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Mayer, John, Gamekeeper

Mayer, John, Gamekeeper; The Sportsman's Directory; or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion: Containing Breeding, Choice, and Training of Dogs; Coursing and Shooting; Management of a Deer Park and Fisheries; Preserving Game; Hunting the Hare, Fox, Stag &...etc. With forty-one valuable recipes. Swinburn and Walter, Colchester, 1817. Second Edition, Much Enlarged.
Small, hardbound 8vo in a contemporary gray- blue paper boards. Spine skilfully repaired. Illustrated with two (2) full page engravings incl. the frontispiece. Clean and fresh text. Top edge trimmed and a bit dusty, else uncut. A charming copy with the exlibris of Rich.d Shuttleworth Streatfield inside front board. Frontisp. , X, 223 p. , (III), last blank + plate.