A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry, and Fishing
by Crawfurd, Oswald (Ed.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. [x], 331, frontis, 57 plain illus (many full page). . HB. 4to (283x234mm), orig. cloth, slightly marked, bevelled boards, gilt vignette of a wildfowling scene to front board, blind-stamped stag head to rear board, patterned endpapers, teg, other edges uncut. Some foxing, mainly at beginning and end. Bookplate of Robert Ellis Cunliffe (1858-1927).. With chapters on birds of prey, the nidification of birds, and the habits of British wild birds and animals. With numerous illustrations by Frank Feller, Bryan Hook, Cecil Aldin, A.T. Elwes, E. Neale, John Beer, P. Viernzeny, Stanley Berkeley, and G.E. Lodge.Mullens & Swann p. 155..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S55682
- Title
- A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry, and Fishing
- Author
- Crawfurd, Oswald (Ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- Country sports; Falconry; Fishing; Angling; Shooting
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Vignette
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