Captain Robert Weir (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated hardcover boards, no dj. Light shelfwear and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and tight. 423 pages, index, b&w illus.

Hardcovers. Condition: Fair. - - - - - -THE BADMINTON LIBRARY-- This Volume Includes RIDING and POLO- - - -Badminton editor is His Grace the Duke of Beaufort. Authors of RIDING are Captain Robert Weir, His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, The Earl of Onslow, E. L. Anderson, Alfred E. T. Watson. Author of POLO is J. Moray Brown. Illustrations by G. D. Giles - - -Brown cloth with the classic Badminton illustration and cover lettering--- the original Classic Badminton Binding--, also with green sturdy corners applied by former owner, thick book, 7 1/2" tall, weighs 3 pounds. .448 pages. With frontispiece illustration and so many other illustrations that it takes 4 pages to list them. Revised with additions, this book was published 1895. . . .Book in FAIR/POOR CONDITION- TEXT IS COMPLETE, pages are clean and bright and very readable, illustrations are clean. However, few pages are detached, and present.- - exlibrary book with spine label and bookplate and marks inside rear cover. wear spine. Originally a pretty book, still with great content and the book is complete. Image available. This book is a classic, and worth re-binding or used as is. no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G D Giles, Frank Dadd and J Stuart Allan (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. A little light foxing throughout. Hinges loosening, but secure. Otherwise generally clean and tidy throughout.

First edition. Plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 423-pages. The superior leather bound issue in half blue calf over orange boards blocked in gilt. Small chip out of headband else good.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated pictorial brown cloth (lightly rubbed - otherwise VG). Pp. xiii + 423, with b&w plates and illus in text (pages a little spotted; no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, illustd,423pp, orig brown pictorial cloth, just a very small bit edge rubbed ,a vg clean tight volume, has "volxv" in small letters to top right of half title page, owners name to verso of front end paper, small bit of foxing, contents vg and sound,heavy book overseas orders will incur extra postage request, a nice volume of this badminton library series. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). 2nd Edition. xiii + 423pp, very well illustrated, hard cover, bound in pictorial cloth, very good condition, Badminton Library Edition, London, 1891 2nd. EDITION, PICTORIAL BROWN CLOTH WITH THE BADMINTON LIBRARY DESIGN, HARDCOVER, A BRIGHT FRESH COPY FREE FROM THE USUAL FOXING, VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 423pp, original pictorial brown cloth, tiny bit of edge rubbing and bit of minor discolouration to bit of rear board, but nothing to worry about , binding is vg clean and tight, old name to front end paper, contents have a modest bit of foxing, and are vg clean and tight , a nice volume in this badminto lib series, heavy volume overseas orders will incur extra postage request. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. GILES G D, DADD Frank and ALLAN J Stuart (illustrator). 1st Edition. (viii) 423pp including index. Tan buckram boards half bound dark blue black leather with gilt armorial to front and gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Boards lightly bumped at extremities. Textblock and illustrations clean bright and tight. A very nice copy.

Condition: Good Plus. J. D. Giles, J. Stuart Allan and F. Dadd (illustrator). First Edition. Bound attractively in half morocco by Root & Son. 4to. 19 by 14 cm. xii, [1], 423 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates and drawings in the text. Binding rubbed along joints. A few scratches on the spine leather, and unevenness of color. Although most leaves are clean, there are leaves afflicted with heavy-ish foxing, by which we mean pronounced in some way -- the size and/or darkness of the markings or the clustering of markings. A few leaves with a dampstain, and other soiling. The plates, on a different, glossy paper stock, are generally clean. Notwithstanding a fairly attractive shelf presence, this copy gives us the impression of a certain grittiness. Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown on boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. 1895 3rd edition, revised. Decorated brown cloth, gilt, black, white titles. Illustrated eps with repeat design of swan and ship. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Condition: Very good. Minor shelf wear. Owner s name to ffep. Eps browned. Scattered foxing, some pages significantly so. Size: 7.5x6in / 19x15cm. 448pp. Weight: 1kg.

The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. New Impression.434 pages with illustrations by G.D.Giles, Frank Dadd, J. Stuart Allan, and from photography. The Polo section takes in Polo in England, India and America,as well as the continent and the Colonies! with the training and the rules. Brown decorative cloth, A Very nice clean copy of this early edition. rear hingle stretched but without any inscriptions. Little or no foxing. A VG+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rubbing to spine and corners. Bookplate on flyleaf, spine loose, foxing in text.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated russet cloth covers, gilt and two-tone lettering and rider to the spine, black background illustration and navy and white lettering to the upper panel, publishers light green and white swan and sail illustrated lining papers. 8vo 7¾'' x 6'' (xiii)-blank, 423 pp. Full and part-page monochrome illustrations and engravings throughout by G. D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allen. Rubbed mark to the front fore edge, foxing to the end papers, rubbing across the spine ends and corners and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Polo].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G.D.Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allen. (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 448 pages inc index, original lime green Longman's decorated endpapers, illustrated with line drawings throughout. Contents a little shaken in a couple of gatherings, endpaper and index leaves a little foxed as are a few pages, several light smudges to half titles and a few pencil marks to last leaf of index, Cloth firm but spine faded and rubbed. titles etc still all legible. Good copy. Heavy octavo. *Inc chapters on; The Saddle Horse, Learning to Ride, Training Horses, The Colonial Horse, The History of the skill, Polo in India, In America, Breeds, Some Famous Players, How it is to be played, The History, etc.

Second edition. XIII, 423, (1) S. Ill. Orig.-Leinenband (= The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes). - Einband gering berieben; Rücken an den Kapitalen gering bestoßen. Gelenke angeplatzt. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,xiii, 423, illustrated by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and F. Stuart Allan, tissue guarded frontispiece, pictorial gilt and black titled brown cloth a bit faded with wear to the head and tail of spine, early name on the reverse of the leading free endpaper, some foxing. The Badminton Library Series - of Sports and Pastimes.

well illust (illustrator). 3rd. Badminton Library od Sports & Pastimes edited by His Grace The Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson brown illustrated binding, very good conditio.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1891 edition on half bound orange leather cloth with rubbed and fafded spine cover stated second edition from longman's green.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Hardcover. Third Edition. A title in The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Light brown pictorial cloth. Contains two separate titles: Weir's "Riding" and Brown's "Polo." Illustrated with 23 full page plates and 45 vignette drawings. Text moderately foxed, images clean. One plate starting to detach. Still a very good copy.

HC. Condition: Vg. Very nice copy of the volume, with many full page illustrations as well as those within the text by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd, J. Stuart Allan along with photographs. Minor edge wear to head and foot of spine along with some minimal spotting and rubbing to covers. Save for some slight browning to page edges, no marks to the text pages. A thorough examination of the riding culture of the time, along with its colonial connections. 434pp.

Condition: Good. 1891, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., ppxiii + 423, black and white illustrations by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan, brown pictorial cloth with lettering on spine.

Condition: Good. 1895, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., third edition, ppxiv + 448, black and white illustrations by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan, brown pictorial cloth with lettering on spine.

Second edition. xiii, [1], 423pp, [1]. With a half title and frontispiece. Original publisher's decorative cloth. Some rubbing and marking to extremities and spine, some foxing to text. Both hinges cracking, with some splitting to endpapers. Some quires with unopened leaves. Later armorial bookplate of the Barons Raglan, bearing the name 'Cefntilla', to FEP. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes was an ambitious sports publishing project conceived by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (the name derived from the Duke's country house, Badminton) and dedicated to the Prince of Wales, 'one of the best and keenest sportsmen of our time'. Between 1885 and 1902 some 33 separate works were published, each profusely illustrated, detailing the history and details of the sporting activity in question. Following the death of Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855), commander of allied forces during the Crimean War, 1,623 of his friends, admirers, and comrades purchased the estate of Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire Wales, presenting the home to Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884) and his heirs in perpetuity as a memorial in remembrance of his father's contribution to the British military. Size: 8vo.

HARDCOVER BROWN. Condition: FAIR. wracked, slight spotting to covers, small bookshop plate on free endpaper, frontis piece protected by tissue guard, illustrated with B & W photographs gold gilt lettering on spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1905 EDITION: 434.

First edition.Plates. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches). 423-pages. Finely bound contemporary full tan marbled calf, gilt border to sides. Spine gilt in compartments with black lettering piece, all edges marbled. Foxing to prelims. & at end. plate detached and torn. The binding by Gordon & Gotch, Melbourne, with their ticket. With the bookplate of Bertram E. Fenwick on front pastedown.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Finely bound in half leather by Hatchards of Picadilly. Dark blue morocco spine and corners, with gilt ruled borders.Five raised bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, and date, with sporting emblems decorating four compartments.Top edge gilt.Ochre cloth boards, and marbled endpapers.xiii,423 pages. With numerous illustrations by G.D.Giles,Frank Dadd and J.Stuart Allan. 5.5 X 7.5 inches.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather here and there. Browning to fore edge, and some spotting to first and final pages with offsetting to endpapers. Original owner's ex libris leather gilt lettered label on the front pastedown.Very good copy, pages mostly very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.

hardcover. Condition: very good. With other authors' contributions as well as a chapter on Polo by J. Moray Brown. Illustrated by G.D. Giles, Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan, thick 8vo, brown pictorial cloth; (some foxing). London: Longmans, Green, 1891. Very Good. Previous owners' inscription from 1893 on half title. The Badminton Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Stated Second Edition. 3/4 leather, orange covers, gilt crest with lion and dragon. Top spine chip 1" x 1/2", piece inside book. Several scuffs toward bottom half, easily dyed. Light to moderate soil. Internally, book plate of C.D. Champlin. Foxing to endpapers front and back. Body of book clean and sound. Provenance: K.A. Auty Cricket Library, Ridley College, Ontario Canada. VG+.

Full-Leather (tree-calf). Condition: Very Good. Giles, G.D; Dadd, Frank and Allan, J. Stuart (illustrator). Second Edition. 190 x 140mm. pp. 423. English text. Badminton Library volume on riding and polo. Riding section written by Captain Robert Weir with contributions by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G, The Earl of Suffolk and berkshire, The Earl of Onslow, G.C.M.G, E.L.Anderson and Alfred E.T.Watson. Polo section by J.Moray Brown. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original full tree-calf leather with armorial to front cover. Gold decoration to spine and gold title lettering to red spine label. A little very light foxing to pages. A few marks to front cover and a little wear to spine, otherwise clean and tight. Binding strong. No ownership inscription.