Instructions to Young Sportsmen In All That Relates To Guns and Shooting

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Octavo, 556 pp., Gilt stamped leather binding. Light wear to cover. Tenth edition, corrected, enlarged and improved. 556 pp. Cover of brown leather with ruled gilt bands on boards and five raised bands on spine with ruled bands decorating the compartments. Title in gilt on spine. Board edges and versos heavily decorated in gilt. Board edges and corners rubbed, joints and spine head and foot rubbed. Fixed end papers of blue silk with wide leather edges trimmed in gilt. Free end papers of blue silk.Bookplate of Francis Peabody Magoun on verso of free end paper. Binding and hinges are very good. Some foxing to prelims. Text is tight with some uneven toning. Several plates throughout and many in-text pieces. Editor's Preface: "In preparing the Tenth Edition of the "Instructions" for the press, the Editor has availed himself of numerous memoranda and notes left in the hand-writing of his late father; and in making the necessary alterations and additions, he has endeavoured, as much as possible, to adhere to the plan which he believes would have been adopted by the author,had he lived to fulfill his intention of bringing out the present edition. August 31st, 1854". N° de ref. del artículo 025372

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