THE SHOOTER'S COMPANION
by T.B. Johnson
Published by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper. 1830
Good condition. A Description of Pointers and Setters, Etc. as Well as of Those Animals Which Constitute the Objects of Pursuit; of the Breeding of Pointers and Setters, the Diseases to Which They are Liable and the Modes of Cure. Training Dogs for the Gun; of Scent; and the Reason Why One Dog's Sense of Smell is Superior to Another's. The Fowling Piece Fully Considered Particularly as it Relates to the Use of Percussion Powder; of Percussion Powder and the Best Method of Making it; of Gunpowder; Shooting Illustrated; the Art of Shooting Flying or Running Simplified and Clearly Laid Down; of Wild Fowl and Fen Shooting, as Well as Every Information Connected With the Use of the Fowling Piece. 3rd Edition Improved and Very Consderably Enlarged. 16 b/w plates. Green cloth. vii + 336 pages + 12 page booklist.
Book: name in ink to front endpaper, all plates present. Contents in general very good. Spine browned and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Boards marked. REDUCED FROM £170.
Stock no. 813550
- Categorised in:
- FIELD SPORTS
- SHOOTING
- DOGS
- DOGS - GUNDOG
- DOGS (TRAINING)
- ANTIQUARIAN
- WILDFOWL