BOOK - hardback/carton, by Claude Bailhé - Milan ed 1986 - 2 - Lot 628

BOOK - hardback/carton, by Claude Bailhé - Milan ed 1986 - 22.5 x 26 cm - 172 pages. TOUR DE FRANCE des METIERS D' AUTREFOIS et de TOUJOURS. 322 illustrations representing 335 trades! A rich text that takes us back in time, giving this book a testimonial value and a chance to rediscover the faces and gestures of our ancestors. With this book, you'll embark on your Tour de France like the journeymen of yesteryear, and discover a wide variety of trades, many of them small and no longer practiced: dog catchers, hair collectors, egg counters, organ players, merchants of harlequins, coconuts or donkey milk, bear showers, sand fishermen, ostrich pluckers and city drummers... There are also many very regional trades: whip handle makers, nail makers from the Ardennes, needle makers from the Orne, log haulers, and all the trades that still exist today in a modernized form...