Lot 267
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[Fortin de Grandmont, François]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£1,440
Description
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voi comment on prend les oyseaux passagers. Paris: Pierre Lamy, 1660, 5 parts in one volume, 4to, issue with author's initials only on title, title printed in red and black, 66 woodcut plates, 9 folding, contemporary vellum, a few plates just shaved, some soiling and browning to margins, upper joint splitting
Footnote
Note: First edition of a famous work on hunting. A variant issue gives the author's name in full on the title page. Schwerdt i, 180-181