383 TWICI. THE ART OF HUNTING, by WILLIAM TWICI, huntsman to King Edward II. (MSS. Phillipps, No. 8336). With Preface, Translation, Notes, and Illustrations, by H. DRYDEN. Sm. 4to., with 11 plates; cloth, uncut, VERY SCARCE Daventry, 1843 710 384 UHAGON (Franc. de) y Enrique de LEGUINA. Estudios Bibliograficos: La Caza. Roy. 8vo., sd. Madrid, 1888 09 A bibliography of Hunting. Only 100 copies printed. 385 LA VENARIA REALE: Palazzo di Piacere e di Caccia di Carlo Ern. II. Duca di Savoia, desegnato e descritto dal Conte Amedeo di Castellamte. Roy. 4to., many plates of the Gardens, Hunting Palaces, by G. TASNiere, and an additional series of portraits of the Royal House of Savoy; green morocco extra, uncut A most attractive volume. Torino, 1672 88 Sm. 4to., with Amberga, 1619 0 12 A very rare work on Hares and Hare Hunting. 387 WALLIHAN (A. G.). Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains. By the Camera. Photographic reproductions of Wild Game from 386 WALDUNG (M. W.). 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Oriental Field Sports. 2 vols., 4to., with engraved frontispieces and 40 plates by Howitt; calf 393 WINANS (Walter). Eleven large photographs, 16 x 11 inches, representing Deer Stalking incidents, and six others representing Driving, Polo, etc.;-17 fine sporting plates in an impl. folio portfolio; hf. morocco W. L. Winans, 1873-75 4 4 1818 0 12 Sm. 8vo., with 30 pp. of Songs with the Music, neatly bound 397 HANSARD (George Agar). The Book of Archery. 8vo., with 39 plates; half calf 1840 0 15 the same. Another issue. 8vo., a fine copy in calf gilt, gilt 1841 0 18 398 : Sm. 4to., with 7 full-page spirited woodcuts (including one on the 1625 715 nery, continued:- 1903 WARING (Thomas). Treatise on Archery. 12mo., with frontispiece and plates; bds. 1832 Billiards: CRAWFORD. Tables for Ascertaining the Factor of a Billiard S CARNICERO (Antonio). 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An Essay towards making the Game of Chess easily learned, 1835 Berlin, 1874 1 0 0 0 12 0 438 LINDE (Dr. A. v. d.). Geschichte und Litteratur des Schachspiels. 439 diagram, hf. calf 440 LONDON INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT, 1883. Games played in Edited by J. I. Minchin. 8vo., cloth (1883) 441 [LOPEZ]. LE ROYAL JEU DES ESCHETS avec son Invention, Science et 050 443 PONZIANI. Il Giuoco incomparabile degli Scacchi per cura di Giusto Adolfo Co. Van-Axel Castelli. 8vo., half calf Venice, 1861 444 PRETI (Jean). A B C des Echecs, 1868-DURAND (L'Abbe), Louis METTON et Jean PRETI. Stratégie raisonnée des ouvertures du Jeu d'Echecs. Deuxième édition. 2 vols., 1868;-together 3 vols. in 1. 8vo., with numerous diagrams; red morocco extra, gilt edges Paris, 1868 1 1 0 445 ROWBOTHAM (James). THE PLEASAUNT AND WITTIE PLAYE OF THE CHEASTS (Chess) renewed, with instructions how to learne it easely and to play it well, now set furth in Englishe. 18mo., black letter, with diagrams, title-page and sigs. A 2, 3 and 4 in facsimile; old red morocco extra, gilt edges; RARE Rouland Hall for Jas. Rowbothum, 1562 11 11 0 446 [ROWBOTHAM (J.)] THE PLEAfaunt and vvittie Plaie of the Cheaftes renewed with Inftructions both to learne it cafely and to plaie it wel. Lately tranflated out of Etalie into Frenche: And nowe set furth into English. By I. R. 1569. Imprinted at London in Fletestrate, neare vnto fainct Dunftanes Churche by Thomas Marshe. 1569 COLLATION: 4 preliminary leaves, and A-G 3 in eights, printed in black letter. The book is a translation of Damiano, and first appeared in 1562. This edition has several diagrams illustrating games of chess. It is dedicated, like Fulke's book, to Lord Robert Dudley. [FULKE (William)]. THE MOST ANCIENT and learned playe, called the Philofophers game... Set forth with such playne precepts... that all men with ease may vnderstande it... By W. F. 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Post 8vo., old calf The dedication and preface were written by Dr. Sam. Johnson. 1898 4.10 015 1756 0 18 Game of Driving: 1884-98 12 12 A Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties 1889 A Drive through England on a Thousand Across England in a Dog-Cart from St. 1885 HOLIDAY ON THE ROAD: an Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. 8vo., with 14 full-page and numerous other illustrations; cloth 1887 OVER FEN AND WOLD. 8vo., with map, 14 full-page and other illustrations; cloth 015 1898 015 |