Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and it's Management; Game, Wildfowl, and Trap Shooting; Together With Notes on Sporting Dogs and Ferrets, and Other Useful Information Relative to Shooting
by 20-Bore." (AKA, Basil Tozer)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
London : Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co.. From the personal library of noted firearms authority and writer Gilbert E. Newton, AKA, "Bob Murphy." A clean hardcover in good condition; light shelf wear, spine slightly cocked, corners lightly bumped, edges with expected age-toning, antique English bookplate and Newton's address label on paste-down, several brief period notes in fountain pen on the front end papers. No DJ, as issued. . Good. Hardcover. 1887.
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- Bookseller
- Maxwell's House of Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029680
- Title
- Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and it's Management; Game, Wildfowl, and Trap Shooting; Together With Notes on Sporting Dogs and Ferrets, and Other Useful Information Relative to Shooting
- Author
- 20-Bore." (AKA, Basil Tozer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and it's Management; Game, Wildfowl, and Trap Shooting; Together With Notes on Sporting Dogs and Ferrets, and Other Useful Information Relative to Shooting Shot-Guns Shotguns
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La Mesa, California
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- Cocked
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