A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802, London, 1806, half calf

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Los 96 | A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802, London, 1806, half calf
A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802. London: James Cundee, 1806

2 volumes bound in one, 4to (318 x 240mm.), half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, 55 plates, mostly sepia aquatints, contemporary half calf, binding a bit rubbed

An account of Thomas Thornton's tour of France, compiled by letters he sent to his friend the Earl of Darlington, recounting the sports of the region, following his book A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland which addressed the hunting, shooting, angling and hawking he did on his tour there. Thornton was a proponent of the country sports, reviving falconry on his Yorkshire estate.
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