The Modern Shooter: Containing Practical Instructions and Directions for Every Description of Inland and Coastal Shooting
by LACY, Captain R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. Bound in 3/4 dark green leather stamped in gold with five raised bands over decorative boards (that match the endsheets and the page edges). Handsome early reprint (the original was published four years earlier). xxvii, 548 pp. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece by T.A. Prior; wood engravings throughout text from sketches by the author, including an additional pictorial title page. 8vo. Handsome copy. . Early Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59006450
- Title
- The Modern Shooter: Containing Practical Instructions and Directions for Every Description of Inland and Coastal Shooting
- Author
- LACY, Captain R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Publisher
- Rudolph Ackermann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- Hunting; Sporting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
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