Description: WOLF-HUNTING & WILD SPORT IN LOWER BRITTANY [Edward DAVIES] CHAPMAN & HALL 1875 1st edition. 21 x 14 cm. xi + 325 pages + frontispiece and 3 other plates + 2 publisher's adverts. A gripping account of the author's 2 winters in France, hunting wolf, wild boar etc. A very good copy of this scarce and unusual book. Preface: "This scene of the following papers is chiefly confined to the region of Cornouaille, in and around the Black Mountains of Lower Brittany, where The Author resided for 2 winters, and enjoyed the Wild Sport obtainable in the surrounding forests. In proof that, as yet, the progress of civilisation has not done much to diminish the ferae naturae of Lower Brittany, so far at least as the Wolf is concerned, General Wm. Eden and his family, who were travelling in Finisterre this last autumn (1874), have kindly informed The Author that they saw, with no little astonishment, 5 full-grown wolves and 2 foxes dragged through the streets of Quimper, killed in a grande chasse in that immediate neighbourhood " WOLF-HUNTING AND WILD SPORT IN LOWER BRITTANY By the author of "Paul Pendril" and "Dartmoor Days" [Edward W. L. DAVIES] CHAPMAN & HALL 1875 First edition. A gripping account of the author's 2 winters in France, hunting wolf, wild boar etc. A very good copy of this scarce and unusual book. Preface: "This scene of the following papers is chiefly confined to the region of Cornouaille, in and around the Black Mountains of Lower Brittany, where The Author resided for 2 winters, and enjoyed the Wild Sport obtainable in the surrounding forests. In proof that, as yet, the progress of civilisation has not done much to diminish the ferae naturae of Lower Brittany, so far at least as the Wolf is concerned, General Wm. Eden and his family, who were travelling in Finisterre this last autumn (1874), have kindly informed The Author that they saw, with no little astonishment, 5 full-grown wolves and 2 foxes dragged through the streets of Quimper, killed in a grande chasse in that immediate neighbourhood " 21 x 14 cm. xi + 325 pages + frontispiece and 3 other plates + 2 publisher's adverts Very good condition, cloth worn and rubbed, New endpapers. Damp stain to the corner of 3 plates (pages unaffected). A little light foxing, mainly to the preliminary pages, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound, all plates present. Get images that make Supersized seem small. THE simple solution for eBay sellers.
Price: 54.99 GBP
Location: Carlisle
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Binding: Hardback
Illustrator: Hope Crealocke
Language: English
Non-Fiction Subject: Sports
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Region: Europe
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Year Printed: 1875
