(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) FERRETS AND FERRETING W.Carnegie, Bazaar, Exchange and Mart, 4th edition, 19cm x 13cm, 63 pages, with 2 plates and intext illustrations, Book Good. £5.00
(S3) LE FUSIL DE CHASSE Le Gayeur, 1947, 122 pages in soft covers, paper browned, £4.00
(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+, £15.00
(S5) SYNDICATE SHOOTING F.G.Standfield, Herbert Jenkins, first edition 1961, 22cm x 15cm, 173 pages with 20 black and white photographs, Book Good + £3.00
(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
(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
(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
(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
(S30) THE SPORTSMAN’S HANDBOOK TO PRACTICAL COLLECTING AND PRESERVING TROPHIES Rowland Ward, Rowland Ward Ltd 8th editio, London 1900, textured leather boards with gilt rhinoceros illustration, 13cm x 20cm, 268 pages including advertisements, many illustrations, top of spine slightly frayed otherwise good+, £75.00
(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
(S32) A BREATH FROM THE VELDT John Guille Millais, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1899, New and Revised edition, 33cm x 29cm, 345 uncut pages, with numerous illustrations full page and in text by the Author, slight internal foxing, corners slightly bumped, otherwise nice copy, Good price of £150.00
(S33) WILDERNESS HUNTING AND WILDCRAFT Lieut Col. Townsend Whelen, 1927 1st edition of a very scarce title by Small Arms Technical Publishing, photo illustrations and line drawings, big game shooting in North America, Bears etc, and much more. Condition VG, £55.00
(S35) WILDFOWL & WADERS – NATURE & SPORT IN THE COASTLANDS Hugh B.C. Pollard & Frank Southgate, Country Life first edition 1928, limited to 950 copies and numbered 872, 25cm x 32cm, 83 pages plus 16 plates in colour and 49 in mono, ex library, board edges worn, and chip to top of vellum backstrip, sound. £85.00
(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 +, £100.00
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
(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
(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
(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
(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, 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
(NS16) VINTAGE BRITISH SHOTGUNS – A SHOOTING SPORTSMAN GUIDE Terry Wieland, 310 pages with many intext photographs and ca colour section, part one is a general section on British guns, part two is on individual makers, £27.50
(NS18) VINTAGE BRITISH SHOTGUNS FOR THE MODERN SHOT Diggory Hadoke, 22cm x 29cm, 224 pages with many coloured photographs on the choice and use of vintage shotguns, £30.95
(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