Lot 174
Gunnery and field sports
Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century, leather-bound
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Folkard, Henry Coleman. The Wild-Fowler: a Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical. London: Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, 1859. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century crushed half morocco by Riviere and Son, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, 13 engraved plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, a few spots to plates;
Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: for Longman [and others], 1833. Seventh edition ('corrected, enlarged, and improved'), 8vo, modern brown crushed full morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges untrimmed, half-title, 8 engraved plates, wood-engravings in text, plates spotted;
Greener, William. Gunnery in 1858: being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, modern tan calf, 5 engraved plates, War Office ink-stamps, frontispiece spotted and offset;
Gerrare, Wirt [pseudonym of William Greener?]. A Bibliography of Guns and Shooting. London: Roxburghe Press, c.1896. First edition, 8vo, modern half morocco;
Kincaid, J. Random Shots from a Rifleman. London: T. and W. Boone, 1835. First edition, 8vo, modern tan calf, 4 pp. advertisements, military bookplate and related ownership inscription to front free endpaper;
Demmin, Auguste. An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour. London: George Bells & Sons, 1877. First edition in English, 8vo, modern morocco, half-title;
Patent Office. Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Fire-Arms and Other Weapons, Ammunition, and Accoutrements. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1859. 8vo, 20th-century dark blue crushed half morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere);
Deane, John. Deanes' Manual of the History and Science of Fire-Arms. London: Longman [and others], 1858. First edition, 8vo, modern green leatherette, 3 folding plates (of ?), browning, gift inscription to retained front free endpaper;
[Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury]. Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to their forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country. By a Corporal of Rilfemen. London: for T. Egerton, 1808. First edition, 8vo, recent blue half sheep, 13 engraved plates (a few hand-coloured), extra-illustrated with additional target plate facing p. 119 (in pen and ink with watercolour) and a letterpress bill containing the rules and regulations for the Acrotormentarian Society dated 1810 tipped in at rear (tape-repaired), errata leaf, edges untrimmed, spotting and staining, lacking text-leaf G2;
Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys. London: John van Voorst, 1886. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked and recornered, lacking final plate;
and 4 others (Holley, A Treatise on Ordnance and Amor, 1865, lacking pp. xv/xvi, spine mislettered; Forsyth, The Sporting Rifle, 1867; Busk, Hand-Book for Hythe, 1860; Busk, The Rifle and how to use it, 1859), the lot collated with regard to plates only
Footnote
Note: Library Hub cites four copies only for Beaufoy's work.