FREE Books, Books, Books

In the sidebar to this blog, I've loaded up links to a number of old books which are now available, online, as either PDFs, flip books or text. In most case, the link will take you to examples of all three versions.

Book are arranged, rather roughly by type, and chronologically within type. If a book is out of chronological order, it means that the print version is a later print version of an earlier text.

• Dogs & Field Sports:
  4The Dog and the Sportsman (1845)
  4The Sportsman's Directory (1845)
  4The Amateur Poacher (1881)
  4Studies in the Art of Rat-catching (1896)
  4The Confessions of a Poacher (1890)
  4The Sporting Dog (1904)
  4Hunting Dogs (1909)
  
  
• General Dog:
  4The Illustrated Book of the Dog (1881)
  4A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (1877)
  4British Dogs; Their Varieties, History, Characteristics (1879)
  
  
• Terriers:
  4The Out-of-door Life of the Rev. John Russell (1883)
  4The Dandie Dinmont Terrier: Its History (1885)
  4The Scottish Terrier and the Irish Terrier (1894)
  4A History and Description of the Fox Terrier (1895)
  
  
• Fox Hunting:
  4Thoughts Upon Hare and Fox Hunting (1796)
  4Observations on Fox-hunting (1826)
  4Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox-hunting (1847)
  4Hunting by the Duke of Beaufort (1885)
  4Hunting by Lord Frederick North (1900)
  4Fifty Years' Fox-hunting with the Grafton (1900)
  4Fox Hunting in the Shires (1903)
  4With Hound and Terrier in the Field (1904)
  4Hunting the Fox (1921)
  4Hunting in Many Countries (1922)
  
  
• Wildlife:
  4The Badger; a Monograph (1898)
  4Wild life at the Land's End (1904)
  4Fact Against Fiction (1874)
  4Creatures of the Night (1905)
  4Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist (1861)
  
  
• Veterinary and Breeding:
  4A Treatise on Canine Madness (1760)
  4Canine Pathology (1824)
  4The Dog, in Health and Disease (by Walsh, 1859)
  4The Encyclopedia of the Kennel (1913 print)
  4The Dogs of Great Britain and America (1914 print)
  4The Horse and Dog As They Should Be (1882)
  4The American Book of the Dog (1891)
  4The Dog in Health and in Disease (by Mills, 1895)
  4The New Book of the Dog (1907)
  4The Gentleman's Dog (1909)
  
  
• Dog Training:
  4Dog Breaking (1865)
  4Practical Dog Training or Training vs. Breaking (1882)
  
  
• Story:
  4ABC of Fox Hunting (1870)
  4The Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper (1892)
  4Among the Night People (1902)
  4Hoof Beats from Virginia & Other Lands (1912)
  4Jock of the Bushveld (1922)
  
  
• General Animal Health and Breeding:
  4Inbreeding and Outbreeding (1919)
  4Heredity in Relation to Evolution and Animal Breeding (1911)
  4Animal Breeding (1901)
  
  
• Kennel Club Stud Books
  4The Kennel Club Calendar and Stud Book (UK, 1884 )
  4The American Kennel Club Stud Book (1889)
  
  
• Falconry & Hawking & Pigeons:
  4The Boke of Saint Albans (1420?)
  4Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking (1619)
  4Observations Upon Hawking (1826)
  4Coursing and Falconry (1899)
  4Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practice
  4Pigeons (1845)
  4Pigeons and All About Them (1898)
  4Fancy Pigeons: Breeding and Management (1887)
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