J.-P.-R. CUISIN
L'école du chasseur, suivi d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse à piston
Chez Lécrivain|Paris 1822|9.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
First edition, rare, illustrated with a frontispiece folding plate featuring multiple figures of the new hunting rifle, and 9 plates with various figures on traps, weapons, different types of hunting...
Contemporary half tawny sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 2 types of tools, including one with palm motif, gilt roulettes. Signs of rubbing, particularly on boards. Corners turned in. P. 381, marginal tear without loss. Lower joint split at foot. Good copy.
Subtitle: Manual as instructive as it is amusing, very necessary first to gentlemen employees of the forestry administration, to gamekeepers, to hunters, to fishermen, to professional bird-catchers, to gunsmiths [•••] of
Contemporary half tawny sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 2 types of tools, including one with palm motif, gilt roulettes. Signs of rubbing, particularly on boards. Corners turned in. P. 381, marginal tear without loss. Lower joint split at foot. Good copy.
Subtitle: Manual as instructive as it is amusing, very necessary first to gentlemen employees of the forestry administration, to gamekeepers, to hunters, to fishermen, to professional bird-catchers, to gunsmiths [•••] of
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