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Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse, la vénerie et la fauconnerie, publiés ou composés depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à ce jour en français, latin, allemand, anglais, espagnol, italien, etc : Avec des notes critiques et l'indication de leur prix et de leur valeur dans les différentes ventes
Souhart, Roger François
1886
Edition of 550 copies.
The gentlemans recreation : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art,... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
Blome, Richard (1705)
1686
With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome. Title page in red and black. Printed in double columns. Brome signs the dedication. Approbation of Charle...
Five years hunting adventures in South Africa : being an account of sport with the lion, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, camelopard, ostrich, hippopotamus, wildebest, koodoo, hyaena, etc., etc
Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn (1820-1866)
[1892]
Spine title: Hunting adventures in South Africa.
The highlands of central India; notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports
Forsyth, J (1838-1871)
1871
Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist; a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals
Brooke, Sir Victor Alexander (1843-1890); Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904)
1894
Includes index.
Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme
Estienne, Charles (1504-1564); Liébault, Jean (1535-1596); Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)
1616
Includes indexes.
Natural history & sport in Moray
St. John, Charles William George (1809-1856); St. John, Anne Gibson; Innes, Cosmo (1798-1874)
1882
Edited by Mrs. Anne St. John.
Grati Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, A poem of hunting
Gratius, Faliscus; Wase, Christopher (1625?-1690)
1654
English and Latin on opposite pages.
Wild Spain (España agreste) : records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Chapman, Abel (1851-1929); Buck, Walter John
1893
Includes index