Coxe nicholas (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. [RARE c.1795 STANDALONE GEORGIAN SPORTING BOOK - IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS] Extracted and updated from Nicholas Cox's classic 1674 work "The Gentleman's Recreation". --- FULL TITLE: The Fowler. Containing Rules for Taking Every Species of Land and Water Fowl; Whether by Fowling Piece, Net, Engine, or otherwise. Likewise, Instructions for the Choice and Training of the Dogs for Fowling; Remedies for their Diseases, &c. &c. Also, A Concise Essay on Song Birds. --- PUBLICATION & SCARCITY: London: Printed for J. Smeeton, 148, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, undated as issued [circa 1795]. This is the very scarce second separate edition published as a standalone book, following the first separate issue by J. Dixwell in 1780. --- COLLATION & FORMAT: Octavo (8vo). pp. ii + 76. Complete with the highly important 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at the very rear. --- LUXURY PRESENTATION & PROVENANCE: Housed in a custom, modern slim clamshell presentation box beautifully covered in deep blue buckram with elegant gilt titles to the spine. Features the prestigious armorial bookplate of the celebrated sporting library collector Douglas Peter Crossman affixed to the inside of the box lid. --- CONDITION REPORT: Good to Very Good. The blue buckram presentation box is in very good condition with just a little light rubbing to the corners. The softcover book itself survives in its original blue paper covers, showing expected age-chipping and small historic tears to the outer edges of the pages. Text block exhibits mild, sporadic foxing throughout, which is slightly heavier to the first and last pages. Note: There is a faint, historic aroma of pipe smoke to the paper stock, as is common with old sporting library items. A lovely, completely untouched example of a very scarce Georgian wing-shooting piece with wonderful collector pedigree. …

Zustand: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). (1674) 1991 reset new edition. 8vo (140 x 212mm). Ppvii,102,ads. Unillustrated, pinkish-grey end-papers. Rust-coloured cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good. ".whether by fowling piece, net, engine, or otherwise. Such as woodcocks, felfares, pigeons, magpies, morepoots, snipes, gleads, crows, rooks, herns, partridges, pheasants, rails and quails. With an account of their seasons; descriptions of their haunts; and methods for making limes, limed twigs, springes, baits, &c. for taking them. Likewise, instructions for the choice and training of the dogs for fowling; remedies for their diseases, &c. &c. Also a concise essay on song birds, viz. the nightingale, canary bird, black bird, wood lark, linnet, chaffinch, robin, starling, tit lark, bull finch, thrush, sky lark, redstart, wren, green finch, gold finch, hedge sparrow. Clearly describing their seasons, and nests; the the best modes for taking and preserving them in health and good song. By Nicholas Coxe, Esq. author of The Huntsman." This is a reset new edition of part of Smeeton's c1815 edition of Coxe's "The nobleman and gentleman's recreation". .…