[BROTHERHOOD OF VENERY] Some Lessons. Privately Printed for the Use of the Order. [WITH] Some Lessons. Volume II. [New York: privately printed, 1938 and 1947]. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth gilt. Frontispiece and plate in volume one. Extremities rubbed, pale staining to upper cover of volume one, bookplate of Scott Healy to front pastedown of volume one. With the bookplate of Scott Healy, the PR man for Winchester Firearms. Very scarce publication written by members of the Brotherhood of Venery (known as the "B"), a conservation group whose aim was "to advance wildlife knowledge and wildlife protection, and the spread of the ideals of sportsmanship through friendship, education and the reviving of the old art of the venery" (from the Constitution of the "B"). The "B"'s rules were modeled on the English Charter of the Forest of 1299, decreeing that "No Waste...shall be made in Forests... Rangers shall make their Range in the Forest... Freemen may use his Land in the Forest... No nobleman may kill a Deer in the Forest." Includes early writings by Aldo Leopold that later appeared in A Sand County Almanac. Prominent members included Nash Buckingham, George Bird Grinnell, Herbert Stoddard, William B. Mershon, and others. The lot two volumes. (2) C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[BROTHERHOOD OF VENERY] Some Lessons. Privately Printed for the Use of the Order. [WITH] Some Lessons. Volume II. [New York: privately printed, 1938 and 1947]. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth gilt. Frontispiece and plate in volume one. Extremities rubbed, pale staining to upper cover of volume one, bookplate of Scott Healy to front pastedown of volume one. With the bookplate of Scott Healy, the PR man for Winchester Firearms. Very scarce publication written by members of the Brotherhood of Venery (known as the "B"), a conservation group whose aim was "to advance wildlife knowledge and wildlife protection, and the spread of the ideals of sportsmanship through friendship, education and the reviving of the old art of the venery" (from the Constitution of the "B"). The "B"'s rules were modeled on the English Charter of the Forest of 1299, decreeing that "No Waste...shall be made in Forests... Rangers shall make their Range in the Forest... Freemen may use his Land in the Forest... No nobleman may kill a Deer in the Forest." Includes early writings by Aldo Leopold that later appeared in A Sand County Almanac. Prominent members included Nash Buckingham, George Bird Grinnell, Herbert Stoddard, William B. Mershon, and others. The lot two volumes. (2) C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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