[SHOOTING]. PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, CLIVE. Big Game Shooting. London, 1894. 2 vols., 8o, half red morocco gilt, t.e.g. LIMITED EDITION, 54 of 250 copies on large paper. Numerous plates and illustrations. From The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by The Duke of Beaufort. -- GREENER, WILLIAM. Gunnery In 1858. Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon and Sporting Arms. London, 1858. 8o, original blue cloth, spine gilt-decorated, uncut; cloth folding case. Numerous engraved plates and illustrations. -- GREENER, W.W. Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military. London, n.d. 8o, original gilt-decorated red cloth, t.e.g.; shaken; cloth folding case. Folding chart and numerous illustrations in text. -- GREENER, W.W. Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all kinds of Game. London, n.d. 8o, original pictorial gilt plum cloth; cloth folding box. First Edition. Folding diagrams, illustrations and tables. (two inside front and rear cover pockets. -- JOHNSON, T.B. The Shooter's Companion...second edition. London, 1823. Small 8o, later calf gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, upper cover detached. Frontispiece and other plates. Bookplate of Oliver Belmont. -- COLQUHOUN, JOHN. Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots. Edinburgh, 1858. 12o, half morocco gilt, t.e.g., joints rubbed. Presentation copy, inscribed "With the Publishers Compliments" on the half-title. -- GREENER, W.W. The Gun and Its Development. London, [1881]. 4o, original pictorial yellow cloth. Russell B. Aitken notes laid-in. -- BURRARD, Maj. Sir GERALD. The Modern Shotgun. London, [1951]. 3 vols., original cloth; dust jackets. -- SHARPE, PHILIP B. The Rifle in America. New York, 1938. 4o, original imitation leather; original board slipcase (broken). First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Sharpe on the front free endpaper. Bookplate of Fred M. Kiefer. Illustrated. -- And 50 others. [With:] 6 titles on archery. (68)

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[SHOOTING]. PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, CLIVE. Big Game Shooting. London, 1894. 2 vols., 8o, half red morocco gilt, t.e.g. LIMITED EDITION, 54 of 250 copies on large paper. Numerous plates and illustrations. From The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by The Duke of Beaufort. -- GREENER, WILLIAM. Gunnery In 1858. Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon and Sporting Arms. London, 1858. 8o, original blue cloth, spine gilt-decorated, uncut; cloth folding case. Numerous engraved plates and illustrations. -- GREENER, W.W. Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military. London, n.d. 8o, original gilt-decorated red cloth, t.e.g.; shaken; cloth folding case. Folding chart and numerous illustrations in text. -- GREENER, W.W. Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all kinds of Game. London, n.d. 8o, original pictorial gilt plum cloth; cloth folding box. First Edition. Folding diagrams, illustrations and tables. (two inside front and rear cover pockets. -- JOHNSON, T.B. The Shooter's Companion...second edition. London, 1823. Small 8o, later calf gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, upper cover detached. Frontispiece and other plates. Bookplate of Oliver Belmont. -- COLQUHOUN, JOHN. Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots. Edinburgh, 1858. 12o, half morocco gilt, t.e.g., joints rubbed. Presentation copy, inscribed "With the Publishers Compliments" on the half-title. -- GREENER, W.W. The Gun and Its Development. London, [1881]. 4o, original pictorial yellow cloth. Russell B. Aitken notes laid-in. -- BURRARD, Maj. Sir GERALD. The Modern Shotgun. London, [1951]. 3 vols., original cloth; dust jackets. -- SHARPE, PHILIP B. The Rifle in America. New York, 1938. 4o, original imitation leather; original board slipcase (broken). First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Sharpe on the front free endpaper. Bookplate of Fred M. Kiefer. Illustrated. -- And 50 others. [With:] 6 titles on archery. (68)

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