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several books are stacked on top of each other on a white surfacea drawing of a dog in a book on a tablean old book with a drawing of a dog on itan old book with a drawing of a bull ' s head on it
Gros & Delettrez

165 - [HUNTING and BULLFIGHTING].
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Estimate €180 - €200
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[HUNTING and BULLFIGHTING]. SET of 6 titles. HUNTING. -by WITT. Hunts of Brière. Paris, Oberthur, 1936. In-4. Modern fawn morocco, modernist-style decorated spine with gilt fillets; gilt initials ‘JM’ on the front cover, cover preserved on special Hivelio shell-patterned paper, gilt edges (a few minor stains on the binding, spine slightly tarnished). A very fine copy. -by WITT. Hunting from the Landes to the Pyrenees. Paris, Oberthur, 1937. In-4. Modern fawn morocco, modernist-style spine with gilt fillets; gilt ‘JM’ monogram on the front cover; cover preserved on special Hivelio shell-patterned paper; gilt edges (a few minor stains on the binding, spine slightly tarnished). A very fine copy. -BENOIST. MASSONNET. Prints by Collot Our Dogs of the Future. Paris, Arc en ciel, 1944. Small folio. Wood engravings of serpents; green morocco binding with bands and painted vellum (hunting dogs) on the covers and spine -BULLFIGHTING. CORRIDA. -POPELIN, Claude. Bullfighting. Paris, Éditions Seuil, 1970. Small quarto. Cream cloth binding by the publisher. -LAFRONT, A. Encyclopaedia of Bullfighting. Paris, Prisma, 1950. Square 8vo, the publisher’s red cloth binding, title and illustration gilded on the upper cover (spine partially detached). With a dedication from the author. -MIARD. Le Taureau-dollar. Illustrated by Paul Ricard. Editions Bendor, (1969). Artist’s book in loose sheets with cord, small folio size. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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