LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques - Lot 153

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LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques - Lot 153
LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Vénerie normande, ou L'École de la Chasse aux chiens courants, Pour le Lièvre, le Chevreuil, le Cerf, le Daim, le Sanglier, le Loup, le Renard & la Loutre Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778 A VENERY CLASSIC IN THE 18th CENTURY Second edition, partly original. In-8 (193 x 124 mm). Wood-engraved fleuron on title page, bands, an initial and wood-engraved endpapers. 14 pages of engraved text and music, included in the pagination. a8 A-Z8 2A-K8 (a1 and 2K8 blank; without 2E8 blank [numbered 447-448]): xv-526 pp., (1) f. 19 wood-engraved plates, printed on bluish paper, some on both sides and two on several leaves, all but one folding. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Marbled calf, framed with cold fillet, gilt-edged ribbed spine, red edges. Brunet, III, 1036 -- Thiébaud, 589-590: "f. 447-448, which is blank, is missing from many copies. [...] this second edition, much enlarged, presenting Le Verrier's definitive text, and in which he has given his all, is far superior in interest to the first" -- Schwerdt, I, 313 -- Souhart, 299-300: "folio 447-448 was formerly a blank folio, it has disappeared in most copies and it is very rare to find it". Pale wetness on a few leaves, slight tears on the introductory leaves, rubbing to the binding.
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