1806 A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the year 1802

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First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Written by Thomas Thornton (c1751-1823), an English sportsman. Thornton was known for his meticulousness as a huntsman and falconer. he was an advocate of hunting using volley guns. He also published 'A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland', which was noticed by Walter Scott in the Edinburgh Review of 1805. 

Thornton had visited France ahead of the French Revolution, and later revisited it during the Peace of Amiens in 1802. He was introduced to Napoleon Bonaparte, and presented him with a pair of Durs Egg pistols. He had aimed to purchase a French estate, but the Napoleonic Wars hindered his plans.

Two volumes bound together as one.

The first edition of this work.

With a frontispiece portrait an illustrated half title page and twenty-three plates to volume I, including six folding plates, and a folding frontispiece, illustrated half title page and thirty including six folding plates to volume II. Collated, complete.

A particularly smart example of this exciting work.