MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown). European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries, London, 1923, 4to, plates, buckram. ONE OF 550 COPIES. With 21 other related works in 25 volumes. (26)

MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown).  European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries ... with a Treatise on Scottish Hand Firearms by Charles E. Whitelaw. London: Philip Lee Warner, at the Chiswick Press, 1923. 4to (320 x 250mm). 63 photographed plates, errata slip (some spotting and staining). Original half buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 46 OF 550 COPIES. With 21 other works of related interest in 25 volumes including Edward Napier's Wild Sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa (London, 1844, 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, later half buckram), [H. C. Folkard's] The Dead Shot or Sportsman's Complete Guide ... By Marksman (London, 1861, 8vo, plates, original roan-backed cloth, second edition), W. W. Greener's The Gun and its Development; with Notes on Shooting ... Fourth Edition, with Appendix (London, [c.1881], 4to, illustrations, fine original decorated buckram gilt), J. H. Walsh's The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle (London, 1882, 2 volumes, 8vo, illustrations, original green buckram), Ralph Payne-Gallwey's Letters to Young Shooters (First [Second & Third]) Series), London, 1892-96, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green buckram, the first series a second edition), T. F. Fremantle's The Book of the Rifle (London, 1901, large 8vo, plates, original green buckram), Guy Francis Laking's The Armoury of Windsor Castle. European Section (London, 1904, 4to, plates, original buckram, rebacked in modern morocco), Hugh B. C. Pollard's The Book of the Pistol & Revolver (London, 1921, 8vo, plates, original buckram-backed boards), Eric Parker (editor)'s Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting (London, 1922, 8vo, plates, original green buckram), Philip B. Sharpe's Complete Guide to Handloading (New York, 1937, 4to, illustrations, original buckram-backed boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "Yours for finer loads, Phil Sharpe"), Colonel Lord Cottesloe's The Englishman and the Rifle (London, [?1945], 8vo, plates, original green buckram), Clive Harris's The History of the Birmingham Gun-Barrel Proof House with Notes on the Birmingham Gun Trade (Birmingham, [?1946], 8vo, plates, original red buckram), Charles Ffoulkes's Arms & Armament (London, [1947], 4to, illustrations, original brown buckram, dust-jacket, second impression), Stephen V. Grancsay's Master French Gunsmiths' Designs of the Mid-Seventeenth Century Reproduced in Facsimile (New York, 1950, oblong 4to, plates, original buckram-backed marbled boards, slipcase, NUMBER 210 OF 749 "DELUXE" COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the limitation leaf inscribed, "To Ray Riling [the bibliographer], with the high regard of Stephen V. Grancsay, January 3, 1951"), Ralph W. Young's My Lost Wilderness. Adventures of an Alaskan Hunter and Guide ([Piscataway], 1983, large 8vo, illustrations, original buckram-backed boards, dust-jacket) and Claude Blair's Pollard's History of Firearms (London, 1983, 4to, illustrations, original brown buckram, dust-jacket, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Wilfred [sic] with best wishes from Claude (Blair)", all bound in buckram or boards. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. Provenance: From the Collection of Wilfrid Ward. (26)