Graf, Morsbach & Co. Wholesale Manufacturers/ Harness & Saddlery by Graf, Morsbach & Co - 1891

D. Appleton NY, 1902. HB NODJ, 1902, 1st edition, 1st printing with #1 on last page of Text as Required, Green decorated Cloth with minor Rub, Wear, Tiny Chip Tears Extremities, Interior Nice & Tight with light Fox, Wear & few loose protruding pages reattached with small tape at Inner Hinge & Vox, NF/NF+, AS-IS, NODJ, 328 pages, page with pencil underlining. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates (16 of 19) after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt.. Volume I, Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 [all published] Royal octavo red half roan, original boards covered in blue sugar paper, spine title gilt (rebacked with matching red roan corners, original spine laid on), original free end-papers with new pastedown, armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage, vi + [2]pp list of engravings +540pp +16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves (pp 217-24) - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint, bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned, some offsetting from plates to text, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting, shooting, tandem-driving, livestock etc. Very rare in original edition (Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only… Read More

United States Lawn Tennis Association, 1953. First edition. 22 official programs of various USLTA Tennis Championships for the entire 1953 season, complete as published. Bound in green buckram with gilt tiles. USLTA officer S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr.'s copy, with his name embossed on cover. 22 programs for matches at various US locations from June 7 - Aug 29, 1953. Each program is approx. 30 pages, profusely illustrated with b/w photos, plus a full color cover, vintage ads. All programs near fine in very good cloth covered boards, 9" x 12". . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio. Magazines & Periodicals.

New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894. "the Marvel of Anatomists, Sculptors, and Artists in the Nude; embracing the great Athlete's simple method of Physical Education for the Home, the Gymnasium, and the Army Training School; preceded by a Biography dealing with the chief incidents in Mr. Sandow's Professional Career, his Phenomenal Prowess and Gladiatorial Skill, in Competitive Matches, Contests and Exhibitions; with Mr. Sandow's Scheme of Dumb-bell and Bar-bell Exercises, and his Views on the Physiology of Gymnastics, the Function of the Muscles, etc. Richly illustrated from photographs expressly taken for the work by Sarony of New York, Morrison of Chicago, and White of Birmingham, and of Drawings by A. Casarin." Very Good Plus, bound in red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, black and white, front hinge cracked yet holding well, light rubbing to cloth at the tips, the stamp of "The Tarr System Library" front paste down, which would seem to be a prior… Read More

1806 HUNTING 1ed Thornton Sporting Tour in France Illustrated Landscape Napoleon

Thomas Thornton was an 18th-century English hunter known for his sporting tours and outdoor sports. Shortly after the French Revolution in 1802, Thornton ventured to France in hopes of obtaining a large French estate. And while the purchase failed, he was befriended by Napoleon
and gained significant knowledge on the landscape, tradition, culture, and hunting history of France.
In 1806 he published a book on his discovery entitled 'A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France'. This two volume set includes more than 50 engravings, many folding, of French architecture, hunting supplies, landscapes and chateaus (including Versailles!), as well as illustrated hunting scenes!

Item number: #14314
Price: $1500
THORNTON, Thomas
A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802, including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that… Read More

D. Appleton NY, 1902. HB NODJ, 1902, 1st edition, 1st printing with #1 on last page of Text as Required, Green decorated Cloth with minor Rub, Wear, Tiny Chip Tears Extremities, Interior Nice & Tight with light Fox, Wear & few loose protruding pages reattached with small tape at Inner Hinge & Vox, NF/NF+, AS-IS, NODJ, 328 pages, page with pencil underlining. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates (16 of 19) after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt.. Volume I, Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 [all published] Royal octavo red half roan, original boards covered in blue sugar paper, spine title gilt (rebacked with matching red roan corners, original spine laid on), original free end-papers with new pastedown, armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage, vi + [2]pp list of engravings +540pp +16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves (pp 217-24) - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint, bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned, some offsetting from plates to text, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting, shooting, tandem-driving, livestock etc. Very rare in original edition (Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only… Read More

London: Rudolph Ackermann first edition, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates (12), with tissue-guards, by Henry Alken.. Octavo modern red crushed morocco, Top Edges Gilt, original upper cover bound in, iv +[2]pp +110pp +[12] leaves of hand-coloured plates. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period .. though containing only 12 plates, this first edition is more rare, and more valued higher than the second edition" (Tooley 66 cf Schwerdt I p.38). Three plates of this edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second edition. *Apperley had been Mytton�s neighbour in Shropshire. His task "was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane .. he performed the task with admirable judgment" (Camb. History of English & American Literature XIV).

United States Lawn Tennis Association, 1953. First edition. 22 official programs of various USLTA Tennis Championships for the entire 1953 season, complete as published. Bound in green buckram with gilt tiles. USLTA officer S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr.'s copy, with his name embossed on cover. 22 programs for matches at various US locations from June 7 - Aug 29, 1953. Each program is approx. 30 pages, profusely illustrated with b/w photos, plus a full color cover, vintage ads. All programs near fine in very good cloth covered boards, 9" x 12". . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio. Magazines & Periodicals.

New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894. "the Marvel of Anatomists, Sculptors, and Artists in the Nude; embracing the great Athlete's simple method of Physical Education for the Home, the Gymnasium, and the Army Training School; preceded by a Biography dealing with the chief incidents in Mr. Sandow's Professional Career, his Phenomenal Prowess and Gladiatorial Skill, in Competitive Matches, Contests and Exhibitions; with Mr. Sandow's Scheme of Dumb-bell and Bar-bell Exercises, and his Views on the Physiology of Gymnastics, the Function of the Muscles, etc. Richly illustrated from photographs expressly taken for the work by Sarony of New York, Morrison of Chicago, and White of Birmingham, and of Drawings by A. Casarin." Very Good Plus, bound in red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, black and white, front hinge cracked yet holding well, light rubbing to cloth at the tips, the stamp of "The Tarr System Library" front paste down, which would seem to be a prior… Read More