SAMAT. Hunting dogs. Manufacture Française Armes et Cycles De Saint Étienne, 1938. Album in-4 oblong, publisher's paperback illustrated on the first cover with two polychrome heads of Bassets d'Artois, repeated on the cover. 78 superb chromolithographic plates reproducing watercolours by animal painters MAHLER and CASTELLAN. In-fine 6 leaves of rifle advertisements in colour. A fine copy. Bibliography: * J.B. Samat is the author of the texts accompanying the breed descriptions, with a page opposite each plate.