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R. Watson Gun Maker |
Rook Shooting
1896.
Birmingham.
Single page 16cm x 24cm promotional leaflet for The Rand Rook Rifle illustration of the gun and 2 targets. Details of the action rifling bores etc. Old fold marks VG.
[23141] |
£20.00 |
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Rausing, Lisbet and Dick, David Brian |
Corrour: A History of a Sporting Estate
2010.
2nd.
privately published.
132 pages, Small 4to Illustrated with b/w photographs and a double page b/w and a similar coloured map. Publishers' green cloth with gilt title and circular crest of a stag to upper cover, a fine copy. The records of a highland sporting estate Appendices cover the estate's game bags from 1891 to 1938 and the names of shooting tenants from 1873. Including stags shoot weight etc also, nature prehistory folklore etc.
[23242] |
£45.00 |
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RAWSTONE Lawrence |
Gamonia or The Art Of Preserving Game and An Improved Method Of Making Plantations and Covers Explained And illustrated
1929.
rep of 1837 1st Edn,.
Herbert Jenkins.
256 pages, TEG, 15 colour plates, publishers green cloth, gilt borders to boards, vg in dj, chipped at head and tail of spine. A new edition with an introduction and a note on the authors game register by Eric Parker.
[5059] |
£45.00 |
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RAWSTONE Lawrence |
Gamonia or The Art Of Preserving Game and An Improved Method Of Making Plantations and Covers Explained And illustrated
1929.
rep of 1837 1st Edn,.
Herbert Jenkins.
256 pages, TEG, 15 colour plates, publishers green cloth, gilt borders to boards, vg in dj, chipped at head and tail of spine. A new edition with an introduction and a note on the authors game register by Eric Parker.
[21138] |
£30.00 |
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RICHARDS Coombe |
Wild Goose Chase, Being Wildfowling Reminiscences Of Some Amateurs At The Game
1948.
1st Edn,.
94 pages, illus by the author, fading to cloth as usual o/w vg in dj. Fowling in Ireland, the Wash, Norfolk etc.
[12393] |
£24.00 |
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RICHARDS Coombe |
Wild Goose Chase, Being Wildfowling Reminiscences Of Some Amateurs At The Game
1948.
1st Edn,.
94 pages, illus by the author, fading to cloth as usual o/w vg in worn dj. Fowling in Ireland, the Wash, Norfolk etc.
[9339] |
£24.00 |
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RIDGES Bob |
The Decoy Duck From Folk Art To Fine Art
1988.
1st Edn,.
Limpsfield.
191 pages, 4to, illus many in colour, fine in dj.
[4955] |
£26.00 |
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RIDGES Bob |
The Decoy Duck From Folk Art To Fine Art
1988.
1st Edn,.
Limpsfield.
191 pages, 4to, illus many in colour, fine in dj.
[11860] |
£26.00 |
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ROBERTS John Cadfryn |
The Four Seasons of Sport
1960.
1st thus Edn,.
Ariel Press.
VIII+ pages, folio, 12 colour folio page plates, 3 plates to each section, fishing, hunting, racing, shooting with accompanying text, illus after Alken, Pollard, Turner and Wells, limited to 500 numbered copies, vg in worn dj.
[7507] |
£45.00 |
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RODWELL James |
the Rat, Its History And Destructive Character With Numerous Anecdotes
1858.
1st Edn,.
G Routledge And Co.
299 pages, bound without half title, pencil notes to verso blank of last page, some spotting to title page. Contemporary 1/2 calf surface rubbing to spine. Includes the different kinds of rats, characteristic, the damage they cause, rat catching, rat matches, poisoning etc.
[18085] |
£65.00 |
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ROW Charles |
A Practical Guide To The Game Laws
1907.
1st Edn,.
VIII 256 pages, green cloth, old colour fading to parts of board, vg. Much on poachers and poaching, the author was a solicitor and secretary to the East Anglian Game Protection Society.
[19785] |
£20.00 |
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RUSSELL Pasha T.A. |
The Wild Ducks And Various Of Egypt, How To Identify Them, Some Useful Shooting Words & Phrases In Colloquial Arabic
nd Circa 1932.
1st Edn,.
37 pages, published by the author, 12mo., 40 blank pages, address and name Tracy Phillipps in green pencil to verso of title, also loose photo of girl taken in Istanbul bound in simulated snakeskin with pencil holder, a vg copy. A guide to the ducks "likely to be met with in a day's shooting in Egypt." the booklet begins with a typical day and the effects on the birds also guide to quail shooting and desert shooting followed by description of quarry, arabic names, some useful phrases for the shooter i.e. "Did the pellets get you in the leg?". 1 copy located on COPAC at Oxford, rare.
[14711] |
£100.00 |
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