LE VERRIER de LA CONTERIE (Jean-Baptiste-Jacques). Vénerie n - Lot 727

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LE VERRIER de LA CONTERIE (Jean-Baptiste-Jacques). Vénerie n - Lot 727
LE VERRIER de LA CONTERIE (Jean-Baptiste-Jacques). Vénerie normande ou L'école de la chasse aux chiens courants [...] Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. In-8, shagreened basane, ornate smooth spine, red mar. title page, straw-colored edges (period binding). XV-526 pp. Heads and spines restored, corners worn. Some light foxing. Second edition illustrated with 17 beautiful woodcut folding plates printed on bluish paper and 14 engraved pages of hunting band music. Complete with blank folio 447-448 (missing from many copies). Complete with plates: the 3 deer head plates are here combined on a single large fold-out plate. The plates are the same as in the first edition; those of the dog, hare and fallow deer are new. "This second edition, much enlarged, presenting Le Verrier's definitive text, is far superior in interest to the first." Thiébaud (589). Ex-libris J.M.
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