![SHOOTING -- [JOHNSON, Thomas Burgeland (d.1840)]. The Shooter's Guide; or Sportsman's Companion: containing every possible instruction for the juvenile shooter ... by B. Thomas. London: Gale and Curtis, 1811. 8° (231 x 132mm). 4 engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 4 WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS IN THE MANNER OF SAMUEL HOWITT depicting grouse, partridge, pheasant and woodcock shooting, final errata/advertisement leaf. (Engraved plates spotted.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, upper joints cracked). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2496). Third edition. Chute 341; Schwerdt I, p. 270.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0717_000(113242).jpg?w=1)
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SHOOTING -- [JOHNSON, Thomas Burgeland (d.1840)]. The Shooter's Guide; or Sportsman's Companion: containing every possible instruction for the juvenile shooter ... by B. Thomas. London: Gale and Curtis, 1811. 8° (231 x 132mm). 4 engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 4 WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS IN THE MANNER OF SAMUEL HOWITT depicting grouse, partridge, pheasant and woodcock shooting, final errata/advertisement leaf. (Engraved plates spotted.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, upper joints cracked). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 15 July 1946, lot 2496). Third edition. Chute 341; Schwerdt I, p. 270.
BAKER, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns ... with Specific Remarks on Fowling Pieces. London: E. Baker [and others], 1821. 8° (257 x 125mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, 6 hand-coloured, 3 engraved leaves of tables. (Foremargin of title and several plates frayed, a few light stains, some offsetting.) Contemporary red half roan (rather worn). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Eighth edition. Schwerdt I, p. 51.
[KILLMISTER, A.K.]. The Oakleigh Shooting Code ... by Thomas Oakleigh. London: James Ridgway and Sons, 1836. 8° (201 x 121mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 104 engraved plates, mostly mounted, 47 hand-coloured and 2 in sepia, one folding. Late 19th-century green morocco, gilt sporting tools on sides and in panels of spine, top edge gilt. Provenance: C.E. Richardson (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1612). FIRST EDITION of this entertaining work which was originally published in the New Sporting Magazine as 'Nights at Oakley Old Manor House', the author's residence in Derbyshire. Chute 369; Schwerdt I, p. 283.
LACY, Captain. The Modern Shooter. London: Whittaker and Co., 1842. 8° (216 x 131mm). Additional engraved title and 4 plates. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 16 engraved plates from Howitt's British Sports and the Sporting Magazine, the 11 Howitt plates hand-coloured, one loose. (Occasional spotting, a little offsetting.) Contemporary green half calf possibly by J. Sampson, York, gilt cynegetical tool and red label on spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry H. Cochrane (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1636). FIRST EDITION, second issue with p. 261 correctly printed. Chute 377: 'written in a much more humorous vein than Hawker'; Schwerdt IV, p. 55; and 4 other works on shooting. (8)
BAKER, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns ... with Specific Remarks on Fowling Pieces. London: E. Baker [and others], 1821. 8° (257 x 125mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, 6 hand-coloured, 3 engraved leaves of tables. (Foremargin of title and several plates frayed, a few light stains, some offsetting.) Contemporary red half roan (rather worn). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Eighth edition. Schwerdt I, p. 51.
[KILLMISTER, A.K.]. The Oakleigh Shooting Code ... by Thomas Oakleigh. London: James Ridgway and Sons, 1836. 8° (201 x 121mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 104 engraved plates, mostly mounted, 47 hand-coloured and 2 in sepia, one folding. Late 19th-century green morocco, gilt sporting tools on sides and in panels of spine, top edge gilt. Provenance: C.E. Richardson (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1612). FIRST EDITION of this entertaining work which was originally published in the New Sporting Magazine as 'Nights at Oakley Old Manor House', the author's residence in Derbyshire. Chute 369; Schwerdt I, p. 283.
LACY, Captain. The Modern Shooter. London: Whittaker and Co., 1842. 8° (216 x 131mm). Additional engraved title and 4 plates. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 16 engraved plates from Howitt's British Sports and the Sporting Magazine, the 11 Howitt plates hand-coloured, one loose. (Occasional spotting, a little offsetting.) Contemporary green half calf possibly by J. Sampson, York, gilt cynegetical tool and red label on spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry H. Cochrane (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 10 July 1939, lot 1636). FIRST EDITION, second issue with p. 261 correctly printed. Chute 377: 'written in a much more humorous vein than Hawker'; Schwerdt IV, p. 55; and 4 other works on shooting. (8)
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