Col Peter Hawker (28 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1814) 1985 new edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxxvi,340. B/w plates, text illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Fine out-of-series copy in dust-wrapper. An un-numbered copy from an edition limited to 2000 copies. A modern reprint of the 1922 abridged edition, which was reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. A comprehensive and very detailed book, principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 30.00.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). (1893) 1988 facsimile edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Volume 1. Ppxviii,366. B/w illustrations, map. Brown cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt sportsman with gun motif to upper board. Slight use but good-plus. Volume One only. Reprinted from the first edition of 1893, edited by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey. A keen military officer and sportsman throughout his life, Colonel Peter Hawker not only enjoyed the challenge that technical innovation and adaptation of certain sporting guns brought him, he was also at leisure, with large, independent means and numerous people at his command. If he had a whim to go gun punting even in the severest of weathers, he was able to. For most of his adult life Hawker wrote a diary, extracts of which - on sporting subjects - were published posthumously. What his diary details is the 'gentleman's pursuits' in game shooting and fishing, with numbers bagged and techniques used, but also the social obligations of a man of his class and the fact that if he did go out punt gunning in the worst weather, he would suffer from a chill for the next few days, but then he could always afford the doctor! .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1814) 1985 new edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxxvi,340. B/w plates, text illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. Slight use, minor faults, good-plus. Abrasion, sticker ghost and slight tanning to dust-wrapper. Un-numbered copy. A modern reprint of the 1922 abridged edition, which was reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1814) 1985 new edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxxvi,340. B/w plates, text illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. Un-numbered copy. Fine in slightly used dust-wrapper. A modern reprint of the 1922 abridged edition, which was reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1985). (1893) 1985 new edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppviii,300. B/w plates, crimson end-papers. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Unnumbered copy from an edition limited edition to 2000 copies. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A fascinating record of wildfowling and game-shooting (and poaching) in Hampshire between 1802 and 1853. This is a good quality hardbound reprint of the abridged Herbert Jenkins edition of the 1920s, edited by Eric Parker. . …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1922). (1814) 1922 new edition. 8vo (140 x 215mm). Ppxxvi,340,ads. Coloured & b/w plates, text illustrations. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled and ruled in black. Edited with new introduction by Eric Parker. Top edge dusty, some use & staining but a good copy. An abridged version, reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1922). (1814) 1922 new edition. 8vo (140 x 215mm). Ppxxvi,340,ads. Coloured & b/w plates, text illustrations. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled and ruled in black. Edited with new introduction by Eric Parker. Pictorial ex libris, slight use and browning to preliminaries and edges, good-plus. An abridged version, reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Seventh Edition. 8vo, xxiii + pp507 complete with frontispiece, portrait of author and 6 other b/w engravings with illustrations throughout text. Hardcover no Dust jacket. Red half leather binding with gilt lettering to spine in fair condition as front board has detached with a little rubbing to spine. Inside all pages in very good clean condition although there is a little foxing to plates.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1922). (1814) 1922 new edition. 8vo (140 x 215mm). Ppxxvi,340,ads. Coloured & b/w plates, text illustrations. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled and ruled in black. Edited with new introduction by Eric Parker. Slight use, spotting to end-papers and preliminaries else good-plus. An abridged version, reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited to 2000numbered copies, thgis copy234, fine copy in dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . 1893 Volume 1 only, light wear to boards, bookplate, contents clean & bright, with colour plates, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). (1893) 1988 facsimile edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Two volume set. Ppxviii,366,vi,393. Maps, b/w plates. Gilt sportsman with gun motif to brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Two volumes. Slight use & browning but a very good two volume set. Reprinted from the first edition of 1893, edited by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey. A keen military officer and sportsman throughout his life, Colonel Peter Hawker not only enjoyed the challenge that technical innovation and adaptation of certain sporting guns brought him, he was also at leisure, with large, independent means and numerous people at his command. If he had a whim to go gun punting even in the severest of weathers, he was able to. For most of his adult life Hawker wrote a diary, extracts of which - on sporting subjects - were published posthumously. What his diary details is the 'gentleman's pursuits' in game shooting and fishing, with numbers bagged and techniques used, but also the social obligations of a man of his class and the fact that if he did go out punt gunning in the worst weather, he would suffer from a chill for the next few days, but then, he could always afford the doctor! . …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1922). (1814) 1922 new edition. 8vo (140 x 215mm). Ppxxvi,340. Coloured & b/w plates, text illustrations. Green cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Slightly rubbed but very good. An abridged version, reprinted from the 9th edition, with a new introduction by Eric Parker. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). (1893) 1970 facsimile edition. 8vo (142 x 230mm). Two volume set. Ppxii,366,vi,393. Maps, b/w plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight use, cup-rings to boards, browning to edges. Cup-rings to slightly used and frayed dust-wrappers. "With An Introduction By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. In Two Volumes." Reprinted from the first edition of 1893, edited by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey. A keen military officer and sportsman throughout his life, Colonel Peter Hawker not only enjoyed the challenge that technical innovation and adaptation of certain sporting guns brought him, he was also at leisure, with large, independent means and numerous people at his command. If he had a whim to go gun punting even in the severest of weathers, he was able to. For most of his adult life Hawker wrote a diary, extracts of which - on sporting subjects - were published posthumously. What his diary details is the 'gentleman's pursuits' in game shooting and fishing, with numbers bagged and techniques used, but also the social obligations of a man of his class and the fact that if he did go out punt gunning in the worst weather, he would suffer from a chill for the next few days, but then, he could always afford the doctor! .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1801) 1980 new edition. 8vo (143 x 216mm). Pp127. B/w engravings. Quarter-bound brown leather with tipped-on spine & front cover labels. Unobtrusive paper-faults to pp45 and 65 but very good copy. No. 15 of an edition limited to 500 copies. This is a new, re-set edition taken from the only known copy to survive. It is published jointly by Antony Atha and the Game Conservancy and limited to 500 numbered copies, with a new biographical and critical introduction by John Marchington. The Sportsman's Pocket Companion is a species-by-species guide to the natural history of the chief British quarry of the day. The first edition was published when the author was only sixteen. This new edition is limited to 500 numbered copies, and appears in a most satisfactory quarter leather, brown cloth binding, with a decorative gilt leather label to the middle of the front board. This copy is No. 15. .…

Limited edition reprint (no.62 of 500) of original 1801 guide to shooting. Introduction by John Marchington. Pp.127, illustrations of game birds and animals accompany descriptions, Brown leather spine with brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine and gilt embossed leather motif to front. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 127 pages, bright and clean. Limited edition 42/500. H.21.5cm W.15cm D.1.5cm 387g. Very handsomely bound.

Book Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Antony Atha Publishers, 1980. Limited Edition . Near Fine/No Jacket. pp127. Octavo. Quarter-bound brown cloth with tipped on title label to spine, and illus plate to front, ill-fitting cloth to rear-board (where spine cloth overlaps rear board). Brown endpapers. A limited edition reprint of the 1801 edition, this is number 226.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1801) 1980 new edition. 8vo (143 x 216mm). Pp127. B/w engravings. Quarter-bound brown leather with tipped- on spine & front cover labels. A very good copy. This is a new, re-set edition taken from the only known copy to survive. It is published jointly by Antony Atha and the Game Conservancy and limited to 500 numbered copies, with a new biographical and critical introduction by John Marchington. The Sportsman's Pocket Companion is a species by species guide to the natural history of the chief British quarry of the day. The first edition was published when the author was only sixteen. This new edition is limited to 500 numbered copies, and appears in a most satisfactory quarter leather, brown cloth binding, with a decorative gilt leather label to the middle of the front board. .…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 8vo., xvi, 17pp. - 459pp., + 14pp. publisher's ads, frontispiece, plus 9 plates, 2 text illustrations, marbled endpapers, bound in good quality late twentieth century dark green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine in compartments with raised bands, each with hunting and field sport motifs and gilt titles. A VG copy with some occasional internal light marks in a fine quality attractive leather binding. The 'sporting exploits' of Colonel Peter Hawker, considered one of the 'great shots' of the 19th century, were widely followed during his lifetime, and his Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting was something of a best-seller. His sporting exploits were widely followed and often reported in The Times. He specialised in shooting, wildfowling, and fishing. Here Hawker offers advice on shooting in a publication that has been reprinted nine times due to its popularity. Forty years after Hawker's death, an Australian book reviewer stated, "Probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the Instructions to Young Sportsmen".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo. 127pp. Introduced by John Marchington. Illustrated. Number 111 of 500 copies. A facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition. In quarter brown morocco with brown boards and onlaid vignette in leather. A fine copy.

Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Condition: Very Good. This is one of 500 numbered copies of this limited edition bound in quarter brown leather with brown cloth boards. In very good condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fishing & Hunting; Inventory No: 55170. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1830). (1814) 1830 6th edition. 8vo (139 x 224mm). Ppxx,480+32. Engraved plates, text illustrations. Rebound in much later blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Stains to cloth, owner's name and browning to end-papers and edges. Good copy. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A smart example of the seventh edition of Peter Hawker's illustrated and engaging guide to guns and shooting. The seventh edition of Hawker's popular work.This informative work offers thorough advice and information regarding a wide range of outdoor pursuits and field sports, including gun management and the preservation of game.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven further plates, with vignette illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half title.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1890, to a front blank.A celebrated diarist author and sportsman, Hawker was considered one of the 'greatest shots' of the nineteenth century. His sporting accomplishments were widely followed, often being reported in The Times newspaper. In a full morocco binding. Rubbing to joints, and raised bands of back strip. Head of rear joint and head and tail of front joint starting, with boards firmly held. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with plates age toned and featuring instances of spotting. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 volumes. With 10 plates, original cloth, top of spine worn, little foxing, pp. 366 & 393.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1826). (1814) 1826 5th edition. 8vo (139 x 224mm). Ppxxiv,456. Engraved plates, text illustrations. Half leather binding. Half red leather over red cloth boards (not recent), gilt titles, sporting vignettes and raised bands to spine, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers. Slight spotting to reverse of some plates but a near fine copy in a very handsome binding. "The original edition, which led to the publication of the following pages, was hastily written, at the particular request of some sporting friends of the Author, who had recourse to the press, in order to present each of them with a legible copy. A few supplementary impressions also were provided, for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman, to whom, alone, he still presumes to offer so humble a production. To prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication, all needless embellishments have been studiously avoided." That said, this book is comprehensive, very detailed, and quite long, and principally about wildfowling. A classic of its kind with much on dogs, guns, punt guns, and shooting from boats and various other vehicles. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1893). 1893 1st edition. Large 8vo (145 x 230mm). Two volume set. Ppxii,366,ii,32[ads];vi,393,iii[ads]. B/w illustrations. Half leather. Handsomely bound in half tan leather (not recent), gilt titles, sporting vignettes & raised bands to spine, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers. Slight tanning & a few page edges roughly opened but a near fine set. Reprinted from the first edition of 1893, edited by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey. A keen military officer and sportsman throughout his life, Colonel Peter Hawker not only enjoyed the challenge that technical innovation and adaptation of certain sporting guns brought him, he was also at leisure, with large, independent means and numerous people at his command. If he had a whim to go gun punting even in the severest of weathers, he was able to. For most of his adult life Hawker wrote a diary, extracts of which - on sporting subjects - were published posthumously. What his diary details is the 'gentleman's pursuits' in game shooting and fishing, with numbers bagged and techniques used, but also the social obligations of a man of his class and the fact that if he did go out punt gunning in the worst weather, he would suffer from a chill for the next few days, but then, he could always afford the doctor! . …

1st Edn.. 2 Vols, ix 366, 393 pages, 32 pages adverts pages uncut,10 full page plates including 2 plans. Introduction by Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, some light spotting to contents. Publishers olive green cloth. Volume 1 covers 1802 - 1829, Volume 2 1829 - 1853, include a summary of 51 seasons bags of game with an estimate of 12000 killed. Chute 287.…