Lot 2143: [HAWKER, PETER. 1786-1853.] Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with Directions for the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns; Hints for the Preservation of Game; and Instructions for Shooting Wildfowl. To which is added, a Concise Abridgement of the

Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with Directions for the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns; Hints for the Preservation of Game; and Instructions for Shooting Wildfowl. To which is added, a Concise Abridgement of the Principal Game Laws. London: J. Johnson, 1814. xv, [1 blank], 150 pp. 8vo (173 x 99 mm). Untrimmed in original boards, paper printed spine label (partial). Custom clamshell box. Some pencil markings, inconspicuously rebacked with old spine laid down, internally fresh.

First edition. A "well-known book written at the request of some friends and printed for private distribution, only a few supplementary copies being provided for ordinary readers, a fact which accounts for its rarity" (Schwerdt I, 234).
Provenance: ownership inscription of Richard Beague dated 1814; lengthy period notes on final page.
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