[FERRIÈRES, Henry de] - Lot 100

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[FERRIÈRES, Henry de] - Lot 100
[FERRIÈRES, Henry de] Sensuyt le livre du Roy Modus et de la Royne Racio q[ui] parle du deduit de la Chasse a toutes bees sauuaiges comme cerfs : biches : dais : cheureulx : lieures : sãgliers : loups/regnardz. et loutres Avec le stille de faulcõnerie Paris, Jehan Trepperel, [circa 1525] SUPERB 18th-CENTURY LEATHERBOXED EXEMPLAIRE, WITH SEDUING PROVENANCES: MÉON, HUZARD, YEMENIZ, HUTH, SCHWERDT, Mouchon, BLONDELET. "THE OLDEST HUNTING BOOK WRITTEN IN FRENCH" (Thiébaud) Third or fourth edition In-4 (183 x 128mm). Title and last leaf of table in red and black. Running title, 32 lines per page. Gothic characters. Engraved lettering. 3 woodcut vignettes (title, reader, colophon). COLLATION: a4 A-V4 AA-BB4 CC6: 98 leaves, i.e. 4 unch. ff. and 94 ff. folioed I-XCIIII on their recto. CONTENTS: a1r: title with vignette depicting the author offering his book, a1v: "Lecteur" with vignette depicting a monk in the foreground and a nude woman in the background, a2r: dedication "A tres hault et magnanime prince monseigneur Charles", a2v-a4v: "la table", A1r: text "Au temps que le roy Modus"..., CC6v: colophon "Cy finist ce present livre... Imprime nouvellement a Paris par Jehan Trepperel" with printer's mark ANNOTATIONS: one handwritten leaf, in brown ink, in an 18th-century hand, on a flyleaf at the end of the volume: "In Mississippi, the savages have the skin of a deer [...] to make a bonnet which they put on their heads and cover their bodies with its skin"...; numerous 16th-century handwritten corrections, in black ink, correcting misprints ILLUSTRATION: 43 mid-page woodcuts (approx. 75 x 115mm) depicting hunting scenes BINDING CIRCA 1700. Marbled calf speckled with red, framed with cold fillet, gilt and ornate long spine with small iron bird, gilt edges. Case PROVENANCE: Dominique-Martin Méon (1748-1829; Paris, November 15, 1803, lot 1283: "Trepperel, s.d., in-4, figures en bois, v[eau] m[arbré]", handwritten mark in red ink) -- Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838; stamp on verso of title; Paris, 1842, II, lot 4856, 165 FF; who also owned a manuscript on vellum skin of Le Roi Modus, cf. previous lot of his sale) -- Nicolas Yemeniz (1783-1871; bookplate; Paris, May 23, 1867, lot 1033, 800 FF; who owned another copy of Le Roi Modus, cf. previous lot of his sale, sold for 500 FF) -- Henry Huth (1815-1878; bookplate; London, 1917, V, lot 5042, who dated it "c. 1495") -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (1862-1939; bookplate; described in his 1928 catalog, II, p. 30) -- Pierre Mouchon (1867-1952; Paris, 1953, lot 1132) -- Jean Blondelet (autograph signature on the last endpaper) Marginal restoration not affecting text on leaves N1, N4 and CC5 Thiébaud mentions the rarity of this edition as well as its probable date: "this edition is also very rare; known copies are as few as those of the first two editions [1486 and 1521]". This edition "seems to have been published after that of 1521 and would therefore be the third Livre du Roy Modus". It was once considered incunabula. The catalog of the Henry Huth sale (1917) and then that of the Schwerdt collection (1928) dated it to around 1495. However, Schwerdt changes his mind at the end of his bibliographical note and places it after the 1521 edition: "We venture... to submit the theory that this variation in the so-called second edition points to its being a later edition than the one of 1521, in which case it could be the third". Schwerdt gives this date on the basis of the dedication and a study of the engravings: in his dedication to Charles de Bourbon, the printer Trepperel mentions that he is "governor and lieutenant general for the King in the country of Picardy". Charles de Bourbon did not receive this title until 1518. A study of the engravings also suggests a link between the 1521 edition (by J. Janot) and this one. According to Schwerdt, the woodcuts are almost identical between the two editions, but those of the Trepperel edition are smaller than those of the Janot edition. The progression from one edition to the next is usually in the direction of smaller engravings. The Schwerdt catalog also notes that the woodblock on the reverse of folio 25 in the Trepperel edition is of a more recent date than in the 1521 edition: "this woodblock appears to be of a later date than the one in the 1521 edition... all the others are very similar to the cuts in the 1521 edition, although they are not exactly the same", he concludes. Guy Bechtel does not date this Trepperel ver edition.
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