Beautiful hand-coloured plates. First edition of this vibrant, hand-coloured guide to fish.Author Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an avid natural hi...

A bright and handsome copy of this popular work on big game hunting in India, with a warm presentation inscription dated 1911. Charles Edward Mack...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

One of only 500 copies. Comprising of four works, entitled: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa &...

The finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries. Very rare. The first and only edition of the finest and most important sport...

Very rare first issue with fine provenance. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated 1820. ...

The Schwerdt copy. The coloured issue ranks as one of the rarest sporting books of the period. There is only a record of a second coloured copy, wh...

'A sumptuous rendering of south Asia's wild game species in art and text. Lydekker describes more than seventy varieties of game with attendant no...

A scarce pirated edition. A fine series of plates illustrating correct horsemanship in riding to hounds. The plates are captioned: "Going along a ...

Signed. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is Sassoon's lightly fictionalised account of his early years in Kent. It quickly became a literary success, w...

From the library of 1st Viscount Cowdray. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843) was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, who following his marriage ...

Hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Daniel's classic compendium of field sports, with an additional hand-coloured engraved frontis...

The cornerstone of any Alken collection. 'the size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). One of the...