Alsace

Les oiseaux gibier : chasse moeurs acclimatation. Avec quarante-cinq chromolithographies et de nombreuses vignettes. Game Birds: Hunting Habits Acclimatization. With forty-five chromolithographs and numerous vignettes. First edition.

réf. 51-7337 — Paris : J. Rothschild 1876. . Large 4to 365 x 280mm. half-title 45 plates after Benjamin Fawcett vignettes and ornamental initials in text contemporary red half-morocco original wrappers bound in edges uncut.“Beau volume assez rare qui d’après Souhart n’aurait été tiré qu’à 300 ex.” Thiébaud 538 - Souhart 277.Édition originale de ce rare ouvrage qui n’aurait été tiré selon Souhart qu’à 300 exemplaires composé par le photographe et naturaliste Henri de La Blanchère 1821-1880.L’illustration comporte plusieurs vignettes en noir et en bistre gravées sur bois ainsi que 45 superbes planches d’oiseaux en chromotypographie en couleurs. .LITERATURE:.Nissen IVB 109; Ronsil 1574; Souhart 277; Schwerdt 1:294; Thiébaud 538.; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:7391892940.PROVENANCE; Bookplate of H. Gallice: Henri Gallice was a third-generation owner and director of Champagne Perrier-Jouët stepping into leadership after tis uncle Charles Perrier passed away in 1878. While Henri managed the winery operations in Épernay Octave his brother spent time in Paris where he was heavily involved in the Belle Époque art.The H. Gallice bookplate dates to the fin de siècle. It is a design in the Art Nouveau or Liberty style .Second bookplate of Marcel Jeanson born June 2 1885 in Paris; died May 6 1942 in Paris was a French industrialist and passionate collector of hunting literature.Alongside his professional activities he was a dedicated bibliophile and built one of the most important private hunting libraries in France.Expertise by : Gaëlle CAMBON. Paris : J. Rothschild, 1876. unknown