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Verlag: William Blackwood & Sons; and T. Cadell. Edinburgh and London. 1840., 1840
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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(Hardcover, 1840). 1840 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 232mm). Ppviii,128. B/w illustrated plates, text engravings. Decoratively blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt grouse motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Boards rather used and spine-faded, name to end-paper, some browning hinges tender but a good copy. Scottish sport of all kinds by an enthusiast. Includes chapters on grouse and black-game; dogs for the moors; wild-fowl shooting on the Highland lochs; roe deer; mountain-fox; wild-cat; martin; eagles; kites; alpine hares and ptarmigan shooting. Twenty-five pages are devoted to fishing for pike, salmon, trout, sea trout and eels in freshwater lochs as well as a variety of saltwater species in sea-lochs. Methods covered include flyfishing, trolling and minnow tackle as well as gorge-baiting, set-lines, hand-lines and long-lines. An appendix gives advice on trapping vermin and the instinct of dogs. .
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1374579904ISBN 13: 9781374579903
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Verlag: William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1885., 1885
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
(Hardcover, 1885). (1840) 1884 6th edition, enlarged, in two volumes. Small 8vo (150 x 200mm). Ppxviii + 478 + xiv + 500 + 2 pp ads. Tipped in photograph frontispieces & b&w plates. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt coat-of-arms on upper boards. Some use, end-papers slightly scruffy, previous owner's details. A nice set. Information laid-in about a previous owner who had signed both volumes - Henry Peveril Le Mesurier. Volume one has deer-stalking; deer-driving; wild goats; roe-hunting; seal-shooting; capercailzie, grouse and black-game and ptarmigan shooting; mountain hares; woodcock and snipe, wildfowl on coast and loch; gundogs; and natural history of Bute. Volume two has much on the natural history of the Highlands and of sport; and on angling for salmon, salmo ferox, trout and sea-fish. .
Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1885., 1885
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
(Hardcover, 1885). (1840) 1880 5th edition, enlarged, in two volumes. 8vo (133 x 200mm). Ppxviii,448 + 2 pp ads + xiv,500. Actual photograph frontispieces & b&w plates. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt coat-of-arms to upper boards. Spines slightly shaken and worn, armorial bookplate to each paste-down, hinges cracked, slight browning to preliminaries and edges. A good set. Scottish sport of all kinds by an enthusiast. "I have determined to keep my hands clear of the extermination of any [species]. The marten, the wild-cat, the kite, and eagle, are not banished from .Sonachan and Barbea .and though this whimsical forbearance may subject me to the charge of having sunk the sportsman in the "amateur naturalist," it is an accusation to which I can cheerfully plead "Guilty." Volume one has deer-stalking; deer-driving; wild goats; roe-hunting; seal-shooting; capercailzie, grouse and black-game and ptarmigan shooting; mountain hares; woodcock and snipe, wildfowl on coast and loch; gundogs; and natural history of Bute. Volume two has much on the natural history of the Highlands and of sport; and on angling for salmon, salmo ferox, trout and sea-fish. .
Verlag: Undated between and 1885. On letterhead Hawthornden Willaston Chester cancelled and amended in manuscript to 'Arrochar House Arrochar N.B. Scotland', 1873
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
12mo: 4 pp. Bifolium with mourning border. 30 lines of text. Good. She has heard that he has 'been good enough to speak kindly of "Pauline" so far as it has gone', and wonders whether he would distribute, to 'such of yr. Friends as belong to Circulating Libraries', cards 'to let people know in time to order the book before it is out'. Her family are pleased that Macmillan has 'been able to spend a night at this beautiful sad home - It did my Father good, I know. He seems wonderfully better than when in Edinburgh.' According to one authority Colquhoun returned to Arrochar House, his first married home, between 1873 and 1884.