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1640 edition of a classic hunting book, with 57 woodcuts

FOUILLOUX, Jacques du.
La venerie ... de nouveau reveuë, & augmentée du Miroir de fauconnerie.
Paris, Pierre David, 1640. 4to. With 57 woodcut illustrations (plus 1 repeat) on integral leaves, including 1 on the title-page (3 full-page, further mostly 11 x 12 cm); woodcut music notes. Lacking part 2 on hawking (38 pp.). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [4], 124, [4] ll.
€ 3,750
The 1640 Paris edition of Fouilloux's classic and beautifully illustrated work on hunting, first published ca. 1560, here with the numerous additions first included in the Paris editions of 1573 and 1585, but lacking the second part on hawking (noted on the title-page) that was also added in the 1585 Paris edition. It discusses and illustrates numerous hunting dogs, the hunting of stags, wild boars, hares, foxes and badgers, tools (illustrated both separately and in use) and other equipment, and the medication of dogs. In addition to the main work, it includes the two poems also included in nearly all editions ("l'Adolescence de Jacques du Fouiloux, ..." and "Complaint du cerf, a Monsieur du Fouilloux", the latter by Guillaume Boucher) as well as further material added in 1573 and 1585 (a 1573 letter to the princes of France, Gaston de Foix's poem for lovers of the hunt, Jaques du Fouilloux's "Du rangier ou ranglier ...", the "Adjonctions à la Venerie" and more).
With an early owner's name blotted out on the title-page, leaving a small stain on the next 3 leaves. Lacking the much shorter part 2 on hawking, but with the main part on hunting complete. With the title-page somewhat worn, but otherwise in good condition, with only a minor defects. Binding with minor wear and a few stains, but also good. An extensively and beautifully illustrated edition of a classic hunting book. Bibl. Mun. Rouen, Histoires de chasses, 1992, 132; Schwerdt, p. 153; Souhart, cols. 154-155; Thiébaud I, cols. 306-307.
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