Surtees Nimrod (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. NEW IN PUBLISHER'S SHRINK WRAP. 1999 facsimile reprint of the 1926 original. Hard bound, no dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Binding shot, spine perished. xxi, 238 pages color plates 28 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing an Otter; Coursing; The Terrier; The Meet; Ptarmigan; Oxygen, a horse; The Dying Woodcock; Coursing - A Scene on Bagshot Heath; Guinea Hen and Jay; Trout Fishing, a View on the River Dart; The Hobby, a Hawk; John Winter, Huntsman to Ralph John Lambton; The Pike. Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1832 No. 19: Fox-Hounds in Great Britain for the Year 1832, with the Countries they Hunt and the Names of the Masters; The Greyhound; Nim South's Tour; Habits of the Woodcock etc.; November; Newmarket First and Second October Meetings; Noctes Nimrodianae or Sporting Conversations with Nimrod; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - The Turf - Cricket - Shooting Match and Gander Pulling etc; Racing Calendar (at rear). December 1832 No. 20: Letter from a Hants. Fox-hunter; Hawking; Review of the Racing Season; Murty Macrory; Review of Wild Sports of the West; December; A Few Lines From Mr Jorrocks on the Subject of His New Magazine; Remarks on the New Game Laws, as Affecting Wastes and Commons; Word or Two on Critics; The Pleasures of the Chase; Newmarket Houghton Meeting; Roach Fishing; Character of Hunting Countries, Shropshire; Miscellany - Betting at Tattersall's etc.; Coursing Calendar (at rear); January 1833 No. 21: The Road, Review of an Article in the Quarterly Review on the past and present state of Coaching; Review of the Racing Season of 1832; Sharp-Shooter, a Tale of Schooldays; Nim South's Reply to a Hants Fox-Hunter; Shooting in January; The Habits of the Snipe; Woodcock Shooting; Miscellany - Horses Gone Abroad - The Veterinarian- The English Farmer etc. February 1833 No. 22: A Few Words from the Editor to the Author of Dashwood's Letters; Hood's Comic Annual for 1833; Col. Hawker on Shooting; February; Close of the Shooting Season; The History of Horsemanship, Illustrated by Statuary and Sculpture - The Riding House at Dessau; Wildfowl Shooting Character of Hunting Countries, Hampshire; A Hunt Breakfast with Mr Jorrocks; Much Ado About Nothing; Lamentable Loss of the North Pole Mapping Expeditin, contained in an Extract from Peter Flam's Log; Travels and Sports in South America; Miscellany - The Versailles Hounds - Doncaster St Leger entries - Death of Stallions etc. March 1834 No. 35: The Bag Fox; Conundrums by Messrs. Simpkins and Jorrocks; Notice of a Subscription to Present Mr Farquharson with a Piece of Plate; A Few Lines from Nimrod; Sporting In India; Sports in South America - Lion and Ostrich Hunting; The Starling; Remarks on the Derby Favourites; Dashwood's Reply; On Arabian Horses; On Roaring; The Road; Fine Arts - The British Institution; Miscellany - Stag Hunt in Ireland - New Regulations for King's Plates etc. April 1833 No. 24: Observations on the Game Laws - The Metropolitan Magazine - Col. Hawker etc; Variation's Performances; The Last Day of the Season - A Day with the Durber Hounds; A Boar-Hunting Song Describing a Day in Touraine; Singular Death of Two Swans; Who Was the Cockney Stockbroker at Melton?; A Few Remarks on Breeding and Purchasing Young Horses; Characters of Hunting Countries - Durham; Nicholas Piscator; The Earl of Surry, Capt. Pechell, and Dashwood; Veterinary Jurisprudence; Fine Arts - Society of British Artists; Miscellany - Shugborough-hill Day - Trespass under the New Game Bill etc. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101101. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing a Fox-Hound with puppies; Hunting - Throwing Off; The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Rabbit Shooting; The Carp; Vespa, a horse; William Crockford; Hunting - The Find!' Beauty and General, celebrated trotting pony and setter; Hunting - Gone Away!; The Farquharson Vase; Pincher and Shivers, two dogs; The Bittern Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1833 No. 31: List Of Fox-Hounds in Great Britain, for the Present Season, with the names of the Masters and the Countries they Hunt; Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering; Ackermann's Pictures of Count Sandor's Exploits in Leicestershire; Scenes in South America - Guanaco Hunting in the Pampas; October; Hunting Reminiscences - The Crack Riders of England; The Surrey; A Fishing Question; Baron D'Haussez and English Field Sports; Hunting in India, The Calcutta Hunt; Gallery of Celebrated Sporting Characters - The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Racing - Newmarket First and Second Meetings; Lord Marrowbones and His Man; The Classical Fox-Hounds; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - The Turf etc.; Racing Calendar (bound at rear. December 1833 No. 32: Reviews; Steeple-Chaises; My Sporting Box; The Cheshire Hunt; A Trip to Brighton; Hints on Pheasant Shooting; A Man of the World's Confession; Lord Segrave; Lines on the Fuschia; The Benighted Sportsman; Racing - Newmarket Houghton Meeting with a Glance at the Present State of The Turf; Miscellany - Hunting and Steeple-Chasing in Oxfordshire - Bettings at Tattersall's etc.; Coursing Calendar (bound at rear). January 1834 No. 33: Review of the Last Number of the Old Sporting Magazine; Turfiana; Racing In India - The Madras Spring Meeting 1833; Parody on the Classical Fox-Hounds; A Day Near Limerick; The Woore Country; Stanzas on seeing a Steamboat Leave Dieppe in a Storm; On Equestrianism; My Coal Black Steed; William Crockford; Real Wild Sports of the West or the Wanderings of Ernest Fitzfulke; Fine Arts; Miscellany - The French Turf - Gambling Match for 50,000 Napoleons - Mr Osbaldeston's etc. February 1834 No. 34: Swell and the Surrey; Fatal Duel at Hamburgh Nominations for the Docaster St Leger 1834; Pomponius Ego; Dick Hyperbole; The Wet Sunday; The Sorrows of a Sportsman; The Rambler; The Chase - the cause of the scarcity of foxes - Oldham, the Miller, and hostile Farmers - The Farquharson Vase etc. March 1834 No. 35: List of Stallions for 1834; The Hampton Court Stud; The Race for the Belfast Cup and a few Remarks on Breeding Hunters; On Betting; The Swiss Hunter's Address to his Rifle; Anacreontic; Road Accidents; Death of Mr Berkeley's Old Horse Jack O'Lantern; Nimrod; The Chase - Doings in Dorset - The New Forest Hounds - His Majesty's Stag hounds etc. April 1834 No. 36: Winners of Two-Year-Old Stakes; Engagements at Newmarket of the Derby and Oaks Favourites; Steeple Chases; On Vehicles; The Omnibus; The Marquess of Lansdowne, a character; Rinaldo's Horse; On Falls; The Horrors of Horsemanship; James's Horse Blister; On Private Training; The Alnwick Hounds; The Surrey Hunt - Jorrocks in Reply to Rasper; Jorrock's Address to the Members of the Surrey Hunt; Mr Farquharson's Country; Who is the Rambler in Green?; The Chase; The Oxford Hack; A Sporting Tour Through Munster; The Duke of Nassau's Hunting Seat; How to Shoe a Vicious Horse; Coach Accident; A Sailor's Description of a Hunt etc. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101098. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Henry Alken (illustrator). New Edition. Red half-leather binding with marbled boards. simple gilt ruled decoration, banded spine with gilt lettering and motif decoration. Joints are split but covers are securely attached, spine has a horizontal split about midway, internal hinges and internal binding is sound. Clean marbled end-papers, small previous owner's bookplate on second free front end-paper, decorative title-page and also plain title-page. Pages are clean. Contains all twenty full-colour plates, the frontis has previously been detached and reinserted and fixed at page 22, this plate has light smudges in the margins, all other plates are clean. No dust jacket, as published. Illustrator: Henry Alken. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018092025. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.