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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting
by Hawker, Lt. Col. P
- Used
- Condition
- Bound in full red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine tooled with sporting vignettes, boards with quadruple gilt fillet border an
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Third edition, "considerably enlarged and improved. With ten plates, three hand colored. Bound without half-title. xxii, [2], 470 pp. 1 vols. Royal 8vo. Bound in full red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine tooled with sporting vignettes, boards with quadruple gilt fillet border and sporting cornerpieces, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by R. Sotherans [by Morell]. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Fine. Third edition, "considerably enlarged and improved". With ten plates, three hand colored. Bound without half-title. xxii, [2], 470 pp. 1 vols. Royal 8vo. Best edition, finely bound. The third, "and most complete edition, containing valuable information on wild-fowling with a gunning punt, French hut shooting, pheasant, partridge and grouse shooting, fly-fishing and deer-stalking" (Schwerdt). Schwerdt I, p. 235
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 246092
- Title
- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting
- Author
- Hawker, Lt. Col. P
- Format/Binding
- With ten plates, three hand colored. Bound without half-title. xxii, [2], 470 pp. 1 vols. Royal 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Bound in full red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine tooled with sporting vignettes, boards with quadruple gilt fillet border an
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition, "considerably enlarged and improved
- Publisher
- Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1824
- Keywords
- Hunting / Shooting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports & Games;
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James Cummins Bookseller
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
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