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Parting Words to Kate from The Sloop of War, Jamestown

A Conversation between H.F. Leonard and K. Higashi

A Note on Ill-Breeding from a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

Mrs Beaton’s Poultry & Game – Choosing Poultry

The Hardwood Handbook – An Illustrated Guide to Appalachian and Southern Lumber

Proper Wines to Serve with Food

History and Facts on American Newspaper Production from the Colonial Times Through the 1890s.

Fox Hunting Season Opens 1935 – Heythrop Country at Lower Swell, near Stow-in-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “I Can Get’em at the British Museum”

A Day of Foxhunting in Maryland

New From the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX No. 165 Allen’s Indian Mail

The Famous Kilkenny Hunt – 1930

The Shirk – An Old but Familiar Phenomena

Audubon’s Art Method and Techniques

The Intaglio Processes for Audubon’s Birds of America

Stoke Park – Granted by King Charles I

U.S. Coast Guard Radio Information for Boaters

Temples, Walls, And Some of the Roman Antiquities of Bath

Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Memoranda on Painting – December 1755

Feeding the Hounds at Chateau Cheverny

Naval Stores – Distilling Turpentine

Christmas Pudding with Dickens

Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life – Fox Hunting

Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs

The History of Witchcraft in England – The Beginnings

Clarivoyance by C.W. Leadbeater

The Restoration of Rosa Bonheurs Horse Fair

50 Watt 4 Stage Hi-Fidelity Power Amplifier Circuit and Parts List [The Basic Schematic of Most Low Cost Tube Guitar Amps Made Today]

Looking for a Gift for the Book Collector in the Family?

Chinese Duck Cooking – A Few Recipes

The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Warmth of a Country Christmas

Formulaes for Re-Creating the Old-Fashioned Drug Store Counter

Homemade Wine Recipes from the 16th and 17th Centuries

Rendering Amber Clear for Use in Lens-Making for Magnifying Glass

U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act – Full Text

The Relation of Chemistry to the progress of Wine Making, Brewing, and Distilling

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages

Fruits of the Empire: Licorice Root and Juice

The Whiting Society of Ringing

History of Regulation of Stock Exchange Specialists

Sir Joshua Reynolds – Notes from Rome

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Producing and Harvesting Tobacco Seed

Mrs. Beaton’s Poultry & Game – Cooking Poultry; Baking and Boiling

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers

Clairvoyance – Methods of Development

Bess of Hardwick: Four Times a Lady

Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil

Valentine Poetry from the Cotswold Explorer

On Bernini’s Bust of a Stewart King

Chronological Catalog of Recorded Lunar Events

Of Interest to Heavy Drinkers: Cleansing the Liver with Northern Ground Cone (Boschniaka rossica)

The Basics of Painting in the Building Trade

The English Tradition of Woodworking

Country House Christmas Pudding

Copper Kills Covid-19 and the Sun is Your Friend

Fell and Moor Terrier Club circa later 1990s

Shooting in Wet Weather

April 15th, 2019

Reprint from The Sportsman’s Cabinet and Town and Country Magazine, Vol I. Dec. 1832, Pg. 94-95

To the Editor of the Cabinet.

SIR,

Possessing that anxious feeling so common among shooters on the near approach of the 12th of August, I honestly confess I was not […]

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The Fowling Piece – Part I

April 8th, 2018

THE FOWLING PIECE, from the Shooter’s Guide by B. Thomas – 1811.

I AM perfectly aware that a large volume might be written on this subject; but, as my intention is to give only such information and instruction as is necessary for the sportsman, I shall forbear introducing any […]

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The Snipe

April 7th, 2018

THE SNIPE, from the Shooter’s Guide by B. Thomas – 1811

AFTER having given a particular description of the woodcock, it will only. be necessary to observe, that the plumage and shape of the snipe is much the same ; and indeed its habits and manners sets bear a great […]

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A History of Fowling – Ravens and Jays

April 5th, 2018

From A History of Fowling, Being an Account of the Many Curios Devices by Which Wild Birds are, or Have Been, Capured in Different Part of the World by Rev. H.A. MacPherson, M.A.

THE RAVEN (Corvus corax) is generally accredited with a large endowment of mother wit. Its warning […]

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Snipe Shooting

March 30th, 2018

Snipe shooting-Epistle on snipe shooting, from Ned Copper Cap, Esq., to George Trigger-George Trigger’s reply to Ned Copper Cap-Black partridge.

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“Si sine amore jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in &more jooisque.” -Horace. “If nothing appears to you delightful without love and sports, then live in sporta and […]

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

— Adam Smith