Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey: 'The Fowler in Ireland', London, Jo...

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Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey: 'The Fowler in Ireland', London, John Van Voorst, 1882, half title, b/w frontis + plates and ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt, 'Letters to Young Shooters. First Series: On the Choice and Use of a Gun; Second Series: The Production, Preservation, and Killing of Game; Third Series: A Short Natural History of British Wildfowl and Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland', L, Longmans, 1899, 5th edition revised; 1894, 2nd edition; 1896, 1st edition, 3 volumes, b/w plates & illustrations by Whymper, Millais, de Bree and the author, uniform original cloth gilt, 'High Pheasants in Theory and Practice', Richmond Publishing Co, 1972, 2nd facsimile edition of the original 1913 edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (5).

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.