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[FORTIN DE GRANDMONT, François (d.1661)]. Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les oiseaux non passagers: et de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel, 1695. 8°. Title printed in red and black, additional engraved title and 66 plates, several folding (a few light stains and spots). Contemporary sheep, gilt spine with red lettering piece (head of spine chipped, joints rubbed, corners rather worn).
Fourth edition of a 'celebrated and important book which was a source of information for many subsequent writers on the art of taking game, fish and vermin with traps, nets and similar implements', Schwerdt I, p.181; Souhart 408; Thiébaud 409.
Fourth edition of a 'celebrated and important book which was a source of information for many subsequent writers on the art of taking game, fish and vermin with traps, nets and similar implements', Schwerdt I, p.181; Souhart 408; Thiébaud 409.
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