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An important handbook for hunters and sportsmen alike, with a focus on dogs, their breeding, care and training. Chapters dedicated to a focus on firearms, Johnson offers helpful tips and tricks pertaining to aiming, the creation and use of gunpowder and in-depth discussion on game animals.

Thomas Burgeland Johnson (d. 1840) was an experienced sportsman and author. Johnson's earliest published work "An Impartial History of Europe" was published in 1814. Following this publication, Thomas changed focus to written accounts and instructions of field sports, including The Shooter's Guide; or the Sportsman's Companion and The Sportsman's Cyclopedia. Item #408

Price (USD) $475.00

FOX- HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE

Captain Pennell Elmhirst illustrated with 5 hand-coloured plates, xv, 584 pp. 1 vol. 8vo.

George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, 1892. First edition.

J. Sturgess, J. Marshman.

An account of the author's experiences hunting around the worlds, including the Malay Peninsula, India, America, and the fox-hunting counties of England. With two in-depth descriptions over 2 chapters on elk hunting in the Western Cattle lands of Montana.

Higginson reports the Duke of Portland's observation: "I knew Pennell-Elmhirst very well indeed. He was a first-rate man to hounds, a fine sportsman, and an excellent horseman; but he very often appeared with a scratched and bleeding face. I think he wrote the best hunting articles I have ever read". Phillips, p. 113; British and American Sporting Authors, p. 128

Price (USD) $280.00

HEART OF DARKNESS. WITH ETCHINGS BY SEAN SCULLY.

Conrad, Joseph

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992

Signed Limited Edition; Signed and Numbered on the Rear Colophon. With four full-page and four half-page etchings by the artist, printed on