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Robert de Salnove.
The Royal Hunt, divided into four parts.
Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1665.
Fees include commission and taxes.
The Royal Hunt, divided into four parts.
Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1665.
Small quarto, (14) leaves including title-page and frontispiece, 168-(3) pp., pp. 168–437–(9)–38 pp. Contemporary mottled tan calfskin, ribbed spine, gilt title, richly decorated panels, edges mottled with red (some defects to the binding, a few small spots of oxidation).
Souhart, 415–416. Thiébaud, 823–824.
Second edition of one of the most important treatises on hunting and the art of the hunt from the 17th century, by Robert de Salnove (1597–1670), Ordinary Councillor to the King’s Household, Lieutenant in the Grand Wolf Hunt of France and squire to Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy.
Comprising four parts on the hunting of deer, hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf and fox. Followed by an alphabetical table of the forests of France mentioned in the work and a Dictionnaire des chasseurs at the end.
An edition adorned with a beautiful frontispiece title engraved in black on copper, along with several vignettes at the head of the text and initial letters.