The Wolf Hunt
With photographic plates from nature by Messrs. Crémière, Hanfstaengl and Platel
JEH Baron Le Couteulx de Canteleu
Former cavalry officer,
Lieutenant of wolf hunting for the districts of Andelys and Louviers (Eure)
Original edition
Printed in 150 numbered copies
No. 134
Handwritten signature of the author
Paris
Printing and Bookstore of Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard
1861
Half-shagreen bound work with corners, spine with five raised bands, decorated boxes and gilt title. Double gilt fillets and gilt upper edge.
118 pages with table of contents and table of photographs
Complete with its 8 photographs outside the text, including one as a frontispiece
A vocabulary of the most commonly used hunting terms for wolf hunting in-fine
Excerpts from the table:
- History of wolf hunting
- The wolf, its history and its customs
- On the spread of the wolf
- Knowledge of the wolf
- From the wolf hound
- How to make wood and turn away the wolf
- Of the wolf hunter and the pikeman
- Of the wolf pack and dogs; of their maintenance on the way
- From the wolf attack
- From the wolf hunt
- From the wolf cub hunt
- Stories, anecdotes and wolf hunts
- ...
Good used condition
Cover with usage defects
Freckles
Dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm
