First edition

Jean Charles CHENU

Ornithologie du chasseur. Histoire naturelle - moeurs - habitudes - chasse des oiseaux de plaine, ...

J. Rothschild, Paris 1870, 17x27,5cm, relié.

First Edition illsutré 50 boards in chromo-typography.
Binding of the publisher in half red shagreen, back with four nerves ends adorned with double gilded and decorated boxes, a rubbed bit, framing of cold nets on the plates of red cardboard, guards and contreplats of white moire silk [...]

500 €

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First edition

KAWANABE KYOSAÏ

Ehon Taka Kagami (miroir de la fauconnerie)

Kinkadô, Edo 1879, 15,5x22,5cm, 12f., cousu.

First edition illustrated with 4 engravings on double page, 12 full page and 13 mid-page or vignettes, illustrating animated scenes between men, hawks and cranes; some scenes are frankly comical, others are descriptive.
Album stitched in Japanese, acordon.

850 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pierre LORME & Tristan BERNARD, André GALLAND

Chut ! Ca mord

Editions Baudinière, Paris 1937, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Preface by Tristan Bernard.
Book decorated with illustrations by André Galland.
Autograph signed by André Lorme to Lucien Descaves.

50 €

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First edition

Robert DAUVERGNE

Les engins de pêche dans l'art

D. Janvier, Paris 1935, 16,5x25cm, broché.

First edition.
Two gaps in the head and foot of the back, slight bites on the boards.
Illustrated book of 34 figures in and inset.
Rare.

40 €

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Jacques du FOUILLOUX

La vénerie de Jacques de Fouilloux précédée d'une notice biographique sur l'auteur par M. ...

Librairie cynégétique, Paris 1928, 20x28,5cm, broché.

New edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on Alfa paper, single print after 50 vellum.
Back and flat marginally insolated, three small gaps in the foot of the back and at the head of the second flat, nice interior state.

60 €

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Carle OUDRY Jean-Baptiste, Jacques LE FOURNIER [...]

Traité de vénerie

Librairie cynégétique, Paris 1929, 20x28,5cm, broché.

Illustrated edition of 27 figures by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, one of 1000 numbered copies on Alfa paper, the only print after 50 vellum.
Pleasant copy despite a slight trace of crease in the foot of the second board.

100 €

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First edition

Sabin BERTHELOT

De la pêche sur la côte Occidentale d'Afrique

Béthune & Arthus Bertrand 1840, 302pp., relié.

First edition, very rare, it is often confused with the reissue at the same editor of 1860. A large folding map of North West Africa with fishing stations and projected fisheries.
Binding half shagreen black grained contemporary. Cold coffered back and gilded nets. Part of the headdress torn [...]

450 €

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Abbé Noël Antoine PLUCHE

Le spectacle de la nature

Chez la veuve Estienne, à Paris 1764 - 1780, forts in-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 561pp. (2) et xxiv, 468pp. et (4) 576pp. et

A complete copy composed of volumes from several editions, as always for this book. 1764 for the first two volumes, then 1780 for the third, 1764 for the fourth, 1770 for the fifth and sixth, the seventh volume in 1746, and 1770 for the latter two. It is abundantly illustrated with 9 [...]

700 €

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