SALNOVE, Robert de - Lot 203

Lot 203
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SALNOVE, Robert de - Lot 203
SALNOVE, Robert de La Vénerie royale... Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1655 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TREATIES ON HUNTING OF THE XVIIth CENTURY: HUNTING ENTERS THE AGE OF CLASSICISM. A FINE COPY, BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY VELLUM. ORIGINAL EDITION In-4 (227 x 170 mm). Woodcut headbands, initials and tailpieces. COLLATION: ã4 ẽ4 ĩ4 õ2 ¶4 2¶4 3¶4 4¶4 5¶4 A-X4 2*2 Y-Z4 2A-Z4 3A-K4: (14) ff, 168 pp., (1) f., pp. 168-439, (4) ff. (with some pagination errors) ILLUSTRATION: copper-engraved title-frontispiece by François Chauveau. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Soft ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine PROVENANCE: old handwritten bookplates on title leaf, one redacted -- Bibliothèque de Presle (wet stamp repeated twice) "Famous treatise, intended, in the author's mind, to replace that of Du Fouilloux, which Salnove found written in too free a language" (Thiébaud). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, V, 93-94 -- Thiébaud, 823-824 -- Schwerdt, II, 144 -- Souhart, 415-416
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