[HUNTING] - LIGER (L.) - Amusemens de la campagne, ou nouvelles ruses innocentes, qui enseignent la manière de prendre aux pièges toutes sortes d'oiseaux et de bêtes à quatre pieds ; avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivières et étangs : et un traité général de toutes les chasses [...] - Paris ; Saugrain, 1753 - 2 volumes In-12° - Numerous woodcut figures in and out of the text - Binding of the period marbled fawn basane (covers worn with some small worm works, 3 corners dull) - Spine ribbed and ornamented (worm works missing in the last caissons, upper headpieces rubbed) - Title-pieces in burgundy and brown morocco - Red edges - Good inside. Provenance : Château de Limoëlan.

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