Wolves in Beauce
Adolphe Lecocq
Original edition
Limited edition of 100 copies
One of 80 copies on laid paper
Chartres
Petrot-Garnier, bookseller
1860
Book bound in full morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt date
Original cover preserved
50 pages with a woodcut frontispiece and a facsimile of the gold text, on two leaves
Two currencies in the text
A summary
Excerpts:
- Synonymy of the words Loup and Beausse
- Wolves in the Middle Ages
- They destroyed the village of Luigny in the 12th century
- The people of Orléans were saddened by their presence in 1440 and 1697.
- In 1585 they invaded the city of Chartres
- Henry IV grants the abbess of Saint-Avit-lès-Châteaudun a patent to shoot wolves with arquebuses
- A young girl from Coudray devoured by a wolf in 1653
- The beast of Pontgouin who eats children, in 1692
- Beaten in 1798 in the forest of Montmirail and the woods of Chapelle-Guillaume
- Hunts of the Grand Dauphin in Anet in 1686
- The wolf of Bû
- The illustrious wolf hunters of Eure-et-Loire
- ...
Good used condition
Some light foxing
Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm
