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HUNTING AND FISHING -- L'art de toute sorte de chasse et de pche ... et un dictionnaire de la chasse et de la pche, Lyon: les frres Bruyset, 1730. 2 volumes, 8, woodcut vignette on titles (light spotting), contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt (but rubbed). Provenance: Pairault (bookseller's label). A re-issue of this compilation, partly based on Fortin, first published in Lyon, 1719. Thibaud 44-45; W. & S. p. 17; Petit 107.
[DELISLE DE SALES, Jean Baptiste Claude Isouard.] Dictionnaire thorique et pratique de chasse et de pche, Paris: J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769. 2 volumes, 8, half titles, title to volume I with engraved vignette of a stag hunt, title to volume II with vignette of fishing both by Legrand (light spotting), contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (but slightly rubbed). Provenance: A Colmar chez Xavier Fontaine (bookseller's label). FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, p. 137; Souhart 559; Thibaud 260; Petit 707.
With three other works, De Chanvalon Manuel des Champs (Paris, 1769, third edition) in contemporary mottled calf [Thibaud 165; Petit 558], P. J. Buc'hoz Trait de la pche (Paris, 1786, first edition) in later morocco-backed boards [W. & S. p. 45; Petit 293], and J. B. G. Thibault Trait sur la chasse et la pche (Paris, 1811, first edition), in original printed wrappers [Souhart 458; Thibaud 894; W. & S. p. 208; Petit 2053]. (7)
[DELISLE DE SALES, Jean Baptiste Claude Isouard.] Dictionnaire thorique et pratique de chasse et de pche, Paris: J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769. 2 volumes, 8, half titles, title to volume I with engraved vignette of a stag hunt, title to volume II with vignette of fishing both by Legrand (light spotting), contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (but slightly rubbed). Provenance: A Colmar chez Xavier Fontaine (bookseller's label). FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, p. 137; Souhart 559; Thibaud 260; Petit 707.
With three other works, De Chanvalon Manuel des Champs (Paris, 1769, third edition) in contemporary mottled calf [Thibaud 165; Petit 558], P. J. Buc'hoz Trait de la pche (Paris, 1786, first edition) in later morocco-backed boards [W. & S. p. 45; Petit 293], and J. B. G. Thibault Trait sur la chasse et la pche (Paris, 1811, first edition), in original printed wrappers [Souhart 458; Thibaud 894; W. & S. p. 208; Petit 2053]. (7)