CHARLES IX - Lot 59

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CHARLES IX - Lot 59
CHARLES IX La Chasse Royale composée par le Roy Char[l]es IX et dédiée au Roy... Louys XIII Paris, Nicolas Rousset and Gervais Alliot, 1625 RARE EXEMPLAIRE OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAITÉS DE VÉNERIE. HUZARD COPY FIRST EDITION In-8 (169 x 106mm). Engraved headbands and initials COLLATION : a4 A-R4 : 72 ff. PRINTING: "Most copies have a copper-engraved vignette on the title depicting the stag hunt; others do not. On the title of a few copies (very few), we read Chares IX instead of Charles IX" (Thiébaud). ILLUSTRATION: copper-engraved vignette, on the title page, depicting the king hunting with hounds. BINDING SIGNED BY TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET. Bottle-green morocco, gilded decoration, framed fillets, ornate ribbed spine, gilded edges, antique rose trim. PROVENANCE: Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838; stamp; his sale, Paris, 1842, II, lot 4881) Henri Chevreul ranks this treatise on venery alongside Le Livre du Roy Modus and La Chasse by Gaston Phoebus. Charles IX dictated the text to Nicolas de Neufville, sieur de Villeroy, who is sometimes credited with its authorship. However, many contemporary writers attest to the King's authorship: Baïf, Belleforest, Brantôme, Sainte-Marthe, Florent Chrétien and the Venetian ambassador Sigismond Cavalli. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thiébaud, 168-171 ("truly very rare") -- Schwerdt, I, 105 -- Souhart, 96 -- Catalogue de la Librairie Pierre Berès, Des Valois à Henri IV, 1994-1995, no. 47 WEBOGRAPHY : Huzard sale : https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_40154x02/page/452/mode/2up?q=charles+IX
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