Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1882) 1985 new edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxiv,503. Plates & text illustrations by C.Whymper and others, pictorial end-papers, top edge blue. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. Blue boards, gilt titles and gun-punt motif to spine. Very good in used / stained dust-wrapper. A numbered copy from a limited edition of 2000. This is Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's exhaustive and detailed account of all aspects of wildfowling. Chapters include: Ducks; Mallard, wigeon, teal and others; Decoys (decoy ponds) and their use; Mergansers; Great Northern Divers, Gannets, Cormorants, Shags, Grebes and others; Wild geese; Swans; Plovers, plover netting; Snipe and woodcock, with much material on Ireland; Shore birds - curlews, whimbrels, ibis, avocet and others; Marsh birds - herons, bitterns and rails; The Skellig Rocks and their seafowl; Birds and lighthouses - the Skelligs, Copeland Island, Tuscar Rock, Tory Island, Howth, Old Head of Kinsale, Carlingford, Dundalk, the Blasquets; Birds of prey - eagles, ospreys, kites, buzzards, peregrines, Greenland and Iceland falcons, owls and others; Irish mammals, deer, goats, foxes, martens, stoats and weasels, wild cats, otters, seals and others; Boats - yawls and cutters, punts; Professional fowlers and puntgunning; Two chapters on all aspects of punt guns; Construction of fowling punts. . Seller Inventory # 33239
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1985). (1882) 1985 new edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxiv,503. Plates & text illustrations by C.Whymper and others, pictorial end-papers. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. Blue boards, gilt titles and gun-punt motif to spine. Fine new copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. This is Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's exhaustive and detailed account of all aspects of wildfowling.Chapters include: Ducks; Mallard, wigeon, teal and others; Decoys (decoy ponds) and their use; Mergansers; Great Northern Divers, Gannets, Cormorants, Shags, Grebes and others; Wild geese; Swans; Plovers, plover netting; Snipe and woodcock, with much material on Ireland; Shore birds - curlews, whimbrels, ibis, avocet and others; Marsh birds - herons, bitterns and rails; The Skellig Rocks and their seafowl; Birds and lighthouses - the Skelligs, Copeland Island, Tuscar Rock, Tory Island, Howth, Old Head of Kinsale, Carlingford, Dundalk, the Blasquets; Birds of prey - eagles, ospreys, kites, buzzards, peregrines, Greenland and Iceland falcons, owls and others; Irish mammals, deer, goats, foxes, martens, stoats and weasels, wild cats, otters, seals and others; Boats - yawls and cutters, punts; Professional fowlers and puntgunning; Two chapters on all aspects of punt guns; Construction of fowling punts. PREVIOUS PRICE £30.00. Seller Inventory # 43740
Quantity: 5 available
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1882) 1985 new edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxiv,503. Plates & text illustrations by C.Whymper and others, pictorial end-papers, top edge blue. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Blue boards, gilt titles and gun-punt motif to spine. Top of spine slightly bumped, else very good in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 2000. This is Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's exhaustive and detailed account of all aspects of wildfowling. Chapters include: Ducks; Mallard, wigeon, teal and others; Decoys (decoy ponds) and their use; Mergansers; Great Northern Divers, Gannets, Cormorants, Shags, Grebes and others; Wild geese; Swans; Plovers, plover netting; Snipe and woodcock, with much material on Ireland; Shore birds - curlews, whimbrels, ibis, avocet and others; Marsh birds - herons, bitterns and rails; The Skellig Rocks and their seafowl; Birds and lighthouses - the Skelligs, Copeland Island, Tuscar Rock, Tory Island, Howth, Old Head of Kinsale, Carlingford, Dundalk, the Blasquets; Birds of prey - eagles, ospreys, kites, buzzards, peregrines, Greenland and Iceland falcons, owls and others; Irish mammals, deer, goats, foxes, martens, stoats and weasels, wild cats, otters, seals and others; Boats - yawls and cutters, punts; Professional fowlers and puntgunning; Two chapters on all aspects of punt guns; Construction of fowling punts. . Seller Inventory # 57175
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Number 163 of 2000 copies. Illustrated in black and white. 22 cm. XIV, 503 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear, slight foxing. Seller Inventory # 50959
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated in black and white. 25 cm. XXII, 328, 24, 23 pages VG/G. Very good book in good dust jacket with shelf wear and edge wear, a little discolouration to spine, slight soiling. Seller Inventory # 50960
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper which is a bit dulled. Seller Inventory # 024659