[Vénerie]. DU PASSAGE (Édouard Guy). Un siècle de vénerie dans le nord de la France. Paris, Impr. Pairault, 1912. Fort volume, small in-4, Bradel-style cherry basane, author and title gilt on spine, untrimmed (spine faded and rubbed, foot and tail caps worn). First edition illustrated with 21 black plates. Limited edition of 500 copies. Enriched with an autograph card signed by Count Du Passage, addressed to "Dear Sir", to whom he offers to send a bloodhound, and adds: "As soon as I know the day of your first hunt, I will ask you where to send my horses [...] and I will give you the helping hand of friendship". (Thiébaud 321).

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