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[Sporting, Field Sports], Fairfax

THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN, Or, Country Gentleman's Recreation. Containing the Whole Arts Of Breeding.Of Hare-hunting, Of Fox-hunting.Of Coursing.Of Angling.Of finding the haunts of Partridges, Pheasants and all Manner of Game, Of Shooting. Together, with several other equally curius Articles too numerous to be mentioned in this Title Page.

J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head in Pater-Noster-Row, 1760

585,00 €

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Détails

Année
1760
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
[Sporting, Field Sports], Fairfax
Éditeurs
J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head in Pater-Noster-Row
Edition
FIRST EDITION. A complete work for the sportsman, written at a
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece of a "chace" in the field, showing dogs, keepers, men on horseback and a country scene. Large 12mo, handsomely bound in contemporary antique mottled calf, the covers with double gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments elaborately decorated with fully gilt decorative tooling, two contrasting red and green morocco lettering labels gilt, elaborate gilt rolled turnovers, marbled end-leaves, all edges gilt. vi, [7] - 240 pp. A handsome copy, the text-block in excellent condition, clean and crisp, the binding with some light rubbing and age evidence, but without loss or significant wear.