COLONEL GEORGE HANGER, TO ALL SPORTSMEN, AND PARTICULARLY TO FARMERS AND GAMEKEEPERS...

(1814) 1971 facsimile reprint. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp226. Not illustrated. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"...Above Thirty Years' Practice in Horses and Dogs; how to feed and take care of them, and also to cure them of all common Disorders. Effectually to allure and catch all Vermin. THE RAT-CATCHING SECRET; TO CATCH EVERY RAT ON THE PREMISES ALIVE, WITHOUT USING POISON. To breed and feed Pheasants, and cure their disorders. On Fowling-Pieces, Rifle-Guns, and Muskets: On boring Barrels, and the construction of Breech-Pins: Remarks on Rifle Shooting, recommended to the attention of all Riflemen, and particularly to Officers who have seen active Service in a Rifle Corps. - On the Race of Pointers and Setters. - How to keep all Arms loaded for two or three years, so as to fire more sure, than if fresh loaded. - Method of preventing partridges being taken at night by Drag-nets, when the Gamekeepers are asleep: To prevent Pheasants being destroyed by Night-shooters or Poachers by day: To catch whole flocks of Wood-pigeons in hard weather, and all Water-fowl in any weather: To approach a Red Deer, in the Highlands of Scotland, within thirty or fourty yards. - Of Running Horses - training, and breeding young Colts. - Cure for Bullocks and Cows swelled from eating Clover. - Cure for Scurvy. - To Shoot Wild-fowl, Pewits, Golden Plover, Wild Geese, and Bustards, by night. - Remarks on the Rifle-Bench which Gunmakers use; their secrecy and folly in that respect truly laughable. - To save the life of a Dog, when it has taken Poison. - With several valuable Family Receipts. TO WHICH IS ADDED A Plan for training and disciplining a Corps, such as has never appeared". . .