Hawker, Peter.

INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN, IN ALL THAT RELATES TO GUNS AND SHOOTING;TO WHICH IS ADDED THE HUNTING AND SHOOTING OF NORTH AMERICA, WITHDESCRIPTIONS OF THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS. Carefully collated from authenticsources by William T. Porter, editor of the New York "Spirit of theTimes". With illustration.

Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia: 1846. First American edition, from the ninth London edition. 8vo. 460 pp. Plates; publisher's ads. Inscribed by the publisher on the front endpaper and with a 1-page ALS from Porter to the publisher, 27 May 1846, making short references to grouse and deer hunting and promising "in the course of next week I hope to finish all the copy of your edition of Hawker." An important contributor to the early literature of sport in America, Porter was a journalist devoted to hunting, angling, and the turf (see DAB). Phillips, p. 163: "More than half the book on American shooting--birds and big game." Original gilt-stamped decorated red cloth (chipped at spine- head), with gilt sporting ornaments on the spine; several period newspaper clippings, including a review of this edition, affixed to front endpapers, else very good.

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