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Collection of Hunting Books: Collection of books about hunting, also to include books about fishing and birds Provenance: A Rockport, Texas collection height 12 in. x width 9 in. x depth 1 in. / largest We happily provide seaml

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1878 Wild Sports HUNTING Fishing Illustrated Animals: 1878 Wild Sports HUNTING Fishing Illustrated Animals Birds St John Charles St. John’s ‘Sketches of the Wild Sports’ is a charming illustrated 19th-century book on animals, hunting, wilderness ad

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6 Books on Hunting and Fising: 6 Books on Hunting and Fishing- 1.) Bromley-Davenport, W- ''Sport''- Chapman and Hall Ltd. London, 1885 2.) Grinnell, George Bird- ''American Duckk Shooting''- Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 1901 3.

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Wetzel, Charles M.American Fishing Books. A: Wetzel, Charles M.American Fishing Books. A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948. 4to, 3/4 green oasis goat, hand-marbled boards and endpapers, housed in mahogany slipcase with a March Brow

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Library of fishing books: fly fishing, fly tying, flats: Library of fishing books: fly fishing, fly tying, flats fishing, how to books, trout, saltwater, fly patterns, 27 boxes. Estate of Michael Coe, PhD, New Haven, CT.

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2023DERRYDALE SHOOTING & FISHING BOOKS BY N BUCKINGHAMSee Sold Price

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Modern Bird Books, a collection 14 Books, including: Meinertzhagen, R. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1954]. First edition, large 8vo, original tan cloth; Smythies, Bertram E. The Birds of Burma. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1953]. Second

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2023LOT OF FLY FISHING BOOKS ETC.See Sold Price

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Twelve Fishing Books: Twelve Fishing Bookstallest, quarto, 11-1/4 in., as follows: Charles M. Wetzel, Practical Fly Fishing, owner signed (1945); Fred Everett, Fun With Trout, author signed (1952); Verne E. Davison, Homema

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1889 FISHING Book of Black Bass Henshall Fly Tackle: 1889 FISHING Book of Black Bass Henshall Fly Tackle Sport Reels Fish Illustrated Legendary fly-fishing expert J.A. Henshall's ‘Book of Black Bass’ is divided into three parts of biology of the bla

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5 Thomas Bewick Bird Books: Five (5) Thomas Bewick books, 6 vols. total. 1st item: A History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on Wood, Vol. I - Containing the History and Description of Land Birds, by Thomas Bewick, 1797.

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13 Roger Tory Peterson, 1st Ed & Signed Bird Books: Thirteen (13) Roger Tory Peterson books including several signed and first editions. 1st-4th items: Four (4) copies of A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas, First Printing, text and illustrations by Ro

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(11VOL) FLY FISHING, ANGLING, TROUT, & OTHER FISHING BOOKS: Including: American Angler's Guide, 4th edition, D. Appleton & Co., New York; Streamcraft: an Angling Manual by Dr. George Parker Holden, signed frontice page and with dust jacket; Trout (2 vol) b

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Antique Fishing Books Complete Angler Scots 1787: Lot consists of 12 volumes including "A Retrospective View of the Scots Fisheries" second edition, Edinburgh, 1787; "Salmonia or Days of Fly Fishing" by An Angler, Philadelphia, 1832; "The Complete An

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Twelve (12) Hardback Fly Fishing Books.: Twelve (12) hardback books on fly fishing and related. Mostly first editions in dust jackets.

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13 Fishing Books: Includes 9 volumes of the Trout Unlimited Fly Fisherman's Gold Library by Derrydale Press. Faux Leather bound.

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From the Estate of Everett “Rett” Foster of Clayton, NY. Mr. Foster had an extensive collection of hunting, angling and outdoor sporting books from The Derrydale Press. Many of these books were acquired from longtime collector and book dealer Ernest S. Hickok from Summit, NJ and some are signed by Eugene Connett. This is one of the most important collections of sporting related books sold at auction this year.