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Maître Cyril DUVAL

604 - BOOKS IN ENGLISH.— HUNTING AROUND THE WORLD.
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Estimate €300 - €350
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BOOKS IN ENGLISH.— HUNTING AROUND THE WORLD. A set of 7 volumes, 5 of which are in the publisher’s cardboard binding. From the hunting library of J. López de Ceballos (ex-libris), comprising: - MILLAIS (J. G.) *A Sportsman’s Wanderings*. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1920. 8vo, publisher’s hardback, 298 pp. Memoirs of hunting and fishing in England, Scotland, Africa and the Arctic, by John Guille Millais, a remarkable wildlife artist and naturalist. Illustrated with drawings by the author and black-and-white photographs. Never published in French. Very good condition. Ex-libris E. Karl Fenn. - PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY (C.). *Big Game Shooting*. London, Longmans & Green, 1894. 2 vols. in-12, publisher’s brown percaline cloth binding, decorated front cover, 452 + 444 pp. First edition of this encyclopaedia of big-game hunting throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings. From the famous Badminton Library collection. Never published in French. Very good condition. Spine of the first volume faded. - PIGOT (R.). Twenty-five Years of Big Game Hunting. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. In-8, publisher’s red percaline cloth binding, 308 pp. First edition. Memoirs of big-game hunting in Norway, New Zealand and, above all, Asia, from 1905 to 1923. Illustrated with 64 black-and-white photographs. Never published in French. Good condition. Two small tears at the top edge. - PRICHARD (H. H.). *Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness*. London, Heinemann, 1910. Quarto, publisher’s hardback, 274 pp. First edition of these important accounts of hunting in the Arctic regions (Canada, Norway and Patagonia) and the Andes: caribou, elk, llamas, deer, etc. Colour plates and black-and-white photographs. Preface by the great guide F. C. Selous. Not previously published in French. A good copy. Attractive cardboard binding with an elk’s head on the front, spine sun-faded. Corners rubbed, endpapers worn. - ST QUINTIN (T. A.). *Chances of Sports of Sorts*. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1912. 8vo, publisher’s cloth binding, 446 pp. First edition. Hunting tales from the five continents prior to the 1914 war, by a colonel in the British Army. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Not previously published in French. Good condition. - WEBBER (C. W.) *The Hunter-Naturalist. Romance of Sporting, or Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters*. Philadelphia, Bradley, [1851]. In-4, contemporary binding in black half-shagreen with corner pieces, ribbed spine, 610 pp. First American edition of the first work illustrated with chromolithographs. These 10 chromolithographs depict hunting scenes in America and Africa: bison, bears, wild horses hunted by Native Americans, elephants and buffalo, etc. Illustrated with woodcuts, including 2 inset plates. Two chapters are devoted to Audubon. Unpublished in French. Good condition. Slight foxing and very faint old water stains. Caps and corners restored. Provenance: The hunting library of the late Don Javier Lopez de Ceballos
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About the sale 📚🦓🦋 LA FLÈCHE Sale 2 – HUNTING: BOOKS, TROPHIES, TAXIDERMY & CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
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