Bengal'
xiv, 306pp with twenty good full page plates from drawings by Samuel Howett and with a stunning frontis plate.
# 21510sB8
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|  | The Viking Drivers, Ronnie Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson - Fredrik af Petersens
Condition Very Good
Published by William Kimber, London 1979
ISBN 0718303660
Written by a close friend of both, this book is an intimate study of two brilliant Grand Prix drivers, who in very different ways, came to early and tragic deaths.
208pp with black and white plates.
# 20405sC10
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|  | Fangio - edited by Denis Jackson
Condition Very Good
Published by Michael Joseph, London 1973
ISBN 071811079X
Based on the film, 'Fangio' by Hugh Hudson and Giovanni Volpi this is also a classic of 1970s book style designed by the renowned Bob Gill.
Unpaginated, illustrated in colour and monotone.
# 20401sC10
Price: £12.00 / $18.00
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 | The Amateur Poacher - Richard Jefferies
Condition Very Good
Published by Excellent Press, Ludlow, Shrops. 2006
ISBN 1900318229
First published in 1879 this book has become established as a favourite of countrylovers and shooters, one of the treasures of sporting literature.
240pp.
# 19476sB13
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|  | Falconry, Care, Captiver Breeding and Conservation - Jemima Parry-Jones
Condition Very Good
Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon 1995
ISBN 0715301055
232pp illustrated in colour and black and white.
# 19472/1sB13
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|  | Birds of Prey of the British Isles - Brrian P.Martin
Condition Very Good
Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon 1992
ISBN 0715397826
192pp well illustrated in colour and black and white.
#19469sB13
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 | The Hound and the Hawk, the art of Medieval Hunting - John Cummings
Condition Very Good
Soft Cover
Published by Phoenix Press, London 2001
ISBN 1842120972
Hunting was a training for war and a rite of manhood, a powerful and ritualistic pastime, the sport of kings.
306pp with black and white plates
# 19473sB13
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|  | Falconry and Hawking - Phillip Glasier
Conditon Very Good
Published by Batsfortd, London 1998
Third edition
ISBN 0713484071
Considered to be the most comprehensive ever written on the subject.
352pp well illustrated in colour and black and white.
# 19474sB13
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|  | Training Birds of Prey - Jemima Parry-Jones
Condition Very Good
Pubblished by David & Charles, Newton Abbot Devon 1998
ISBN 071530142X
A guide to training the five different groups; hawks, falcons, eagles, buzzards and owls.
160pp well illustrated in colour and black and white.
# 19471sB13
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 | The Big Game Hunters - MIchael Brander
Condition Very Good
Published by The Sportman's Press, London 1988
ISBN 0948253231
Portrays the lives and expeditions of the principal big game hunters from the days of the muzzle-loading flintlock smoothbore through to the development of the modern breech loading express rifle.
192pp well illustrated in black and white and including a comprehensive bibliography of the major works on big game hunting.
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|  | Works Driver, the autobiography of Piero Taruffi
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good
First British edition 1964
Published by Temple Press, London
Piero Taruffi, 'The Silver Fox' of Italy, who drove the classic racing cars of the 30s and 50s, was manager of famous teams, a top flight motorcyclist, a brilliant engineer and a World record Breaker on two wheels and four.
222pp well illustrated in black and white.
# 20176sC12
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|  | Field Sports in India 1800-1947 - Major-General J.G.Elliott
Condition Very Good
Published by Gentry Books, London 1973
ISBN 0856140236
The life of the British in India was cruelly dismissed by Vanity Fair as 'duty and red tape, picnics and adultery'. However the author demonstrates that for many men - and for some notable women too - it was through sport that they sought relaxation and relief from the routine of their working life.
223pp illustrated in black and white.
# 18676s100
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 | Hunters Moon - Leonard M.H.Handley
Condition Good Plus
Published by Macmillan, London 1933
A book about big game hunting in the jungles of the Far East where the author has striven to depart from the normal account of slaughter, paraphernalia and methods to lyrically describe the vast green silences where he maintains only man is vile.
267pp0 with black and white plates.
# 18725s97
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|  | Forest Life and Sport in India - Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot
Condition Very Good
Published by Edward Arnold, London 1910
321pp with black and white plates.
The author was late Inspector of Forests to the Indian Government and in addition to forest sports he covers the early awareness for the need of conservation.
# 18718s97
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|  | Hunter at Heart - B.N.Gordon Graham
Condition Good
Published by Herbert Jenkins, London 1950
Dedicated by the author to the Jungle Folk in India and Ceylon, in particular to the Shikaris and Trackers from remote jungle hamlets, in whose company I have spent many happy days with gun and rifle.
222pp with black and white plates together with line illustrations by A.I.Cameron
# 18690s97
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 | Leaves from Indian Forests - Sir S.Eardley-Wilmot
Condition Good Plus
Published by Edward Arnold, London 1930
Sketches, jotted down at intervals of twenty five years' service in India, commencing with a night in the forest on a tiger stake out.
200pp with black and white plates.
# 18689s97
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|  | Walker's Manly Excercises and Rural Sports, edited by "Craven"
Condition Very Good
Published by Wm. S.Orr & Co, London 1851
Ninth edition
Containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Racing, Hunting, Shooting and other manly sports. An early book extolling the advantages of physical excercise.
xii, 264pp plus index, gilt edged.
44 instructional plates with numerous illustrative wood engravings throughout the texts.
Gilt and blind stamped publishers cloth.
# 18644
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|  | Sport and Service in Assam and Elsewhere - Lt.Col.Alban Wilson, late 1st Batt. 8th Gurkha Rifles
Condition Good
Published by Hutchinson, London 1924
xv, 320pp with black and white plates
Colonel Wilson was fishing a fine river, the Dhansiri, near Nichuguard. He says: "Whilst I was fishing, a native came and spun me various yarns about the enormous fish a sahib caught there the previous year, one of which was so large, the narrator had to take his clothes off to help to land it. From further enquiries I elicited particulars which showed that this angler could be no other than myself, and as on this occasion I had killed nothing over 6lbs., I suggested that this 18 pounder would have grown to 80lbs. by the time the next sahib came along."
# 18696s95
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 | A History of Durham Rowing - A.A.Macfarlane-Grieve
Condition Very Good
Published by Andrew Reid & Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1922
Covers not only the history of 'Varsity rowing but also that of Durham School and The Durham Amateur Rowing Club.
xx, 250pp with black and white plates.
A scarce title
# 18646
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|  | Courses for Horses, a complete guide to Designing and Building Show Jumping Courses - Christopher Coldrey
Condition Very Good
Published by J.A.Allen, London 1999
ISBN 0851315410
174pp well illustrated
# 18422s34
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|  | Stables and Other Equestrian Buildings, a Guide to Design and Construction - Keith Warth
Condition Very Good
Published by J.A.Allen, London 1997
ISBN 0851316875
102pp illustrated in colour and black and white.
# 18421s90
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 | Why Does My Horse ....? - Paul McGreevy
Condition Very Good
Published by Souvenir Press, London 1997
ISBN 0285633120
243pp with light hearted illustrations
Why does my horse crib bite? dislike being clipped? paw at the ground? eat bedding? and many other questions answered.
# 18423s24
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|  | Chronicles of a Garden Railway - W.A.D.Strickland
This is the story of a father and son partnership over a peiod of sixteen years and records their trials, tribulations and successes in building and operating a OO gauge garden railway in the back garden of their London suburban house.
Published by Model Aeronautical Press, Hemel Hempstead, 1968
93pp illustrated in black and white.
# 18279s58
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|  | 14075 - The History of Kent County Cricket - Lord Harris, editor
Condition Very Good
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1907
510pp with black and white plates, some folding
Price: £160.00 / $240.00
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