oppel meisel editors (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Bonded leather binding with pictorial pastedown on front cover, titles on spine and front cover stamped in gold leaf, green endpapers. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs, 480 pages. A collection of early hunting stories by various authors, many are from Outing Magazine. Subjects include Wild Sheep, Grizzly Bears, Deer, Antelope, Moose, Caribou, Ducks, Geese, Turkey and more. A very attractive volume.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987 ). 1987 1st edition. Large 8vo (175 x 242mm). Pp477. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very small tear to top of spine and dust-wrapper else very good clean copy. A collection of articles and stories about Florida around the turn of the last century. A large proportion of the book is about saltwater fishing, mainly for tarpon. Chapters include: Subtropical Florida (1894); Sponge and spongers of the Florida Reef (1892); The angler's battle royale (1903); Jupiter Inlet, Florida (1891); Turkey tracks in the big cypress (1909); Turtling in Florida (1890); An Easter outing in Florida (1901); Six weeks in Florida (1870); A visit to Death Lake, Florida (1888); Winter shooting in Florida (1870); The St. Augustine Lawn Tennis Tournament (1890); The log of a Filibuster correspondent (1903); In the Cape Sable wilderness (1903); Following Audubon among the Florida Keys (1903); A good day's tarpon fishing (1890); An intimate study of the pelican (1905); Caught on a lee shore (1893); A winter's sport in Florida (1889); Our Florida garden (1910); The tarpon of Turner's River (1911); Crossing the Everglades in a power boat (1907); Cruising on the Gulf Coast of Florida (1907); Along the Florida Reef (1871); Mr. Wegg's party on the Kissimmee (1886); Sport in Florida (1886); Florida: a winter playground in the blackjack (1909); Alligator shooting in Florida (1899); The city of the pelicans (1903); Trailing the sea bat (1900); Snapper fishermen of the Gulf (1904); Over the Florida Keys by rail (1908); On no name key (1903); My winter game bag in Florida (1890); In a grove of oranges (1909); A northern girl's huntin' of a 'gaitah (1900); The haps and mishaps of a Florida maroon (1894); Truck farming in Florida (1909); Tarpon fishing, Florida (1891); Florida razorbacks (1891); An adventure with a tarpon (1895). .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound book on green boards with gold lettering on spine.It shows previous owner's name on first free end paper. The jacket cover shows a Florida beach and a lighthouse. The book is clean and tight. Light shelf ware on the jacket. "This book is illustrated with rare drawings, photographs and engravings, this book will recreate a paradise that can never be again" My require extra shipping because of the weight.

OPPEL, Frank, and Tony Meisel (editors). WASHINGTON, D.C., A TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY TREASURY. (Secaucus, NJ): Castle, (1987). Small 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 463 pages. Fi edition. Late nineteenth century contemporary accounts and illustrations tell the stor of the development of the nation's capital. Fine.