Title: The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in all Rural Recreations: With full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. With the Method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of Horses, Dogs, Pigeons, Cocks, &c....Illustrated with...different kinds of Nets, Engines, and Traps... Author: [Anonymous] Place: London Publisher: For C. Hitch, C. Davis & S. Austen Date: 1735 Description: 2 volumes. With 26 copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece in Vol. I), 19 of which are folding. 7½x4½, bound in later half marbled calf and marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt, two gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, later endpapers (with label from The Sporting Gallery & Bookshop of New York). First Edition. Scarce sporting work with nicely executed plates of various equipment and outdoor scenes of humans and animals. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines sunned, boards and edges a bit rubbed; scattered mild foxing; else very good. Item number: 177514
Title: The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in all Rural Recreations: With full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. With the Method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of Horses, Dogs, Pigeons, Cocks, &c....Illustrated with...different kinds of Nets, Engines, and Traps... Author: [Anonymous] Place: London Publisher: For C. Hitch, C. Davis & S. Austen Date: 1735 Description: 2 volumes. With 26 copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece in Vol. I), 19 of which are folding. 7½x4½, bound in later half marbled calf and marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt, two gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, later endpapers (with label from The Sporting Gallery & Bookshop of New York). First Edition. Scarce sporting work with nicely executed plates of various equipment and outdoor scenes of humans and animals. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines sunned, boards and edges a bit rubbed; scattered mild foxing; else very good. Item number: 177514
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