Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that relates to Guns and Shooting by Hawker, Lt. Col. P - 1844

UK: Longmans -9th edition. Poor. Hardcover. 1844. working copy only -lacks title page and front cover -will need re binding .

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833 2024-02-12. Hardcover. Fair. 7th British ed.: 507 pp.; plates, woodcuts, adverts.; green cloth, deckle edges; 8vo.: Lacking frontis. and may lack additional plates. Binding shook/cocked, rippling to pages, soiled/dented/chipped boards, chipping/separation to cloth along spine: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1844. Book. Good. Hardcover. Ninth Edition. Blind impressed decorated blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Corners bumped. Some marks to covers. Rubbing to head & foot of spine. 623pp + adverts. Black and white illustrations. Bookplate and inscription of Mervyn Lloyd Peel. .

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Good. Fifth or later edition. Old, polished full leather, front cover detached.

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 18241853. Hardcover. Very good condition. 2nd American from the 9th London edition, to which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North Aerica, With Descriptions of the Animals and Burds. Carefully collated from authentic sources by Wm. T. Porter. With illustrations. Bound in red cloth stamped in gilt.

Longman,Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, , London, 1826. 5th edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 456 pages (complete). A robust, aging copy. Complete with all plates. At some stage the book has been rebound : cloth covered boards, . The boards are steady and firm. The book has aging wear and marks. minor insect damage on page edges not affecting any of the text There are also user and storage marks. However, especially taking the age of the book into account, the contents are generally genial, congenial, clear, confident, placid, competent, fascinating, charming. the condition is given in terms of the book's age fk (R*FH). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. 8th Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiv + 549 pp. + ads, plates & woodcuts. Signed opposite the half-title p. to James Banks Stanhope (1821-1904, & one time Member of Parliament) from his Aunt, Lady Stanhope. New endpapers. Original chocolate brown cloth bound book w/gold-foil stamping to the spine shows some lt. wear & lt. discoloration o/w good to v.g. cond.

London: Longman, Brown, Green & L. Very Good-. 1844. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. New endpapers. Rubbed at the corners. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 623+32 pages .

London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826., 1826. Hard Cover. Fifth edition. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 456. Complete with 10 engraved plates, including frontispiece and additional vignette illustrations. Bound in early 19th century half calf and blue marbled paper over boards with blind dog-tooth rolls to corners and spine; gilt spine ornaments and title; marbled edges. Calf rubbed to edges and joints, some light scattered foxing throughout. Contents are complete, tight, square, clean and free from inscriptions or annotations. A Very Good copy. Hawker's highly influential guide on field sports in an attractive contemporary binding. Hawker was one of the "great shots" of his era and his Instructions to Young Sportsmen became one of the most widely read and admired books on sports in the nineteenth century.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. xx, 480pp, bw plates and ills. Sympathetically and attractively rebound in modern marbled boards with leather spine and corners (half-leather) with new endpapers. Contents in very good to fine condition with some manuscript notation to the list of London gunmakers and preservers of birds at rear. Covers all aspects of guns and shooting, game and game fowl hunting, gunmakers, game laws, advice on health and comfort, implements for flint-guns and more. Also includes brief section on trout fishing and an alphabetical list of London gunmakers. A classic work in the field.. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.