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MANUSCRIPT.
BUNTING HUNTS organised by the hunting party of the Count of Lagrange.
Hunting Season of 1837 and 1838
[and] Continuation of the 1843–1844 hunting season.
Fees include commission and taxes.
BUNTING HUNTS organised by the hunting party of the Count of Lagrange.
Hunting Season of 1837 and 1838
[and] Continuation of the 1843–1844 hunting season.
2 small quarto volumes, (188) pp. and (192) ff., 40 of which are left blank at the end. Contemporary navy morocco-bound sheepskin, smooth spine, covers decorated with scroll-shaped metalwork and frames of gilt and blind-stamped fillets in Rocaille style, gilt title embossed in the centre of the covers, gilt edges, guilloché-patterned edges, gilded fillet on the edges, gilded roulette on the fore-edges, blue moiré endpapers (slight wear to the bindings and rubbed corners, a few scuffs, a few foxing spots, the inner jaw of volume 1 partially weakened, a few scattered foxing spots).
Interesting manuscripts on hunting with hounds, detailed in two volumes:
A- Forests of the Greater Western Paris region (Rosny, Brotonne, etc.) list of the pack, huntsmen, teams, etc. Legible handwriting in brown ink on the front of each folio, unpaginated manuscript.
Covers the period up to 1843.
B- Forests of the western Paris region (Rambouillet, etc.). A denser manuscript, though some pages remain blank. The titles are written in a neo-Gothic style.
Supplemented by handwritten sheets from the same period inserted into the volumes:
-General list of hunting dogs as at (p) 1 September 1846.
Folded folio sheet, 2 manuscript folios: list of names from 20 May 1840. Brown ink, legible.
-Record of hunts for the year 1846.
Small folded folio, one sewn quire. 7 manuscript leaves and 5 blank leaves, brown ink, energetic handwriting, sometimes difficult to read.
Provenance: printed bookplate of Henri Gallice 1853–1930 (hunting with hounds, featuring a hunting horn, dagger, whip and monogram).
Succeeding his uncle at the helm of the Pérrier-Jouët champagnes, Henri Gallice, a great lover of hunting with hounds and shooting, devoted part of his fortune to assembling the finest hunting library of all time. This collection was acquired in its entirety by Marcel Jeanson, who added to it. It was sold at auction from 1987 onwards.
Includes two modern handwritten letters from Marcel Jeanson, dated 1934 and 1939, and bibliographical correspondence regarding the documents.