Lot n° 176
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MUN, Adrien, marquis de - Lot 176
MUN, Adrien, marquis de
Hunting book for the year. Pen-drawn by M. le marquis de Mun and lithographed by A. Collette
Paris, Susse frères, [1884].
MARQUIS DE MUN'S PERSONAL AND PROBABLY UNIQUE COPY FOR HIS CHÂTEAU DE LUMIGNY. THE FIRST FEW LEAVES HAVE BEEN FILLED IN BY HAND AND REPEAT HIS FAMILY NAMES SEVERAL TIMES.
SUPERB HUNTING BOOK ENTIRELY LITHOGRAPHED BY ADRIEN DE MUN
ORIGINAL EDITION
Oblong folio (442 x 305mm). Entirely lithographed
COLLATION AND ILLUSTRATION : title frontispiece illustrated with a large hare, an introductory engraving with the addition in ink of the words "Lumigny" and the year "1884), 46 large hunting tables printed on both sides of 23 leaves for the months of September, October, November, December, January and February, with 8 tables for September, 6 for October, 8 for November, 8 for December, 8 for January, 8 for February (and not 4 as required for each month by Thiébaud), each picture is bordered by a beautiful historiated motif different for each month, at the end of each of the 6 months a summary lithograph gives the total for the month, at the end of the volume a framed picture of costumed animals gives the total for the year (the copy is richer than the one described by Thiébaud), making a total of 55 lithographs printed by A. Collette from a drawing by Adrien de Mun
MANUSCRITED ANNOTATIONS, in black ink: on the second sheet, added in "Lumigny" ink, in the tables for 1884, the names "comte de Mun", Adrien de Mun, marquis de Mun, then comte d'Harcourt, marquis de Jaucourt, comte A. de Lur-Saluces, M. Singer, M. Sommier, Comte de Fraguier, Comte d'Haussonville, each with the number of guns killed, and some hunting locations: "Le Parc", "Lapinière" etc.
PUBLISHER'S BINDING. Red percale, gilded and cold-stamped decoration, framed with double fillet.
PROVENANCE: Marquis de Mun at Château de Lumigny
Marginal tear to the last plate and to the inner margin of one of the "December" plates, but not missing. Binding a little rubbed
Thiébaud describes the two editions of this famous "hunting book" by Adrien de Mun (1817-1898). This copy, hand-dated 1884 and filled by a member of the de Mun family, is more complete than the one described by the bibliographer, and must certainly be the original edition of the work, the second edition having been printed by Bosscher. The château de Lumigny, near Rozay-en-Brie in the Seine-et-Marne region, had entered the de Mun family in the 18th century through the designer's grandmother: Élisabeth Charlotte Helvétius (1752-1799), daughter of the philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvétius. From 1843 to 1870, Adrien de Mun reassembled a hunting crew in Lumigny.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thiébaud, 672
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