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Author: ANON.

Title: 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 etc

Price: £700.00

Year: 1735

Edition: 1st Edn

Publisher: C Hitch

Summary: 2 volumes, Volume I. B - Z8 AA - CC Volume II. CC - AA2008 pages, unpaginated, frontis in 13 compartments + 24 other plates including 18 folding showing nets, engines and traps plus plate of fish, professional paper repair to closed tear to the hunting notes folding plate, bookplate of Maxine and Joel Spitz, Glencoe, Illinois. Bound in full calf leather using early boards with later spine, leather on spine in contrasting colour to the boards. Spine in 6 compartments with title and volume number with gilt sporting motifs, within leaf corner pieces and rule boarders, head of spine lightly rubbed. An attractive binding of the scarce 1st edition. This compilation of all sporting matters includes shooting, flying is plagerised from Blome 1686. The folwing piece from Markham 1621. Chute 597-598, Schwerdt Vol 2 221, WS 200

Ref: 18872

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