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1853 Fishing - French Color Plate Illustrated on Fishermen, Whaling, Shellfish +

Description: "Souvenirs d’un Vieux Pecheur” By [Hyppolite] de Chavannes de la Giraudiere. Published in Tours by A. Mame et cie in 1853 (2nd edition). - - - DISCUSSION: First published in 1852 with a different cover design. A delightful and extremely enthusiastic excursion for a juvenile audience into the world of fishermen, male and female, in all sorts of places and for all sorts of “fish”, illustrated with 8 wonderful colored lithographic plates. The plates include coastal gatherers of the rock-bound mussel, hardworking river fishermen using nets and basket traps, Chippewa indians spear-fishing in a carved canoe, men and women in the shallow tide flats of Brittany gathering fish with brooms and baskets, Chinamen fishing using neck-ringed cormorants, hardy sailors on the high seas hunting baleen whales, cod fishermen using nets from their dories off Newfoundland, and boys and girls gathering shellfish in the tidal flats. The author was born in 1804 in Flanders, his grandfather having been exiled there by Louis XVI after having the temerity to try to collect a large debt allegedly owed him by Louis XV. He returned to France on a government trade mission to promote silk culture, on which subject he wrote several books. He then fell in with the publisher Touraine Mame for whom he produced a prodigious number of titles, many of them, such as this one, aimed at a juvenile readership, on a variety of historical, travel-related, and other practical topics. A member of the Societe des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres d’Indre-et-Loire, and the Sociéte des Phalansteriens, Giraudiere liberal politics made him the target of police observation from time to time, and his sons, successful machinists, would pick the short-lived Communard cause in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and suffer imprisonment and exile. But that’s a story far removed from this rather charming and awesome little book. DESCRIPTION and CONDITION NOTES: Publisher’s decorated board covers. 5”x8”, xi + 177 pages, plus 8 colored lithographed plates with blue paper guards. The covers are elaborately decorated with colorful scenes of fish, fishermen, foliage, nets, and so on. Covers with some wear and soil, front top corner chipped. Pages with some scattered foxing and light soil. - - - SHIPPING NOTES: Shipping charges for books are based on the weight, when packed, of each package -we offer “combined shipping charges” for orders for more than one book. If you buy more than one item please ask us to send a revised invoice before you pay. Item #43043 Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera Selling books & ephemera since 1983 Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Ephemera Society. Your satisfaction is guaranteed with every item you purchase.

Price: 150 USD

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-12-08T20:32:36.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD

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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French

Topic: Hunting, Fishing

Subject: Sports & Recreation

Original/Facsimile: Original

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