Field sports and gunnery
Collection of 19th century treatises in original cloth
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Greener, William. The Science of Gunnery, as applied to the Use and Construction of Fire Arms. London: Longman and Co., 1841. First edition, 8vo, original blind-stamped red cloth, edges untrimmed, advertisement leaf, half-title, engraved additional title-page, 8 engraved plates including frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings and illustrations in text, spine rolled, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page [Chute 250];
Greener, William Wellington. Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all Kinds of Game. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1876]. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 4 folding plates of which 2 in end-pockets, 2 folding tables, bookplate and ownership inscription (Atkin-Roberts, Glassenbury), trade label of Theophilus Murcott, manufacturer of breech loading guns and rifles to front pastedown, fraying to head of spine, inner hinges cracked, a little spotting [not in Chute];
Idem. Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [1871]. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, folding table (short closed tear, spotting), fraying to spine-ends, trade plate to front pastedown;
Lacy, [Richard]. The Modern Shooter; containing Practical Instructions and Directions for Every Description of Inland and Coast Shooting. London: Whittaker and Co., 1842. First edition, 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, steel-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette title-page, 3 similar plates, bookplate and ownership inscription of Francis Alvey Rhodes Darwin, spine-ends worn, inner hinges strengthened, annotations to front free endpaper, abraded ownership inscription to vignette title-page [Chute 377];
Walsh, J. H. The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle; including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles, and Revolvers. London: Horace Cox, 1882-4. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, profuse wood-engraved illustrations (as plates and to the text, several plates folding) [Chute 654: 'The most detailed and up to date description of the guns used for sporting since Greener's Gunnery in 1858'];
Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. Letters to Young Shooters (First [-Second, Third] Series) on the Choice and Use of Gun, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First, second and first editions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, frontispiece to volume 2, 37 plates to volume 3;
Idem. The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, Author of 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' 1802-1853. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, 10 engraved plates, bookplates;
Winans, Walter. Shooting for Ladies. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece, full-page illustrations in text, fraying to head of spine, faint mottling to cloth [Library Hub traces 4 copies in UK libraries];
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