diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 15f9f9b..2a211cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ part of your geospatial project.
 
 # Version Changes
 
+## 2.3.x
+
+### New Features:
+- Reader.iterRecords now allows start and stop to be specified, to lookup smaller ranges of records.
+- Equality comparisons between Records now also require the fields to be the same (and in the same order).
+
+### Development:
+- Code quality tools run on PyShp
+
 ## 2.3.1
 
 ### Bug fixes:
@@ -1467,6 +1476,7 @@ Karim Bahgat
 karanrn
 Kurt Schwehr
 Kyle Kelley
+Lionel Guez
 Louis Tiao
 Marcin Cuprjak
 mcuprjak
diff --git a/shapefile.py b/shapefile.py
index 12af74d..2b22ba9 100644
--- a/shapefile.py
+++ b/shapefile.py
@@ -854,6 +854,12 @@ def __dir__(self):
         )  # plus field names (random order if Python version < 3.6)
         return default + fnames
 
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, self.__class__):
+            if self.__field_positions != other.__field_positions:
+                return False
+        return list.__eq__(self, other)
+
 
 class ShapeRecord(object):
     """A ShapeRecord object containing a shape along with its attributes.
@@ -1325,7 +1331,9 @@ def __restrictIndex(self, i):
         if self.numRecords:
             rmax = self.numRecords - 1
             if abs(i) > rmax:
-                raise IndexError("Shape or Record index out of range.")
+                raise IndexError(
+                    "Shape or Record index: %s out of range.  Max index: %s" % (i, rmax)
+                )
             if i < 0:
                 i = range(self.numRecords)[i]
         return i
@@ -1809,18 +1817,35 @@ def records(self, fields=None):
                 records.append(r)
         return records
 
-    def iterRecords(self, fields=None):
+    def iterRecords(self, fields=None, start=0, stop=None):
         """Returns a generator of records in a dbf file.
         Useful for large shapefiles or dbf files.
         To only read some of the fields, specify the 'fields' arg as a
         list of one or more fieldnames.
+        By default yields all records.  Otherwise, specify start
+        (default: 0) or stop (default: number_of_records)
+        to only yield record numbers i, where
+        start <= i < stop, (or
+        start <= i < number_of_records + stop
+        if stop < 0).
         """
         if self.numRecords is None:
             self.__dbfHeader()
         f = self.__getFileObj(self.dbf)
-        f.seek(self.__dbfHdrLength)
+        start = self.__restrictIndex(start)
+        if stop is None:
+            stop = self.numRecords
+        elif abs(stop) > self.numRecords:
+            raise IndexError(
+                "abs(stop): %s exceeds number of records: %s."
+                % (abs(stop), self.numRecords)
+            )
+        elif stop < 0:
+            stop = range(self.numRecords)[stop]
+        recSize = self.__recordLength
+        f.seek(self.__dbfHdrLength + (start * recSize))
         fieldTuples, recLookup, recStruct = self.__recordFields(fields)
-        for i in xrange(self.numRecords):
+        for i in xrange(start, stop):
             r = self.__record(
                 oid=i, fieldTuples=fieldTuples, recLookup=recLookup, recStruct=recStruct
             )
diff --git a/test_shapefile.py b/test_shapefile.py
index 08561c6..7984e91 100644
--- a/test_shapefile.py
+++ b/test_shapefile.py
@@ -972,6 +972,51 @@ def test_record_oid():
             assert shaperec.record.oid == i
 
 
+def test_iterRecords_start_stop():
+    """
+    Assert that Reader.iterRecords(start, stop)
+    returns the correct records, as if searched for
+    by index with Reader.record
+    """
+
+    with shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/blockgroups") as sf:
+        N = len(sf)
+
+        # Arbitrary selection of record indices
+        # (there are 663 records in blockgroups.dbf).
+        for i in [
+            0,
+            1,
+            2,
+            3,
+            5,
+            11,
+            17,
+            33,
+            51,
+            103,
+            170,
+            234,
+            435,
+            543,
+            N - 3,
+            N - 2,
+            N - 1,
+        ]:
+            for record in sf.iterRecords(start=i):
+                assert record == sf.record(record.oid)
+
+            for record in sf.iterRecords(stop=i):
+                assert record == sf.record(record.oid)
+
+            for stop in range(i, len(sf)):
+                # test negative indexing from end, as well as
+                # positive values of stop, and its default
+                for stop_arg in (stop, stop - len(sf)):
+                    for record in sf.iterRecords(start=i, stop=stop_arg):
+                        assert record == sf.record(record.oid)
+
+
 def test_shape_oid():
     """
     Assert that the shape's oid attribute returns