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[Hunting]. VAUX (Charles Maurice de). The great guns of Fran…
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[Hunting]. VAUX (Charles Maurice de). The great guns of Fran…
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Lot no. 152
[Hunting]. VAUX (Charles Maurice de). The great guns of France. History, portraits, castles. Hunting in marshes, plains and woods. The hunter's cuisine. Breeding, manners, customs of game birds. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1898. Large in-4, publisher's binding, brown half-basin with corners, spine with 4 bands, white mosaic boxes bearing the title and address, upper cover reproducing the original cover illustrated in colour, gilt head, original dust jacket (yellowing browned and repaired, upper spine cracked, corners a little rubbed; scattered freckling, heavier on a few plates but generally sparing the figures).
Unique edition of this splendid work illustrated with 50 hors-texte chromolithographs and 265 figures in the text.
Limited edition of 500 copies: one of 450 (No. 87) of the only paper after 50 japon.
Provenance: H. Holleaux (ex-libris stamp on title and signature).
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