HUNTER'S FEN. By John Humphreys.

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THE YORKSHIRE ANGLERS' GUIDE TO THE WHOLE OF THE FISHING ON THE YORKSHIRE RIVERS. By Tom Bradley.

THE YORKSHIRE ANGLERS' GUIDE TO THE WHOLE OF THE FISHING ON THE YORKSHIRE RIVERS. By Tom Bradley.

THE FOWLER IN IRELAND: Or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing them. By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart.

(1882) 1985 new edition. 8vo (142 x 227mm). Ppxiv,503. Plates and text illustrations by C.Whymper and others. Green boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt, gilt illustration to upper board.

This is Sir Ralph-Gallwey's exhaustive and detailed account of all aspects of wildfowling. Chapters include: Ducks; Mallard, wigeon, teal and others; Decoys (decoy ponds) and their use; Mergansers; Great Northern Divers, Gannets, Cormorants, Shags, Grebes and others; Wild geese; Swans; Plovers, plover netting; Snipe and woodcock, with much material on Ireland; Shore birds - curlews, whimbrels, ibis, avocet and others; Marsh birds - herons, bitterns and rails; The Skellig Rocks and their seafowl; Birds and lighthouses - the Skelligs, Copeland Island, Tuscar Rock, Tory Island, Howth, Old Head of Kinsale, Carlingford, Dundalk, the Blasquets; Birds of prey - eagles, ospreys, kites, buzzards, peregrines, Greenland and Iceland falcons, owls and others; Irish mammals, deer, goats, foxes, martens, stoats and weasels, wild cats, otters, seals and others; Boats - yawls and cutters, punts; Professional fowlers and puntgunning; Two chapters on all aspects of punt guns; Construction of fowling punts.
£25.00
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Book Code
18320
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Author Payne-Gallwey (Ralph Frankland-). (1848-1916).
Book Code 18320
ISBN 0907069312 / 0907069312.
Book Description Slight use/ spotting but good-plus.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1985
Publisher Ashford Press.
Place Shedfield, Hampshire.