fourth shot (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. The jacket is slightly rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. jacket is shelf rubbed. edge wear on boards. light foxing and marks. well bound. good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1920). (1907) 1920 4th edition. 8vo (142 x 226mm). Ppxxxvi,382. B/w photographs and illustrations. Green cloth, blind-stamped title to upper board, spine titled in gilt. First four pages loosely laid in. End-papers browned, with some inscriptions. Bookseller label to rear paste-down. Snagging to spine. Good copy. A comprehensive manual of shooting as practised at the turn of the century and in the inter-war years. Chapters include: Ancient actions; Ancient pistols to automatic and elephant rifles; Ancient and middle age shooting; On the choice of shot guns; Single-trigger double guns; Ammunition; The theory of shooting; The practice of shooting; Form in game shooting - I; Form in game shooting - II; Crack shots - I; Crack shots - II; Pointers and setters; The pointer; English setters; Strenuous dogs and sport in America; The Irish setter; The black-and-tan setter; Retrievers and their breaking; The Labrador retriever; Spaniels; Grouse that lie and grouse that fly; Red grouse; Methods of shooting the red grouse; The latest methods of preservation of partridges; Partridge bags and driving; Varieties and species of the pheasant; Pheasants; Bringing pheasants to the guns; Shooting wild ducks artificially reared; Wild wild-duck; Rabbit shooting; Hares; Snipe; Woodcocks; Black game; Pigeon shooting; Deer in Scotland; Big game; A varied bag; Diseases of game birds. .

Zustand: Very Good. London, printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1814. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece,III-VIII,272,(8) pp. & 4 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt with stag motif, small nick at head of upper joint, joints with a couple of small cracks but holding firm, surfaces and extremities lightly rubbed and worn. Lightly browned with some occasional soiling and foxing, plates a little more prominently browned and foxed due to paper quality. Armorial bookplate of Sarah Phillott and signature of Gunnar Brusewitz. Probably lacking half-title. See Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting I:270 who has edition 1 through 6 except for this one, which is the fourth. The first edition was published in 1809. The final 8 pp. are a publisher's catalogue. Thomas Burgeland Johnson (c. 1778-1840) published a number of illustrated sporting books in the first decades of the 19th century. His attempt to break into the emerging and now highly competitive world of sporting journalism, with the launch of "The Sportsman's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine" in 1832, failed however. Here he is using the pseudonym of "B. Thomas". He also wrote under the name of "T. H. Needham".