FOUQUIER (Achille) A Propos de Chasses à... - Lot 11 - Briscadieu

FOUQUIER (Achille) A Propos de Chasses à l'Isard, à l'Ours et au Sanglier. Paris, Vve Morel, 1872. In-8: 4f., 172pp; frontispiece portrait and 5 plates hors texte etched and aquatinted after the author. Edition of 250 copies on fine tinted hollande with wide margins. Autograph letter from the author. ½ green chagrin with corners, gilt title and diamond irons on spine. A superb copy of this very Pyrenean, well-written and extremely rare work on Pyrenean hunting carried out between 1864 and 1870 in the Aspe and Ossau Valleys, and on the Spanish side. The final chapter is devoted to wild boar hunting in Tunisia. Achille FOUQUIER was mayor of Saint-Jean-de- Luz for several years. Sensitive to fine editions, he wrote several works of souvenir or more technical research, such as these superb "Chants populaires Espagnols, quatrains et Séguidilles" published by Jouaust in 1882, illustrated by Arcos y Mégalde with notated music. All on fine paper and in small editions. Provenance: Precious copy of Comte Roger de Bouillé (autograph dispatch from the author to the Comte).