Verlag: Debrett's Peerage. London. 1986, 1986
ISBN 10: 0905649842 ISBN 13: 9780905649849
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986 ). 1986 1st edition. 4to (201 x 256mm). Pp96. B/w photographs and illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight soiling and use, smells slightly musty. Good in like dust-wrapper. "After a day's shooting, the owner gives his guests a game card on which is written the details of the bag and the names of the guns, so that the guests can accurately transcribe the day's sport into their gamebooks at home. This ritual has changed little since the Edwardian age of huge bags, extravagant weekend parties, and bitter rivalry between the best shots. .This book takes a light-hearted look at many of the game cards from the great shoots of the Edwardian age right up to the modern day. There are game cards as far apart as Cornwall, Wales, the Hebrides, France and even India." Chapters include: The royal cards; Big bags and big shots; Mixed bags; Old game cards; Modern game cards; Coats of arms and monograms; Game books and miscellaneous discoveries in searching through old game records. .
Verlag: Peerage Books. London. 1986, 1985
ISBN 10: 1850520186 ISBN 13: 9781850520184
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986). (1967) 1986 revised edition reprint. 4to (195 x 263mm). Pp190. Colour paintings by Archibald Thorburn. Blue monochrome illustration of swans to paper-covered boards, spine titled in blue. Spotting to end-papers else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) is now recognised as an outstanding illustrator of animals and in particular of the birds of western Europe. His four-volume British Birds, first published in 1915-16, is not only a classic of ornithology but also a collector's piece. Thorburn's Birds is a revised collection of the famous British Birds and is lavishly illustrated with 82 colour plates depicting over 400 different birds of the British Isles. Each of the watercolour plates are notable not only for their scientific accuracy and exactness of detail, but also for their distinction as works of art. Thorburn's superb illustrations are accompanied by a highly informative text by James Fisher, who provides an up-to-date report on the global distribution of each species and on its status and history in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with special reference to changes and conservation problems." .
Verlag: Debrett's Peerage. London. 1986, 1986
ISBN 10: 0905649842 ISBN 13: 9780905649849
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986 ). 1986 1st edition. 4to (201 x 256mm). Pp96. B/w photographs and illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults but good-plus in dust-wrapper. "After a day's shooting, the owner gives his guests a game card on which is written the details of the bag and the names of the guns, so that the guests can accurately transcribe the day's sport into their gamebooks at home. This ritual has changed little since the Edwardian age of huge bags, extravagant weekend parties, and bitter rivalry between the best shots. .This book takes a light-hearted look at many of the game cards from the great shoots of the Edwardian age right up to the modern day. There are game cards as far apart as Cornwall, Wales, the Hebrides, France and even India." Chapters include: The royal cards; Big bags and big shots; Mixed bags; Old game cards; Modern game cards; Coats of arms and monograms; Game books and miscellaneous discoveries in searching through old game records. .
Verlag: London, Peerage Books, 1986, 1987
ISBN 10: 1850520283 ISBN 13: 9781850520283
Anbieter: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Very good black cloth boards with white lettering to the front board and spine, 11.25 x 8.5 inches approx. , very good coloured pictorial dust jacket, very minor signs of wear, not price clipped, inscription of a previous owner to front endpaper, 240 pages, fully illustrated in colour and black & white. A heavy book.
Verlag: London, Peerage Books. 1986, 1987
ISBN 10: 1850520283 ISBN 13: 9781850520283
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Niederlande
Original publisher's black cloth hardback, white title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: frontispiece, 240pp., 161 illustrations, bibliography, clock collections, list illustrations, index names, index places. Very fine copy.
Verlag: London: Debrett's Peerage, 1986., 1987
ISBN 10: 0905649834 ISBN 13: 9780905649832
Anbieter: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australien
Quarto,208 pp.,colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Verlag: London, New York,. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 1986, 1986
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. thick tall8vo, 24cm, 1810p., maroon red cloth, gilt block spine and cover titles, a fine bright sound copy in fine jacket (b3). (Inquire about extra shipping charges). - Over twenty thousand entries.