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• [CHASSE]. VERNET Horace (1789-1863)

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- HUNTING]. VERNET Horace (1789-1863)
Lithographic sketches [Paris], Imp. Lithog. de F. Delpech, 1818. In-4 oblong
(252 x 325 mm), 18 plates on vellum. Full brown cloth, black morocco title-pieces on upper board and on smooth spine.
Very rare suite of 18 lithographed plates by Delpech after
Horace Vernet, coloured, all signed in the plate.
Beautiful lithographed frontispiece with the title inscribed on a stone carried by a mason and 17 plates by Horace Vernet coloured in watercolour, without number, several without captions.
PROVENANCE Library of Carl Franz Georg Richard van Schwerdt (1882-1939) (ex-libris vignette pasted on the back cover).
REFERENCE Thiébaud, 929 (one of two copies cited in Cat. Schwerdt,
II, p. 182: the one with 17 plates).
A fine copy.
(Some foxing).