FOUILLOUX, Jacques du.
La venerie ... de nouveau reveue, et augmentée, outre les precedentes impressions.
Paris, Clause Cramoisy, 1624. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. (22.6 x 16.4 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 57 woodcut illustrations, of which 3 full-page, woodcut musical scores, head- and tailpieces, and initials. 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled black morocco, boards and spine showing an intricate motif of lions rampant within lozenges, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gold-tooled red morocco pastedowns, red edges, red silk on the first and last flyleaves. Bound by Cuyls (with CUYLS stamped in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf). [4], 124, [8] pp.
€ 12,500
A sumptuously bound copy of this important illustrated classic on falconry, with the intricate monogram of Amédée Rigaud as a centre piece on the elaborately gold-tooled red morocco front pastedown. From the collection of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, a still extant Southern German noble family. First published in 1561, this work remained one of the most popular of its kind until the 18th century; it contains a wealth of interesting observations on the habits of animals since confirmed by naturalists. The woodcuts show a hunting party resting, a hunter being paid for shooting a deer, several kinds of antlers, the training and care of hounds, various tools such as spades, shovels, hoes, etc.; a shepherdess with her flock of sheep, and a three-masted ship with hunters and hounds on bord. Numerous hunting tunes are added as woodcut music in the text. The fine full-page woodcut on the reverse of the title page shows the author presenting his work to King Charles IX.
With the gold-tooled monogram of Amédée Rigaud on the red morocco front pastedown, his round book plate on the red silk recto of the first flyleaf, and the stamp of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein on the title page. Outer margin of title reinforced on verso, scattered light spotting, lightly browned, extremities lightly rubbed, lower hinge split. Occasional remarginings. Extremities lightly rubbed. A handsome, well-preserved copy. Souhart 153; Thiébaud, p.305; cf. Schwerdt p.153.
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