Author: Baron de Vaux
Title: L'ARMORIAL DE LA VENERIE LES GRANDS VENEURS DE FRANCE suivis d'une etude sur les principaux equipages de l'etranger PREMIER PARTIE [all ever published]
Description: Paris, J.Rothschild 1895 20 chromolith plates tipped onto ruled & titled leaves + 5 illuminated text illustrations . obl. Folio PROVENANCE -from the library of Charles Francis Georg Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939) the foremost bibliographer of hunting books. Half green cloth portfolio with crocodile embossed paper boards with pictorial front cover with grained flaps with moire gold paper inside the cover and flaps. [wear & marking to cloth/splits to hinges but still sound/rubbing to corners of embossed paper] Pictorial titlepage printed in orange and brown + dedication leaf + [1]-XIX + text pages in fasicules of 4 to 5 pages + a chromolith plate of hunters with dogs annd horses etc to each fasicule with one fasicule having 7 pages of text to its illustration. Each plate has a pink guard sheet to protect the illustration. Aside from the titlepage which is somewhat foxed & tanned all the pages are clean and bright.

Keywords: Hunting book with provenance


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