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Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting

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Sale 412: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#412) 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #73 Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$312.50

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Title:

Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting

Author:

Hawker, P[eter], Lt. Col.

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Longman, Hurst, et al

Date Published:

1824

Description:

(iii)-xxii, 470 pp. 10 engraved plates (3 hand-colored). (8vo) 9¼x5½, later full polished tan calf, spine gilt, morocco lettering pieces, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Third Edition.

Colonel Hawker (1783-1856), who had retired from the 14th Light Dragoons after being wounded in the Peninsular Wars, published the first edition of this celebrated work in 1814 and continued to revise and improve it for most of his lifetime.

Condition:

Light rubbing to extremities; very good.

Item#:

202397

Headline:

Hawker's Instructions to Young Sportsmen
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