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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Xii, 251 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1901 Date On Title Page. Gilt Binding Fraring To Corners And 1/4" Fray On Bottom Edge Of Front Board, Hinges Cracked, No Marks. No Foxing.

Condición: Poor. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original salmon pink cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [vi] 130 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Spine age darkened, ink message dated 1905 in French to the front free end paper from Charles Emile Roche to P. H. Cockman. He held hunting and shooting rights over nearly 250,000 acres in Glen Strathfarrar, Glen Cannich and Glen Affric in the Highlands of Scotland. His favourite firearm was the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver (Disputed, he favours the Webley Fosberry above other 'automatic pistols' in the 1901 edition of 'The Art of Revolver Shooting' but it is not mentioned in the 1911 edition nor in the subsequent 'Automatic Pistol Shooting' or 'The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot it. In 'The Art of Revolver Shooting' the Smith & Wesson (American or Russian Model) is the most mentioned revolver, followed by the Colt and Webley a poor third). He died in Parsloes Park, Dagenham, Essex on 12 August 1920. He won two medals for shooting: a gold in 1908 and a silver in 1912. He also won a gold medal for his sculpture An American Trotter at Stockholm in 1912. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIREARMS (Defence Weapons).…

Hardover. Condición: Fine. 28 x 22.5 cm. Quarto. xii 105pp (1) (4 ads). Handsomely re-bound into red cloth with red leather spine and cover labels. New endpapers. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos. Many different breeds such as The Red Deer and Manchurian Sika are covered and there are chapters on deer fences, horn and head preservation, information on breeding and feeding deer and more. "A one-of-a-kind book on an unusual subject by a country gentleman who rightly insists that 'I think the deer, if asked, would rather have a scamper through the fields occasionally than spend all his life shut up in a small pen in a menagerie." Reference: Wegner's Bibliography on Deer & Deer Hunting pg 299. Illustrated with photographs by the author, H. Penfold, W. Rouch, & Others (ilustrador).…