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[GOURY DE CHAMPGRAND]. Almanach du Chasseur; ou, Calendrier Perpetuel, Paris 1773, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, 37 pp. engraved music at end. Schwerdt I, 102; Thiébaud 470. The Comte de Burey, bookplate--[LE ROY, CHARLES GEORGES]. Lettres sur les Animaux. Nouvelle Edition augmentée, Nuremberg and Paris [ie., Paris] 1781. Thiébaud 583-4, both bound in contemporary mottled calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, joints and extremities rubbed--L'Art de toute sorte de chasse et de pêche, Lyon 1719, 2 vols., later calf, joints renewed, FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt I, 46; Thiébaud 44-45--[BONNEFONS, NICOLAS DE]. Les plaisirs innocens et amoureux de la campagne, contenant le Traité des mouches...et un traité des chasses, Grenoble 1692, contemporary sheep, rebacked, endpapers renewed. Schwerdt II, 71; Thiébaud 117--[NAPOLEON I; LOUIS XVIII]. Livret des Chasses pour 1814 [manuscript account book], 49 leaves, small 4to, loose in red straight-grained morocco-covered wrappers, covers with gilt leafy vine borders, title "Livret des Chasses de Sa Majesté" gilt on upper cover, green silk liners, a few leaves slightly browned, listing the year's expenses of the various subdivisions of the "Grande Venerie", with an inventory of equipment and a statement of the total annual kill. Marcel Jeanson, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 366); together 5 works in 6 vols., all but the last 12mo. (6)