Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting...To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with Descriptions of the Animals and Birds...by Wm. T. Porter
by Hawker, P[eter]
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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1846. First American edition, from the ninth London edition. Illustrated. 459 (16 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilt-decorated red cloth. Spine ends chipped, rubbed, else Externally Fine. Text has waterstain to lower inner corner throughout. Signed G. Clinton Tallmadge 1846 on the title-page. First American edition, from the ninth London edition. Illustrated. 459 (16 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition of this classic work, with additional material on American sport collected by William T. Porter, editor of "The Spirit of the Times", and including several chapters by "Frank Forester" [Henry William Herbert]: "The Game of North America", pp. 181-3, "The Woodcock" pp. 184-6, "The Quail", pp. 187-9, "Quail Shooting", pp. 190-8, and "English and American Game", pp. 439-456.
Notes Van Winkle: "This work is so much enlarged that it is a quite different book from the English edition of the same title."
A sizeable portion of the articles in the American section comes from the pen of J.J. Audubon.
Henry Hastings Sibley, the first governor of Minnesota, wrote two of the articles, on "Buffalo Hunting" and "Hunting on the Western Praries."
Notes Van Winkle: "This work is so much enlarged that it is a quite different book from the English edition of the same title."
A sizeable portion of the articles in the American section comes from the pen of J.J. Audubon.
Henry Hastings Sibley, the first governor of Minnesota, wrote two of the articles, on "Buffalo Hunting" and "Hunting on the Western Praries."
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- Title
- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting...To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with Descriptions of the Animals and Birds...by Wm. T. Porter
- Author
- Hawker, P[eter]
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated. 459 (16 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Gilt-decorated red cloth. Spine ends chipped, rubbed, else Externally Fine. Text has waterstain to lower inner corner throughout
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- 1
- Edition
- First American edition, from the ninth London edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- Hunting / Shooting | Peter Hawker
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