OBSBALDISTON, William Augustus. The British Sportsman, or nobleman, gentleman, and farmer's dictionary ... with ... instructions for ... fishing, London: for the proprietor by J. Stead and sold by Champant and Whitrow, [1792]. 4, 42 engraved plates (some spotting, slight offsetting to text), contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece (head and tail of spine rubbed, joints cracked).

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OBSBALDISTON, William Augustus. The British Sportsman, or nobleman, gentleman, and farmer's dictionary ... with ... instructions for ... fishing, London: for the proprietor by J. Stead and sold by Champant and Whitrow, [1792]. 4, 42 engraved plates (some spotting, slight offsetting to text), contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece (head and tail of spine rubbed, joints cracked).

FIRST EDITION of this handsomely-illustrated sporting dictionary. Schwerdt II, p. 54; W. & S. p. 165; Petit 1637.

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