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Gamonia or The Art of Preserving Game; and An Improved Method of Making Planations and Covers explained and Illustrated
by Rawstorne, Lawrence
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Herbert Jenkins, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, large 8vo, green cloth blocked with a gilt border and lettered gilt to spine, top edge gilt, a very well preserved tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, unusually this copy is complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper which is lightly marked & has small loss at head of a dulled spine, fifteen coloured illustrations by T J Rawlins, a reprint of the 1837 Ackermann edition with a new 47 page Introduction by Eric Parker. Very uncommon in the jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210202
- Title
- Gamonia or The Art of Preserving Game; and An Improved Method of Making Planations and Covers explained and Illustrated
- Author
- Rawstorne, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- game sport fieldsports shooting hunting countryside rural
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