Eleven assorted hunting, shooting, countryside etc titles, i...

Hammer

£95

Eleven assorted hunting, shooting, countryside etc titles, including Stonehenge: 'Manual of British Rural Sports, Comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking...', L, Routledge, 1856, b/w plates & ills. in text throughout, xvi, 720pp, rebound half calf gilt; Gilfrid W. Hartley: 'Wild Sport and Some Stories', Edinburgh & London, Blackwood, 1912, 1st edition, illustrations by G. D. Armour, Miss C. R. Hartley, Guy Speir, Fred. Noël Paton, Miss I. M. Hartley, Stanley Cursiter, 331pp, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; Lt. Col. P. Hawker: 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting', Herbert Jenkins, [nd], c.1935, colour & b/w plates, orig. cloth; Patrick Chalmers: 'The Frequent Gun and a Little Fishing', L, Philip Allan, 1928, b/w frontis + plates & ills., orig. cloth gilt; Stanley Duncan and Guy Thorne: 'The Complete Wildfowler', L, Grant Richards, 1911, colour frontis + numerous b/w ills. and diagrams as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; Nimrod [i.e. Charles James Apperley]: 'Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton', L, Kegan Paul, c.1920, ill. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins, 20 colour plates, orig. cloth gilt; plus 5 others (11).

From the estate of John Humphreys (1939-2012), distinguished sporting and countryside author who wrote for Shooting Times for more than 40 years – for much of that time contributing the weekly ‘Country Gun’ column. He was a much loved character of the shooting community who dedicated his life to the promotion of shooting, fishing and the countryside.