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Biblio offers selections of rare and antique books relating to all kinds of hobbies, and you can find rare hunting and gun books in the Biblio Rare Book Room. Many of the rare books featured in the rare hunting and gun books section of the Biblio Rare Book Room include detailed illustrations and interesting bindings, and there is a wide diversity of topics. Some of the rare and antique hunting and gun books focus on particular styles of rifles or hunting techniques, and others discuss the history of such hunting.
PORTLAND, MAINE: FALMOUTH PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1949 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH A WHITE TEXTURED FRONT AND BACK WITH GREEN SPINE. GOLD PRINT ALONG SPINE. BLACK SLIP COVER WITH NICE TEXTURE ON OUTSIDE. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. CLEAN AND TIGHT. LIMITED EDI...
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NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 1860 RARE BOOK, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH. BROWN COVER WITH HEAVIER BINDING ON THE SPINE. GOLD PRINT SPINE, OHIO SCHOOL LIBRARY REFERENCED. WEAR ON THE COVER, SPINE SHOWS 2 NICKS MIDWAY AND BOTTOM. MARBL...
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From my personal gun library, this is an excellent copy, like new in like new DJ. 269 pages. A superbly detailed exposition of these scarce Lugers with many illustrations showing details and features of these guns. It is the definitive work on the Dutc...
From David Jackson
NEW YORK: THE DERRYDALE PRESS, 1928 VERY NICE LOOKING GRAY TEXTURED COVER WITH WHITE LABEL FRONT AND SPINE. INSIDE IS TIGHT AND CLEAN. FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT. LIMITED EDITION 275 OF 750. FRONTISPIECE IS A ART HAND COLORED OF A COUGAR-PANTHE...
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NEW YORK: THE DERRYDALE PRESS, 1937 VERY NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT OF FISHERMAN, GOLD PRINT SPINE WITH GOLD LINE DESIGN. FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT. FRONTISPIECE SHOWS A FISHERMAN AND THERE ARE 4 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGH...
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1893 1st ed Teddy Roosevelt Wilderness Hunter Hunting Sports Illustrated BEARS "When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on." – Theodore Roosevelt A far cry from his New York City upbringing, the Dakota Bad Lands became Theodore Roo...
1852 Wild Sports of Southern Africa Harris Big Game Hunting Illustrated Binding The first book written exclusively of only big game hunting! William Cornwallis Harris was a 19th-century English explorer who is best remembered for his voyages to South Af...
George Wingate entered the Civil War as a private in the New York State Guard. He soon discovered that the militia had very poor shooting skills, and devoted himself to correcting that failing. By the end of the war he had been promoted to Captai...
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1841 1ed Foreign Field Sports Color Illustrated Hunting Fishing WHALING Howitt An extremely valuable and impressive, color illustrated work of sport and outdoors by illustrator Samuel Howitt. 'Foreign Field Sports' is a 19th-century sports manual known f...
Front and back covers show some wear with tears at the corners and discoloration throughout; Pages are clean; Binding is tight....
Birmingham England: Midland Gun Co., Demon Gun Works., 1904 Red/yellow/black covers, map rear cover. Telegraphic address: "Rifles, Birmingham" Code: A. B. C. 4th and 5th Editions. nd. c. 1904 Notices; Loaded Cartridges Cannot be sent by Post, It...
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1804 1st print Thornhill Shooting Directory HUNTING Color Illustrated Sport Guns Richard Thornhill's 'Shooting Directory' is one of, if not the best early 19th-century shooting and hunting manual. This incredible folio hunting guide is a collection of di...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First Edition. Large Octavo. 299pp., illustrated by Joseph Grego. Burton writes" From days immemorial the Queen of Weapons, a creator as well as a destroyer, carved out history, formed the nations, and shaped the world" The...
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co (1933) Ltd., 1942. Original (not facsimile) dustwrapper has a 3 inch tear to the top right-hand corner of front panel and a smaller, 2 inch one at the top end of spine, and some smaller tears and creasing to the edges of ...
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1749 Liger Rustic House Bees Beekeeping Hunting Wine Cuisine Maison Rustique 2v Louis Liger was a prominent 17th-century French writer known for his works on flora and fauna. He is chiefly remembered for his major work 'Nouvelle Maison Rustique,' or 'The...
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