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brown leather book with yellow snake skin cover on a white backgroundan open book with a picture of a man and a dog on itan open book with a black and white photo of a tree in the background
Maître Cyril DUVAL

589 - TERNIER (L.) & F. MASSE. Wild ducks and their kin.
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Estimate €100 - €120
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TERNIER (L.) & F. MASSE. Wild ducks and their kin. Their migrations, their description, and hunting them by day and by night, from a blind, by boat, from a hide and from a gabion. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1908. Quarto, modern brown half-shagreen with modern corners, plain ribbed spine, 752 pages. First edition of a remarkable classic on waterfowl hunting: migrations, weather, zoological descriptions, poaching, hunting grounds, hunting methods, firearms, duck blinds, etc. Half of the book is devoted to hunting from a hide: location, construction, equipment, decoys, gabions from Picardy and Normandy, etc. Illustrated with numerous photographs and woodcuts. The final pages are frayed, with some pages missing. The spine is roughly lined. Expert: Mr Cédric De FOUGEROLLE
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About the sale 📚🦓🦋 LA FLÈCHE Sale 2 – HUNTING: BOOKS, TROPHIES, TAXIDERMY & CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
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Auction time 09/07/2026 at 2:15 PM
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