Sport In Classic Times

by BUTLER, Alfred Joshua. ID No.: 217
AU$30.00

William Kaufmann  Los Altos.  CA. 1975 reprint.  8vo. Illust. 213pp.  D/J.  Foreward  by Roderick Haig-Brown.  A survey of hunting and fishing in ancient Greece and Rome.  A remarkable book by a classics scholar who was also an expert angler.  In his writing of hunting, fishing and fowling the author combines the scholarship with a witty, interesting and unfailingly charming style of writing.  Thirty two illustrations. D/J  is slightly rubbed, stained and spine sl sunned. -Fine