Instructions to Young Sportsmen by Hawker, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st US Edition. 459pp followed by 16 pages of ads. "First American, from the the Ninth London edition, to which is added The Hunting and Shooting of North America with descriptions of the animals and birds. Carefully collated from authentic sources, by Wm. T. Porter, Esq." Book has been rebound in magenta cloth with original red and gold decorated cloth front cover affixed to front board. New endpapers. Contents heavily foxed and browned with a stain affecting bottom front corner of most pages (content not affected). Preliminary pages heavily chipped. Front endpaper has 19th century pedigree dog breeding records handwritten in pencil on both sides (not fully legible). All illustrations intact.

First American edition, from the ninth London edition. Illustrated. 459 (16 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition of this classic work, with additional material on American sport collected by William T. Porter, editor of "The Spirit of the Times", and including several chapters by "Frank Forester" [Henry William Herbert]: "The Game of North America", pp. 181-3, "The Woodcock" pp. 184-6, "The Quail", pp. 187-9, "Quail Shooting", pp. 190-8, and "English and American Game", pp. 439-456. Notes Van Winkle: "This work is so much enlarged that it is a quite different book from the English edition of the same title." A sizeable portion of the articles in the American section comes from the pen of J.J. Audubon. Henry Hastings Sibley, the first governor of Minnesota, wrote two of the articles, on "Buffalo Hunting" and "Hunting on the Western Praries." Gilt-decorated red cloth. Spine ends chipped, rubbed, else Externally Fine. Text has waterstain to lower inner corner throughout. Signed G. Clinton Tallmadge 1846 on the title-page Illustrated. 459 (16 ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo First American edition, from the ninth London edition.

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, [1 leaf], 366, [26]ads; 2 p.l., 393, [2]ads. with half-titles. 8 engraved plates (incl. 2 frontis. portraits) & 2 lithographed plans. original cloth (extremities frayed, 3 ink spots on Vol. II spine, cloth of Vol.I spine cockled, occasional light foxing). First Edition. ".the Author was in the habit of setting down almost everything he did, thought, and said during fifty years, adding comments on nearly every shot he fired, how he killed, and why he missed.There are some very interesting accounts of its writer's journeys to the Continent both before and after the fall of Napoleon, and of his expeditions to the North to shoot moor game. The latter records will doubtless entertain sportsmen of the present time when they read of the Colonel's delight at bagging a few brace of grouse at places where how hundreds are killed in one day.Colonel Hawker was the keenest and most hardworking shooter ever known.". (Introduction by Ralph Payne-Gallwey) Slater p. 37.

Leather. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Two uniformly bound Victorian volumes on shooting, a fascinating insight into popular sport, complete with illustrations. Two desirable sporting volumes uniformly bound with gilt decoration of a man shooting to the spines.Bound by Birdsall & Son.'Instructions to the Young Sportsmen', by Lieutenant Colonel P. Hawker, is the eighth edition, published in 1838. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and in-text engravings. Half-title is present. Collated, complete.This is Hawker's most popular and enduring work, offering advice garnered through his prolific hunting career; Hawker was known as one of the greatest shots of the nineteenth century.'The Modern Shooter', by Captain Lacy, is the first edition, published in 1842. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, three plated, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Lacy's volume is a practical instructional volume on shooting, both inland and coast shooting. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, bound by Birdsall. Externally, generally smart. Rubbing to the leather, heavier to the head of the spine of 'Instructions'. Minor marks to the boards, marks to the boards of 'Instructional' a little heavier. Marks a little darker to the boards of 'Modern Shooter'. Head of the boards of 'Instructions' are a little faded. Stamp to the recto of the front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Frontispiece of 'Instructions' with a small tidemark to the tail, tide mark to the plates. Good. book.

Finely bound example of this sporting classic. Octavo, bound in full red straight-grain morocco gilt by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 10 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities. An exceptional example.

First edition. First edition. xv, [i], 150 pp. C. Wood, Printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street. 1 vols. 12mo. One of the great shooting classics, originally written and printed for private distribution and rare in any condition. "In terms of technical expertise and practical directions on shooting it was way ahead of its time, and remained so for thirty years" Chute. Schwerdt I, p. 234; Phillips 373; Chute 284 ("Very scarce") Nineteenth century mottled calf gilt, marbled endsheets, t.e.g. Finely rebacked preserving spine. Very good, fresh copy. Ink owner signature to binder's blank xv, [i], 150 pp. C. Wood, Printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street. 1 vols. 12mo.

[Firearms reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 150. Publisher's drab grey paper-covered boards, printed title label to spine, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, covers a little bumped and marked, joints worn, chipped to crown of spine. A very good example of a rare book in first edition. According to a loosely inserted news-clipping from the Antique Trades Gazette, a similar copy (uncut in original boards) had sold at auction in Sept 2008 for £3000. Celebrated diarist, author, soldier and target shot, Hawker had served with the 14th Light Dragoons under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War. He published his "Advice to Young Sportsmen" in 1814, a popular work with nine impressions in his lifetime. The first edition of his shooting classic did not credit Hawker as author and was printed in small numbers, principally for private circulation among his friends. An Australian review in 1893 claimed "probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the Instructions to Young Sportsmen.".

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without d/j. First Edition. xvi + 150 pp. First Edition of this famous sporting book. Quarter leather binding w/raised bands & red leather title label. Marbeled boards. Lt. rubbing to the boards & lt. wear to the corners. This is not a recent binding. The t.p. is attached to a stub but is original. A very scarce, very collectible work. Overall v.g. cond. Contained in a gray cloth clam shell box.

First American edition, from the ninth London edition. 8vo. 460 pp. Plates; publisher's ads. Inscribed by the publisher on the front endpaper and with a 1-page ALS from Porter to the publisher, 27 May 1846, making short references to grouse and deer hunting and promising "in the course of next week I hope to finish all the copy of your edition of Hawker." An important contributor to the early literature of sport in America, Porter was a journalist devoted to hunting, angling, and the turf (see DAB). Phillips, p. 163: "More than half the book on American shooting--birds and big game." Original gilt-stamped decorated red cloth (chipped at spine-head), with gilt sporting ornaments on the spine; several period newspaper clippings, including a review of this edition, affixed to front endpapers, else very good.

First American, from the ninth London edition. To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with descriptions of the animals and birds. Carefully collated from authentic sources by Wm. T. Porter, Esq . . . Pp. 460(last blank)+32(advertisements and publisher's catalogue), frontispiece, plus 9 plates, 2 text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, the boards decorated in gilt & blind, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly worn, fore-corners neatly reinforced, rebacked, with most of the original gilt lettered & decorated spine laid on; top edges green; ribbon marker; hinges reinforced with cloth tape, scattered foxing, occasional slight soiling; Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1846. First U.S. edition. *From the firearms collection of Douglas Mills, with two of his business cards laid on the upper pastedown. Earlier from the library of the Bissell family of Pittsburgh, with ownership inscriptions (one dated 1849) on the upper free endpaper and title page. The section of American Hunting and Shooting includes chapters by J. J. Audubon and 'Frank Forester' [Henry William Herbert]. Tipped-in before page 77 is an advertisement for Eley's Patent Wire Cartridges.

1/2 Morocco. Condition: Very Good. 3rd. considerably enlarged and improved edition, 4 hand-coloured plates, 6 b.w. plates. FINELY BOUND BY ROOT AND SON c. 1880, sporting emblems on the spine. Size: Roy. 8vo.

Finely Bound Full Morocco. 11th. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, with specially printed extra title pages, 2 vols, finely bound full morocco, gilt extra, dentelles, a.e.g. Extra illustrated with 98 18th and 19th century prints including 2 by Francis Barlow c.1690 and an aquatint, folding, by H. Alken of Wild Fowl Shooting 1820. A large number of artists are represented, including Reinagle, Scott, Howitt and Cooper, and the plates are all of a sporting nature. Some lighting foxing to some plates, otherwise fine. Size: 8vo.