coventry cameron (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. 88pp hardback, yellow cloth black-lettered in price-clipped wrapper, wrapper torn with losses over spine, bw plates including frontispiece, first thus.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st thus. 8vo (140 x 221mm). Pp88 + viii pp advertisements. B/w photographs. Yellow cloth, upper board and spine titled in black. Slight browning. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. This is the otter hunting section of Deer, Hare and Otter Hunting, volume XXII of the Lonsdale Library series. "Written by two famous Masters of Otter Hounds, this book says the last word on modern practice. From the natural history of the otter and the early history of the sport to the handling of hounds in the field, every point is dealt with to the ultimate detail. The list of contents will speak for itself." Chapters include: The otter (Lutra vulgaris), by the Earl of Coventry, Master of the Hawkstone Otter Hounds; History and antiquity, 1175 to the present day, by Capt. L.C.R. Cameron, sometime Master of Otter Hounds; The science of hunting the otter, by Capt. L.C.R. Cameron; An otter hunting establishment, by Capt. L.C.R. Cameron - hounds and terriers, kennel management, the master, huntsman and staff, the field; A survery of otter hunting countries, by Capt. L.C.R. Cameron - Scottish and Northern English waters, Dumfriesshire Otterhounds, Carlisle Otter Hunt, West Cumberland Otter Hunt, Kendal and District Otterhounds, Northern Counties Otterhounds, Northern Counties Otterhounds, otter hunting in the Midlands, East Lincolnshire Otter Hunt, the Eastern and South-Eastern Counties, the sport in Hants, Wilts and Dorset, in the West of England, The Culmstock Hunt, The Cheriton, The Dartmoor, The Tetcott, Wales and the Marches, The Hawkstone, The Border Counties Otterhounds, The Wye Valley Otterhounds, Pembroke and Carmarthern Pack, otter hunting in Ireland and France; A glossary of otter hunting terms; An otter hunting bibliography. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Good minus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. First. Hardback with Dust Jacket. Illustrated believe to be first edition. Book good condition stains to covers, inscription to first blank page. Content clean. Dust Jacket acceptable tapped to all edges, rubbing to edges price clipped. U5A54.