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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques. FRANCHIERES, Jean de.
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64
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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques. FRANCHIERES, Jean de.
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques. FRANCHIERES, Jean de.
Hunting with Hounds and Falconry by Jacques du Fouilloux, Jean de Francières and various other authors. [Followed by] *La Fauconnerie* by Jean de Francières, Grand Prior of Aquitaine, together with all authors known to have written on this subject.
Paris: published by Abel l’Angelier, 1585.
2 works in 1 square 8vo volume, (8)-125-(4) ff., 58 figures in the text including a vignette on the title page; (4)-127-(5) ff., 31 figures in the text including a vignette on the title page. 19th-century blue-green morocco, ribbed spine, author, title, place, publisher and date in gold lettering, crowned initials in gold stamped within the panels, triple blind-stamped border framing the covers, double gold-stamped border on the headbands and edges, lace on the headbands, edges gilt on marbled paper [Trautz-Bauzonnet] (top margin slightly shorter but with no loss of text, slight foxing).
Bibliography:
Thiébaud, 300 and 303.
Souhart, 150–152.
Description:
A sought-after edition of *La Vénerie* by Jacques du Fouilloux, enriched with several additional texts on hunting, including *La Chasse du loup* by Jean de Clamorgan and various treatises on hunting and the care of dogs. Although less rare than the original Poitiers editions, it is particularly prized for its additions and the superior quality of its engravings, considered superior to those of later editions.
All subsequent editions were based on this text.
A fine copy, complete in two parts, in an elegant morocco binding signed by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
The combination of the two works by Du Fouilloux and Franchières constitutes a two-part work: “For a copy to be complete, it must therefore contain both works brought together as two parts of a single work.” (Thiébaud).
Featuring a wood-engraved vignette repeated on the title page of each volume, 57 vignettes in the text of *La Vénerie et la fauconnerie* and 30 illustrations of birds in *La Fauconnerie* by Jean de Francières.
Provenance: The library of Alexandre de Lurde, a 19th-century French diplomat. On his death in 1872, he bequeathed his books to Baron Alphonse de Rouble (1833–1898), his nephew, who expanded the collection. They combined their coats of arms and ciphers, with the ex libris engraved on steel featuring the coats of arms with crowned ciphers and crowned gilt irons on the spine.
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