[CHASSE] MAGNÉ de MAROLLES Gervais-François (1727-1795).

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[CHASSE] MAGNÉ de MAROLLES Gervais-François (1727-1795).
La chasse au fusil, a work divided into two parts, containing: the first, research on draft weapons [...] and some brief notions on the other parts of the hunting rifle [...]. The second, the teachings and knowledge necessary to usefully hunt the different species of game [...]. Paris : printers of Monsieur and Théophile Barrois, 1788. Fort in-8 (200 x 135 mm), xvi-582-[10] pp. 9 plates h.-t. Full brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title-piece, red edges (period binding). Complete first edition of this "first French work devoted exclusively to shotguns and shooting [...] it is also the first hunting treatise that devotes an important part to waterfowl". Complete with 9 hors-texte engravings including: 6 plates including 1 folding, 2 large folding plans of hunting in Bearn, and an engraving of the marks of gunners of Paris (p. 82). PROVENANCE: Horace Finaly Library Thiébaud 621. - Souhart 312. - Schwerdt II:3.
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