[Dogs] Les Races de Chiens

Leurs Points, Description, Types, Qualités, Aptitudes et Défauts par le Comte Henri de Bylandt. Deventer, A.E. Kluwer, n.d. (1904), 2 volumes (8),796,(9); (8),795,(11),XXVIII,(1) p., volume 1 (Chiens de Chasse) illustrated with more than 100 engravings on which 2150 dogs are depicted, volume 2 (Chiens de luxe) with ca. 1300 illustrations with 1950 dogs, original uniform gilt lettered cloth, top edges gilt, in slipcases, folio (good copy with minimal defects).

Monumental standard work, of which the first edition appeared in 1897.