Jules LECOEUR. - Lot 80

Jules LECOEUR. Sketches of the Norman Bocage. Volume I: Historical account, races, manners and customs, dialect, proverbs and sayings, agriculture, trade and industry, housing, food, costumes, religious legends, megalithic monuments, etc., legend of Queen Mathilde. Volume II: Superstitious practices, belief in witches, rat leaders, healers, fountain worship, moles and field mice, ..., harvest, cider, buckwheat, ..., apparitions of the night: ghosts, fairies, goblins, etc... Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883-1887, 2 volumes in-8 bound in half-chagrin, spine ribbed, covers preserved. Off-text illustrations including, in Volume 1, 2 printed on blue paper and 2 original laminated photographs captioned in pencil. Rare first edition of this fundamental work, one of the rarest and most sought-after on Norman folklore.