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DU FOUILLOUX, J. FRANCHIERES. HARMONT.
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DU FOUILLOUX, J. FRANCHIERES. HARMONT.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
DU FOUILLOUX, J. FRANCHIERES. HARMONT.
[HUNTING. FALCONRY].
SET of 2 volumes.
- *La Venerie* by Jacques du Fouilloux, revised and expanded, in addition to previous editions.
Paris: Abel l’Angelier, 1606.
[Bound together]:
FRANCHIERES, Jean de.
*La Fauconnerie* by Jean de Franchieres
Paris: Abel l’Angelier, 1607.
In-8. Later brown shagreen, smooth spine decorated with small cold-stamped bird motifs, author’s name in gold, cold-stamped border on the covers, double gilt line on the endpapers, moiré endpapers, gilt edges (spines and covers slightly rubbed, narrow margins, title page of *La Vénerie* detached, marginal repairs, minor tears except on folios 30 and 31 with part of the leaf torn away, minor worm damage on f. 75–96 of the second volume slightly affecting the text on a few pages, water stains, ff. 26, 27 and 112 of the first volume missing).
A collection of these two 17th-century reference works on hunting, which are often found together.
Richly illustrated, entirely wood-engraved in black, including full-page and half-page vignettes, headbands and initials.
La Vénerie: title page with a full-page engraved vignette on the reverse, 122 ff. (out of 125, excluding ff. 26, 27 and 112), [4] ff. With 71 black-and-white engravings, including those depicting wolf hunting.
La Fauconnerie: (8) ff., including title page with privilege on the reverse, 127-(5) ff., 30 black-and-white illustrations of birds in the text.
Thiébaud, 304.
- *La Venerie* by Jacques du Fouilloux.
No place, no date.
[Bound together with]
HARMONT, Pierre (known as Mercure).
Le Miroir de Fauconnerie ou se verra l’instruction
Rouen: Clément Malassis, 1650.
8vo, 118 ff. and (4) ff., 36 pp. Contemporary ivory-coloured vellum (the title page and ff. 17, 23, 53, 58, 59, 78 of the first volume and pp. 9–10 of the second are missing; restored, i.e.: 118 ff. (out of 124 excluding the title page and ff. 17, 23, 53, 58, 59, 78), (4) ff.; 36 pp. (out of 38, excluding pp. 9–10). Folios 26 marked 62 and 92 marked 93, 96 marked 69.
A rare edition by Harmont, the first published outside Paris, featuring his exquisite wood-engraved birds of prey.
One of the greatest treatises on falconry, dedicated to the Duke of Luynes.
A detailed manual on the selection, training and feeding of hunting birds of prey, 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 a horn, accompanied by a dog and a falcon.
‘Copies of this work are very difficult to find’ (Harting). Thiébaud, 493.
A copy with some pages missing.
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