(S1) THE GUN ROOM GUIDE Hugh B. C. Pollard, Eyre ans Spottiswoode 1st edition 1930, 23cm x 29cm, 183 pages, 12 colour plates and 11 drawn illustrations, by Philip Rickman & H. Frank Wallace, colour plates with tissue guards, spine grubby otherwise very sound and tight, £25.00
(S2) THE BRITISH SHOTGUN 1850 – 1870 I.M. Crudgington & D.J. Baker, Barrie & Jenkins 1979, 256 pages with many intext photographs and illustrations, plus colour plates, Book good + in DJ, £12.00
(S4) DIE KUNST DES SCHIESSENS MIT DER SCHROTFLINTE B. Deinert, Berlin 1913, 240 pages with intext photo ills and drawings, shotguns and shooting techniques, German text, G+, £5.00
(S7) RANDOM SHOTS Selected by Richard Akehurst, W.H.Allen 1974, 24cm x 16cm, 294 pages, with illustrations, an anthology of shooting stories, Book Good + in D.J.£2.50
(S9) SHOOTING GAME BIRDS. circa 1920, R.E.Davies, Midland Gun. Co. Birmingham, 32 pages, 18cm x 12cm, illustrated, Pheasant, Partridge, Grouse, Wild Duck, Woodcock, Snipe, Book Good staples rusted pages loose, but complete. £15.00
(S10) QUELQUES CONSEILS SUR LE TIR AU PIGEON ARTIFICIEL H.Quersin, 1920, Imprimerie F.Van Buggenhoudt, 16 pages, text in French, Book Good only a bit nibbled on top right hand corner, £3.00
(S12) RANDOM SHOTS Edit. James Irvine Robertson, Pelham 1990, 24cm x 18cm, 224 pages, with intext illustrations, an anthology from the first 50 years of the Shooting Times, Book Good + in D.J.£2.00
(S18) CHASSE ET PECHE Paris 1860, Shooting and Fishing section of an encyclopedia issued in parts, 16 pages with some intext engravings, contemporary quarter green leather binding, text in French, Good+, £4.00
(S20) BREECH-LOADERS Gloan, The American News1873, 20cm x 14cm, 191 pages, illustrated with line drawings, original green boards slightly rubbed on the front. Book Good +. £17.00
(S36) THE WILDFOWLER IN SCOTLAND John Guille Millais, Longmans Green & Co. first edition 1901, 26cm x 30cm, 167 pages, 2 coloured full page plates, plus 19 photogravure and other full page plates with tissue guards where called for, 40 intext illustrations, original half vellum binding (spotted), all sound ang generally Good +, £40.00
NEW BOOKS ON SHOTGUNS
(NS1) ATKIN, GRANT & LANG Don Masters, 22cm x 28.5cm, 316 pages with many superb full page colour plates, £45.00
(NS4) ITHACA FEATHERLIGHT REPEATERS – A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ITHACA MODEL 37 AND THE MODEL 87 Walter Claude Snyder, 22cm x 29cm, 311 pages, a detailed study with many photographs in colour and mono, £63.50
(NS6) BROWNING AUTO – 5 SHOTGUNS – THE BELGIAN FN PRODUCTION H.M. Shirley & Anthony Vanderlinden, 22cm x 29cm, revised edition, 242 pages, history, production details, engraved finishes, many detail photographs some in colour , £45.00
(NS9) HEYDAY OF THE SHOTGUN – THE ART OF THE GUNMAKER AT THE TURN OF THE LAST CENTURY David J. Baker, 20cm x 26cm, 156 pages, many fine colour photographs, cartridges, catalogue reproductions etc., £29.95
(NS10) WINCHESTER SHOTGUNS Dennis Adler , Foreword by R.L. Wilson, 29cm x 22cm (oblong), 309 pages beautifully illustrated with colour photographs in the same format as ‘Colt Legend’ etc. £29.50
(NS12) REMINGTON DOUBLE SHOTGUNS Charles G. Semmer, 23cm x 31cm, 289 pages full of close detail photographs, gun numbers etc, signed copy, £42.50
(NS13) THE GREATEST HAMMERLESS REPEATING SHOTGUN EVER BUILT –
WINCHESTER , THE MODEL 12 1912 – 1964
Dave Riffle, 22cm x 29cm. 276 pages with many coloured and mono photo illustrations,
printed on art paper, history, etc., £37.50
(NS15) THE MIGHTY 10 GAUGE Ballistic Products, 21cm x 28cm, 80 pages in card covers, the guns, ammunition and data, photo illustrations, £14.85
(NS19) MOSSBERG – MORE GUN FOR YOUR MONEY Victor Havlin & Cheryl Havlin, 22cm x 29cm, 304 pages in card covers,The History of Mossberg & Sons Inc, production details, all exploded parts drawings etc., £22.50
(NS20) FINE SHOTGUNS John M. Taylor, 22cm x 29cm, 240 pages with many intext colour photographs, ‘The History, Science, and art of the finest shotguns from around the World’,£38.75
(NS21) WINCHESTER MODEL 12 - DO EVERYTHING MANUAL Michael A. Pugliese, assembly, disassembly, lubrication, ammunition, maintenance, storage, 86 pages, £4.45
(ND79) THE BRITISH SPORTING GUN AND RIFLE – PURSUIT OF PERFECTION 1850 – 1900 Donald Dallas, 24cm x 31cm, 423 pages, full of colour photographs of the guns, mono historical photos, and colour reproductions of bill heads etc, plus much more, £59.50
(ND107) THE ITHACA GUN COMPANY – FROM THE BEGINNING, SECOND EDITION Walter Claude Snyder, 22cm x 29cm, 374 pages full of superb mono and coloured detail photographs, £66.00
(ND109) PARADOX – THE STORY OF COL. G.V. FOSBERY, HOLLAND & HOLLAND, AND THE PARADOX David J. Baker & Roger E. Lake, 24cm x 31cm, 281 pages printed on art paper and profusely illustrated with colour photographs, Includes the origin and development, its use for game and in World War I, £60.00