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HAWKER, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Green, 1824. 8°, half title, 10 engraved plates, 4 hand-coloured (colours faded from frontispiece, occasional mainly light spotting and waterstaining), ink inscriptions on frontispiece verso and title, later half green morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt hunting motif stamped in 4 compartments, lettered in 2 (lightly rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton. Third edition. Schwerdt I, p.235: "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".
CHAPMAN, Abel. Wild Norway, London: Edward Arnold, 1897. 8°, half title, plates and illustrations (occasional light spotting), later green half morocco, spine gilt-lettered in 2 compartments (lightly rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate as above. FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, p.103.
With 30 other books of a similar nature in 35 volumes, including The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker (London, 1893, 2 volumes), Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's Letters to Young Shooters (London, 1895-6), Augustus Grimble's The Deer Forests of Scotland (London, 1896), and The Grouse in Health and in Disease (London, 1911, 2 volumes). (36)
CHAPMAN, Abel. Wild Norway, London: Edward Arnold, 1897. 8°, half title, plates and illustrations (occasional light spotting), later green half morocco, spine gilt-lettered in 2 compartments (lightly rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate as above. FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, p.103.
With 30 other books of a similar nature in 35 volumes, including The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker (London, 1893, 2 volumes), Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's Letters to Young Shooters (London, 1895-6), Augustus Grimble's The Deer Forests of Scotland (London, 1896), and The Grouse in Health and in Disease (London, 1911, 2 volumes). (36)
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