Author: C. J. Cornish
Title: Nights with an Old Gunner and Other Studies of Wild Life
Description: London , Seeley And Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition on wildfowling and wild life written by Charles John Cornish. The first edition. Very scarce.Nights With an Old Gunner and Other Stories of Wild Life is a book that explores the observation of wild animals through a love of field sports.Field sports included within this text are fishing, shooting, and hunting. The text is accompanied by sixteen plates showing the beauty of the natural environment and how field sports enable a deep connection to the natural environment. Bound in the original pictorial cloth. Externally generally smart. Bumping to the boards and head and tail of the spine resulting in loss. Light marks to the boards. Fading to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Institutional stamp on the half title. Spotting to the first and last pages with otherwise pages fairly clean with the odd spot. The occasional pencil annotation. Pages roughly cut. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Adventure Nature Hunting Nature None


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