'Fur, Feather & Fin' series, 3 titles, comprising Pike and P...

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£70

'Fur, Feather & Fin' series, 3 titles, comprising Pike and Perch, 1900, 1st edition, 'The Partridge', 1894, 2nd edition, each original pictorial cloth, 'Wild-Fowl', 1905, 1st edition, orig. publisher's half calf gilt; plus 'The Badminton Library' series 4 volumes, Lord Walsingham & Ralph Payne-Gallwey: 'Shooting. Moor & Marsh; Field & Covert', 1909, 1906, later impressions, 2 volumes, H. Cholmondeley-Pennell: 'Fishing. Salmon & Trout; Pike and other Coarse Fish', 1904, 1896, later editions, 2 volumes, all orig. pictorial cloth gilt; plus 3 volumes 'The Lonsdale Library' series, 'Salmon Fishing', 1948, 'Wild-Fowling', 1950, 'The Lonsdale Keeper's Book', 1952, ll orig. cloth, dust wrappers (10).

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.