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125 - MANUSCRIPT. HUNTING EXCURSIONS organised by the hunting part…
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Estimate €500 - €600
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MANUSCRIPT. HUNTING EXCURSIONS organised by the hunting party of the Count de Lagrange. Hunting Season 1837 and 1838 [and] Continuation of the 1843–1844 Hunting Season. 2 small quarto volumes, (188) pp. and (192) ff., of which 40 are left blank at the end. Contemporary navy blue morocco-bound sheepskin, smooth spine, covers adorned with scroll-shaped metal fittings and frames of gilded and cold-stamped fillets in the Rocaille style, gilded title embossed in the centre of the covers, gilt edges, guilloché-patterned edges, gilded fillet on the edges, gilded roulette on the fore-edges, blue moiré paper endpapers (slight wear to the bindings and rubbed corners, a few skin tears, a few foxing spots, the inner jaw of volume 1 partially weakened, a few scattered foxing spots). Description: Interesting manuscripts on hunting with hounds, detailed in 2 volumes: A – Forests of the far western Paris region (Rosny, Brotonne, etc.) – list of the pack, huntsmen, hunting parties, etc. Legible handwriting in brown ink on the front of each folio; the manuscript is unpaginated. Covers the period up to 1843. B – Forests of the Greater Western Paris region (Rambouillet, etc.). A denser manuscript, though some folios remain blank. The titles are written in calligraphy in a neo-Gothic style. Supplemented by handwritten sheets from the same period inserted into the volumes: -General list of hunting dogs as at (provisionally) 1 September 1846. Folded folio sheet, 2 handwritten folios: list of names from 20 May 1840. Brown ink, legible. -Record of hunts for the year 1846. Small folded folio, one sewn quire. 7 folios. Manuscript and 5 blank pages, brown ink, energetic handwriting, sometimes difficult to read. Provenance: printed bookplate of Henri Gallice 1853–1930 (hunting with hounds, featuring a hunting horn, dagger, whip and monogram). Having succeeded his uncle as head of the Pérrier-Jouët champagnes, Henri Gallice – a great enthusiast of hunting with hounds and shooting – devoted part of his fortune to assembling the finest hunting library of all time. This collection was acquired in its entirety by Marcel Jeanson, who added to it. It was sold at auction from 1987 onwards. Includes two modern handwritten letters from Marcel Jeanson, dated 1934 and 1939, and bibliographical correspondence regarding the documents.
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Auction time 07/03/2026 at 2:00 PM
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