DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques - Lot 85

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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques - Lot 85
DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques Neuw Jag und Weydwerk Buch Frankfurt am Main, Johann Feyerabendt for Sigismund Feyerabendt, 1582 COPY FOR THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD First edition in German. Second part: Jag und Forstrecht. Same address, 1581 2 parts in one folio volume (306 x 195mm). Title in red and black. Engraved title vignette, initials and fleurons. COLLATION: A4 A-Z4 a-c4 (the last blank); A-S5 (leaf S6, which is not mentioned by Schwerdt, is certainly blank if it exists) ILLUSTRATION: 172 woodcuts (including one for each title), mostly by Jost Amman, Christophe Maurer and Ludwig Frig SIGNED BINDING BY HATTON, Manchester. Calf spine and corners, tobacco cloth boards, red edges. PROVENANCE: Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate; London, March 16, 2004, lot 33) This first German edition of the famous French hunting treatise "is not precisely a translation, but an adaptation by Du Fouilloux, Clamorgan and Franchières, supplemented and augmented by extracts from French, Italian and German hunting authors" (Thiébaud). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thiébaud, 312-313 -- Schwerdt I, 30 -- Souhart, 156-157 -- De Futaie en folio, I, pp. 204-205
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