Live auction - Lot 779

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[BONNEFONS, Nicolas de]

Traite des chasses, de la venerie, de la fauconnerie [...].

Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1681


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€ 800 / 1.000

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12mo: 59 pp. (lower blank margins of 2 last ff. repaired).

Later cardboard, flat spine (note in ink on front cover).

First and only separate edition, originally publ. as last section in "Délices de la campagne" by the French 17th-c. agronomist N. de Bonnefons. Nice brief vade mecum for the hunter-falconer ill. with 4 sm. woodcuts in-text showing the antlers and feces of deers.
Ref. Thiébaud 114-118 ("Fort rare"). - Schwerdt II:267. - Harting 163 ("a scarce treatise"). - Not in Souhart.
Prov. Baron d'Offemont (bookpl.). - Château de Rosny (bookpl.).

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Lot 779

Traite des chasses, de la venerie, de la fauconnerie [...].

[BONNEFONS, Nicolas de]

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