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Item Details
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| Author: |
Cox, Nicholas |
| Title: |
The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts, viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Wherein these Generous Exercises are largely Treated of, and the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking more amply Enlarged than heretofore... |
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London |
| Publisher: |
Joseph Phillips and Hen. Rodes |
| Date: |
1686 |
| Item # : |
128253 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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17 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 805 |
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| Description: |
| [10], 158, [8], [1], 187, [5], 78, [1], 98 pp. Illustrated with 5 copper engravings, 4 of which are folding. 7¼x4¼, bound in full nineteenth century calf, gilt-ruled, two gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine labels, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Third Edition. |
| Sporting and hunting guide, divided into four parts: A Treatise for Hunting; A Treatise of Hawking and Faulconry; Direct Rules of Fowling...With a short Account of Singing-Birds; Direct Rules of Angling. Also, includes: "The Hunter: A Discourse of Horsemanship: Directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a Horse, for ordinary Hunting and Plates." 98 pp. Published at Oxford in 1685 for Nicholas Cox. Signature of "Lord Audley" on the front preliminary page. |
| Condition: |
| Joints rubbed with front joint starting to split, light shelf wear; contents clean with little to no wear; a near fine copy in a nice nineteenth century binding. |
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