Lot n° 108
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FRANCHIÈRES, Jean de - Lot 108
FRANCHIÈRES, Jean de
La Fauconnerie de F. Ian des Franchieres, grand prieur d'Aquitaine... avec une autre fauconnerie de Guillaume Tarif... Then the vollerie de messire Artelouche d'Alagona... D'avantage un recueil de tous les oiseaux de proyes, servans a la fauconnerie et vollerie
Poitiers, Enguilbert de Marnef et les Bouchetz frères, 1567
A REMARKABLE COPY WITH THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PROVENANCE:
HEBER, BARON PICHON, JEANSON AND BRADLEY MARTIN
Second edition, PART ORIGINAL
4 parts in one in-4 volume (221 x 155mm). Engraved initials. "Copies with the dedication of G. Bouchet are the rarest" (Thiébaud), which is the case here.
COLLATION: +6 A-K8; *2 Aa-Ff8; A-B8 C4; A-D8
ILLUSTRATION: 29 wood-engraved figures of birds, with numerous repetitions; these figures are modelled on those in Pierre Belon's Hystoire de la nature des oyseaux (1555).
17th CENTURY BINDING. Speckled calf, ornate spine, speckled edges.
PROVENANCE: Richard Heber (stamp; London, June 14, 1834, lot 2203) -- baron d'Offémont (note) -- baron Pichon (1812-1896; bookplate; his sale, Paris, 1897, Première partie, lot 687) -- Marcel Jeanson (bookplate with mark "1425"; Monaco, March 1, 1987, lot 238, FF. 52,000 hammer) -- H. Bradley Martin (bookplate)
Spine rubbed with small loss to one of the headpieces.
Jean de Franchières, a native of Picardy, took part in the defense of Rhodes against the Turks from 1458 to 1468. From his stay in the East, he brought back the material for his future treatise on falconry, borrowed from four falconers in the East who, without him, would have been forgotten. Several manuscripts and editions of his treatise bear witness to its importance. All editions of Franchières, except the first (circa 1531, known in two copies), are followed by Guillaume Tardif's Fauconnerie, Arthelouche de Alagona's Vollerie, and Guillaume Bouchet's Recueil des oyseaux de proye. The last two treatises are here in their original editions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 59482 -- Brunet II, 1374 -- Thiébaud, 428-429 -- Schwerdt, I, 184 -- Souhart, 194-196 -- De Futaie en folio, I, pp. 284-285
WEBOGRAPHY : Heber sale : https://archive.org/details/bibliothecaheberiana2/page/114/mode/2up -- Baron Pichon sale : https://archive.org/details/CatalogueDeLaBibliothequePichon1/page/n287/mode/2up
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