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Title: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Author: Hawker, Lt. Col. Peter Place: London Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman Date: 1833 Description: xxiii, 507 pp. With 7 engraved plates, numerous cuts in text. (8vo) 8½x5½, three-quarter red calf and cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt. Seventh Edition. Colonel Hawker (1783-1856), who had retired from the 14th Light Dragoons after being wounded in the Peninsular Wars, published the first edition of this celebrated work in 1814 and continued to revise and improve it for most of his lifetime. The book is still regularly reprinted. Although the author's primary interest is the slaughter of game birds in quantity, there is a brisk section on trout fishing. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine darkened, extremities rubbed; occasional light foxing; else very good. Item number: 186967