TURBERVILLE, GEORGE. The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. London: Thomas Purfoot 1611. Small 4to, early nineteenth-century half morocco, restoration to joints, extremities of spine and corners, worn, upper inner hinge weak, lacking initial blank and leaves R1-2 (containing the "measure of blowing"), title imprint cropped, cropping to rule border of C7v and to catchwords and/or signatures of E5r, F3r and I3r, tear to second leaf catching woodcut headpiece, browning and soiling. Second edition. STC 24329. Bookplates of Charles Mainwaring and James Fagan Scharnberg. [With:] Single leaf A8 from the same work (with woodcut of a hound), mounted in a modern plexiglass frame, edges taped. (2)

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TURBERVILLE, GEORGE. The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. London: Thomas Purfoot 1611. Small 4to, early nineteenth-century half morocco, restoration to joints, extremities of spine and corners, worn, upper inner hinge weak, lacking initial blank and leaves R1-2 (containing the "measure of blowing"), title imprint cropped, cropping to rule border of C7v and to catchwords and/or signatures of E5r, F3r and I3r, tear to second leaf catching woodcut headpiece, browning and soiling. Second edition. STC 24329. Bookplates of Charles Mainwaring and James Fagan Scharnberg. [With:] Single leaf A8 from the same work (with woodcut of a hound), mounted in a modern plexiglass frame, edges taped. (2)