GAYOT (Eugène). Atlas statistique de la production des cheva - Lot 186

GAYOT (Eugène). Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France, document de l'administration des haras, pour servir à l'histoire naturelle agricole des races chevalines du pays. Paris, Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, (1850-1851). In plano format (44 x 63 cm), unpaginated (29 ff., 31 plates in black and 27 maps) in green half-chagrin with corners, spine with 6 raised bands, gilt author and title, richly decorated gilt caissons, double gilt fillet to covers. Elegant contemporary binding signed [Petit successeur Simier]. The only edition of this rare atlas of French horse breeds. Complete with Lalaisse's beautiful lithographs, depicting French breeds, pure, crossbred or improved, with several subjects for each. "A considerable and very well-documented work (...) not often encountered" Menessier de la Lance, I, 537. The races of each of the 26 districts are represented by a color map and a finely lithographed plate after Lalaisse (with the exception of Tarbes, Pompadour, Napoléon-Vendée, Lamballe and Langonnet, illustrated by two plates, and the map of Arles, followed by a map of Perpignan). A total of 27 maps and 31 plates (most with two figures) lithographed in black on prepared paper. Title page enlarged with a label from the Veuve Bouchard-Huzard, dated 1851, laminated at the bottom (the only edition starts in 1850 and was distributed until 1852 with an added label), introduction, a comparative table of the horse population between 1840 and 1850 and a sheet showing details of stallion deposits in the various districts. Binding a little bleached (traces) and a few angular wet spots. EQUIDS. ZOOTECHNIE. HIPPOLOGY. SECOND EMPIRE.