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Denizens of the Jungles

"EVOCATIVE SKETCHES OF TIGER, GAUR, BISON, LEOPARD, SPOTTED DEER, AND THE LIKE"

STERNDALE, Robert Armitage. Denizens of the Jungles. Calcutta, 1886.

Expanded second edition of Sterndale's "quite scarce" collection of sketches, with 12 folio lithographs of the wild animals of India in their natural habitats, including "evocative sketches" of tiger, elephant, leopard, gaur, entellus monkeys (langur), wild boar, rhinoceros, sambar deer, and Marco Polo sheep, among others. $2200.

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Western Pony

“ON RANCHES SUCH AS THE ETON RANCH IN WYOMING…”

LEIGH, William R. The Western Pony. New York and London, 1935.

Second edition of this classic illustrated book on horses, with six fine mounted color plates of horses and 18 in-text illustrations, signed on the half title by William R. Leigh. $1600.

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Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes

FIRST EDITION OF FERGUSSON’S ADVENTURE SPORT AND TRAVEL ON THE TIBETAN STEPPES, 1911, WITH TWO FOLDING MAPS OF CHINA AND 27 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES OF CHINA AND TIBET

(CHINA) FERGUSSON, W.N. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. London, 1911.

First edition, with two folding maps, 27 photographic plates of China, Tibet, and their inhabitants, and 48 in-text photographic illustrations, in original pictorial cloth. $1400.

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Lehrprinz oder Praktische Abhandlung von dem Leithund

“A VALUABLE MANUAL FOR HUNTSMEN ON THE USE OF THE LED-HOUND”

HEPPE, Carl von. Lehrprinz oder Praktische Abhandlung von dem Leithund. Augsburg, 1751.

First and only edition of this early work on training dogs for stag hunting, with engraved frontispiece and folding engraved plate by Tobias Lobeck. $1350.

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Cracks of the Day

40 FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS OF “CRACK” RACEHORSES

WILDRAKE, pseudonym [TATTERSALL, George]. Cracks of the Day. London, 1843.

Second edition of this ten-years’ chronicle of the English Turf, “with additions, completing the work to January, 1843,” with separate wood-engraved title page and 73 illustrations, including 40 full-page steel-engravings of great racehorses, beautifully bound by Bayntun of Bath for Brentano’s. $1250.

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Anecdotes

“COMPLETE PANORAMA OF THE SPORTING WORLD”

EGAN, Pierce. Anecdotes. London, 1827.

First combined edition of this repository of entertaining sporting stories of the Victorian age, illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece and 12 full-page hand-colored aquatints by Theodore Lane and numerous in-text wood-engravings. $1200.

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Gunner's Dawn

CLARK’S GUNNER’S DAWN, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING

CLARK, Roland Hanmer. Gunner's Dawn. New York, 1937.

Limited private-press first edition, number 606 of a total edition of 1000, of Clark’s hunting reminiscences, with an original signed etching as a frontispiece and 19 full-page plates of game fowl by the author (five in color). $900.

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Famous Harness Horses

ONE OF ONLY 600 COPIES

(HORSES) BENNETT, Geoffrey D.S. Famous Harness Horses. London, 1926.

Limited first edition of Volume I of this illustrated history of British harness racing horses, this copy number 245 of only 600 copies. From the library of renowned sportswoman and sporting books collector Elisabeth “Pansy” Ireland. $500.

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Twenty Sporting Designs

“HIS SIRE FROM THE DESERT, HIS DAM FROM THE NORTH,

THE PRIDE OF MY STABLE STEPT GALLANTLY FORTH…”

FOTHERGILL, Edward. Twenty Sporting Designs. Edinburgh, 1911.

Signed limited first edition, number 192 of only 300 copies signed by Fothergill on the limitation page, with engravings after pen and ink and watercolor drawings by George Fothergill. $500.

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