"Contemporary French Vénerie Karl Reille 1914 Adolphe Le Goupy Publisher"
Baron Karl Reille - Contemporary French Vénerie - 1914 - Paris, Adolphe Le Goupy. Large volume in-4°, bradel binding, green buckram, hunting button and deer massacre, gilded and in color, in relief adorning the first cover. First edition printed in 600 copies on vellum, this one lettered SIA, decorated with an original watercolor signed by Karl Reille under the justification and dedicated. Numerous full-page illustrations, as well as vignettes and banners, extracts from scores, in color and bistre. 403 pages. Superb book on hunting, which presents the different crews, classified by hunting regions, with their outfit, the composition of the pack, the average catch per season. Book in very good condition, some foxing and slightly rubbed binding.