INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to guns and shooting

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1846. First American, from the ninth London edition. To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with descriptions of the animals and birds. Carefully collated from authentic sources by Wm. T. Porter, Esq.... Pp. 460(last blank)+32(advertisements and publisher's catalogue), frontispiece, plus 9 plates, 2 text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, the boards decorated in gilt & blind, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly worn, fore-corners neatly reinforced, rebacked, with most of the original gilt lettered & decorated spine laid on; top edges green; ribbon marker; hinges reinforced with cloth tape, scattered foxing, occasional slight soiling; Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1846. First U.S. edition. *From the firearms collection of Douglas Mills, with two of his business cards laid on the upper pastedown. Earlier from the library of the Bissell family of Pittsburgh, with ownership inscriptions (one dated 1849) on the upper free endpaper and title page. The section of American Hunting and Shooting includes chapters by J. J. Audubon and 'Frank Forester' [Henry William Herbert]. Tipped-in before p. 77 is an advertisement for Eley's Patent Wire Cartridges.