By Colonel Thornton
London   Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Paternoster-Row
12" by 9.5" lxvi, 168, [6]; xii, 260, [12]pp
A complete two volume set of A Sporting Tour, with illustrations throughout and in the first edition.
By Colonel Thornton

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

London   Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Paternoster-Row
12" by 9.5" lxvi, 168, [6]; xii, 260, [12]pp
A complete two volume set of A Sporting Tour, with illustrations throughout and in the first edition.
£950.00
: 2kgs / : 839B10

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First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

A first edition, complete two volume set of A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the Year 1802, by Colonel Thornton. 

These volumes included a description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting and other field amusements of France with general observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture and commerce and manners of the French people. from a series of letters to the Right Hon The Earl of Darlington. 

Colonel Thornton was an English sportsman known for his assiduity in hunting and other outdoor pursuits. 

With twenty five plates, five which are folding to volume one and twenty six plates to volume two. The first volume has a frontispiece and an engraved title page.
Collated, complete.

Condition

Re-bound in half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally, very smart with a few marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright pages with scattered spots throughout.

Very Good

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