Modern Sporting Gunnery by Henry Sharp, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First ed. Fading to spine, some rubbing/bumping at edges. Pages/boards clean and vibrant, NO foxing or markings, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 528 pages, spine rubbed otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 234.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. Bound in red cloth with clear white titles to front board and spine, this dated 1906 hardcover First Edition is VG. X/526pp with Preface, 19 Chapters, 207 engraved illustrations of guns, gun parts and ammunition, mainly set in text, plus game illustrations and technical diagrams. Also photos of The Duchess of Bedford in the chapter on "Ladies in the Field", written by Her Grace. Topics covered in the book, include the following: Modern Shot-Guns, Modern Sporting Rifles, Accelerated Express Rifles, Ball and Sho-Guns, Sighting of Rifles, Sporting Bullets, Gun Fitting and Shooting Abroad. spine and 3cm top section of front board, slightly faded, minor wear to top/tail of spine, light foxing to both set of endpapers, neatly repaired 4cm split at junction of top of front board and spine: nothing missing, otherwise all VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 526p + ads, octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in red cloth. Staring to fray at the spine head.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Writing on front endpapers. Stamped on front endpage. (Shotguns, Hunting).

FIRST EDITION. 8vo (22 x 16cm). pp.528. Bound in later half calf over marbled boards, gilt banding and decorative gilt rifle devices to spine. 207 illustrations. Very light foxing to title-page and surrounding free endpapers, contents otherwise clean. Boards lightly scuffed, but otherwise bright and clean. A fine copy. An extensive survey of Edwardian sporting guns, with chapters on shotguns, sporting and express rifles, ammunition and the practice of shooting itself. Various illustrations, graphs and tables throughout, describing everything from types of rifling to the velocity of various shotgun rounds. Includes a chapter on women and the sport of shooting, followed by a section titled: "Ladies in the Field", by the Duchess of Bedford.

8vo. x, 526 pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp., plates, numerous text illustrations, diagrams. Maroon-coloured publisher's cloth, white lettering front cover & spine, ruling on covers, painted illust. front cover & spine (slight edgewear, very slight bumping to couple corners, very light interior toning), still a VG bright copy, from the library of Edwin E. Farr, w/ markings on ffep. First edition of this excellent work which details the evolution of the shotgun, from flintlock to hammerless ejector, as well as Express Rifles, ball and shoguns, sporting bullets, shooting in Europe and Great Britain. Of particular interest are the chapters by Henry on the increase of women shooting and hunting, with specifications for women's shotguns, shotgun loads, and shape of grip. Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1865-1937) was a noted ornithologist, hunter, one of the first Western women to study jujitsu, and later became noted aviator with record breaking flights to Karachi and Cape Town.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, recently rebound in modern half morocco, emblems in gilt, With illustrations, pp526,