Instructions To Young Sportsmen In All That Relates To Guns and Shooting

1844 Sportsmen Instructions Guns Shooting Hawker Game BEAUTIFUL Leather Binding "Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting" by Lieut. Col. Peter Hawker serves as an essential guide for the 19th-century novice in the realm of shooting and game pursuit. Originally penned in 1814 for a close circle of Hawker's sporting companions, the book focuses on practical… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Eighth Edition, Corrected, Enlarged. 8vo. pp xxv 549 + 32 page publisher's catalogue for 1842 ; b/w plates and in text illustrations. Original brown cloth hardback binding, very good with a little general wear, rubbing and a few marks. Contents clean and… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833. xxiii, [1], 507pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, seven engraved plates, and 20 engraved illustrations in the text. Modern gilt-tooled calf. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, plates foxed, scattered spotting. A revised and enlarged edition of a remarkably popular nineteenth century shooting manual by British… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Good. Fifth or later edition. Old, polished full leather, front cover detached.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Game Shooting] FINELY BOUND, the ninth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 623 [3]. With numerous in-text woodcuts, and several full page engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Papier Tourniquet over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Edges worn and… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1838. Octavo (22.5 14 cm.), xxv, 549 pages. Illustrated with plates and with additional illustrations in the text. Eighth Edition. One of the most popular treatments of shooting and hunting in the early 19th century. With interesting detailed sections including, Observations on Mad Dogs, Tricks of Poachers, Launching over the Oozes, Wildfowl… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. Sixth edition, corrected, enlarged, and improved; with explanatory plates and wood cuts. Pp. xx+480, frontispiece and 7 plates with tissue guards, text illustrations; nineteenth century half green morocco, the spine lettered and decorated with four small hunting vignettes in gilt, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, edges slightly worn, spine uniformly… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 18241853. Hardcover. Very good condition. 2nd American from the 9th London edition, to which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North Aerica, With Descriptions of the Animals and Burds. Carefully collated from authentic sources by Wm. T. Porter. With illustrations. Bound in red cloth stamped in gilt.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1844. Ninth edition, corrected, enlarged, and improved: With explanatory plates and woodcuts. Pp. xxviii+624(last blank)+32(publisher's catalogue, dated June 1850), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 10 plates (including a portrait), text illustrations (a few full page), patterned endpapers with advertisements on pastedowns, index; tall demy 8vo; navy cloth, boards decorated in blind, neatly… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838. Eighth edition, corrected, enlarged, and improved: With explanatory plates and wood cuts. Pp. xxvi+550(last colophon), 8 plates (the frontispiece and portrait with tissue guards), text illustrations, list of London Gunmakers, Game Laws; nineteenth century mottled calf boards with double gilt rule border and gilt edges, neatly rebacked, with the gilt lettered… Read more 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… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1846. First American, from the ninth London edition. To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with descriptions of the animals and birds. Carefully collated from authentic sources by Wm. T. Porter, Esq.... Pp. 460(last blank)+32(advertisements and publisher's catalogue), frontispiece, plus 9 plates, 2 text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, the… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green & L. Very Good+. 1854. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Rear inner hinge just starting to crack. Slight damp stain to the upper corner of the fep (which does not show on any other page. Bound in the original fragile brown cloth. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 556+24 pages .

London: Longman, Brown, Green & L. Very Good-. 1844. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. New endpapers. Rubbed at the corners. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 623+32 pages .

London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826., 1826. Hard Cover. Fifth edition. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 456. Complete with 10 engraved plates, including frontispiece and additional vignette illustrations. Bound in early 19th century half calf and blue marbled paper over boards with blind dog-tooth rolls to corners and spine; gilt spine ornaments and title; marbled edges. Calf rubbed… Read more about this item

Longman,Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, , London, 1826. 5th edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 456 pages (complete). A robust, aging copy. Complete with all plates. At some stage the book has been rebound : cloth covered boards, . The boards are steady and firm. The book has aging wear and marks. minor insect damage on page… Read more about this item

London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Greene, 1824. Third edition. . Hardcover. Very good condition. With ten full page engravings, four of which are hand colored. Bound in half leather marbled boards and a gilt stamped leather label on the spine. Exterior of binding is worn, Binding is sound, book is bright and clean.… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition, corrected and improved; with ten explanatory plates. Pp. xx+440(last colophon), engraved frontispiece and 7 [of 9]plates, list of London gunmakers; med. 8vo; later qr. black calf over green cloth, with printed paper title labels inlaid on the spine and upper board, the spine a trifle faded; uncut; ribbon… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. xx, 480pp, bw plates and ills. Sympathetically and attractively rebound in modern marbled boards with leather spine and corners (half-leather) with new endpapers. Contents in very good to fine condition with some manuscript notation to the list of London gunmakers and preservers of birds at rear. Covers all aspects of guns and… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833 2024-02-12. Hardcover. Fair. 7th British ed.: 507 pp.; plates, woodcuts, adverts.; green cloth, deckle edges; 8vo.: Lacking frontis. and may lack additional plates. Binding shook/cocked, rippling to pages, soiled/dented/chipped boards, chipping/separation to cloth along spine: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.