Item #65097 A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes. Thomas THORNTON, c., Colonel.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.

A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quartos (30 x 24cm), pp.lxvi; 168; [6], pp.xii; 260; [12]. With numerous in-text engravings and 51 engraved plates across the two volumes, some of them fold-out. Both with frontispieces and vignette title pages, frontispiece of volume II is fold-out. Brown half calf, borders gilt-ruled. Newly re-backed spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with further gilt embellishment. Marbled paper over boards. All edges marbled. Both volumes still mostly bright and clean, some infrequent marking/spotting/offsetting. A few pencil annotations to both. Armorial bookplate to both pastedowns. Rubbing to paper boards. Wear to extremities. Very good. Item #65097

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