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[CYNEGETIQUE] Théophile DEYEUX - The old hunter A la librairie d'Houdaille à Paris, 1835 - Very rare and sought-after first edition of one of the most beautiful Romantic illustrations devoted to hunting. Features an elegant sepia-toned lithographed title-frontispiece and 51 black lithographed plates after Eugène Forest. Later binding from the early 20th century by Bruel-Legal, in brown half calf with corners, well-executed pastiche, spine with 4 nerves decorated with gilt fillets and cold decoration in the boxes, some rubbing not serious. Very fresh interior, with few brown spots. André Bruel, a very eclectic bookbinder, is one of the most interesting names in original bookbinding of the early 20th century. Large in-8, 158pp. Thiébaud, col. 274 / Schwerdt, I, pp. 139-140 / Souhart, col. 139 "now very rare".
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[CYNEGETIQUE] Théophile DEYEUX - The old hunter A la librairie d'Houdaille à Paris, 1835 - Very rare and sought-after first edition of one of the most beautiful Romantic illustrations devoted to hunting. Features an elegant sepia-toned lithographed title-frontispiece and 51 black lithographed plates after Eugène Forest. Later binding from the early 20th century by Bruel-Legal, in brown half calf with corners, well-executed pastiche, spine with 4 nerves decorated with gilt fillets and cold decoration in the boxes, some rubbing not serious. Very fresh interior, with few brown spots. André Bruel, a very eclectic bookbinder, is one of the most interesting names in original bookbinding of the early 20th century. Large in-8, 158pp. Thiébaud, col. 274 / Schwerdt, I, pp. 139-140 / Souhart, col. 139 "now very rare".
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