Book Details

Book Reference: 8490
Author: Thornton. (Col. T.).
Title: A Sporting Tour Through various Parts of France in the Year 1802, Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Modes of Hunting and Other Field Amusements as Practised in that Country. With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of The Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England in a Series of Letters to The Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington To WHich is Prefixed an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. London. Albion Press.
Price: £650
Year: 1806
Description: 2 vols 4to, finely bound in half red morocco by Riviere, engraved title to each volume, 52 full page plates of which 11 are folding, woodcut illustrations in text, pp. lxvi + 168, xii + 260. a choice copy.
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