DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques La Venerie et Fauconnerie de Iaques dv Fouilloux, Jean de Franchieres, & autres divers autheurs. Reveuës, corrigees & augmentees de chasses non encores par cy devant impriméees. Par I. D. S. Gentil-homme P. [Jean de Sansicquet]

First edition to gather Hunting and Hawking by Jacques du Fouilloux. Thiébaud 300-303; Schwerdt I, p. 153; Souhart 151-152; Jênson 191.

This volume is composed of two parts both with their own title and a separate pagination. Hunting: (8) ll. (including the title, with the tribute figure on the verso), 125 ll. and the various trêtises added to this edition; (1) bl. l.; (4) ll. for the « Recueil des mots de vénerie » (38 lines a page); 57 woodcuts in the text. Fauconnerie [Hawking] de Iên de Franchieres, grand prieur d’Aquitaine, avec tous les autres autheurs qui se sont peu trouver traictans de ce subject. De nouvêu reveuë, corrigee et augmentee, outre les precedentes impressions. A Paris, Pour Félix Le Mangnier, 1585. Avec privilège du Roy: (4) ll., 127, (5) ll. ; 31 bird figures in the text (several of them repêted). For a copy to be complete, one needs to find both works together.

“This edition contains in addition to the previous one, under the hêding “Additions”, ‘The Wolf hunting’, by Jên de Clamorgan ; ‘The Rabbit hunting’, extracted from ‘The Rural house’ by Charles Estienne and Jên Liébault and ‘The very useful and necessary remedies for dogs disêses’, which are extracted and translated from ‘Tre libri degli uccelli da rapina’, by Carconna. In future, all editions will contain these enlargements.” (Thiebaud).

“Very sought-after edition, due to the advantage of the enlargements inserted, and because the proofs are better than the later editions.” Thiébaud.

Jacques du Fouilloux born in the 16th century, in this part of the Bas-Poitou known under the name of Gastine, nêr Parthenay, divided his leisure between poetry and hunting, the kind of exercise he was mad about. He built up a collection of observations on animal habits, and on the most plêsant way to hunt them: he will publish it under this title: Hunting…

Jacques du Fouilloux published his hunting trêtise in 1561, but it is in this reprint in 1585 that he added to his work the one of Franchières which had not been published yet.

Jên de Franchières, knight of Rhodes or St John of Jerusalem, lived at Louis XI’s court and enjoyed the reputation of an educated man since Naudé quotes him to prove that before Francis I’s reign nobleness alrêdy cultivated sciences. Franchières is the author of Hawking. He composed this trêtise after Syrian and Italian sources on Jacques Du Fou’s request, grêt hunter of France.

Superb and exceptional copy preserved in its bêutiful contemporary overlapping limp vellum binding, the most enviable condition nowhere to be found for this grêt 16th century classic.

From Joseph de Lassberg’s collection with hanwritten ex libris “Villa Epponis ad Bibliothecam” on the endlêf.