CYNEGETIQUE Duchesse d'UZES née Mortemart - La... Lot 234

[CYNEGETIQUE] Duchesse d'UZES née Mortemart - La chasse à Courre Collection de la poétique à Paris, 1912 - A fine copy of the first edition of this unusual hunting text by the Duchesse d'Uzès, on publisher's paper, with no large paper edition. Here with a signed autograph dispatch from the author to Dr. Philippe Maréchal, mayor of the VIIIth arrondissement of Paris in particular, also contains two business cards from the author, one enriched with a signed autograph dispatch. Several black & white illustrations and a fine frontispiece portrait of the author, with a color title vignette. Beautifully bound in half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt motifs, date, title and author in gilt lettering, gilt head, original illustrated covers retained. In-8, 65pp (2).