Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. First Edition, Second Issue. Illustrated with 3 engraved plates by Francis Kearney. Half calf and marbled boards. Duodecimo. xii, [13]-249, [1], [3] pages of ads. This is just the second shooting book published in America and the first comprehensive sporting manual. Published anonymously but..... More

New York: The Derrydale Press, (1934). First Edition, number 698 of 950 copies. Black and white photographic illustrations. Full leather over boards. Octavo. [xvi], 240 pages. The first edition of Buckingham's first book with a lengthy inscription signed by him on preliminary blank leaf. Most of the inscription is a...... More

(London): Honey Dun Press, (1975). Limited edition. Six hand-colored plates by John Simpson. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi],32, 6 plates. A study of one of the rarest books in angling literature. There are six hand-colored plates by John Simpson depicting 30 flies. The frontispiece is an actual countersunk Black Gnat fly tied..... More

Barre: Barre Publishers, 1971. Limited edition. `. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 92, [1] pages. A fine collection of Lamb's essays on fly-fishing for trout and salmon and other outdoor sporting adventures. Edition limited to 1500, this copy is SIGNED by Lamb but not numbered. Lacks the slipcase... More

E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1967. First Edition. Illustrated by John Schoenherr. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages. Award-winning tale of two adversaries engaged in a lifelong duel--a half-bred bloodhound and a red fox. Mannix submitted the unpublished manuscript to the Dutton Animal Book Award and won in 1967. The..... More

Washington: Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 92 pages. A delightful volume of fishing reminiscences by a prominent Yale geologist and petrologist. Pirsson writes of fishing for trout in New England, ouananiche in Quebec, grayling in Montana, and salmon in the Atlantic. Written during Pirsson's last illness and..... More

London: Printed for the Author by Haines and Turner, sold by T. Tegg, 1815. Second Edition. Illustrated with woodcuts. Half leather over boards. Octavo. xxxi, 317 (misprinted as 217) pages. Published just a year after the first edition in 1814, this second edition boasts considerable additions, local descriptions, a glossary..... More

Frederick: Baughman Brothers, 1877. First Edition. Illustrated with 7 tissue-guarded wood-engraved plates by H. W. Crutchfield and Joseph T. Harley. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Schley describes the haunts, habits, and methods of hunting partridge, quail, pheasant, and grouse. He includes directions on gun handling, the art of..... More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. Limited edition, #288 of 500 sets. Illustrated by E. Œ. Somerville. Cloth over boards. Octavos. "Somerville and Ross" was the joint pen name of the female writing team of Edith Anna Œnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. This special edition of their foxhunting stories..... More

London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. Black and white engravings throughout. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. A handsome set of the large paper first Nicolas edition of Walton, acclaimed as the finest "Angler" ever published. Sir Harris Nicolas not only secured excellent..... More