Lot 526
CLAMORGAN Jean de
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
La chasse de loup necessaire a la maison rustique ... en laquelle est contenue la nature des loups, & la maniere de les prendre, tant par chiens, filets, pieges qu'autres instruments ... pp. 43, verso blank, printers's device on the titlepage, with 13 woodcuts of 14 (lacking pp. 31-32), disbound, margin of p. 19 repaired, 8vo., [Geneva]: Gabriel Cartier, 1597
Note: Not in Adams or the BM STC 16th Century French Books; Index Aureliensis 140.695 [Geneva]; Mortimer Harvard French Books 142 suggesting Lyons or Geneva as the place of publication; Schwerdt I p. 113. The BM with an edition of 1584 printed by Cartier and giving the place of publication as Geneva. First published at Paris in 1566 to accompany the third edition of Estienne L'agriculture et maison rustique, the author held rank equal to that of a vice-admiral in the navy under Francis I, Henry II and Charles IX. In retirement he devoted himself to wolf hunting on his estates in Normandy. His exploits reached the ears of Charles IX, a notable huntsman himself, and author of La chasse royale, to whom Clamorgan dedicated his treatise, which was considered to be the definitive work on the subject, [Bound with]
LA COURT Gervais de
La fabrique et usage de la iuage, ou diapsason qui est l'instrument avec lequel on examine & mesure la grandeur & capicité des tonneaux & vaisseaux circulaires ... pp. 35 verso blank, 8vo., [Geneva]: par Gabriel Cartier, 1597
Note: Not in Adams; BL with an edition of 1584