{"product_id":"125392","title":"Instructions to Young Sportsmen","description":"A charming book on country sports with its original cloth binding of higher than usual quality and in very good condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLt. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNinth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchwerdt, I, 235.","brand":"HAWKER, Lt. Col. P.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57741369508215,"sku":"125392","price":304.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/125392_01.jpg?v=1794506100","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/125392","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}