game hunting two volumes slipcase de blüchel kurt (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 32x28cm. First English-language edition, translated from the German. Two uniform volumes. The development and significance of hunting from earliest beginnings to present day / the hunt in art - painting & sculpture, handicrafts, architecture / hunting weaponry / European game species / falconry / hunting dogs / game cuisine / hunting tales / and more. pp319(1) & 339(1) with numerous colour & other illustrations, maps, references, and index; pictorial endpapers. Hardback / hard cover: green boards, backstrips and front boards titled in yellow. Dust jacket of Vol. 1 grazed at head of backstrip panel. FINE set in VERY GOOD (Vol.1) and near FINE (Vol.2) unclipped dust jackets. Sturdy colour-illustrated paper-covered card slipcase still holding, but in FAIR condition only - having wear at all four lower corners and along lower edge of closed end, loss of paper covering to depth up to 1.6cm along upper edge of closed end, open split of length 10cm along lower edge of one side panel, and a few indentations, light scratchmarks and minor grazes elsewheres. (Heavyweight item, overseas shipping at cost.).