Author: JOURNAL DES HARAS.- Title: Journal des Haras, chasses et courses de chevaux. Édition Belge.
Description: Bruxelles, Au Bureau du Journal, 1835. - 1836. 8vo. 6 parts in 3 vols. 5 identical woodc. vignettes on 5 (of 6) printed titles. W. a total of 81 [12, 15, 16, 13, 13, 12] full page lith pls. ['Lemonnier'& 'Lith. Rue de Berlaimont' etc.]. (All plates foxed; tissueguards preserved.). Original full lightblue-green moiré blind and giltst. publ. cloth. (Covers some scratches; upper cover vol. 3 [part 5/6] a waterspot.). (IV, 326; IV, 340; VI, 336; IV, 336; IV, 338; 336 pp.). (Titlepage for vol. IV also used for vol. V, no half title & titlepage for vol VI). Very good copies. First parts of this important periodical on horses. Finely illustrated with lithographic plates & portraits of horses, dogs and hunting scenes. Comp. Menessier de la Lance, vol. I, p. 698: Wells, 4123: The half title and title page of part 6 were not bound in. All the plates with the usual foxing (also due to the tissueguards. Text clean. Very good set in original moiré publisher's cloth.
Keywords: equestrian Equine paarden liths lithography horsemanship books French Mennessier W66
Price: EUR 375.00 = appr. US$ 407.57 Seller: Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.
- Book number: 8126