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RICHARD BADHAM THORNHILL
The Shooting Directory, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. 4° (295 x 240mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint portrait frontispiece of the author, 7 aquatint and engraved plates, 5 hand-coloured, tables, 3 folding, 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Occasional spotting). Contemporary half calf (rubbed and stained). Provenance: a few contemporary textual corrections. FIRST EDITION, third issue. Abbey Life 394; Prideaux p. 354; Schwerdt IV, p. 93; together with Colin Milne's A Botanical Dictionary: or, Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany ... third edition (London, 1805), attractively-bound in modern morocco gilt, and William Henry Scott's British Field Sports (London, 1818). (3)
The Shooting Directory, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. 4° (295 x 240mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint portrait frontispiece of the author, 7 aquatint and engraved plates, 5 hand-coloured, tables, 3 folding, 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Occasional spotting). Contemporary half calf (rubbed and stained). Provenance: a few contemporary textual corrections. FIRST EDITION, third issue. Abbey Life 394; Prideaux p. 354; Schwerdt IV, p. 93; together with Colin Milne's A Botanical Dictionary: or, Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany ... third edition (London, 1805), attractively-bound in modern morocco gilt, and William Henry Scott's British Field Sports (London, 1818). (3)
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