Author: Lt. Col. P. Hawker
Title: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting
Description: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1825. Leather. A smartly bound fourth impression of this illustrated guide to shooting and gun-sports from celebrated author Colonel Peter Hawker. Fourth edition. Illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to young sportsmen on the skill of shooting. With chapters on guns and their makers, gun cases, powder, shot, flints, wadding, loading, the dress of a shooter, apparatus, shooting lessons, dogs, game, laws, and further general advice. Written by Colonel Peter Hawker, a celebrated diarist, author, and shooting sportsman considered one of the "great shots" of the nineteenth century. His sporting exploits were widely followed and often reported in The Times. Bound in full crushed morocco. Externally, very smart with fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the extremities. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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