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Broad-Sword and Single-Stick. with chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella, and other Weapons of Self-Defence. The All-England Series.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. [Sword and Staff Combat] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 X 12cm), pp.[4] 116. With occasional in-text diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. Advertisements to endpapers. Light browning to endpapers, with a small black ink inscription to flyleaf..... More
An Historical Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent, With Eight Engravings and a Map.
Cranbrook: Printed for and sold by S. Reader, 1814. Octavo, pp.lvi,277, [1] blank; [5] index; [1] advertisements. Hand coloured map of the Weald, eight hand coloured aquatint views. Together with a loosely inserted aquatint addition copy of one of the prints in the book, printed on letter paper, presumably for..... More
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. An Ars Poetica.
London: Stanley Nott, 1936. [Essay on Chinese Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.52. Publisher's cream quarter paper over spine with red titles and black cloth over boards. Top edge black. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. Gently toned throughout, with some offsetting to endpapers. Light marginal ink notations to..... More
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Game Shooting] FINELY BOUND, the ninth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 623 [3]. With numerous in-text woodcuts, and several full page engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Papier Tourniquet over..... More
A List of Books Relating to Fish, Fishing, and Fisheries to Supplement the Bibliotheca Piscatoria of T. Westwood and T. Satchell published in 1883. This List includes Works published between 1883 and 1900, and some older Books not mentioned in the 'Bibliotheca Piscatoria'.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1901. [Fishing bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.24. Publisher's blue paper wraps with adverts printed to the rear and the inner faces, later binding of paper covered boards with a facsimile printing of the original cover to the upper, each page interleaved..... More
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