LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. Venerie Normande, ou l'Ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants . Rouen: Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8° (209 x 129mm). Half-title. 27 woodcuts, of which 16 are folding and 6 printed on both sides, 7 pages of engraved music 'Tons de chasse et fanfares'. All but one plate and the final quire printed on blue paper. (Without blank pp. 447-48 [EE8] as usual, plate for p.187 misbound at p.287.) Crimson morocco janseniste by Trautz-Bauzonnet, edges marbled and gilt. Provenance : Comte de Beaufort (bookplate) -- Comte de Fresne (bookplate) -- Carl Franz Georg Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939, collector, bookplate; sale Sotheby's, 11 July 1939, lot 1678, £2.10 to Maggs). THE SCHWERDT COPY OF THE SECOND, AUGMENTED EDITION ('LE TEXTE DéFINITIF' - THIéBAUD) OF A 'CLASSIC ON HUNTING' (SCHWERDT). The present copy formerly graced the Beaufort-Fresne-Schwerdt collections. All notable collections of hunting books, Schwerdt's ws famed for its rarities in fine condition, and it was described in his bibliographical catalogue Hunting, Hawking, Shooting . The woodcuts in the present work are those of the first edition (1763), with 3 additions. Souhart 299-300; Schwerdt I, p.313; Thiébaud 589-90.
LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. Venerie Normande, ou l'Ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants . Rouen: Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8° (209 x 129mm). Half-title. 27 woodcuts, of which 16 are folding and 6 printed on both sides, 7 pages of engraved music 'Tons de chasse et fanfares'. All but one plate and the final quire printed on blue paper. (Without blank pp. 447-48 [EE8] as usual, plate for p.187 misbound at p.287.) Crimson morocco janseniste by Trautz-Bauzonnet, edges marbled and gilt. Provenance : Comte de Beaufort (bookplate) -- Comte de Fresne (bookplate) -- Carl Franz Georg Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939, collector, bookplate; sale Sotheby's, 11 July 1939, lot 1678, £2.10 to Maggs). THE SCHWERDT COPY OF THE SECOND, AUGMENTED EDITION ('LE TEXTE DéFINITIF' - THIéBAUD) OF A 'CLASSIC ON HUNTING' (SCHWERDT). The present copy formerly graced the Beaufort-Fresne-Schwerdt collections. All notable collections of hunting books, Schwerdt's ws famed for its rarities in fine condition, and it was described in his bibliographical catalogue Hunting, Hawking, Shooting . The woodcuts in the present work are those of the first edition (1763), with 3 additions. Souhart 299-300; Schwerdt I, p.313; Thiébaud 589-90.
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