ENGLAND. THORNTON (Thomas). A Sporting Tour through... Lot 45

[ENGLAND]. THORNTON (Thomas). A Sporting Tour through various Parts of France, in the Year 1802: including a concise Description of the Sporting Establishment, Mode of Hunting, and other Field-Amusements, as practised in that Country with general Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: structures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; with a View of the comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. London, For Longman, Hurts, Rees and Orme, and C. Chapelle, 1806. 2 volumes large in-4°, half calf with small ivory vellum corners, smooth spine decorated (English binding of the time). Two ornate titles, a portrait and 52 plates (23 + 29) engraved in aquatint by BRYANT, some folded, including one in the frontispiece of vol. II ("Chanteloup, the Seat of the Duke de Choiseul)"; two plates of musical staves (vol. II, pp. 130); vignettes and caps. ONE OF A FEW EXAMPLES on LARGE PAPER with COLOUR PLATES. Joints restored; corners dulled; tomaisons reversed; f. XIII/XIV (t. I) bound after XV/XVI; three stained leaves. "We thought it necessary to quote this ''Voyage cynégétique en France'', made at the beginning of the 19th century, as our own literature has nothing analogous" (Thiébaud, 896/897). A French translation was given by the Revue britannique in 1894.