![DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques. La vénerie. Paris: Pierre David, 1640. Title in red and black with large woodcut and full-page woodcut on verso, 56 woodcut illustrations of which 2 full-page. [Bound with:] HARMONT, Pierre. Le miroir de fauconnerie. Paris: Pierre David, 1640. Large woodcut on title and seven woodcut bird illustrations. 2 works in one volume, 4° (225 x 170mm). (Some soiling and browning, mainly marginal waterstaining heavier at beginning and end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: erased inscription on title of first work.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0155_000(du_fouilloux_jacques_la_venerie_paris_pierre_david_1640_title_in_red_a122154).jpg?w=1)
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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques. La vénerie. Paris: Pierre David, 1640. Title in red and black with large woodcut and full-page woodcut on verso, 56 woodcut illustrations of which 2 full-page. [Bound with:] HARMONT, Pierre. Le miroir de fauconnerie. Paris: Pierre David, 1640. Large woodcut on title and seven woodcut bird illustrations. 2 works in one volume, 4° (225 x 170mm). (Some soiling and browning, mainly marginal waterstaining heavier at beginning and end.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: erased inscription on title of first work.
The importance of Du Fouilloux's La vénerie can hardly be overstated. It was the first major work on the subject since Gaston Phébus's Livre de chasse, written in the late 14th century, and it remained pre-eminent for two hundred years. Bound as often with Harmont’s work, the two treatises provide the necessary information for keeping and training falcons, hawks and other birds of prey: how to choose birds, how to train them; how to treat them throughout the year; how to treat their illnesses or accidents. Souhart 154-155; Thiébaud 307; cf. Schwerdt I, pp. 155 and 230 (earlier editions).
The importance of Du Fouilloux's La vénerie can hardly be overstated. It was the first major work on the subject since Gaston Phébus's Livre de chasse, written in the late 14th century, and it remained pre-eminent for two hundred years. Bound as often with Harmont’s work, the two treatises provide the necessary information for keeping and training falcons, hawks and other birds of prey: how to choose birds, how to train them; how to treat them throughout the year; how to treat their illnesses or accidents. Souhart 154-155; Thiébaud 307; cf. Schwerdt I, pp. 155 and 230 (earlier editions).
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