* [Hunting] NIPP SUPPORT. Deer hunting, with... - Lot 146 - Kâ-Mondo

* [Hunting] NIPP SUPPORT. Deer hunting, with the history of the most famous breeds of hounds existing or having existed in France. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1879. In-4, half red chagrin with period corners, back with 5 nerves, author, title, golden place and date, golden head [Gaëtan Ronner] (light rubbing on 2 nerves and back, 2 blunt corners, small spots on the dishes, freckles, margins of sth. ff. gnawed without gravity). First edition illustrated with 12 photoglypties (1 frontispiece plate illustrating a crew part, 11 captioned snake pl. showing the breeds of hounds), and 2 woodcut plates (composed of figures showing the heads of brocades and the traces of their footsteps), one full-page, the other out of text. Label ex-libris Bibliothèque du comte F. de Rohan Chabot. "First edition of this highly esteemed work, which according to Souhart, only 300 copies were printed, and is rare today. "(Thiébaud 161).