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[Bulliard, Pierre]. Aviceptologie françoise, ou traité général de toutes les ruses dont on peut se servir pour prendre les oiseaux qui se trouvent en France, 1st edition, Paris: Didot, le jeune, 1778, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 34 engraved plates, ink-stamp ('C. Bourdeau fils') to foot of half-title, dated on title-page corrected in manuscript, bookplates (Schwerdt and William Truscott), edges dyed red, contemporary French cat's-paw calf, gilt spine, 12mo (16.5 x 9.2 cm), together with: [Turgot, Etienne François]. Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de préparer, de conserver, et d'envoyer les diverses curiosités d'histoire naturelle, 1st edition, Lyon: Jean Marie Bruyset, 1758, half-title, 25 engraved folding plates, half-title spotted, light browning, edges dyed red, contemporary French cat's-paw calf, gilt spine, 8vo (19.6 x 11.4 cm), Lovell (Robert). Pambotanologia [graece], sive Enchiridion botanicum, or a Compleat Herball, 2nd edition ('with many additions'), Oxford: by W. H. for Ric. Davis, 1665, with longitudinal half-title not mentioned in ESTC, closed tear into text of N10, early sheep, rebacked, spine partially cracked, defective at head, 12mo (15.2 x 8.5 cm), and 1 other (Culpeper, School of Physick, 1659, lacking frontispiece, text not collated) (Qty: 4) Provenance (Bulliard): Carl Franz George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939), author of Hunting, Hawking Shooting, Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, with his bookplate. ESTC R24436 (Lovell); Harting 179 (Bulliard: 'contains some useful suggestions for capturing hawks'); Freeman 2321 (Lovell); Schwerdt I p. 89 (Bulliard: 'A good book on the subject with appparently original plates'); Wing L3244 (Lovell).