[HUNTING] WITT, Jean de. Hunting in Brière - SAMAT, Jean-Bap - Lot 45

[HUNTING] WITT, Jean de. Hunting in Brière - SAMAT, Jean-Baptiste. Hunting Dogs. Paris, Editions de La Bonne Idée, 1935. Quarto, paperback, cover printed in black and red. X and 330 pages, facsimile insert, fold-out color map, and numerous illustrations in the text. Adhesive tape at the top and bottom of the spine. First edition illustrated with delicate compositions by Jean Oberthür, including a fold-out map. It opens with a facsimile of a preface by Alphonse de Chateaubriant and is followed by a study of waterfowl in France. Included: SAMAT. Hunting Dogs. Manufacture Française Armes et Cycles De Saint Etienne, 1938. Oblong in-4 album, publisher’s cardboard binding illustrated on the front cover with two polychrome heads of Artois bassets, repeated on the title page. 78 chromolithographic plates. At the end, 6 color advertising leaflets for rifles. A superb album reproducing the watercolors of the animal painters Mahler and Castellan, accompanied by descriptive texts on the breeds by Jean-Baptiste Samat. A fine collection.