20 Bore Tozer Basil (7 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Published by Keegan Paul, Trench, & Co [1887], First Edition. Full 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. 472 pages. 55 black and white illustrations - all present. Light soil and edge wear to the covers, spine lightened. Heavier wear on the head and foot of spine. Small tear to rear FEP. Previous owners name in ink on a brown sticker glued to initial title page. Light toning to pages. Additional photographs are available upon request. For shipping heavier items, or delivery outside the UK, please read our shipping terms for further details.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. This is an antique sporting book, "Practical Hints on Shooting" by '20-Bore' (Basil Tozer). 1887 1st edition; Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.; London. "Being a treatise on the Shot Gun and its Management; Game, Wildfowl, and Trap Shooting; Together with Notes on Sporting Dogs and Ferrets, and Other Useful Information Relative to Shooting." The book features numerous illustrations. The contents are as follows: On the Choice of a Gun; Barrels; Essential Parts of the Gun; On Guns in General; Powder, Shot, and Cartridges; Gun Cleaning, and Shooting Paraphernalia; Shooting - Preliminary Remarks; General Hints on the Handling of Firearms, and Shooting; Partridge Shooting; Pheasant Shooting; Grouse Shooting; Woodcock Shooting; Snipe Shooting; Quail Shooting; Rook Shooting; Ground Game Shooting; Duck, Sea-Fowl, and Fen-Bird Shooting; Miscellaneous Shooting; Concluding Remarks on Game; Pigeon Shooting; Artificial Shooting; Sporting Dogs; Ferrets; Addenda. From the Preface: "In penning these few pages, therefore, we shall endeavour to place before the reader in as concise a manner as convenient a plain outline of the shot gun; its manipulation and necessary appendages; also shooting in all its branches - excepting with the rifle and pistol - together with a few comments concerning sporting dogs and ferrets, at the same time purposely omitting as much as possible technical terms and long-winded explanations. As this treatise is merely written for the benefit of beginners, we shall not enter into the multifarious details of gunmaking, barrel-boring, and all the intricacies of the various systems of gun-locks and breech actions now in use, as the tyro would probably find such both tedious and uninteresting." Condition: Clean front & back covers; the red cloth on the spine has sun-faded. Bumped bottom-right corner of the front cover. Tight binding with no loose pages. Cracks at the front and rear hinges between the end papers and pastedowns resulting in the front cover being shaky (the back cover is firmly attached despite the crack). Nice interior - the pages are clean with no notable issues found. Overall the book is in Good condition.

Condition: Fair. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887. 8vo hardcover. xiv+472pp. Illustrations. Fair book. Heavy wear to spine. (Shotguns, Firearms) Inquire if you need further information.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xiv + 471 pp., b/w illus., tables. "Being a treatise on the shot gun & its management; game, wildfowl, & trap shooting; together w/notes on sporting dogs & ferrets, & other useful information relative to shooting." Someone has inked the author's real name, Basil Tozer, under his pseudonym on the t.p., ink sig. on p. following the f.f.e.p. Red cloth bound hardcover w/gold-foil stamping to the front & spine shows sl. spotting & soiling but the binding is solid. Overall good to v.g. cond.