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SHOOTING AND HUSBANDRY -- [MAGNE DE MAROLLES, G.F (d. 1792)]. An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring and dresssing gun barrels, translated and adapted by John Acton. London: T. Cadell, 1789. 8° (175 x 111mm). With blank A1 and half-title. Contemporary marbled calf with red morocco spine label (corners bumped, lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION in English. Chute 002: 'very scarce'; Schwerdt I, p. 2.
FAIRFAX, Thomas. The Complete Sportsman or Country Gentleman's Recreation. London: J. Cooke, [1760?]. 12° (168 x 98mm). [2] 263 [i.e. 236] [16]p. Engraved frontispiece. (Offsetting on title.) Contemporary calf (joints cracked and rubbed). Provenance: Francis Longe, Spixworth Park, Norfolk (bookplate). One of two[?] undated editions by J. Cooke, published c. 1760. cf. Chute 206; Schwerdt I, p. 169; and two other editions, the 1758 first edition and undated [1785?] edition, edited by George Morgan.
SMITH, Robert, rat-catcher. The Universal Directory for taking alive and destroying Rats and all other kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin. London: for the author, 1768. 8° (177 x 111mm). 6 engraved plates, 4 folding. Contemporary sheep (corners bumped, slight scuffing). Provenance: Baron Robert Russell Needham (bookplate). FIRST of several editions; and 3 others. (8)
FAIRFAX, Thomas. The Complete Sportsman or Country Gentleman's Recreation. London: J. Cooke, [1760?]. 12° (168 x 98mm). [2] 263 [i.e. 236] [16]p. Engraved frontispiece. (Offsetting on title.) Contemporary calf (joints cracked and rubbed). Provenance: Francis Longe, Spixworth Park, Norfolk (bookplate). One of two[?] undated editions by J. Cooke, published c. 1760. cf. Chute 206; Schwerdt I, p. 169; and two other editions, the 1758 first edition and undated [1785?] edition, edited by George Morgan.
SMITH, Robert, rat-catcher. The Universal Directory for taking alive and destroying Rats and all other kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin. London: for the author, 1768. 8° (177 x 111mm). 6 engraved plates, 4 folding. Contemporary sheep (corners bumped, slight scuffing). Provenance: Baron Robert Russell Needham (bookplate). FIRST of several editions; and 3 others. (8)
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