Flandreysy, Jeanne de and G. Bouzanquet — Le Taureau Camargue, Son Elevage, la Course Provencale

Paris, Editions du Cadran, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Big, tall, uber-attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in a near-folio size format, measures 10 1/4" x 13" wide and tall, respectively. Bound in pinkish-red pebbly cloth over boards, near-red Moroccan leather-backed, with four raised bands, and gilt lettering to spine. Lightly scuffed tips, paste-downs fresh with beautiful new, bright-red endpapers, with previous owner's (A.L. Roche) illustrated bookplate (by Georgs Villa) inside front flap; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. 210 [2] pp., Scuffing to tips, edges, bands, and with splits beginning to spine head and tail front and rear joints, mild soiling to a front endpaper, moderate to one in rear, else clean. Diagonal creasing to five endpapers, waffling to three page bottoms up front else tightly bound, unmarked interior, and stuffed with 290 illustrations including 25 inset. With Preface by E. Esperandieu, and with Iconographie et legendes par Jeanne de Flandreysy, this volume was considered the definitive text on bull-breeding and -raising, bullfighting, branding, and other aspects of cattle-husbandry.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good