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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Cox, Nicholas & Richard Blome] |
| Title: |
The Gentleman's Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Collected from Ancient and modern Authors Forrein and Domestick, and rectified by the Experience of the most Skilfull Artists of these times |
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London |
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Printed by C. Fisher, for Maurice Atkins |
| Date: |
1674 |
| Item # : |
206028 |
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424 |
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12 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 900 |
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| Description: |
| [14], 284 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 3 (of 4) folding copper-engraved plates; copper-engraved added pictorial title-page. (12mo) 6½x4¼, modern quarter morocco & marbled boads, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| Rare first edition of this important and hightly influential work, with 57 pages on angling. Lacks the hunting plate, as is often the case. Westwood & Satchell p.68; Wing C6702. With the bookplates of Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr., and Jeffrey Norton. |
| Condition: |
| Rubbing to board edges; some darkening and minor soiling to the contents, else very good. |
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