1. 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]

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Burrard, Major Sir Gerald.

The Modern Shotgun. Volume I – The Gun.

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1947. 8°. 242 pages. 242 pages. Good condition with some clear signs of external wear.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Clark, Atwood.

Gun Dogs and their Training.

London, Philip Allan, 1935. Small-8°. VII, 253 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition only with stronger signs of external wear. Interior excellent. [The Sportman’s Library]

8. Ffoulkes, Charles / Lord Cottesloe.

The Gun-Founders of England – With a List of English and Continental Gun-Founders from the XIV to the XIX Centuries. With a Preface by Lord Cottesloe.

Cambridge, University Press, 1937. Folio. XVI, 133 (1) pages. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition after the restoration ! The image shows this book together with similar publications.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Graham, Edward H.

The Land and Wildlife.

New York, Oxford University Press, 1947. 8°. XIII, 232 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Herbert, Agnes [″The Authoress”].

Two Dianas in Somaliland. A Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert / With Twenty-Five Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs.

Second Edition. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 306 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent version of this rare book in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occasional spotting but interior otherwise bright and clean. Foxing to edges. Some untrimmed pages throughout.

15. Himmelwright, A.L.A.

The Pistol and Revolver.

New York, J.J.Little & Co., 1908. 8°. 157 pages. With several illustrations. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration spine and frontcover). The book in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very few handwritten notes in the rear. Absolutely rare hardcover edition.

16. His Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Small Arms Training – Volume I – Includes 11 rare Pamphlets: Pamphlet I – Weapon Training (1937) / Pamphlet II – Application of Fire (1939)/ Pamphlet III – Rifle (1937) / Pamphlet No. IV – Light Machine Gun (1939) / Pamphlet No. V – Anti-Tank Rifle (1937) / Pamphlet No. VI – Anti-Aircraft (1937) / Pamphlet No. IX – Mortar (3-inch) (1937) / Pamphlet No. XII – Bayonet (1937) / Pamphlet No. XIII – Grenade (1937) / Pamphlet No. XVI – Annual Range Courses Regular Army other than Cavalry Regiments (Horsed and Mechanized), Infantry and M.G. Battallions and The Royal Tank Corps (1938) // For Official Use Only – NOT TO BE PUBLISHED.

Official Copy (Crown Copyright Reserved). London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938. 8°. 64, 36, 73, 70, 18, 40, 81, 22, 48, 24, 31 pages with several detailed illustrations of machinery as well as diagrams and range – tables. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely scarce, top secret publication for official use only.

17. 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.

18. Mulholland, Rosa (Lady Gilbert).

The Wild Birds of Killeevy.

Eleventh Edition. London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne, no year (c.1930). 8°. VIII, 311 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition only with stronger signs of external wear.

19. Norman, A.V.B.

European Arms and Armour Supplement.

London, Printed for the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1986. Large-8°. 304 pages with 27 photographic plates of artefacts. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Parker-Hale Limited.

The Way to Accuracy – First and Second Post War Catalogue. Rifle Sights & Equipment that Stand the Test of Time. Including Service, Smallbore & Sporting Sections.

2 Volumes. Birmingham, Hale, 1946-1947. 15 cm x 24.5 cm. 151, 166 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Original Softcover. Good to very good condition with some considerable signs of wear to the 1946 Edition.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Riling, Ray.

Guns and Shooting – a selected chronological bibliography. Including works in various languages on artillery, bombs, fireworks and rockets, the composition and manufacture of explosives, firearms and ammunition of all sorts, through the ages to the present time, together with books on the use of firearms in war and in sport, for the taking of all manner of game and shooting at mark, as well as works on ballistics, the history and development of firearms, wounds caused by them, gunmaking and gunsmithing, the handloading of ammunition, etc; taken from the compiler’s library and other reliable sources, with an introduction, alphabetical list of authors and a list of pseudonyms used by writers in the allied fields of sporting and shooting.prepared for the use of the arms collector, ballistician, gunsmith, handloader, technician, student and author, as well as for all who are interested in the history and development of firearms and their use in war and peace, in the field and at target.

New York, Greenberg (A Gun Room Library Book), 1951. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 434 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear to the jacket only. The jacket with some fraying and tears but well concealed by the protective Mylar jacket. Excellent publication !

24. Roberts, Ned H.

The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle. By Ned H. Roberts – Revised and Enlarged from the Privately Printed Edition. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings by the author and others.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1952. Folio. Frontispiece (Roberts with a McGirr Squirrel Rifle), (10), 308 pages. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition after applying a new and excellent binding. The image shows this book together with similar publications.

25. 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.

26. Smith, Lawrence B. [Lon Smith].

Shotgun Psychology – Theory and Practice regarding Shotguns, their construction and functioning and how to learn to shoot them correctly.

New York / London, Charles Scribner’s and Sons, 1938. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XX, 295 pages with several illustrations. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful full blue cloth). Excellent condition. The image shows this book together with similar publications.

27. 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, 1961. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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).

30. 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.