[Hunting] [Vénerie] [Ornithology]. OBERTHÜR (Joseph). The ga - Lot 240

[Hunting] [Vénerie] [Ornithology]. OBERTHÜR (Joseph). The game of our country. A natural history for hunters. Paris, Imprimerie française de l'édition, Librairie des Champs-Elysées, 1936-1941. Six books in 7 vol. in-4, paperback (spines sunned with light spotting, small loss at tail cap vol. 1; limited russeting to cover and edges and occasionally to lim. f., partly uncut). First edition. Illustrations by Joseph Oberthür, animal artist, including 140 phototype plates on Japon orient, Japon barjon or ermine paper, and numerous in-text reproductions. 4 plates of reproductions of English prints on astra paper. Limited edition of 1,700 copies. I. Freshwater game, marshes, ponds, rivers (n°45); II. Marine game, the sea and its shores (no. 45); III. Two volumes in 2 volumes: The forest and its hosts (n° 1217); IV. Pointing dogs, game birds of the plains and woods (n°813); V. Mountain game (n°440); VI. 100 unpublished album plates for freshwater game, marine game, forest and its hosts, plains and woods, mountains (n°815). Complete with the rare volume of unpublished plates. Mouchon, 1205-1207. Also included: OBERTHÜR (Joseph). Le monde merveilleux des bêtes. Paris, Durel, 1947-1948. 3 vol. in-4, paperback, illustrated cover (spines sunned with light wetness, rubbing and small tears to headpieces, one spine partly detached, scattered russeting to one upper cover, one cover browned). I. Venery and hunting with hounds. Volume 1: Histoire de la vénerie. Le cerf, le daim, le chevreuil ; II. Wild ducks and other palmipeds. Tome 1: Les lamellisrostres; III. Woodcocks, snipes and small waders. Numerous in-text illustrations by Joseph Oberthür. Total of 10 volumes.