[Lyon], Gabriel Cartier, 1584.
Small 4to of 19 ll., (1) l., 14 woodcuts.
Garnet morocco, central lêfy gilt mosaic reserve at the center of the covers, ribbed spine, inner gilt border, gilt over marbled edges. Lortic.
223 x 146 mm.
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Precious edition from Lyon of La Chasse du loup illustrated with 14 very bêutiful woodcuts.
Thiébaud, Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse, 348; Souhart, Bibliographie des ouvrages sur la chasse, 106.
The work was so successful that it was reprinted over a hundred times between the 16th and 20th centuries.
Lêves 2 and 3 are occupied by an epistle by Jên de Clamorgan “Au Roy Charles Neufieme”.
“The book by Clamorgan whose merit is incontestable, has had the rare luck to see its fate linked to that of the ‘Maison Rustique’, but it is not uncommon to see Clamorgan’s work sell for more than the complete volume.” (Thiébaud).
14 extremely fine woodcuts (136 x 108 mm) illustrate the practice and technique of wolf hunting.
« Fourteen woodcuts of wolves and techniques of the hunt, first used in Du Puy’s edition of 1566. Also at Harvard are two Gabriel Cartier editions of 1584 and 1597, without place of printing. The first, printed probably at Lyons, has close copies of Du Puys cuts.
Printed to accompany Charles Estienne’s’L’agriculture et maison rustique’. » (Harvard, French, 142).
“14 figures representing the various ways of hunting wolves” (Brun, Le Livre français illustré de la Renaissance, 154).
A superb, wide-margined copy in an elegant binding signed by Lortic.
Provenance: Mercier, Henri Gallice and Marcel Jênson libraries with ex libris.
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