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An essay on shooting : containing the various methods of forging, boring and dressing gun barrels, practised in France, Spain, and England, and the different Proofs of Barrels employed in those Countries; with Remarks-An Investigation of the Causes of Recoil, and of Bursting; with Proposals for preventing or remedying Them-An Inquiry into the Effects of the Length, Bore, and Charge, upon the Range, &c. of the Piece-Remarks on the Properties and Action of Gunpowder, and upon the Articles of Shot, Wadding, &c. &c. - Instructions for attaining the Art of Shooting-The Methods of training Pointers-And a short Description of the Game of this Country, as connected with the Amusement of Shooting. The whole interspersed with summary Observations on the various Subjects of the Sport.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magné de Marolles, d. 1792.
- Standardized Title:
- Essai sur la chasse au fusil. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shooting--Early works to 1800.
- Shooting.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix,[3],313,[1]p. )
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Other Title:
- Essay on shooting
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCXCI. [1791]
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Gervais François Magné de Marolles.
- Adapted and translated by John Acton?.
- In two parts.
- With a half-title.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T64643.
- OCLC:
- 642654698
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