Corrida de Toros.

Oblong folio, 38,5 x 29 cm: 15 pl. (paper sl. toned, tiny pinching holes in blank corners, edges sl. frayed, some min. soiling in blank margin).

Loose, kept in plastic folder. Nice set.

Rare complete set of "Tauromachie". Chromolithogr. title and 14 chromolithogr. plates after the Spanish painter D. Perea (1834-1909), partly heightened with Arabic gum. They show in chronological order the ritual of the bullfight: from the capture of the bulls to a picador receiving a charge from the bull to the defeated bull being dragged out by mules. Captions in Spanish, French and English.