With the almost ever Missing Text Part
The Separate Print on Hunting from Diderot-d’Alembert
(Lacomb / Lacombe, Fr.) Encyclopédie méthodique. Dictionaire (A-Z) de toutes les espèces de chasses. Text and plate vol. Paris, H. Agasse, (1794-95) and, plate part, 1811 resp. 4to. VIII, 456 pp., 1 l. title. With
33 ( 15 double full-page ) copperplates
by Robert Bénard (b. Paris 1734). Time-marked contemp. cloth (text) and half leather, both with back-plate and gilt back.
Schwerdt I, 295 (Lacomb); Thiébaud 542 (Lacombe, erroneously Bernard + only 450 pp); Nissen 4621. – Text vol. uncut, but leaves cut of, the plate vol., of finest printing quality, with paled punctate edges. Especially the text wide-margined. – Fresh copy except for very small water streaks, repaired tears, and ruststains in the outer margins of some of the plates.
The indispensable compendium ,
enlarged by 10 plates
compared to the folio edition of the Diderot encyclopedia from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century.
The plates – mostly with 1-2, partially also up to 6 large, pictorially marvelous presentations of boar hunt, red deer stalking, par force hunt, wolf and fox pitches and trap hunting,
3 plates on hawking ,
duck and pheasant hunt, pheasantry, bird catching and others more –
“ furnish representations of some unusual sports and implements ”
(Schwerdt).
Plate 2, no. 2 after Ridinger’s “The Par force Hunt”, Th. 21, of his 1729 Princes’ Hunting Pleasure.
Besides traces and tools and
five plates music .
The 12-page plate explanation bound subsequent to the dictionary. – Especially in regard of the several kinds and practices of hunting today either not possible or not usual anymore
text + plates remain the imperative combination for the hunter .
Offer no. 13,208 / EUR 966. / export price EUR 918. (c. US$ 1226.) + shipping
“ Thank you Mr. Niemeyer, The prints (you are delivered two weeks ago) are being framed right now. My framer is very particular (works for the National Gallery … ) and I am having a perfect frame made for the large Ridinger (the imperial stag hunt Th. 67). Best regards ”
(Mr. J. R. L., November 19, 2003)