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Nouvelles Editions de la Toison d’Or, 1949. In-4, cartonnage éditeur, 254 pages, illustré d’une carte dépliante en couleur “à la manière ancienne”, 4 planches h.-texte et 84 dessins de J. Oberthur dans le texte. Une tache sur le cartonnage. Ensorcelé par la chasse de la sauvagine, Jean de Witt a rédigé cette étude fouillée avec l’aide des plus expérimentés sauvaginiers de chaque région : Louis Ternier, H. de Boislambert, le Marquis de Barthélémy, etc. On trouve des articles sur la migration, la bécassine, la chasse du gibier de grève, une chasse en Camargue, dans la région des Dombes et du Forez, en Corse, Alsace... Mouchon, 1273.
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 22 cm). In English. 230 p. Color and b/w ills. Including bibliography. Hunting in Turkey. A study detailing the hunting of big and small game in Turkey including three deer species, chamois, wild sheep, wild boar, gazelle, bear, wolf, waterfowl, etc., with details of Turkey's first hunting museum and a guide to hunting in the country. Signed and inscribed by Üstay.
8vo [23 x 17 cm]; 89 pp, frontis (port), numerous plates from photos, bibliog. original green cloth with gilt title lettering on spine, dj (spine worn and chipped, tears), name on endpaper, else near fine and clean copy in worn dj (which is often absent). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Forrest collected plants in Western China, Upper Burma and Eastern Tibet from 1904 to 1932 and introduced many new plants, especially rhododendrons and primulas, but many others. He made seven expeditions to Yunnan and he died during the seventh. 'George Forrest was the first man to bring business methods into the pursuit of plant collecting' (Cox, Plant Hunting in China). An interesting and important book on one of the most significant plant collectors of the 20th century. Some of the material has been extracted from periodicals that Forrest contributed to, a list of which is included at the end of the book, and some of the material has been contributed by The Scottish Rock Garden Club, which did the editing.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; 80 pp, photo plates. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (chipped at edge), else near fine, inscribed and signed by author on half-title page, dated May 1950. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The M. D. author describes his travels through Switzerland, the Pyrenees, the Dolomites and Karawanken, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece and Cyprus, describing the plant life, topography, etc, and taking his own photos of scenery, buildings, flowers, etc. Also included is a loose two page letter from author Hugh Miller, dated September 1949.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xii, 299 pp, frontis (port), 2 maps, including one foldout, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering in gilt border, endpaper signature, endpaper lightly toned, interior is clean and near fine, in very good+ cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on three month's travel on the Huallage River, an Amazon tributary, from its source at 14,000 feet in the Andes to Yurimaguas at 500 feet sea level and the return to the Pacific by the ancient trade route through northern Peru. The author, a distinguished gardener, discovered a new genus of plants and several new species. There is much on the scenery, native people, camp life, etc. Good illustrations including the orchid Sobralia gloriosa growing beside the Yana-yacu River.
359p. + Plus wood engraved half title, full page engravings and a folding map, on light paper. an old repair. Foxed. 16mo. 160 mm. Original Harper's printed cloth binding (with the date 1834 on the front cover), stained and worn, with old spine repairs. Good. AFRICA/6.
pp. (1) [Head of Ferret drawn from life by A. F. Lydon], 1-40 [Text], 13 [Catalogue of Practical Handbooks], (3) [Advertisements]. May lack title page and original wraps. Text drawings. Stamped ownership of Joseph B. Vandergrift. Monastic stamp. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. Remnants of library slip or bookplate on rear paste down. 16mo. Half leather over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine. Gilt stamp of Vancroft Farm on leather of front board. Hardbound. In 1901, the wealthy industrialist Joseph B. Vandergrift a couple of farms amounting to about 480 acres, and named the property Vancroft. It quickly became a playground for the "rich and famous". The "Monte Carlo of the Ohio Valley" was the site of "bejeweled women", cock-fighting, fox hunts, horse racing on the only figure eight track in the country at the time, bowling, cards, billiards, swimming parties, gambling, drinking, and all sorts of earthly revelry (apparently including ferreting). VERY SCARCE. NATURAL HISTORY BOX 4
360p. illus. Hardcover Very good conditon
Imprimé à Vannes. “La cour faisant droit sur requête dudit Tremerreuc (...) fait deffenses à toutes personnes, tant Prestres, Gentilshommes , Bourgeois, Marchands, qu'autres de condition commune de chasser (...) sur gibier de poil ou plume, tels qu’ils puissent estre, à peine de confiscation des Armes & de cinq cent livres d’amende pour la première fois & de punition corporelle pour la seconde”
Bibliothèque Nationale Département des Manuscrits, Imprimerie Berthaud Frères, 1910, in/8 carré, texte préliminaire de C. Couderc, 35 pages, ensuite 90 (planches) miniatures du manuscrit Français 616 de la Bibliothèque Nationale en noir et blanc en photocollographie, sous chemise avec étui de l'éditeur. J.Thiébaud col.735. Le Livre de chasse fut rédigé, ou plus exactement dicté à un copiste, de 1387 à 1389 par Gaston Phébus, comte de Foix. Cet homme à la personnalité complexe et à la vie mouvementée, que l'historien Jean Froissart évoque dans ses célèbres Chroniques était, comme tous les seigneurs du Moyen Âge, un grand chasseur ...
1880 circa. Cromolitografia, cm 50,5 x 70, (il foglio). Buono stato di conservazione.
1880 circa. Cromolitografia, cm 50,5 x 70, (il foglio). Buono stato di conservazione.
In 8. Dim. 22x14 cm. Pp. XXII+353+(7). Edizione del 1873 di queste memorie di caccia del cacciatore e autore versatile Benedict Henry Revoil (1816-1882) vissuto negli Stati Uniti tra il 1841 e il 1849. L'autore descrive un'ampia varietà di animali autoctoni come l'aquila, il mustang, il coyote, l'opossum, procioni, cani della prateria, orso grizzly, bufalo ma anche falchi, piccioni, gatto selvatico, caribou, cervo, orso bruno durante i suoi spostamenti in Mississipi, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisville, Louisiana, Carolina del Nord, Arkansas, Edisto, Canada, New Brunswick ecc... Belle illustrazioni a piena pagina di Jean Edouard Van D'Argent (1824-1889). Al contropiatto anteriore cedola di assegnazione del volume come premio ad un alunno nell'anno scolastico 1877-78. Copertina in piena tela editoriale con titolo in oro e decorazioni a secco ai piatti. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in peina tela editoriale con titolo in oro e decorazioni a secco ai piatti in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Edition of 1873 of these memories of hunting by the hunter and author Benedict Henry Revoil (1816-1882) who lived in United States between 1841 and 1849. The author describes a wide variety of amrican animals as eagle, mustang, coyote, opossum, racoons, cani della prateria, grizzly, buffalo but also pigeons, wild cat, caribou, during his movements in Mississipi, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisville, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Edisto, Canada, New Brunswick etc... Beautiful full page illustrations by Jean Edouard Van D'Argent (1824-1889). In the internal part of front plate paper of assignation of the volume as a prize to a student dated 1877-78. Full cloth editorial cover with golden title in the spine and embossed decorations in the plates. In very good conditions. Full cloth editorial cover with golden title and embossed decorations in very good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxings.
PARIS, Firmin-DIDOT ET Cie - 365 pages. In-4 - Relié couverture éditeur, pleine percaline rouge avec décor polychrome or. Tranches dorées. - nombreusdes illustrations dde BELLECROIX et autres. Bon exemplaire.
Librairie générale de jurisprudence de cosse, 1852. In-8 (22 x 14 cm) reliure demi-chagrin bordeaux, dos à nerfs à filets et titres dorés, 152 p. Thiebaud col. 205. Faisait partie de la collection d'ouvrages de chasse du Commandant Garnier, auteur entre autre de "176 Anecdotes cynégétiques" & "Traité complet de la chasse des alouettes".
Moulins, Crépin Lebond, 1930. Petit In-8 relié demi6percaline brune, pièces de titre, fleuron doré, couverture conservée. 228 pages. Très bel état.
Paris, E. Dentu, Editeur, 1861. In-12, reliure à la bradel moderne, pièce de titre en basane noire. 295 pages, couvertures conservées. Edition originale de la première série. C’est à un tour de France que nous convie Foudras, pour décrire les particularités régionales de la vénerie française. Les maîtres et les piqueux, mais aussi les chiens, les chevaux et les animaux sont les héros de cette épopée. Thiébaud, 423.
En vente chez l’auteur à Senlis (1901). In/12, demi-basane verte, dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre rouge, 360 p. frontispice, 12 figures pleines pages et vignettes, 35 gravures. Malgré un dos insolé, un très bel exemplaire. Thiebaud col. 585. Il existe une deuxième édition de 1905.
1929, sous le patronage de l’Association des Lieutenants de Louveterie. Grand in/8 reliure toile verte, illustrations in-texte et planches sur papier couché, 416 pages. ouvrage en bon état hormis un dos insolé. La louveterie : historique, organisation actuelle - du droit de destruction des animaux nuisibles par G. Amiaud - textes des lois sur la louveterie et la chasse - extrait du dictionnaire général des eaux et forêts.
Nouvelles Editions de la Toison d’Or, Paris, 1950. In-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 348 pages, figures dans le texte et 2 planches hors-texte sur papier couché.
Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Editeurs, 1853. In/16 reliure à la bradel en demi-tafetas moiré moutarde, titre doré, couvertures conservées, 95 p. Edition originale. Coiffe usées, auréole claire sur certains feuillets. La chasse au chastre ; Une chasse au Tigre ; Les Eléphants ; Le Coq et la Poule... Thiébaud, 659.
Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Editeurs, 1860. In-8, demi-basane rouge, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, doré sur tête, 300 p. Rousseurs claires éparses. La chasse au chastre ; Une chasse au Tigre ; Les Éléphants ; Le Coq et la Poule... Thiébaud, 659.
P., Plon, collection Durel Le monde merveilleux des bêtes, 1954. In-4 broché, 234 pages. Illustré par l'auteur. Bon exemplaire.
Carteret, Paris, 1911. In-8 (18 x 12 cm) broché, couverture imprimée, 206 pages. Thiebaud col. 750.
Bibliothéque de la Chasse Illustrée sans date vers 1905. In-8 broché, 248 pages. Postface de M. Louis TERNIER. Illustrations d'aprés BELLECROIX, G. GELIBERT, MAHLER, MOISAND, ROTIG, COMTE, STAUB, E. SAINT-ELME, E. FORCADE. Très bel état.
