[Cynégétique]. [MAGNE DE MAROLLES (Gervais-François)]. Hunti - Lot 233

[Cynégétique]. [MAGNE DE MAROLLES (Gervais-François)]. Hunting with a rifle [...]. Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur et Théophile Barrois, 1788. Fort in-8° de xvj, 582, [10] pp. 1 pl. h.-t. gravé sur c. [Relié à la suite:] Supplément au Traité de la Chasse au fusil, contenant des Additions et Corrections importantes. Paris, Th. Barrois le jeune, de l'imprimerie de P.-F. Didot Jeune, 1791. In-8° of 111 pp. 6 folding plates followed by 2 folding plans bound at the end. Fawn half-basane, long spine, blond morocco t.p., red edges (period binding). Complete first edition, rare. "This book is not only the first work devoted exclusively to shotguns and shooting, but also the first hunting treatise to devote a major study to wildfowling" (Thiébaud). Complete with plates, with its Supplement published in 1791 including the four leaflets of Addition au Supplément which are of the greatest rarity and "found in only a few copies" (Souhart). J. Thiebaud, Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse, col. 622; R. Souhart, Bibl. gén. des ouvrages sur la chasse, col. 312. Wear from use.