FOWLER'S MOON. By Nigel Thornycroft. First edition.

FOWLER'S MOON. By Nigel Thornycroft. First edition.

THE SPORTING GUN'S BEDSIDE COMPANION. By Douglas Butler and friends.

THE SPORTING GUN'S BEDSIDE COMPANION. By Douglas Butler and friends.

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 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 229mm). Ppxiv,503,xvii[wildfowl record],ads. Plates and text illustrations by C.Whymper and others, coloured end-papers. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

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.
£130.00
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Book Code
39567
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Author Payne-Gallwey (Ralph Frankland-). (1848-1916).
Book Code 39567
ISBN No ISBN.
Book Description Stains to cloth, spine slightly frayed at both ends, slight browning and use internally. Good.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1882
Publisher John Van Voorst.
Place London.