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[HARES AND FOXES]. GARDINER, JOHN SMALLMAN. The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting. In Six Letters to a Person of Quality, 1750, modern calf-backed boards, uncut, repairs to fore- and inner margins of half-title, frontispiece, and last leaf, first and last leaves soiled, FIRST EDITION, half-title, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 3 engraved plates dated 1801-11. Mellon/Podeschi 50; Schwerdt I, 197--BLANE, WILLIAM. Cynegetica, or essays on Sporting: consisting of Observations on Hare-Hunting, 1788, early nineteenth-century cloth-backed boards, paper title label, untrimmed, light foxing, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title by Thomas Stothard. Mellon/Podeschi 67; Schwerdt I, 70; [Another copy], later half calf, rubbed, marginal dampstaining to plates--GUICHARD, LAURENT. Traité de la Chasse au Lièvre, poème, Lyon and Paris 1839, modern quarter cloth, original lithographed wrappers preserved, foxing--The Hare; or Hunting Incompatible with Humanity: written as a stimulus to Youth towards a proper treatment of animals, Philadelphia 1802, 16mo, contemporary boards, rebacked in calf, some foxing, half-title, woodcut title vignette and tail-piece. Schwerdt I, 230. R. McElwec, contemporary ownership inscriptions--[HAWKES, JOHN]. The Meynellian Science, or Fox-Hunting upon system, 1848, 12mo, red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., by Bayntun (Riviere). Schwerdt II, 26 ("A rare book, considered to be the best treatise on fox hunting extant"); London except as noted; together 6 vols., 8vo unless otherwise described. (6)