[FORTIN DE GRANDMONT, Franois.]  Les ruses innocentes ... avec les plus beaux secrets de la pche dans les rivires et dans les estangs, Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel, 1695. 8, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 66 engraved plates of which 9 are folding (washed, a few small tears to margins), dark green morocco gilt by Hardy, t.e.g. Provenance: A. Mercier (Mercier Sale Catalogue, Paris, 1889, lot 631).
[FORTIN DE GRANDMONT, Franois.] Les ruses innocentes ... avec les plus beaux secrets de la pche dans les rivires et dans les estangs, Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel, 1695. 8, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 66 engraved plates of which 9 are folding (washed, a few small tears to margins), dark green morocco gilt by Hardy, t.e.g. Provenance: A. Mercier (Mercier Sale Catalogue, Paris, 1889, lot 631).

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[FORTIN DE GRANDMONT, Franois.] Les ruses innocentes ... avec les plus beaux secrets de la pche dans les rivires et dans les estangs, Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel, 1695. 8, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 66 engraved plates of which 9 are folding (washed, a few small tears to margins), dark green morocco gilt by Hardy, t.e.g. Provenance: A. Mercier (Mercier Sale Catalogue, Paris, 1889, lot 631).

Fourth edition. The second edition was published at Paris by Lamy in 1668, and the third by Charles de Sercy, Paris, 1688. Schwerdt I, p. 181; Souhart 637.

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