L'école du chasseur, suivi d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse à piston

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 [•••] offering at once an abridged falconry, a hunting code, and finally the explanation of all traps and hunter's ruses, as well as that of the qualities which constitute a good hunting rifle.
Practical work which presents a portrait of all types of hunting (hare, wolf, badger, birds, fish...).