INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN: IN ALL THAT RELATES TO GUNS AND SHOOTING. By Lt. Col. P. Hawker. Edited with an introduction by Eric Parker. With numerous plates. Reprinted from the 1922 abridged edition.

INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN: IN ALL THAT RELATES TO GUNS AND SHOOTING. By Lt. Col. P. Hawker. Edited with an introduction by Eric Parker. With numerous plates. Reprinted from the 1922 abridged edition.

POACHERS VERSUS KEEPERS: AN AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE TREATISE CONCERNING POACHERS AND THEIR ARTIFICES, dealing with the many phases of poaching directed at game both furred and feathered. Simplified and arranged by Gilbertson and Page, Limited.

POACHERS VERSUS KEEPERS: AN AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE TREATISE CONCERNING POACHERS AND THEIR ARTIFICES, dealing with the many phases of poaching directed at game both furred and feathered. Simplified and arranged by Gilbertson and Page, Limited.

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 (141 x 222mm). Ppxiv,503. Plates and text illustrations by C.Whymper and others, pictorial end-papers. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. Blue boards, gilt titles and gun-punt motif to spine.

This is Sir Ralph Payne-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.
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Author Payne-Gallwey (Ralph Frankland-). (1848-1916).
Book Code 43740
ISBN 1906486042 / 1906486042 / PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 30.00.
Book Description Fine new copy in slightly used dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1985
Publisher Tideline Books.
Place Rhyl, Flintshire.