HAWKER, Lt. Col. P.
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
London, Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1844.
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A charming book on country sports with its original cloth binding of higher than usual quality and in very good condition.
Lt. Col. Peter Hawker was a soldier and sportsman, renowned as an excellent shot and considered to be an authority on wildfowling. His book begins with a description of the different types of guns of the day, the various methods of maintaining them and what type of shot or powder to use; it gives much information on fishing, on gun-dogs, on identifying birds, on setting traps, and other practical information for the sportsman such as what to wear out shooting and how to avoid sickness. The book also provides a practical overview of contemporary game law.
Ninth edition; 8vo (231 x 151 mm); 11 plates and 53 woodcuts, bookbinders ticket to rear pastedown, remains of a bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, light spotting to prelims including the first plate, pencil annotation to margin of p. 115; publisher's blue cloth with elaborate relief design, corners slightly bumped, untrimmed fore-edge, bright gilt lettering with crown to spine, repaired nick at top edge, a very good copy; xxvii, 623pp.
Schwerdt, I, 235.
Lt. Col. Peter Hawker was a soldier and sportsman, renowned as an excellent shot and considered to be an authority on wildfowling. His book begins with a description of the different types of guns of the day, the various methods of maintaining them and what type of shot or powder to use; it gives much information on fishing, on gun-dogs, on identifying birds, on setting traps, and other practical information for the sportsman such as what to wear out shooting and how to avoid sickness. The book also provides a practical overview of contemporary game law.
Ninth edition; 8vo (231 x 151 mm); 11 plates and 53 woodcuts, bookbinders ticket to rear pastedown, remains of a bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, light spotting to prelims including the first plate, pencil annotation to margin of p. 115; publisher's blue cloth with elaborate relief design, corners slightly bumped, untrimmed fore-edge, bright gilt lettering with crown to spine, repaired nick at top edge, a very good copy; xxvii, 623pp.
Schwerdt, I, 235.
Stock code 125392
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen
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$304.00
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$304.00
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