Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting: With Explanatory Plates and Woodcuts |
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| Title | Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting: With Explanatory Plates and Woodcuts |
| Editor | Peter Hawker |
| Edition | 11 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1859 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 May 2007 |
| Length | 548 pages |
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