39. [Hunting]. Set of 3 books. - Lot 39

39. [Hunting]. Set of 3 books. - TOUSSENEL (Alphonse). L'esprit des bêtes. Vénerie française et zoologie passionnelle. Paris, Librairie sociétaire, 1847. In-8, xvi p., 414 p., 1 f. catalog, half tan basane. Binding rubbed. First edition. (Thiébaud, 904) - DIGUET (Charles). Le Livre du Chasseur. Drawings by Riballier. Paris, Fayard, s. d (1881). In-8, xii p., 464 p., many illustrations, half-basin. Last leaf and endpaper detached. Rousseurs, average condition. - TERNIER (Louis) & MASSE (Fernand). Wild ducks and their congeners. Their migrations, their description, and their hunting by day and by night, in front of you, in boats, in huts and in gabions. Paris, Firmin-Didot, s.d. (1908). Gd in-8, xxii p., (1) f., 751 p., contemporary half-bound in brown basane, illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. First edition. First inner hinge cracked. First edition, rare, says Thiébaud (Thiébaud, 884).