1. Scott, William Henry.

British Field Sports ; Embracing Practical Instructions in Shooting – Hunting – Coursing – Racing – Cocking – Fishing &c. With Observations on the Breaking and Training of Dogs and Horses; also The Management of Fowling Pieces, and all other Sporting Implements.

Second Edition. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1820. 14 cm x 22 cm. XI, 615 pages with 34 original engravings by J. Scott after Berenger, with Vignettes by Bewick. Original Hardcover (full contemporary brown leather with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine). Good and firm condition with some external signs of wear. Upper hinge damaged with the spine starting to separate. But still in strong and firm shape. Bookblock in excellent condition with beautifully marbled edges. Occasional browning only.

2. Hawker, Lt. Col. Peter.

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.

Fifth Edition, corrected and improved with explanatory plates and woodcuts. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. XXI, 456 pages with X plates and several woodcuts within the text. Original Hardcover (half leather on four raised bands with marbled paper-covered boards) with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear. Minor abrasion to one corner only. All plates and illustrations included as called for. One plate cleanly detached. Binding very firm and strong. Some spotting and occasional staining inside.

3. Stonehenge (Pseudonym of John Henry Walsh).

The Dog – In Health and Disease. Comprising the various modes of breaking and using him for hunting, coursing, shooting etc., and including the points or characteristics of Toy Dogs.

First Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1859. 8°. Frontispiece, XVI, 468 pages with 66 original wood-engravings within the text. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s original red half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with the booblock being slightly shaky. Otherwise only minor signs of external wear. Text and illustrations very good.

4. Folkard, H.C.

The Wild – Fowler ; A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild – Fowling, Historical and Practical.

Second Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1864. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. XXII, 398 pages with 13 steel engravings and 5 woodcuts. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration) in protective Mylar. The binding a little scruffy and the Frontispiece nearly detached. Pages 137 cleanly detached and one more illustration also starting to detache. More importantly, the bookblock in firm condition with the endpapers completly in tune with the binding. A very rare and important book in a still collectable and very much acceptable condition.

5. Roberts, Ned H. / Tennent, Sir J. Emerson / Reichenbach, William / Mulholland, Rosa / Himmelwright, A.L.A./ Lenk, Torsten / Wagner, Eduard / Stone, George Cameron / Ffoulkes, Charles / Daehnhardt, Rainer and Neal W.Keith and many others.

Excellent collection of 45 books (fortyfive) on Sporting, Hunting, Gaming, Dogs & Hunting Dogs, Duck Shooting, Wildfowling, Historical Hunting-Methods, Shooting and the History of Guns, Armor and Weaponry from a Gun-collector and Sportsman: The Wild-Fowler / British Field-Sports / American Duck Shooting / The History of the Pistol and Revolver / The Sporting Life / Gun Collecting / The Story of The Guns / Shotgun Psychology / History of Arms and Armour / Sporting Powder – Nitro-Lignin / 22 Caliber Varmint Rifles / The Modern Sportsman’s Gun and Rifle / Cut and Thrust Weapons / The Flintlock – its origin and development / A Glossary of the Construction Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour in all countries and in all times / The Gun-Founders of England / The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle (Roberts) / Espingarda Perfeyta – The Perfect Gun etc. etc.

45 Volumes. London and other Places of Print, Longman, Green and others, 1864-2012. Octavo. c.3000 pages with illustrations Original Hardcover and Softcover-Bindings. Most of the volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some volumes slightly damaged. Several Volumes professionally restored and rebound in excellent recent bindings (ask for more images and detailed list). Please ask for a full list of titles. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per DHL Express Courier.

6. Tennent, Sir J. Emerson.

The Story of the Guns.

First Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. 8°. XXII, 364 pages with 33 illustrations. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Good + condition with stronger signs of external wear (some staining). The binding is still firm and strong but the first five and the last 4 pages show some waterstaining. This copy would have not made it into our catalogue if Ray Riling would not recommend it and it would not be extremely scarce and rare due to the inscription of the author to Sir Henry Josias Stracey, 5th Baronet and British 19th century Conservative Politician (portrayed in Vanity Fair magazine in 1875).

7. Longfield, Robert.

The Game Laws of Ireland [With a Table of Cases and a chapter on ‘Remedies against Trespassers and Poachers’].

Second Edition – Revised and Enlarged. Dublin, E. Ponsonby, 1868. 8°. XI, 238 pages. Ephemera / Original advertising for the book loosely inserted. Original 19th century Hardcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Faded dampstain to inner boards and endpapers.

8. Boutell, Charles.

Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons. Translated from the French of M. P. Lacombe and with a Preface, Notes and one additional chapter on Arms and Armour in England.

London, Reeves and Turner, 1874. 8°. XVI, 296 pages with Index and Notes. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar (red decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine and cover). Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. Some browning stain to the first 20 page sonly.

9. Walsh, J. H. (″Stonehenge”).

The Modern Sportsman’s Gun and Rifle; including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles and Revolvers. In two Volumes. Volume II only: The Sporting Rifle, Match Rifle and Revolver.

First Ediiton. London, Horace Cox, “The Field” Office, 1884. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 584 pages. With 203 illustrations. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Original Edition of this classic in its original green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. Some stronger signs of external wear. Hinges internally a little weak and starting to separate. Including the Errata – Leaf.

10. Purple Heather (Pseudonym of W.A.Adams).

Something about Guns and Shooting.

Sixth Thousand. London, Alexander & Shepheard, 1891. Small – 8°. VII, 180 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookblock cleanly detached from the binding. Interior very good.