THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 1998. VOLUME NINE, ISSUES 1-4.

1998 issues 1-4. 4to perfect bound magazines (213 x 275mm). 150+ pages each. Colour photographs and artwork throughout. Pictorial gilt tan covers, gilt titles to spine.

A lavish, beautifully illustrated magazine devoted to sporting guns and related art. Contents of Issue 1 include: The Beretta SO2EELL and SO6EESS; Ithaca #73483, the Gift; Sheyenne Valley Lodge; The gun deal; A three-ring circus; The English taste, Holland and Holland, Jaguar; Smoothbore smorgasbord; A closer look at the lowly Spaniard; The first shot at Elk Song; The Parker try-gun; The seven-patent Scott; Ithaca quality since 1880; Robert Schrader, an ingenious German inventor; More Remington information; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 2 include: British doubles from A to Z, Part VI; Darne different; An EE Remington from Mexico; Falling block double rifle serial no. 1; New tools for an old trade; The guns of the Baker Brothers, Part III; Rigby's "Hippo" .600 Nitro Express; Fabbri; Birds of paradise; Sotheby's annual auction at Gleneagles; Smoothbore smorgasbord, Part II; A muzzleloading double rifle; "A late bloomer"; Ferlach Bergstutzen; The gun of 1866; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 3 include: "...And it comes out here"; Beretta's Field Grade doubles; Charles Hellis, another British best; a pair of Parkers; They They call it the "wrist breaker"; Interview with Tullio Fabbri; The Behr and Vertikalbloch Verschluss; Still some more smoothbore smorgasbord; Argentina, greatest waterfowling land of all; Extremes, Alexander Henry, the large and small of it; Remington addendum; My grandfather and his gun; One for all?; Set for life; A gallery of American case-hardening colours; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 4 include: Reflections on a New England upland sporting life; Gunshops of Paris; The Masterpiece; Just taking it easy at Rough Creek Lodge; The guns of C.B. Brown; Herkules, a Grecian god and a strong Verschluss; Smoothbore smorgasbord, Part IV; Grouse shooting in the Swedish mountains; My forgotten Parker; Fox Gun and Co, Baltimore, Marland; British doubles from A to Z, Part VII; An elephant at Mateke; A transitional Horsley; A refinished Remington; The case of the .470 Double Case; Double Gun List.