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148 - SECOND EMPIRE. JADIN, Emmanuel & Godefroy.
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Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
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SECOND EMPIRE. JADIN, Emmanuel & Godefroy. The Emperor’s Residence. La Vénerie 1852–1870. Paris, Goupil & Cie, Manzel, Joyant & Cie, 1905. Folio (48 x 36 cm), (5)-40-(1) pp., text in red and black with black engravings, in a blue slipcase printed with the imperial coat of arms, in a green Empire-style morocco flap binding decorated with the publisher’s mark, lined with navy moiré silk and ivory silk, a cardboard slipcase lined with red velvet, the whole housed in a case of Empire green percaline and marbled paper (in good overall condition, with minor signs of wear on the binding and slipcase, slight marginal discolouration, a few scattered foxing spots, and a few decorative borders, sometimes slightly torn at the corners). Bibliography: Schwerdt, I, 263. Description: An exceptional and very rare volume on hunting. Limited edition of 100 copies, 90 of which are on Marais vellum paper; this is no. 81. Enriched with a letter from L. Carteret on the letterhead of his bookshop, L. Conquet Editions de luxe. Rare and Curious Books, Rue Drouot. 4 November 1910. Carteret offers to sell Le Jadin to Paul Desbordes, in Avize in the Marne, and is waiting for him to get in touch. With a stamped letterhead envelope. Provenance: Paul Desbordes (1862–1943), hunter and bibliophile, of the Piqu’Avant Champagne hunting club (1910–1936) – La Desbordes (Dessalien) via Piqu’Avant Orléans. Acquired at an auction at the Hôtel Drouot on 24 June 1932. (Handwritten note with a pasted-in contemporary auction catalogue entry: “I acquired mine for 200 or 250 around 1908”). Text: (3) ff. half-title with print run details on the reverse, title page and dedication by Jadin to Prince Murat, 40-(1) pp., 2 black-on-chine engravings: DETAIL. Edouard. Napoleon III at the Camp de Châlons; JADIN, E. Dog handler calling the dogs. Plates: 9 colour engravings (18 x 31.5 cm; sheet: 44.5 x 33.5 cm) signed ‘Jadin fils’ within the image, each mounted on a cardboard backing and passe-partout with a titled border printed in black and red (including dates and locations of the hunts), facsimiles of the original pastels by Emmanuel Jadin, based on his own studies and the drawings and sketches of his father, Godefroy Jadin. Kennel, hunting liveries, pack, St Hubert’s Mass, hallali, curée, Fontainebleau, Rambouillet… The captions bear the names of the people or roles depicted. Remnants of the original tissue paper wrapping. Publisher’s binding signed Durvand. “Long out of print and extremely rare” (Thiébaud, 516).
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