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The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, also known as Fébus or Phoebus, and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. [1] Fébus was one of the greatest huntsmen of his day and his treatise became the standard text on medieval hunting techniques. It was described by ...
The logo was that of a white rhino on a shield. World Wide Hunting Books sold antiquarian big-game hunting books by issuing a catalog about five times a year. Only in 1985 was the name Safari Press adopted for the new book publishing program. To this day World Wide Hunting Books sells antiquarian books under its name.
Gaston III, Count of Foix, Book of the Hunt, 1387–88. Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York, The Master of Game is mostly a translation of an earlier work by Gaston Phoebus entitled Livre de chasse, [3] and is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. [2]
One of Harding's Pleasure & Profit Books.A collection of real life outdoor stories based on the experiences of the author, Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock.Writing from memory, Mr. Woodcock tells of incidents that happened during the fifty years (1855–1905) he spent camping, hunting, trapping and fishing in the wilderness of Northern Pennsylvania and several other states.
Penguin Mini Modern Classics, issued in 2011, is an assortment of fifty pocket-sized books from fifty different authors such as Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig. It has been released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Penguin Modern Classics. It is currently out of print.
He died on April 24, 1967, in Budapest. His specialist library miraculously survived World War II, counting more than 4,000 volumes at the time of his death. Zsigmond Széchenyi's hunting library is the most significant collection of hunting books in Hungary, which was purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1969 for the Natural History Museum.
The Complete Book of Shooting - 1965; The Shotgun Book - 1965; The Art of Big Game Hunting in North America - 1967; The Hunting Rifle - 1970; Sheep and Sheep Hunting - 1974; Jack O'Connor's Gun Book; Hunting on Three Continents with Jack O'Connor Vol.1; Hunting on Three Continents with Jack O'Connor Vol.2; Classic O'Connor: 45 Worldwide Hunting ...