(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, £59.00
(S2) THE MODERN SHOTGUN (3 VOLUMES) Major Sir Gerald Burrard, Volume 1 – The Gun, 1951 edition, Jenkins, 242 pages, photo illustrations, Volume 2 – The Cartridge, 1955 edition, 327 pages with many photo illustrations, Volume 3 – The Gun and the Cartridge, 1952 edition, 512 pages with many photo ills., all good + in worn DW’s, £69.00
(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+, £35.00
(S5) SPORTING GUNS AND GUNPOWDERS; COMPRISING A SELECTION FROM REPORTS OF EXPERIMENTS AND OTHER ARTICLES. PART 11 PUBLISHED IN THE FIELD NEWSPAPER. RELATIVE TO FIRE ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES. 1900 Horce Cox, London,1900, 28cm x 22cm, 186 pages, with intext illustrations,plus adverts at rear, contains length of barrel and its influence on the shooting of guns, trial of long and short barrels, Borland’s cap testing apparatus , effect of change of powders, nitro powders in Wildfowl guns, rifles for Smokeless of Black Powder, burst or bulged gun barrels, and much more, Book Good back strip slight loss and small tear to front cover. £150.00
(S6) THE FIELD TRIAL OF 12, 16, AND 20-BORE GUNS. 1879. WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE FORCE GAUGE AND MACHINE REST USED. London, The Field Office, 1879, 40 pages, 28cm x 21cm, with tables, shooting at forty yards and at sixty yards, by Trulock and Harris, W. H.Tisdall, T.Bland and Sons, T. Birkett, W.Jones, Lincoln Jeffries, W.W.Greener, A.Thomson and Sons, W.R.Leeson, E.C.Green, C.Rosson, lovely full page illustration of The Machine Rest and End view, The detonation of Gunpowders and other Explosives, Weights and measures, Velocity of Shot, Book Good in worn and slightly stuck on top corner cover, loose, £150.00
(S7) THE SHOTGUN BOOK Jack O’Connor, Knopf, New York 1965, 340 pages, line drawings, This Famous author writs on choosing shotguns and their use game shooting, ex library, good, £12.00
(S8) SHOTGUN AND SHOOTER G.L.Carlisle and Percy Stanbury, Barrie and Jenkins 1970, 21cm x 15cm, 217 pages, with 50 black and white photograph’s, an invaluable book for those that love to shoot, Book Good only Ex Library, in worn D.J. £4.50
(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. £48.00
(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, £10.00
(S11) KINGS OF THE ROD, RIFLE & GUN. 2 VOLUMES Thormanby, Hutchinson 1901, 688 pages in the 2 volumes and 32 portraits and illustrations, revealing details and incidents undiscovered by previous biographers, and anecdotes and facts which have never before appeared in print, Books Good with slight foxing, Ex Library, original red boards sunned, £50.00
(S12) THE ART OF SHOOTING Charles Lancaster, Charles Lancster ninth edition 1937, 208 pages, with line drawings throughout, adverts at rear, from how to – to the guns themselvers, Book Good + £12.00
(S13) THE ROEDEER Snaffle, an Ashford Press reprint of the original 1904, this is a signed numbered edition of 1500 copies of which this is number 531, signed by Colin Laurie McKelvie and Neil McReddie,with illustrations in colour and black and white, Book V.G. in torn Glascine wrap, £25.00
(S14) THE COMPLETE SHOT G.T.Teasdale-Buckell revised by A.F.Randall, Methuen 1924, 27cm x 14cm, 384 pages plus adverts, with many illustrations, everything from pistols to elephant guns, dogs, game shooting, theory of shooting and much more, classic game shooting book, Book Good . £12.00
(S15) IN THE GUNROOM Major Gerald Burrard, Herber Jenkins third printing, 125 pages, 100 questions concerning shot guns with answers by Major Gerald Burrard,Good. £10.00
(S16) THE SHOOTER’S HANDBOOK Richard Arnold, MacDonald & Evans 1955, 22cm x 14cm, 271 pages, with intext illustrations and diagrams, from gun care , gunsmithing, cartridges etc, Book Good £8.00
(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+, £15.00
(S24) IN THE GUNROOM Major Gerald Burrard, Herber Jenkins 1951,147 pages, 100 questions concerning shot guns with answers by Major Gerald Burrard, Book Good + in DJ. £13.00
(S27) AMERICAN SHOTGUN DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE L.R.Wallack, Winchester, 1977, Quarto, 184 pages, with many intext illustrations, all there is to know about the American Shotgun, Book Good + in D.J. ex library, £8.00
(S31) THE PARKER GUN. AN IMMORTAL AMERICAN CLASSIC . Larry L.Baer, Beinfeld, 1980, Quarto,196 pages, , with photographs some in colour and black and white, grades, varieties and identification, buying and collecting, catalog, literature, dedicated collectors, maintenance, repairs gunsmithing, Parker hammer gun, Parker’s finest, and history of Charles Parker company, Book Good +, £15.00
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
(NS3) AMERICAN & BRITISH 410 SHOTGUNS Ronald S. Gabriel, folio (22cm x 28cm) 208 pages with all colour photographs, American makers, plus guns by Webley, Cogswell, Hellis, Watson, purdey and many others, £31.99
(NS4) ITHACA FEATHERLIGHT REPEATERS – A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ITHACA MODEL 37 AND THE MODEL 87 Walter Claude Snyder, folio, 311 pages, a detailed study with many photographs in colour and mono, £55.00
(NS5) L. C. SMITH, ‘THE LEGEND LIVES’ John Houchin, 22cmx 29cm x 4.5cm, 686 pages on art paper with mant coloured photo illustrations, a beautifully produced and comprehensive work on this classic American shotgun, £95.00
(NS7) SHOTGUN TECHNICANA Michael McIntosh & David Trevallion, 193 pages with many detail photographs, an excellent detailed look at shotgun gunsmithing and construction, £17.50
(NS8) THE MYSTERIES OF SHOTGUN PATTERNS Gearge Oberfell & Charles Thompson, 164 pages in card covers, in depth look at the guns and the cartridges, £18.50
(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
(NS11) THE WINCHESTER MODEL TWELVE George Madis, 174 pages with many photographs, on the history, development and variations of this Classic pump action, £19.50
(NS12) REMINGTON DOUBLE SHOTGUNS Charles G. Semmer, 23.5cm x 31cm, 289 pages, full of very detailed photographs, from the 1873 hammer guns onwards, detailed photo illustrations of the Damascus patterns available and engraving, privately published signed edition, £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
(NS14) SHOTGUN RECOIL – AN ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS Larry Nailon, 22cm x 29cm, 76 pages in card covers, an excellent modern approach to every aspect of shotgun recoil, £6.95
(NS15) THE MIGHTY 10 GAUGE Ballistic Products, 21cm x 28cm, 80 pages in card covers, the guns, ammunition and data, photo illustrations, £8.95