GRUAU, Louis - Lot 127

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GRUAU, Louis - Lot 127
GRUAU, Louis New hunting invention. Pour prendre et oster les loups de la France Paris, Laurent Sonnius, 1613 WOLF HUNTING IN MAYENNE BY A PARISH PRIEST FROM SAULGES. COPY IN CONTEMPORARY VELLUM FIRST EDITION. Small in-8 (168 x 106 mm). Wood-engraved headbands, initials and endpapers. a6 A-K8 L4: (6)-83-(1) ff, A1r-L3r folioed 1-83. 6 folding woodcut plates, 4 of them large. ANNOTATIONS in an old hand in brown ink on the first endpaper. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Soft ivory vellum, visible stitching, traces of laces, handwritten title on spine. Boxed. USTC 6014861 -- Brunet, II 1768 -- Thiébaud, 479-481: "a most rare work, especially with the 6 plates which are not in all copies, even those in their contemporary bindings. The errata leaf is also missing from many editions." -- Schwerdt, I, 221 -- Souhart, 228. Ff. a6, E6, K1 and L4 are in facsimile. A few small marginal stains. Browning on lower board.
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