DEMAISON (André). Le Livre des bêtes qu'on appelle sauvage. - Lot 179

DEMAISON (André). Le Livre des bêtes qu'on appelle sauvage. S.n.d. [Paris & Lausanne, Chez les Frères Gonin, 1934]. Large folio, illustrated cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. 44 woodcuts and lithographs by Paul JOUVE, including eighteen double-page illustrations and five initials. ISSUED AT 50 numbered EXEMPLIES, and a few others, this one PRINTED FOR PAUL JOUVE, nominative, signed by the artist and the author. These compositions, created by the artist during his trip to Sub-Saharan Africa from March to May 1931, were also used to illustrate : Le Livre de la brousse and Afrique-Equatoriale-Française, terres et races d'avenir by René MARAN in 1937. Thiébaud-Mouchon, 1114.