Plain Directions for Acquiring the Art of Shooting on the Wing. With useful hints concerning all that relates to guns and shooting, and particularly in regard to the art of loading so as to kill. By An Old Gamekeeper.
New York: The Handicraft Publication Company, 1873.
Duodecimo (18 x 12 cm.), vi, [2], [9]-88, [12] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "with useful hints concerning all that relates to guns & shooting, & particularly in regard to the art of loading so as to kill. To which has been added several valuable & hitherto secret recipes, of great practical importance to the sportsman." Advertisements include one for "W.E. Bond's Improved Section Boats" and another for "J.H. Johnston, Great Western Gun Works". Green cloth over beveled boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine. [Riling 936; Phillips page 280; Heller 2:593].
Price: $150.00