Sale: 305 / Rare Books, Nov. 13./14. 2006 Lot 528

 
F. Fortin - Les ruses innocentens


528
F. Fortin
Les ruses innocentens, 1688.
Estimate:
€ 800 / $ 856
Sold:
€ 1,131 / $ 1,210
(incl. surcharge)
F[ortin], F. Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passaager, & les non passsgers: & de plusieurs fortes des bêtes à quarte pieds. Avec les plux beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. With engr. head vignette, engr. initial and 66 (5 fold.; 4 double-page size) woodcut plates.. Paris, Ch. de Sercy 1688. Contemp. calf with richly decorated gilt spine. 4to. 8 ll., 445 pp., 11 ll.
Schwerdt I, 181. - Souhart 636. - Thiébaud Sp. 408f.. - Westwood/Satchell p. 180. - Third edition of the great work about hunting and fishing, first published in Paris in 1660. "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. The work is divided into five books of which the last deals with fishing." (Schwerdt). - Some partial waterstaining. Binding slightly bumped, lower extremity of spine somewhat damaged, overall good copy.



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528
F. Fortin
Les ruses innocentens, 1688.
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