Lot 105
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HAWKER, PETER, Lieut. Col. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1814, small 8vo, FIRST EDITION; [Nine succeeding editions of the same], 1816, 1824, 1826, 1830, 1833, 1838, 1844, and 1854, uniformly bound in red half morocco, t.e.g., joints and extremities rubbed, engraved frontispieces and plates, the 1816 and 1824 editions with hand-colored aquatint frontispieces, Schwerdt, I, pp. 234-35; [Another copy of the third edition], 1824, green half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, joints broken, spine faded; [Another copy of the ninth edition], 1844, original blind-stamped cloth; [Another edition]...To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America...carefully collated from authentic sources, by Wm. T. Porter, Philadelphia 1846, green buckram, worn, upper margin of title torn away, first American edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and plates, Gee, p. 74, Henderson, p. 71; together 13 vols., 8vo, foxing. (13)

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HAWKER, PETER, Lieut. Col. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1814, small 8vo, FIRST EDITION; [Nine succeeding editions of the same], 1816, 1824, 1826, 1830, 1833, 1838, 1844, and 1854, uniformly bound in red half morocco, t.e.g., joints and extremities rubbed, engraved frontispieces and plates, the 1816 and 1824 editions with hand-colored aquatint frontispieces, Schwerdt, I, pp. 234-35; [Another copy of the third edition], 1824, green half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, joints broken, spine faded; [Another copy of the ninth edition], 1844, original blind-stamped cloth; [Another edition]...To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America...carefully collated from authentic sources, by Wm. T. Porter, Philadelphia 1846, green buckram, worn, upper margin of title torn away, first American edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and plates, Gee, p. 74, Henderson, p. 71; together 13 vols., 8vo, foxing. (13)