The Fowler in Ireland. Or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl.LIMITED EDITION IN FINE BINDING. by Payne-Gallwey. Sir Ralph - 1976

Hardcover. Very Good. Copy number 1525 of 2000 1985, Good DC

Ashford Press Pub., 1985-11-29. Hardcover. Good. no jacket but boards in excellent condition, neat bookplate on fep

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: John Van Voorst. Original cloth. 498pp., b/w plates & figs. Splits to edges and across centre of backstrip, upper edge chipped, covers sunned and grubby. Ex-Libris bookplate to front pastedown; one hinge cracked o/w contents very good. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAG1.1 . good to very good. Hardcover. 1873.

Southampton : Ashford Press Publishing , 1985. Cloth. Fine. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated. A handsome new edition of this classic work regarding wildfowl and seafowl, with shooting instructions. The second edition. Handsomely bound in the original full cloth with gilt detail and pictorial cover. With a frontispiece, fifteen full page plates and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. Collated complete. An interesting guide to wildfowl and seafowl with instructions in the art of shooting and capturing them. Originally published in 1882, this book was written by Ralph Frankland-Payne-Gallwey, an English engineer, historian and ballistics expert. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear only. The odd light mark to the boards. The odd spot to the free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. A few light spots to the fore-edge. Fine

London: John Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An informative and illustrated first edition instructional guide to the art of wildfowl hunting in Ireland. The first edition of this study of the art of hunting wildfowl in Ireland, complete with an instructional account of how to shoot and capture these birds. This is the work of English engineer, historian and ballistics expert Sir Ralph Frankland-Payne-Gallwey, author of a number of books on military and sporting history, theory and practice.With numerous full plate and vignette illustrationsTo the rear of the work is a fourteen page 'Wildfowl Record', which instructs the reader of this guide to fill in their 'List of Birds Killed', including information such as location, date, and weapon and ammunition used. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty of the Edwardian period. Impeccably connected, Pleydell-Bouverie was also the illegitimate granddaughter of King… Read More

London: John Van Voorst, 1882. Full page plates all present, however, plate to p.336 detached but extant. Slightly shaken, badly bumped with cloth frayed to extremities and a few minor cloth tears to head and foot of spine, boards lightly rubbed with a few small cloth wrinkles. Binding slightly loose with several cracked gutters. A light stain to top closed edges and top corners of pages, not affecting text, ink inscrip. to half title, else pages clean, plates bright.. Cloth. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.

John Van Voorst,, 1882. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 16 plates and very numerous illustrations in the text, half-title lightly spotted, contemporary signature on title; navy cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, small pull at headband else a near fine copy in publisher's binding. With small personal book-label on front paste-down. The Wildfowl Records leaves at end are blank. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.