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Hunting with a gun

ROBINSON, H.
Conseils sur chasseurs sur le tir, les armes, munitions et illustrations du chasseur. La chasse en plaine et les différentes chasses des oiseaux savages; suivie d'une table alphabétique de tous les gibiers à poil et à plume avec des renseignements détaillés sur chacun d'eux.

With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops.

With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops.

With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops.



Paris, Brussels, Leipzig, A. Goin, Widow and son of Schnée, 1860. Large 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, red and blue mottled edges. With several wood-engraved figures and tables in text, 2 lithographed plates, not signed, one showing a hunting scene at night, and 3 full-page wood-engraved plates on hunters shooting hare, duck, and birds by the use of a mirror by Felicien Rops. 219, (1 blank) pp.

First edition of a treatise on hunting with a gun, starting with an thorough treatment of various kinds of sporting guns, how to choose a sporting gun, on munition, powder and bullets, etc. Then the shooting of all kinds of birds in all sorts of grounds is treated, including hunting at night, from a hut or a wagon, artificial means, etc. And at the end sporting dogs are dicussed at length, including their illnesses, the book closing with some words on a sportingman's outfit and equipment.
The book is beautifully illustrated as well, and the first edition is especially sought after for the plates by Felicien Rops which are here in first state. 

Fine copy.- (Few odd stains; some sl. foxing near the lithographed plates).
Thiébaud 788; Souhart 408.

Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Art  Hunting  Zoology 

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