ISBN: 9781846890321 - The British Sporting Gun and Rifle: Pursuit of Perfection 1850-1900 (6 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2008). 2008 1st edition. Folio (237 x 307mm). Pp423. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in dust-wrapper. "The period 1850 to 1900 witnessed the most far reaching changes sporting gun and rifle design had ever experienced. Prior to this, changes had been pedestrian and the muzzle-loader still ruled the day in 1850 as it had done for previous centuries. In this major work the author details the many changes that occurred. He describes at length the pinfire, centre-fire and hammerless developments along with all the ancilliary changes made to sporting guns. Likewise with rifles he outlines the many developments such as the superseding of the two groove muzzle-loading Express rifle by the multi-groove, breech-loading rifle of smaller calibre." Eight appendices give such things as gunsmith's letterheads, a long press article of 1896 examining Charles Lancaster's workshops and "A visit to Scott's Gun Manufactory," from the Belgravia Magazine, August 1872. .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2008). 2008 1st edition. Folio (237 x 307mm). Pp423. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. "The period 1850 to 1900 witnessed the most far reaching changes sporting gun and rifle design had ever experienced. Prior to this, changes had been pedestrian and the muzzle-loader still ruled the day in 1850 as it had done for previous centuries. In this major work the author details the many changes that occurred. He describes at length the pinfire, centre-fire and hammerless developments along with all the ancilliary changes made to sporting guns. Likewise with rifles he outlines the many developments such as the superseding of the two groove muzzle-loading Express rifle by the multi-groove, breech-loading rifle of smaller calibre." Eight appendices give such things as gunsmith's letterheads, a long press article of 1896 examining Charles Lancaster's workshops and "A visit to Scott's Gun Manufactory," from the Belgravia Magazine, August 1872. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 60.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nick to top of dustwrapper's spine.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. asa new copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on half title page and also on a tipped in sheet. First edition. Hard cover published by Quiller in the UK in 2008. Purple-brown covers with gilt lettering on spine. Corners of covers are bumped and wrinkled. Bottom page corners are bumped some, with slight creasing. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has slight scuffing and some wrinkling at bottom corners, and is in very good condition. 4to, 423 pages, 4.7 lb.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 423 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Donald Dallas with dedication. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. 424pp with colour and b/w photographs with illustrations. Signed by Author(s).