LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE Jean Baptiste Jacques Ecole de la Chasse aux chiens courants. Précédé d’une bibliothèque historique & critique des théreuticographes.

Thiébaud, 589 ; Schwerdt, I, 313; Souhart, 298-299 ("ouvrage classique par excellence").

First edition.

It includes the important description of Bibliothèque historique des auteurs qui ont traité de la chasse is written by the brothers Lallemant, the printers and editors of this book. Of the 16 plates – all are wood cuts – 13 are folding. They depict various animals (including deer, boards, wolfs, etc.), their foot prints and droppings. This copy is extra illustrated with one plate, inserted at page 79 depicting a deer.

"This instructive book ranks with the classics on hunting and is especially valuable on account of the 'Bibliothèque historique et critique…' to which frequent reference is made in these notes" (Schwerdt).

Good copy, the respective title-pages are bound in reverse order.

Provenance: P.P. Cannac (copper engraved book-plate) — Bibliothèque d'Hauteville (label).