Description: GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback edition entitled “Shooting,” subtitled “Moor and Marsh,” by Lord Walsingam and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt., with contributions by Lord Lovat and Lortd Charles Lennon Kerr, numerous FULL PAGE and fine engraved illustrations by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J. H. Oswald Brown and G. E. Lodge, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece and decorated endpapers. It was published by Longmans, Green and Co., of London, in March, 1909 and is one of the wonderfully illustrated and highly collectable “The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes” editions, edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E. T. Watson. The contents include: · Grouse · Black Game · Deer Stalking · Deer Forests · Woodcock · Snipe · Wildfowl Shooting – Swans and Geese · Surface-Feeding Ducks · Diving Ducks · Waders · Rails and Crakes · Wildfowl Shooting on Shore · Punting, or Wildfowl Shooting Afloat · Fowling Punts: How to Build and Use Them · Swivel-Guns · Concluding Remarks on Wildfowl Shooting · A Little Plain Law for Game Preserves, Keepers and Poachers The book measures 7.6 inches x 5.75 inches x 1.3 inches and has 358 pages + full page illustrations. The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear to the original decorative cloth hardback cover. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages. There is no dust-jacket. A wonderfully illustrated vintage edition. COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice. Please click on “View Sellers Other Items” towards the top right hand side of this page for other vintage editions. Buyer to pay postage & packing For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.50; or 1st Class = £3.90 European Union Postage: = 7.95 GB Pounds USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 15.70 GB Pounds Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 12.85 GB Pounds. Unwinsbooks always obtain a proof of postage receipt from the Royal Mail. Packages over Royal Mail size rules may be sent by courier (customer will be informed). Goods will be WELL PACKAGED by Unwins Books and dispatched once payment has cleared.
Price: 35 GBP
Location: Shaftesbury, Dorset
End Time: 2025-02-06T13:31:00.000Z
Shipping Cost: 19.62 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Sports
Language: English
Illustrator: A J Stuart-Wortley, Harper Pennington, C Whymper, J Oswald Brown
Fiction Subject: N/A
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Lord Walsingam and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co
Character Family: The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
Year Printed: 1909
Original/Facsimile: Original
