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SALNOVE, Robert de. La venerie royale divisée en IV. parties; qui contiennent les chasses du cerf, du lievre, du chevreüil, du sanglier, du loup, & du renard. Avec le denombrement des forests & grands buissons de France, où se doiuent placer les logemens, questes, & relais, pour y chasser [Dictionnaire des chasseurs]. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1655.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (213 x 155mm). Additional engraved title, a few woodcut headpieces and initials. (Upper margin of engraved title shaved, a few leaves lightly browned, light spotting at end). Red jansenist morocco by Zaehnsdorf, light red morocco doublures, red watered silk endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Jean Charles Ledesma, bibliothèque de St Elia (late 18th-century bookplate) - Earl of Rosebery (armorial garter booklabel) -- G.R. Nicolaus (bookplate) -- GVR (French morocco booklabel).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FRENCH CYNEGETICAL WORKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. The author, who filled several important royal posts, intended his work to replace Du Fouilloux's La venerie, first published at Poitiers in 1561, judging his predecessor to have written 'dans un langage trop libre'. A view which may explain why Du Fouilloux's book, which had gone through more than twenty editions since its first appearance, was not published in France between 1650 and 1844. Thiébaud, who lists seven editions of Salnove's work between 1655 and 1927, states that there should be two unsigned leaves of text after p.168. These are not present in this copy nor in the Huzard-Pichon-Jeanson copy. Schwerdt II, p.144; Souhart 415-16; Thiébaud 823-24.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (213 x 155mm). Additional engraved title, a few woodcut headpieces and initials. (Upper margin of engraved title shaved, a few leaves lightly browned, light spotting at end). Red jansenist morocco by Zaehnsdorf, light red morocco doublures, red watered silk endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Jean Charles Ledesma, bibliothèque de St Elia (late 18th-century bookplate) - Earl of Rosebery (armorial garter booklabel) -- G.R. Nicolaus (bookplate) -- GVR (French morocco booklabel).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FRENCH CYNEGETICAL WORKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. The author, who filled several important royal posts, intended his work to replace Du Fouilloux's La venerie, first published at Poitiers in 1561, judging his predecessor to have written 'dans un langage trop libre'. A view which may explain why Du Fouilloux's book, which had gone through more than twenty editions since its first appearance, was not published in France between 1650 and 1844. Thiébaud, who lists seven editions of Salnove's work between 1655 and 1927, states that there should be two unsigned leaves of text after p.168. These are not present in this copy nor in the Huzard-Pichon-Jeanson copy. Schwerdt II, p.144; Souhart 415-16; Thiébaud 823-24.
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