First edition of a very rare Latin poem presenting the rules of tournaments and carrousels. The technical terms of hunting and riding are explained in the margins. Jacques Savary (Caen 1607-1670), actually called Jacques Timent, published several Latin poems on different kinds of hunting, being advised by the famous bishop Daniel Huet, who was also born in Caen. Savary also made Latin translations of the work of famous French writers such as Ariostle and Pibrac. He was very well-known in 17th-century Normandy, then one of the chief sporting provinces of France. Our copy has an extra: the first numbered leaf (pp. 1-2) is bound in twice.
With a bookplate on the front paste-down and some 20th-century pencil annotations in the margins. Spine worn, corners bumped, endpapers browned, but otherwise a good copy of a Latin poem that deals with a variety of subjects relating to horses. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 493. Not in Podeschi; Schwerdt; Souhart.