Hunting - Venery
SALNOVE (Robert de)
La Vénerie... Lot 474
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Hunting - Venery
SALNOVE (Robert de)
La Vénerie Royale divided into four parts, which contain the hunting of deer, hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf and fox, with an enumeration of the forests and large bushes of France, where the lodgings, quests and relays must be placed for hunting. Paris, Sommanville et Soubron, 1655.
4 parts in one volume in-4 : 13f., 168pp. - (3), 168-437 (miscellaneous), 4f. (table), 38pp. (dictionary of hunters); fine frontispiece.
Brown granite calf, spine ribbed, small fleuron between boxes, fawn title page, double gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, gilt edges.
First edition dedicated to Louis XIV. This famous treatise on hunting, the most important of the 17th century, replaced the work of Du Fouilloux. Sainove, lieutenant of the louvetière de France, acquired a great experience of the royal venery with Henri IV, then with Louis XIII. He describes with precision the hunting of deer, with the study of hounds, hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf and fox. A chapter is devoted to the hunting of deer in Piedmont, the fruit of the author's experience as squire to the Duchess of Savoy. A dictionary of hunting and hunting terms is given at the end (Thiébaud 823-824).
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