11. 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.

12. Reichenbach, William.

Sixguns and Bullseyes. Illustrations by Philip Plaistridge.

Plantersville, Small-Arms Technical Publishing Company, 1936. Snall-8°. (12), 146, (1) pages. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Scobie, Alastair.

Adventurer’s Paradise.

London, The Travel Book Club, 1955. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 249 pages. 12 illustrations. One map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inked mark and smudges on spine. Interior bright and clean with very minor spotting. Front pastedown carries preowner’s name and reference (empty) card holder.

14. Sullivan, Robert.

A Whale Hunt: A Remarkable Story of a Tribe’s Quest to Regain its Ancient Rituals in the Modern World.

London, Headline Book Publishing, 2001. 13.5 x 21.5cm. 346 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and a small number of text annotations.

15. Tegner, Henry.

The Sporting Rifle and its use in Britain [with a special chapter on “Books of the Chase”].

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1962. 14.5 x 22 cm. 190 pages with several photographical illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear to binding and dustjacket. Name on endpaper.

16. Andrews, James / Bland, Clifford T. / Blockey, Robert / Farmiloe, Robin / Harrison, Robin / Inge, John / Lee-Elliott, Christopher / McArthur, Alastair / Service, Douglas / Shepard, Michael.

Wildfowling. With sixty-three Illustrations (49 Plates and 14 Text Illustrations).

London, Seeley, Service & Co., (1950). 15 cm x 22 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Very good condition. Name of the preowner on the endpaper. [The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXIX]

17. 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.

18. Chapel, Charles Edward.

Gun Collecting.

Eighth Impression. New York, Coward – McCann, Inc., 1939. 14 cm x 19 cm. X, 232 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear. The jacket with several tears and fraying.

19. Fergusson, Gordon.

The Green Collars – The Tarporley Hunt Club and Cheshire Hunting History. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. Includes Hunting Songs by R.E. Egerton Warburton and a Miscellany of Sporting Verse by Cheshire Authors.

London, Quiller Press, 1993. 29cm x 21.4cm. XX, 491 pages. With historic and modern illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Fiosconi, Cesar / Guserio, Jordam.

Espingarda Perfeyta Or The Perfect Gun [The Perfect Musket] & Rules For Its Use together with necessary instructions for its construction and precepts for good aiming. Edited & Translated by Rainer Daehnhardt & W.Keith Neal.

Reprint of the original Edition from Lisbon, 1718. Bilingual Edition in Portuguese and English. London, Sotheby’s, 1974. 17.5 cm x 23 cm. XXII, 465 pages with 4 Lock – Drawings and 31 photographic illustrations of Anselmo Locks/ Early Portuguese Flintlocks etc. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear to the dustjacket only.