PHEBUS, Gaston

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PHEBUS, Gaston
Le Miroyr de Phebus des deduictz de la chasse aux bees saulvaiges et des oyseaulx de proye Avec l'art de fauconnerie & la cure des bees et oyseaulx a cela propice... Newly printed in Paris by Philippe Le Noir, undated [ca. 1525]. Small gothic in-4 (178 x 122 mm) of 64 ff.n. Collation A-O4 P10. Half basane, speckled paper boards, gilt border, elegant unidentified gilt numeral in the centre (18th century German binding), modern black morocco slipcase. Thiébaud, 731; Souhart; Bechtel, P-125; see Brunet, IV, 598. Extremely rare early edition. It is illustrated with a woodcut on the title depicting a boar hunt, two small figures, one depicting a boar, the other a hunting dog, numerous initials and the printer's mark. The Livre de chasse de Gaston III de Foix, nicknamed Phébus, is, after the Livre du Roy Modus, the oldest treatise on hunting written in French. Composed around 1370, it was, along with the Roy Modus, the only hunting treatise that our ancestors could consult for nearly two centuries, until the publication of Du Fouilloux. It is also the first treatise on hunting with hounds. This third edition is listed as having only eight copies by Thiébaud, this one not included. It was not until 1844 that a new edition of this great text was published. A few short leaves at the head, small restoration in the lower margin of the last leaf without affecting the text. Library stamp on the flyleaf. A charming copy, formerly bound.
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