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Pteryoplegia: or, The art of shooting flying. A poem. By Mr. Markland, A.B. late Fellow of St. John's-College in Oxford.
Markland, George, 1678-1722.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The use of shooting flying: familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue. Containing directions for the choice of guns for various occasions. An Account of divers Experiments, discovering the Execution of Barrels of different Lengths and Bores. With many useful hints for the Improvement of Young Practitioners, entirely new.
Page, T. (Thomas), 1713-Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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"Verb. sap." on going to East Africa, British Central Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar, and big game shooting in East Africa.
Date: 1906- Pictures
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Boys shooting arrows at a target set up on a wall. Etching by W. Woernle after David Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 33178i- Pictures
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A red Tibetan demon with a parrot's head shooting an arrow from a bow. Gouache painting by a Tibetan artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582073i- Pictures
A rural landscape: milkmaids milking cows; hunters shooting game birds. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491320i- Pictures
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Atalanta defending her chastity during a hunt by shooting her pursuer. Engraving by J.K. Baldrey after H.W. Bunbury, 1790.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 4 March 1790Reference: 46764i- Pictures
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The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Wierix, Antonie, -1604.Date: [1600?]Reference: 31746iPart of: Cor Jesu amanti sacrum- Books
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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-And Remarks upon the Articles of Powder, Shot, Wadding, &c. &c. Also 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.
Magné de Marolles, -1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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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.
Magné de Marolles, -1792.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Manly exercises; containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports / The whole carefully revised by "Craven" [John William Carleton].
Walker, DonaldDate: 1847- Books
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Hybrid cars and shooting stars : a trade union agenda for greater participation and understanding of science / TUC Economic and Social Affairs Department.
Date: 2008- Archives and manuscripts
Album of photographs of Scriven at work in hospital, receiving a cup for the Godalming RAMC Territorial Unit, and shooting (in the Netherlands?)
Date: 1950s-1960sReference: RAMC/1652/6/9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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An orang-utan is fleeing into the crown of a tree chased by three men in loincloths shooting arrows at the ape. Wood engraving.
Reference: 41255i- Books
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The case of Thomas Bowler, a lunatic, now under sentence of death in Newgate, for shooting at Mr. Burrows, Farmer, of Alperton Green, Middlesex.
Date: 1812- Pictures
Three vignettes: cupids riding on a dolphin; cupids shooting at a heart-target; drunken cupids riding on a goat. Etching after J. B. Huet, 1773.
Huet, Jean-Baptiste, 1745-1811.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2498934i- Pictures
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Punishments in camps during the Afghan wars, including flogging, hanging and the shooting of Afghans while tied to a rod. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
Durand, Godefroy, 1832-1896.Reference: 43713i- Books
Sacha, the little bright shooting star : the story of surrogacy : to Sacah, a very special little bear / written and illustrated by Sofia Prezani.
Prezani, SofiaDate: 2012- Pictures
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Manmatha (Kamadeva), Hindu god of love, shooting arrows with his bow while sitting on a elephant composed of women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 581076i- Pictures
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Rati, Hindu goddess of love, shooting arrows with a bow while seated on a horse formed from five women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 581074i- Pictures
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A young couple sitting on a grassy bank, he has a shooting rifle on his shoulder and she has a basket on her lap. Stipple engraving.
Reference: 28213i- Pictures
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Men are out shooting pheasant on the moors, a dog is returning with the catch in his mouth. Engraving by J.H. Engelheart after A. Cooper.
Cooper, A.Date: 1856Reference: 34682i- Books
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A poem written during a shooting excursion on the moors: by the Revd. William Greenwood, Fellow Of ST. John's College, Cambridge; And Rector Of Bignor, In Sussex.
Greenwood, William, 1754 or 1755-1811.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Digital Images
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A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
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The international directory for naturalists and sportsmen, in English, French and German, containing the terms used in hunting, shooting, fishing, etc., natural history and sciences / [Edwin Simpson-Baikie].
Simpson-Baikie, Edwin.Date: [1878-1879]