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[DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques]. La Venerie de Jacques du Fouilloux.…
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[DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques]. La Venerie de Jacques du Fouilloux.…
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €600
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Description
[DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques]. La Venerie de Jacques du Fouilloux...] [sl. s.d.]. [Bound at the end] :
HARMONT, Pierre (known as Mercure).
Le Miroir de Fauconnerie ou se verra l'instruction...
A Rouen, chez Clément Malassis, 1650.
2 works in one volume. in-8, 118 ff. and (4) ff. 36 pp. Contemporary ivory vellum (lacking the title page and ff. 17, 23, 53, 58, 59, 78 of the 1st work and pp. 9-10 of the second, restoration, i.e.: 118 ff. (out of 124 without the title page and ff. 17, 23, 53, 58, 59, 78), (4) ff. ; 36 pp. (out of 38, without pp. 9-10). Ff. 26 marked 62 and 92 marked 93, 96 marked 69.
Rare edition of the Harmont, the first published outside Paris, with its beautiful xylograved birds of prey.
One of the greatest treatises on falconry, dedicated to the Duc de Luynes.
Manuel précis sur le choix, le dressage, l'entretien et l'alimentation des rapaces de chasse, by Louis XIII's falconer, first published in 1620.
The hunting scene on the title page is not that of the first edition and depicts hunters with horn, dog and falcon.
"Copies of this work... are very difficult to find" (Harting). Thiébaud, 493.
Copy with missing parts.
CYNEGETICS.
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