CLAMORGAN, Jean de. La Chasse du loup. Nécessaire a la maison rustique. Par Jean de Clamorgan, Seigneur de Saane, premier Capitaine de la marine de Ponant. En laquelle est contenue la nature des Loups, & la manière de les prendre, tant par chiens, filets, pieges, qu’autres instrumens : le tout enrichy de plusieurs figures & pourtraicts representez apres le naturel. Au Roy Charles IX.

Precious edition from Lyon of La Chasse du loup illustrated with 14 very beautiful 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 16^th and 20^th centuries.

Leaves 2 and 3 are occupied by an epistle by Jean 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 Jeanson libraries with ex libris.