1. Shields, J. Gillies.

“Old Tom of Tooley: Father of the Quorn – His Life and Times”.

1999. 8°. 232 pages. With several illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Rare publication.

2. Stone, George Cameron.

A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all Countries and in all Times – Together with some closely related subjects.

New York, Jack Brussel, 1934. Folio. Frontispiece, (8), 694 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition of this newly bound volume. This work is usually in pieces because of the heavy bookblock. The new binding ensures now a long life of this important reference work.

3. Grinnell, George Bird.

American Duck Shooting. With Fifty-eight Portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks by Edwin Sheppard and numerous Vignettes in the text by Wilmot Townsend.

Twelfth Thousand. New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company, (1901) 8°. 628 pages. Original Hardcover with cover-illustration. Good + condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Binding shaky and starting to separate from bookblock. Bookblock still firm and clean – in collectable condition.

4. 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.

5. Anonymous.

Blessington Game and Wildfowl Conservation Association. Golden Jubilee 1944-1994. In Commemoration of the first 50 years.

Blessington, Blessington Game and Wildfowl Conservation Association, 1993. 14,5 cm x 20 cm. 85 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. 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.

7. [Churchill, Robert] Hastings, Macdonald.

Churchill’s Game Shooting – The Standard Text Book on the Successful Use of the Shotgun.

A New, Revised Edition. London, Michael Joseph, 1971. Octavo. 252 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

8. Arnold, Richard.

Come Shooting With Me.

First Edition. London, Frederick Muller Ltd., 1953. 16 x 24 cm. 152 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. Wagner, Eduard.

Cut and Thrust Weapons.

London, Spring Books, 1967. Folio. 491 pages with 159 text-illustrations and 249 plates with colour and black-and-white illustrations. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Magnificent publication. Excellent condition after the recent restoration. Name of preowner on endpaper. This heavy volume is usually not surviving in very good condition. The excellent and expensive new binding and new endpapers that have been applied to this volume will make all the difference in using this important reference work. The image shows this book together with similar publications.

10. Camp, Raymond R.

Duck Boats: Blinds: Decoys and Eastern Seabord Wildfowling. Drawings in line and color by G. Don Ray.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 8°. XVI, 240, IV pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Staining also to endpapers and pastedowns. But the text and the illustrations inside in very good condition. One of the rarer books on Wildfowling. The preowner purchased this book from Ray Riling’s “Arms and Collector Service” – With a bookshop-sticker from Riling’s company attached to the rear pastedown.