The Horses of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the earliest monuments down to the XVIth century por Berjeau, Ph. Charles - 1864

London: Dulau & Co, 1864. Quarto, pp 20 + 60 plates (of which one is coloured), clean internally, original printed soft cloth, bruised wrinkled and marked, the spine fraying and lacking a portion at the base, with a small hand-written totle label. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers, and stamp on the verso ot the title page. RARE, and equally rare to be found in any better condition than this. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to Gloucestershire County Council in 1936, and was eventually dispersed around 2010.]. [Philibert Charles Berjeau (1845-1927) was a natural history illustrator and lithographer, active in London in the late Victorian era. His subjects varied widely, including mammals, reptiles and especially birds, as well as fossils. Berjeau's father was an author, editor and engraver. He followed in his father's footsteps with a skill in engraving. He started to publish his own engravings at an early age (about 17) with a book of drawings of dogs (1863), soon followed by another on horses (1864). In 1866, he collaborated with his father on Beggars, Rogues, and Vagabonds: he made the drawings and his father engraved them. Philibert Charles Berjeau made illustrations for the British Museum of Natural History, and for the journal of the Geological Society of London. He made a sketch of the Sumatran rhinoceros which gave birth in Charles William Rice's stables on Commercial Road in December 1872. He worked as an illustrator for Robert Falcon Scott's S.S. Discovery expedition of 1901-1904, and the National Arctic Expedition of 1907-1912.]. First Edition. Soft Cloth. Good.