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Show LEA AND BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. HAWKER AND PORTER ON SHOOTING. INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSlUEN IN ALL THAT RELATES TO GUNS AND SHOOTING. BY LXEtJT. COL. P. HAWKER. FROM THE ENLARGED AN'D IMPROVED NINTH LONDON EDITION, TO WHICH IS ADD"ED THE HUNTING AND SHOOTING OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH DESCRlPTIONS OFF~fl~{fi'H~~~6~gu~tPs:FULLY COLLATED BY W. T, PORTER, ESQ.. EDITOR OF THE N. Y. SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. In one large octavo volume, rich extra cloth, with numerous Illustrations. "Here is a book, a hand-book, or rather a text-book-one that contains the whole routine of the science. It 1s the Primer. the Lexicon, and the Homer. Everythmg is here, from the. minutest portion of a gun-lock, to a dead Buffalo. The sportsman who reads this book understandmgly, may ~ ~:=~nP!e~~r~~~:~d ~~c~hi~~~~: miyst~\~lrb~C: '~~~j~e~ec:~~;Y ~~r!i\~~{d be examined on its contents, and esttmated by his abihties to answt~r. We have not been Without treatises on the art, but hitherto they have not descended into all the ~inutie of equipments and q ual1fications to proceed to the completion. This work supphes defimenc1es, and completes the sportsman's library."-U. S. Gazelle. ~No man in the country that we wot of is so well calculated as our friend of the ' Spirit' for the task he has undertaken, and the result of his labours has been that he has tumed out a work which should be in the ha.hds of everyman in the land who owns a double-barrelled gun."-N. 0. Picayune. w~~v~d~~\~~~ l'n";,.~t d~':n~~~d,N~~;o~~~~~~~d';!~ ~~h~~ube ~!ft~~~~it~~hil~~~ general reader will find in 1ts pages a fund of curious and useful mformat.ion."-Richmond W7ug. YOUATT ON THE DOG. 'l'HE DOG, BY WILLIAM YOUATT, Author of "The Horse," &c. WITH NUMEROUS AND llEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS. EDITED BY E. ;r, LEWIS, M.D. &c. &c. In one beautifully printed volume, crown octavo. LIST OF PLATES. Head of llloodhonnd- Ancient Grlplhonnds-The Thibet Dog-The Dingo, or New HoUand Dog- ~l:b~i!s0~n~~~~~~.f{-; ~:t~§~~~~~.fhfPJo':li~¥h~0':Ug;i~:~~:ri~~ ~~~~~a~~~ E"~=~~:~~;:r~~~d~~;;~f~~~~'::~"St~~e~n~~~~~~PJl~~T~!i-~;"~~u~~:~ Hound-The Setter-The Pointer-The lluU Dog-The Mastiff-The Terrier-Skeleton of tho Dog-Teeth of the Dog at seven different ages. "l\.1r. Yonatt's work is invaluable to the student of canine history; it is full of entertaining anJ instructive matter for the general reader. To the sportsman it commends itself by the larf>e amount of useful information in reference to his peculiar pursuits which it embodies-mformat1on which he cannot find elsewhere in so convenient and acces~nble a for~ and with. so reliable an authority ~t~~~t~f i~b~ ~~k~~~~0~es )~t~odt~5ifi!e~3Tti~~l~a~~e r:e~~him~~:J0t~hrt t~tP~h: W!~h~~ntitled to great credit for the hanclsome manner in which they have got it up."- OR HIN~ ~N ~~~ !k';~~~~;,~H~T~~. ~~:!l, GUNS, FISHING, COURSING, &c., &c. BY JOHN MILLS, ESQ., Author of "The Old English Gentleman," &c. In one well printed royal duodecimo volume, extra cloth. S'l'ABLE 'l'ALX AND 'l'ABLE 'l'ALX, OR SPECTACLES FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. BY HARRY HIEOVER. In one very neat duodecimo volume, extra cloth. sh:~eb: ~~~s;~~~ f~H:~ Jthee:ve~.tle~bo~k11is ~:;;~f!v~1 ~:~ a:d ~~~~~ :=; instruct1ve hlnts, 88 well as much light-hearted reading.''-Examiner. 'l'HE DOG AND 'l'HE SPOB.TSMAN7 EMllRA,fb~gumEof~~ lf}W/R~~T~r'o~ 8ll~;,s~~'rWim?J ~~~r~D AN Also, IUnts to Shooters, -with various useful Recipes, &c., &c. BY J. S. SXXNNER. 'Y-~ tth Plates. In one very neat 12mo. volume. 'Xtra cluth. |