Lot n° 46
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 280EUR
BOULENGER, Marcel - Lot 46
BOULENGER, Marcel
The rarest volcelest in the world
Paris, Devambez, [1914]
SOME ADVICE FROM HUNTERS OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
1. FIRST EDITION. In-4 (230 x 180 mm). Woodcut hunting banners in brown by Ernest Deloche. One of 90 copies on Arches vellum, second paper. 32 pp. 10 hors-texte woodcuts by Pierre Brissaud, all enhanced with watercolors. CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BINDING SIGNED H. LAGORSE. Full red morocco, spine ribbed, gilt head, cover preserved. PROVENANCE: Pierre Mouchon (1897-1962; heraldic ex-libris and his motto "cave muscam pungit"). Thiébaud, 123-124. 2. GYP, Martel de Janville, comtesse, Les Chasseurs, Paris, Calman-Lévy, 1888. FIRST EDITION. In-4, 321 pp. numerous hors-texte vignettes by Crafty. Modern orange half-maroquin, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head. Thiébaud, 637. 3. MOUCHON, Pierre, La Chasse des oiseaux d'eau en France, Paris, Émile Noury-Libraire cynégétique, 1931. ORIGINAL EDITION, In-4, XIV, 388 pp. with numerous watercolors & full-page reproductions by Eugène Lelièvre. One of 450 copies on Alfa latiné, third paper, this one numbered 281. SIGNED ABBAYE DE MAUMONT BINDING. Half red chagrin, spine ribbed. Thiébaud, 669. 4. SABRAN-PONTEVÈS, Jean de, Les Veillées du Gerfault, Paris, La Chasse illustrée, s. d. In-12, afterword by Louis Ternier, masthead, engraved title, frontispiece, 249 pp. 2 pp. table, numerous hors-texte illustrations after Bellecroix, Géilbert, Mahler, Rötig &c. Midnight blue half chagrin, gilt fillets, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, cover preserved. Thiébaud, 795 for the first edition. 5. LA VALLÉE, J., Les Récits d'un vieux chasseur, Paris, Hachette & cie, 1860. In-12, masthead, title, 331 pp. 1 p. table. Midnight blue half-chagrin, spine ribbed, marbled edges. Thiébaud, 562 for the first edition.
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