VALLET (Louis): 2 bound volumes: - Lot 27

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VALLET (Louis): 2 bound volumes: - Lot 27
VALLET (Louis): 2 bound volumes: - Across Europe. Cavalry Sketches. Preface by Mr. Roger de Beauvoir. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1893, large quarto, XVI pp.—300 pp.—1 folio—vignettes and 50 plates. Publisher’s binding in midnight blue half-shagreen, corners, lettering and “Cossack-style” gilt stamp on the front cover, faux ribs, front cover intact, gilt head, untrimmed. - Spine very slightly faded, a fine copy. First edition illustrated with numerous vignettes based on the author’s drawings and 50 color plates, with captioned illustrations. European horsemen at the end of the 19th century, described and faithfully depicted. (Mennessier II, 599). - Le Chic à cheval. A Picturesque History of Horseback Riding. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1891, large quarto, XI pp.—274 pp.—50 plates. Publisher’s hardcover in sky-blue cloth, gilt title and palladium-plated horseshoe on the front cover, trimmed edges, blank spine. - Small pinholes on the half-title page, the reverse of the frontispiece, and the edges; otherwise in good condition. First edition, illustrated with numerous vignettes based on the author’s drawings and 50 color plates, with captioned illustrations of horses. The aesthetics of the horseman through the ages. (Mennessier II, 599).
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