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    Sale 8635

    The Angling Library of the Late Albert Petit

    London, South Kensington

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    8 October 1999

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    Lot 16

    COULON, L. Les rivires de la France, Paris: Gervais Clousier, 1644. 2 volumes, 8 (some browing and staining, first quire of vol. II gnawed at outer margin), contemporary limp vellum. FIRST EDITION. With an extensive index to each volume. Brunet VI, 1253 (23145); Petit 624: ''Ouvrage trs rare''.

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    GBP 1,150

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    GBP 200 - GBP 300

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    COULON, L. Les rivires de la France, Paris: Gervais Clousier, 1644. 2 volumes, 8 (some browing and staining, first quire of vol. II gnawed at outer margin), contemporary limp vellum. FIRST EDITION. With an extensive index to each volume. Brunet VI, 1253 (23145); Petit 624: "Ouvrage trs rare".

    BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph. Trait de la pche; ou L'art de soumettre les poissons de l'homme, prced de l'histoire naturelle de ces animaux, Paris: Guillot, 1786. 12. FIRST EDITION. [Bound with]: ROUGIER DE LA BERGERIE. Manuel des tangs, Paris: Audot, 1819. 12, 2 engraved folding plates and one folding table, contemporary tree calf, flat spine (slightly worn). Bosgoed 2985; W. & S. p. 45; Petit 293bis.

    LEMOYNE. Ides prliminaires et prospectus d'un ouvrage sur les pches maritimes de France, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1777. 8, 19th-century calf (rubbed, corners bumped). Lemoyne, mayor of Dieppe, explains in this prospectus how overfishing can affect the ecology of the seas: but his projected work appears to have remained unpublished. Bosgoed 3018. (4)

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