REVERCHON, JEAN CLAUDE HECTOR
Anatomie du cheval. Osteologie et myologie. Paris/Lyon, Mme Huzard/"chez l'auteur", 1825. First edition. Period quarter brown leather, covers paste-paper over boards. 20 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (51.5 x 33.5 cm); title-page, avant-propos, explanatory text for the frontispiece and explanatory text for plates 1-8 and 10-17; frontispiece and 17 very fine anatomical plates in black, most lithographed by Henri Adolphe Brunet after the author's drawings. The binding is rather worn but sound, scattered minor foxing or finger-soiling, generally quite a good copy of this very rare work.
The work exists in both lightly colored and uncolored states; this example is in the latter form. A handful of the recorded copies have an eighteenth plate, issued without a leaf of explanatory text, but this example matches the collations in Nissen and Mennessier de La Lance, and this extra plate must be a later addition. Plate 9 was not issued with text. A second edition was published in 1849 in Lyon. Jean Claude Hector Reverchon (1796-1851) was a French painter who served as a drawing professor at the Rural and Veterinary School of Lyon from 1819 to 1836. The work is dedicated to the Dauphin, Louis of France, son of Charles X and founder of the Chair of Drawing at the Veterinary Schools of France. Mennessier de La Lance, II, p. 414. Nissen, ZBI 3380.
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