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An Essay on Shooting: Contains the various Methods of Forging, Boring and Dressing Gun Barrels Practised in France, Spain, England and Different Proofs of Barrels Employed in these Countries.
1791.
Second Edition , Original boards, uncut, a fine copy in quarter morocco box, CHUTE 4.
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£450.00 |
| AKEHURST. (Richard). |
Game Guns and Rifles. Percussion to Hammerless Ejector in Britian. London.
1969.
First Edition. With frontis., 48 plain plates plus over 50 text figures, 8vo, pp. xiv + 178, worn dustjacket with protective cover.
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£15.00 |
| ''AN OLD GAMEKEEPER'' |
Plain DIrections for Acquiring the Art of Shooting on the WIng. Pittsburgh. PA.
1884.
With engraved frontispiece, crown octavo, spine and corners of covers rubbed, otherwise very good copy, pp. 88. RILING 936.
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£75.00 |
| Anon |
Ferrets and Ferreting: Containing instructions for the breeding, management and working Ferrets
ca 1880.
Rebound in early cloth, pp27, scarce early work on ferrets.
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£55.00 |
| Askins. (Charles). |
Modern Shotguns and Loads. Together with a treatise on the Art of Wing-Shooting. Delaware.
1929.
With illustrations, original cloth, lettering on spine little worn, pp. 416.
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£25.00 |
| Babcock ( Philip H.) |
Falling Leaves. Tales From a Gun Room
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937, 1937. Well-told recollections of grouse, woodcock, geese, ducks, and other quarry. First edition, No. 867 of 950 copies, 8vo. Illustrated by Aiden L. Ripley. 201 pp. Original leather-grained brown cloth, ligh...
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£65.00 |
| Back (D.H.L) |
Great British Gunmakers . Forsyth and Co. Patent Gunmakers 1806-1852.
1995.
pp252, as new.
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£100.00 |
| Back (D.H.L) |
Great British Gunmakers. The Mantons 1782-1878
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pp144, 4to, as new
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The Badgers of Bearshanks.
1961.
First Edition. With illustrations by the Author, pp. 96.inscription on front endpaper
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£65.00 |
| Bagot. (A.G.). |
Shooting and Yachting in the Mediterranean. With Some Practical Hints to Yachtsmen.
1887.
Rebound in half green calf, decorated in gilt, little rubbed, with the bookplate of The Earl of Lonsdale, some foxing, pp. 233.
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£85.00 |
| Bailey. (John). |
British Traps For Mammals. More Than 500 british mammal Traps Classified, Illustrated and Described.
2007.
With illustrations, original wrappers, pp. 87.
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£18.00 |
| Baker ( Max ) |
Sport With Woodpigeons
1934.
117pp., index at rear, green cloth, black lettering on spine, covers a little rubbed, spine slightly discoloured
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£20.00 |
| Baker. (E.C. Stuart). |
The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Volume III: Pheasants and Bustard-Quail.
1930.
With 11 coloured and 9 black-and-white plates, 4to, original cloth, pp. 391. Bombay Natural History Society.
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£75.00 |
| BANKS. (A.G.). |
Randon Writings on Rifle Shooting. London. Reprinted 1954.
1943.
4th Impression. Frontis., 1 double-page plate plus text figures, cr.octavo, cloth, pp. 198.
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£12.50 |
| BANVILLE. (Larry). |
The Banville Diaries. Journals of a Norfolk Gamekeeper 1822-1844. Edited by Norma Virgoe and Susan Yaxley. London.
1986.
With coloured plates and plain illustrations, yoyal 8vo, pp. 244.
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£12.50 |
| Barber (Joel) |
Wild Fowl Decoys.Windward House. New York
1934.
First Edition, scarce presention copy from the author to Ralph W. Thorne. Original red cloth, With coloured frontis and 120 illustrations. pp156.
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£125.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
Brendon Chase.
1944.
First Edition. With illustrations by the Author, top of spine and bottom edge worn, with dustjacket, pp. 236.
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£30.00 |
| B.B. |
The Countryman's Bedside Book. 1941.
1941.
First Edition. Octavo, with illustrations by the Author, endpapers little foxed, pp. 287.
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£30.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
Dark Estuary.
1953.
First Edition. With plates, some in colour by the Author, quarto, with dustjacket, pp. 164.
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£75.00 |
| B.B. |
The Idle Countryman.
1943.
First Edition, original cloth, lacks front endpaper. pp192,
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£20.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
Manka. The Sky Gypsy. The Story of a WIld Goose.
1939.
With illustrations by the Author, with very worn. dustjacket, pp. 258.
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£48.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
The Pool of The Black Witch.
1977.
With illustrations by the Author, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 119.
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£20.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
The Shooting Man's Bedside Book.
1948.
First Edition. With illustrations by the Author, with dustjacket, defective at top and foot.
[2285]
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£25.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
The Shooting Man's Bedside Book.
1948.
First Edition. De Luxe Binding in full limp morocco, top of spine slightly worn, pp. 479.
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£65.00 |
| B.B. |
Tide's Ending.
1950.
First Edition. With 16 coloured plates by the Author, quarto, good copy in worn dustjacket, pp. 244.
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£65.00 |
| ''B.B.'' |
The White Road Westwards.
1961.
First Edition, with illustrations by the Author, without dustjacket, pp. 176.
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£25.00 |
| B.B .(D.J. Watkins-Pitchford) |
The Sportsman's Bedside Book.
1937.
First Edition of the author's first book, pp237,original cloth.
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£45.00 |
| Beaufoy ( Henry ) |
Scloppeteria : or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with reference to their forming the basis of a permenant system of National defence. By a Corporal of Riflemen.
1808.
First Edition. with frontis and 9 plates, original boards, rebacked. ppxxiv . pp259. little soiling, edges worn.
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£450.00 |
| Beaumont. (Richard). |
Purdey's. The Guns and The Family.
1984.
With illustrations, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 248.
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| Bedson. (G.). |
The Notorious Poacher. memoirs of An Old Poacher.
1982.
With illustrations, good copy in faded dustjacket, pp. 142.
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£10.50 |
| Berry. (J.). |
Factors Affecting The General Status of Wild Geese and Wild Ducks. International Wildfowl Inquiry. Cambridge.
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2 volumes, with charts,volume 1 J. Wentworth Day's copy, little spotting on front cover volume 2
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£25.00 |
| Bigelow (Horatio) |
Gunnerman
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NY: Derrydale Press. xxii + 246 p., 1939. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7 - 9 ' tall. 8vo illus. No. 69 of 950 Numbered Copies. Spine gilt faded; Very Good-Fine no DJ.
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£65.00 |
| Bigelow (Horatio) |
Gunnerman's gold
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Standard, West Virginia, 1943, 304 of 1,000 copies. Illustrated with b&w photographs and etchings, with a b&w frontispiece of geese by Richard Bishop. 8' x 10.5'. 128 pp. Red cloth,fine copy in dustjacket, Gunning for ducks, geese, woodcock, qu...
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£45.00 |
| Bishop (Richard E.) |
Bishop's Wildfowl
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Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minn. 1948, 1st edition. (4to) fine copy. . 282pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, boxed as issued. Bound in Mission Leather in a limited edition. Very unusual in the original box with red flocking. Box damaged, Text and s...
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£75.00 |
| BLAKE. (C.). |
The Poacher's Progress. In Eight Plates by C.Blake. A Facsimile Reprint of the Edition of 1826. Edinburgh.
1981.
Limited to 750 numbered copies, oblong folio, cloth with ties.
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£225.00 |
| BLANCH. (H.J.). |
A Century of Guns. A Sketch of the Leading Types of SPorting and Military Small Arms.
1909.
With over 150 illustrations on Guns and Rifles, small quarto, good copy in original cloth, pp. 159.
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£85.00 |
| Bogardus. (Adam H.). |
Field, Cover and Trap Shooting. Edited by Charles J.Foster. Prescott, Arizona.
1987.
Edition Limited to 1500 numbered copies. With frontis, quarter modern calf, a reprint of the edition of 1878.
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£20.00 |
| Bolster (r.C.) |
Driven Duck . Allahabad
1923.
Original cloth, little faded, plates and illustrations, pp107, scarce
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£75.00 |
| BOWEN. (Lt.Co. F.O.). |
Notes on Snipe Shooting. Signet Press.
1993.
This is 1 of 26 copies in full morocco, but this copy not signed or numbered, and does not contacin the original sketch. With diagrams and additions, with a new introduction by Colin McKelvie, with folding tables, pp. 15 + 29.
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£75.00 |
| BOWEN. (Lt.Col.F.O.). |
Notes on Snipe Shooting. Signet Press.
1993.
Edition Limited to 500 numbered copies. With diagrams and additions, with a new introduction by Colin Mckelvie, pp. 15 + 29.
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£28.00 |
| BRATBY. (Michael). |
Grey Goose. 1939.
1939.
With coloured frontis., plates and illustrations,good copy in dustjacket, pp. 234.
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£45.00 |
| bridgenhagen. (Keith). |
Decoy Pattern Book. New York.
1984.
With illustrations, wrappers, pp. 127.
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£10.00 |
| Britton Court Shoot |
Britton Court Shoot ( Kent) Manuscript Game Book. seasons 1981/2. 1982/3, 1983/4
1981/4.
With map of the shoot, obl 8vo, cloth.
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£20.00 |
| BROWNING. |
Pistolet Automatique Browning. Modele 1922. Calibre 9m/m. Liege.
1922.
Original wrappers,with illustrations, pp. 24.
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£45.00 |
| BROWNING. (J.M. and M.S.). |
A History of Browning Guns from 1831. Ogden . Utah. 1942.
1942.
With illustrations, octavo, wrappers, pp. 62.
[1141]
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£28.00 |
| Bruette (Dr William) |
American Duck, Goose and Brant Shooting,
1938.
With plates and illustrations, pp415, inner joints cracked, with dustjacket,
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£15.00 |
| Buckingham ( Nash) |
De Shootinest Gent'man
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Scribner's, 1941, first edition, 1941. 24 page hardcover publication of 1941. Drawings by Robert Ball. This, the first edition with the Scribner 'A'. Copy in very good+ condition in original dust jacket with light wear.
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£30.00 |
| Buckingham ( Nash) |
De Shootin'est Gent'man and Other Hunting Tales. Illustrated by Hamilton Greene,
1961.
pp246, good copy in dustjacket.
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£20.00 |
| Buckingham (Nash) |
Ole Miss'
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New York: The Derrydale Press, [1937], 1937. First edition. Number 706 of 1250. 8vo. Illustrated. Frontispiece after an etching by Richard E. Bishop. 242 pp. Original cloth, colour medallion on front cover after a painting by Dr. Edgar Burke, top...
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£50.00 |
| Buckinhham (Nash) |
Blood Lines. Tales of Shooting and Fishing.
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The Derrydale Press, New York, 1938. Foreword by Henry P. Davis. 227 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied circular color illustration. First edition; No. 767 of 1250 copies. Slight use to extremities of spine; tight and sound.
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£50.00 |
| Burrard ( Sir Gerald) |
The Modern Shotgun. a comprehensive work in three volumes on sporting guns and ammunition.
1959-60.
3 volumes, good set in slightly worn dustjackets. revised edition.
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£50.00 |
| Burrard. (Major G.). |
The Modern Shotgun. VOlume 1. The Gun.
1963.
Good copy in dustjacket, pp. 242.
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£15.00 |
| Burrard. (Major G.). |
Notes on SPorting Rifles for Use in India and Elsewhere.
1925.
Second Edition, pp. 96.
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£45.00 |
| BURRARD. (Major G.). |
Notes on the Sporting Rifle, for use in India and Elsewhere. 1932.
1932.
Third Edition. Covers little damp marked, lettering faded, pp. 142.
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£38.00 |
| Burrard. (Major Gerald). |
The Modern Shotgun.
1931-2.
First Edition.
Herbert Jenkins.
First Edition, 3 volumes, with plates and illustrations, original blue cloth.
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£150.00 |
| Burrard. (Major Sir G.). |
The Modern Shotgun. VOlume 2. The Cartridge.
1931.
First Edition, With plates, covers soiled and faded, pp. 314.
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£20.00 |
| Burrard. (Major Sir G.). |
The Modern Shotgun. Volume 3. The Gun and the Cartridge.
1952.
With plates, pp. 513.
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£15.00 |
| BUSK. (Hans). |
The Rifle and How To Use It. Comprising a description of that valuable weapon in all its varieties, and an account of its origin.
1859.
Fifth Edition. With illustrations, small octavo, original cloth, little stained, new calf spine, corners worn, pp. 225.
[2985]
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£95.00 |
| By A Corporal of Riflemen |
Scloppetaria: Or, Considerations on the nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, With Reference to Their Forming The Basis of a Permanent System of national Defence, Agreeable to The genius of the Country.
1971.
A facsimile reprint of the edition of 1808, nice copy in dustjacket, with frontis., and other illustrations, pp. xxiv + 251 + index
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£15.00 |
| Byng-Hall ( Herbert ) |
Sport and its Pleasures. Physical and Gastronomical
1868.
Second Edition, small 8vo, original boards, edges rubbed, frontis and engraved title, ppxi + 196. Simon 276, not in Chute, scarce
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£150.00 |
| Cadman (A) |
Goose Shooting. Shooting Times Library number 7
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pp82, good copy in dustjacket
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£10.00 |
| Cadman. (Arthur). |
Tales of a Wildfowler.
1957.
First Edition. With illustrations by Peter Scott, nice copy in dustjacket, pp. 192.
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£20.00 |
| Cank (T.) |
Forty Years Mingled in Game. (Fur and Feathers).published by T.Cank, ' The Lancashire Pheasantries' Leyland.
1891.
pp133, original cloth, scarce,
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£125.00 |
| Cargegie. (William). |
Practical Game Preserving; Containing the Fullest Directions for the Rearing and Preserving Both WInged and Ground Game, and Destroying Vermin.
1884.
First Edition, original red cloth, spine little faded.
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£55.00 |
| CARNEGIE. (William). |
How to Trap and Snare. A Complete manual for the Sportsman, Game Preserver, GAmekeeper and Amateur on the Art of Taking Animals and Birds in Traps, Snares and Nets.
ca 1900.
With numerous illustrations, original cloth, pp. 227 + xi.
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£55.00 |
| CASWELL. (John). |
Sporting Rifles and Rifle Shooting. New York.
1920.
First Edition. With frontis., port. 30 plain plates plus text figures, octavo, cloth worn, front hinge cracked, pp. xx + 284. Riling: Guns and Shooting, 1891.
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£30.00 |
| Chalmers (Patrick) |
The Frequent Gun and a Little Fishing.
1928.
With illustrations by V.R.Balfour- Browne.pp244, original cloth.
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£15.00 |
| Chalmers. (P.R.). |
At The Sign of the Dog and Gun.
1930.
With illustrations by V.R. Balfour-browne, original cloth, little worn and marked, lacks front endpaper, pp. 294.
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£10.50 |
| CHAMBERLAIN. |
Chamberlain and Target Co. Catalogue. Ontario.
1963.
A facsimile of the catalogue of 1894, limited to 200 copies, pp. 26.
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£20.00 |
| Chamberlin Cartridge and target Co. |
Catalogue. Ontario.
1963.
A facsimile of the catalogue of 1894, limited to 200 copies, wrappers, pp. 26.
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£20.00 |
| Chapman (Abel) |
Bird-Life of the Borders, records of Wild Sport and Natural History on Moorland and Sea,
1889.
First edition, pp286, nice copy in original cloth, text illustrations
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£48.00 |
| Chapman. (Abel). |
The Borders and Beyond: Arctic, Cheviot, Tropic. London
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1st Edition, with 19 coloured plates including frontis., by W.H.Riddell and 170 sketches by the Author, plus maps and diagrams, 8vo, pp. 389.
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£30.00 |
| CHAPMAN. (Abel). |
First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling.
1896.
With 36 illustrations by the Author and 3 by Charles Whymper, very nice copy in original cloth, pp. 270.
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£180.00 |
| Christian. (Garth). Edited and Introduced by |
James hawker's Journal. A Victorian Poacher.
1961.
Nice copy in dustjacket, with text drawings by Lynton Lamb, pp. xxii + 113
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£10.00 |
| CHUTE. (Robin). |
Shooting Flying. A Bibliography of Shooting Books. 1598-1950.
2001.
With coloured plates, quarto, original cloth, pp. 213. A useful bibliography limited to 500 signed copies.
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£70.00 |
| Chute (Robin) |
Shooting Sitting. An Anthology of Shooting with a Bibliographical Supplement.
2002.
Edition limited to 500 numbered and signed copies, 4to, good copy. pp190
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£45.00 |
| CHUTE. (R.V.). Compiler. |
Shooting Flying. Winchester.
2001.
Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. With 12 colour illustrations, 4 monochrome illustrations & several text illustrations, roy.octavo, dark blue buckram, morocco spine label, pp. 234. A bibliography of a private collection of some...
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£70.00 |
| Clark (Roland) |
Etchings
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New York. The Derrydale Press. 1938., 1938. folio. 41cm, (16'x 12.5'), first edition, limited to 800 numbered copies, this being #597, printed on watermarked Linweave Japan paper; with an original etched frontis plate signed at the bottom right s...
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£250.00 |
| Clark (Roland) |
Gunner's Dawn
.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937, 1937. The author's experiences of duck shooting, and a handsome book First Edition of 950 copies. 8vo. Original signed etching, five color plates and 14 in black and white by the author. Original dark red gil...
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£150.00 |
| Clark (Roland) |
Gunner's Dawn.
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937, 1937. The author's experiences of duck shooting, and a handsome book First Edition of 950 copies. 8vo. Original signed etching,Clark five color plates and 14 in black and white by the author. Original dark r...
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£160.00 |
| Clark (Roland) |
Pot Luck
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The Countryman Press, 1945. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Introduction by John P. Holman. 6 full-page color plates; headings and vignettes by the author. Original gilt stamped tan cloth, t.e.g. ...
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£30.00 |
| CLARK. (Roland). |
Stray Shots. New York. Derrydale Press.
1931.
Limited Edition of 500 copies. With 7 plates including frontis., and 6 text illustrations from original dry point etchings by the Author, octavo, pp. [viii[ + ii + 124 + [i], original black cloth, lower and fore-edges untrimmed, spine little rubb...
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£325.00 |
| Coles. (Charles). |
Game Birds.
1981.
With coloured plates by Maurice Pledger, nice copy in slipcase.
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£25.00 |
| COLES. (Charles). Editor. |
The Complete Book of Game Conservation.
1980.
Second Edition. With illustrations, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 381.
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£12.00 |
| Connett (Eugene V.) |
Wildfowling in the Mississippi Flyway.
1949.
First Edition, S.Kip Farrington's copy with his bookplate. lge 8vo, pp387.
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£35.00 |
| CONNETT. (Eugene V.). Editor. |
Upland Game Bird Shooting in America. New York. Derrydale Press.
1930.
One of 750 copies. With coloured frontis., and 64 plates, 4 coloured by Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, Wm. Schaldach, Bert Cobb and others, quarto, pp. 249.
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£225.00 |
| Connett (E.V.) editor |
Duck Shooting Along the Atlantic Tidewater, Bonanza books
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reprint of the edition of 1947, pp308, 4to, nice copy in dustjacket, plates
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£15.00 |
| CORNISH. (C.J.). |
Nights With An Old Gunner and Other Studies of Wild Life. 1897.
1897.
With illustrations, original decorated cloth, pp. 307.
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£35.00 |
| Cox (Charles E.) |
John Tobias. Sportsman
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: NY: The Derrydale Press, 1937, 1st edition, 1937. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. Cox captures the essence of the excitement of fishing for trout and bass, and hunting grouse and waterfowl. Illustrated by A. Lassel...
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£30.00 |
| COXE. (Nicholas). |
The Fowler. Containing Rules for Taking Every Species of Land and Waterfowl; Whether by Fowling Piece, Net, Engine or Otherwise....
[1790?].
Rebound in c19th quarter calf, marbled boards, joints worn, pp. 76.
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£650.00 |
| Coxe. (Wallace H.). |
Smokeless Shotgun Powders, Their Development, Composition and Ballistic Characteristics. Du Pont, WIlmington.
1928.
Wrappers,pp. 96.
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£20.00 |
| Craven (J. W. Carleton) |
Recreations in Shooting : With Some Account of the Game of the British Islands
1859.
New Edition, an extra illustrated copy with 85 additional steel engraved plates, nicely bound in half morocco, pp307, nice copy,
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£235.00 |
| Crealand. (Alan). |
A Land Beyond Belief. Shooting Tales and Essays of a Vanished Countryside. Kingston-On-Hull.
2004.
With illustrations, Edition Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the Author, wrappers.
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£25.00 |
| Croft. (Peter). |
Clay Shooting. A Complete Guide to Skeet, Trap and SPorting Shooting. Includes the Latest UIT Double Trap Rules,
1990.
Good copy in dustjacket, with many photographic illustrations, some in colour, also text figures, pp. 160
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£8.50 |
| Curtis. (Captain Paul A.). |
Guns and Gunnings.
1934.
Good copy in original cloth, without dustjacket, with illustrated endpapers, with colour frontis., + 44 other illustrations, pp. 384
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£20.00 |
| Daehnhardt. (Rainer). and W.keith Neal. Edited and Translated by... |
The Perfect Gun & Rules For Its Use, Together with neccessary instructions for its construction and precepts for good aiming. Dedicated to His Most honourable Majesty The King of Portugal. D.Joao V
1974.
Good copy in dustjacket, with 31 illustrations, pp. xxii + 466
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£15.00 |
| DALGETTY. (C.T.). |
Wildfowling.
1937.
With 8 plates and text illustrations, small octavo, original cloth, nice copy, pp. 254.
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£45.00 |
| Dawson. (Major Kenneth). |
Marsh and Mudflat.
1931.
With plates by Winifred Austen, 4to, front cover dust soiled, pp. 100
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£20.00 |
| Day ( J.Wentworth) |
King George V as a Sportsman. An informal study of the first country gentleman in Europe.
1935.
With 52 illustrations. pp300, original cloth, little faded.
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£15.00 |
| Day (J.Wentworth) |
Broadland Adventure.
1951.
With illustrations, pp189,
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£15.00 |
| Day. (J.Wentworth). |
The Modern Fowler; with a Guide to some of the Principal Coastal Wildfowling Resorts of To-Day.
1934.
First Edition. With plates, good copy in original cloth, pp. 303. .
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£38.00 |
| Day. (J.Wentworth). |
Sporting Adventure.
1937.
With 13 plates by 'Fish-hawk', 4to, pp. 280.
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£15.00 |
| de Visme Shaw. (L.H.). |
The Woodcock. The Signet Press.
1992.
Original cloth with gilt, protective cellophane wrapper, edition limited to 500 copies, this copy not numbered, pp. xi + 176
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£12.50 |
| Deadfall |
The Experiences of a Game Preserver.
1868.
Original cloth, 8vo, little foxing, pp. 15.
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£75.00 |
| Deadfall |
The Experiences of a Game Preserver.
1868.
Covers damp stained, contents good, pp155
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£45.00 |
| Deane. (J.). |
Deane's manual of the History and Science of Fire-Arms.
1858.
First Edition, with 3 folding plates, original cloth, recased, new endpapers, pp. 291.
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£200.00 |
| DERRYDALE PRESS. [Markland. (George).] |
Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting FLying.
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Edition Limited to 500 copies. With illustrations by RObert Ball, large octavo, paper backed blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, upper board very lightly soiled, pp. xvi + 29. FRAZIER M-3-9: SIEGAL 56
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£125.00 |
| Dewar. (David). |
Game Birds.
1928.
With 19 mounted wood engravings by E.Fitch Daglish, 4to, original cloth, top of spine worn, also top of back joint worn, pp. 256.
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| DEWAR. (Douglas). |
Game Birds. 1928
1928.
With 23 mounted wood engravings by E.Fitch Daglish, quarto, original cloth, pp. 256.
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£45.00 |
| Diguet. (Charles). |
Memoires D'Un Fusil. Paris.
1883.
Contemporary half morocco, little rubbed, some foxing, pp. 284. Schwerdt I 144. Riling 1123
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£35.00 |
| Dixon (Charles) |
The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands. Sheffield.
1900.
With 41 coloured plates by Charles Whymper. 4to, pp476. original cloth,
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£150.00 |
| Dougall. (James Dalziel). |
Shooting Simplified: A Concise Treatise on Guns and Shooting.
1865.
Second Edition, re-written and enlarged with a chapter on breech-loaders, small octavo, original cloth, nice copy, pp. 274 + 4
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£160.00 |
| Drought ( Capt J.B.) |
Partridge Shooting.
1936.
Sportsman's Library. pp254, some foxing.
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£15.00 |
| Drought. (Captain J.B.). |
A Sportsman Looks At Eire.
n.d. c. 19.
Original cloth, with protective wrapper, with frontis., + 10 other illustrations, pp. 143 Irish Sport
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£15.00 |
| Duchartre. (P.L.). |
Dictionnaire Analogique de la Chasse Historique et Contemporain. Paris.
1973.
With illustrations, 4to, original cloth, snags to front cover, pp. 576.
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£45.00 |
| Duchartre. (P.L.). |
Histoire Des Armes de Chasse et de Leurs Emphis de la prehistorique a la Cartouche les Armes et les Munitions d'Aujoud'hui. Paris.
1955.
With illustrations, 4to, bottom corner of cover little damp stained, pp. 287.
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£25.00 |
| DUNCAN. (Stanley). & guy Thorne. |
The Complete Wildfowler. (Ashore and Afloat).
1950.
Second Edition, without dustjacket,piece cut from front endpaper, with colour frontis., + 61 other plates, pp. 319
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£18.00 |
| DUNCAN. (Stanley). and Guy Thorne |
The COmplete Wildfowler.
1911.
First Edition. With plates and illustrations, original buckram, small mark on front cover, but a nice copy, pp. 360.
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£75.00 |
| DUTT. (W.A.). |
Wild Life in East Anglia.
1906.
With 16 plates by Frank Southgate,original cloth, pp. 370.
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£15.00 |
| EDIE. (George). |
The Art of English Shooting. San Francisco, the Arion Press.
1993.
Limited Edition of 250 copies of the Edition of 1775. With frontis., 12mo, morocco backed marbled boards in a marbled board and cloth slip case, fine copy, with prospectus, pp. xi + 29. Originally published with the title 'A Treatise on English...
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£85.00 |
| Eltringham (H.Cyril ) |
Pheasant Rearing. Practical Management and Modern methods of rearing as Practised on the Gaybird Pheasant Farm.
1955.
With 12 illustrations, corner of title page and frontis creased, covers little worn.pp42
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£18.00 |
| Escritt. (L.B.0. |
Rifle and Gun for Practice, Competition and Sport.
1953.
1st edition, nice copy with dustjacket and protective wrapper, with frontis., + 93 other illustrations, pp. xvi + 305
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£12.50 |
| Everitt ( Nicholas) |
Ferrets. Their Management in Health and Disease, with remarks on their legal status.
1897.
With 42 illustrations by the author and others, original cloth, pp209.
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£58.00 |
| Everitt (Nicholas) |
Broadlands Sport. Written and Illustrated by Nicholas Everitt.
1902.
Copy number 3 of 100 signed copies, original half parchment, front inner joint cracked, but a good copy of this scarce edition, pp393
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£275.00 |
| Everitt. (Nicholas). |
Broadlands Sport. Written and Illustrated by Nicholas Everitt.
1902.
Nice presentation copy with long inscription from the Author to Lieut E.B.L.Curzon, pp. 393.
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£125.00 |
| Everitt. (Nicholas). |
Shots from a lawyer's Gun.
1901.
Original decorated cloth, pages browned, new endpapers, pp. 308.
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£30.00 |
| FALLON. (Walter J.). |
Practical Wildfowling. A Complete Guide to the Art of the Fowler. 1907.
1907.
Second Edition. With illustrations, original cloth, octavo, inner joints cracked, pp. 248.
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£65.00 |
| Ffoulkes. (Charles). |
The Gun-Founders of England. With a List of English and Continental Gun-Founders from the XIV to the XIX Centuries. Cambridge.
1937.
With 15 plates and 38 illustrations, quarto, nice copy in dustjacket, pp. 134.
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£95.00 |
| Fitzsimons. (J.O''C.). |
Pheasants and Thier Enemies.
1963.
Nice copy in dustjacket, little spotting to edges of pages, not affecting text, with 12 illustrations, pp. xi + 96
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£10.00 |
| Folkard. (H.C.). |
The Wild-Fowler; A Treatise on Ancient and Modern WIld-Fowling, Historical and Practical.
1864.
Second Edition. with 13 plates, little foxed, original cloth, recased, new back endpaper, p. 398.
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£140.00 |
| FOLKARD. (H.C.). |
The WIld-Fowler. A Treatise on Fowling, Ancient and Modern, descriptive aldo of Decoys and FLight Ponds, WIld Fowl SHooting with Gunning Punts.
1875.
With frontis., engraved title and 11 plates, original cloth,inner joints poorly repaired, pp. 386.
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£75.00 |
| Forester. (Frank). |
Frank Forester's Complete Manual For Young Sportsmen.
1993.
Edition is limited and privately published, Mint copy in beautifully illustrated slipcase, with illustrated endpapers, with many beautiful illustrations, pp. 282
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£20.00 |
| Forester (Frank) |
My Shooting Box.
1841.
Derrydale Press. Copy no 54 of an edition of 250 copies, With coloured frontis, title and three uncoloured plates. Siegal 167 plate 'Tom Draw' was not issued, a fine copy in original decorated cloth.
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£85.00 |
| Freeman. (Edward H.R.). and Fred Foster. |
Poachers and Preservers. A handy Guide to the Law Relating to game and Sporting Rights, Duties and Licences.
1936.
Original wrappers, covers stained , nice copy, pp. 70
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£15.00 |
| Fur, Feather and Fin Series |
Wildfowl, Hare, Rabbit, Snipe and Woodcock, Pheasant, Partridge, Grouse, Fox, Trout, Pike and Perch, Salmon, Red Deer. 12 volumes.
1893-5.
Limited Edition One of 152 large paper sets, , spines slightly darkened, but a nice set, bookplates od Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, some volumes signed by A>j. Stuart-Wortley, who contributed,
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£850.00 |
| FUR, FEATHER AND FIN. [Harting. (J.E.). ] |
The Rabbit.
1898.
First Edition,With plates by Thorburn, Whymper, S.Alken and Lodge, original cloth, pp. 256.
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£25.00 |
| Fur, Feather and Fin Series |
The Partidge.
1893.
Large paper issue, limited to 157 numbered copies, With illustrations by A.J.Stuart-Wortley, A.Thorburn and C. Whymper. original parchment backed cloth, spine little rubbed and darkened. pp276,
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£75.00 |
| Fur, Feather and Fin Series. MacPherson. (H.A.), A.J. Stuart-Wortley and A.I.Shand |
The Pheasant.
1896.
With illustrations by A.Thorburn, good copy in original cloth, pp. 265.
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£25.00 |
| Fur, Feather and Fin Series. MacPherson. (H.A.), A.J. Stuart-Wortley and G.Saintsbury |
The Partridge.
1912.
With illustrations by A. Thorburn and C.Whymper, good copy in original cloth, pp. 276.
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£20.00 |
| Game Book |
a manuscript shooting and stalking game book kept by Percy Mann
1924-40.
A nice manuscript game book for deer stalking and Grouse shooting in Scotland and Game shooting, including shooting several times with the artist George Lodge, original limp pigskin in slipcase.
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£175.00 |
| Garfit (Will) |
Will's Shoot (Hauxton , Cambridgeshire)
1993.
pp117, Signed by the author, fine copy in dustjacket,
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£10.00 |
| Garnier. (Pierre). |
Chasse de la Plume au Chien d'Arret dans L'Afrique du Nord. Paris.
1883.
Contemporary half calf, original wrappers bound in, pp. 43. Not in Schwerdt.
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£95.00 |
| George. (J.N.). |
English Guns and Rifles. being an account of the development, design and usage of English Sporting Rifles and Shotguns - from their introduction during the fifteenth century until the advent of the metallic cartridge in the nineteenth century - t...
1947.
Nice copy in little torn dustjacket, with frontis., with 23 other plates and text drawings, pp. 344
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£20.00 |
| [GIRARDIN. (Lt.Gen.C.de) ] |
Projet de Legislation sur les Chasses. Fait en 1817. Paris.
1817.
Folio, c 19th, quarter cloth, marbled boards, pp. 56. THIEBAUD 461. 'Only listing 1820 edition 'tres rare','.
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£125.00 |
| Gladstone. (Hugh S.). |
Record Bags and Shooting Records. TOgether with Some Account of the Evolution of the Sporting-Gun, Marksmanship and the Speed and Weight of Birds.
1922.
New and Enlarged Edition. With 12 plates, pp. 319. Nicely rebound in half green morocco, decorated in gilt,
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£75.00 |
| GLUKMAN. (Arcadi). |
United States Martial Pistols and Revolvers. New York. 1939, reprinted 1944.
1944.
2nd impression. With 29 plain plates plus text figures, small 8vo, pp. 249 + xxxviii, head of spine little frayed otherwise a very good copy in dustjacket with protective cover.
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£15.00 |
| GRANT. (James J.). |
More Single-Shot Rifles. New York. 1959.
1959.
With over 180 illustrations, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 322.
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£25.00 |
| GRAY. (Phil). |
The Washlanders. Tales of the wildfowlers, shepherds and eel catchers of the Nene Washes. Lavenham, Suffolk.
1990.
Frontispiece & numerous illustrations from photographs and line-drawings, large octavo, fine copy in dustjacket, pp. 184.
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£20.00 |
| GREENER . (W.W.). |
The Gun and Its Development.
1896.
Sixth Edition. With numerous illustrations, 4to, nice copy in original cloth, pp. 768.
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£225.00 |
| GREENER. (W.W.). |
The Gun and Its Development; With Notes on Shooting.
[1885].
Third Edition. With numerous illustrations, recently rebound in half morocco, decorated in gilt, pp. 768.
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£175.00 |