[FORTIN, François].
Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. Et un traité tres-utile pour la chasse. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & les filets qu'on peut s'imaginer.
Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial for the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, including 50 illustrating hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [16], 445, [1 blank], 12 pp.
€ 3,000
Famous work on a gentleman's recreation, bird catching, hunting and fishing, published under the initials F.F.F.R.D.G., meaning Frère François Fortin, Religieux de Gramont. First published in 1660, the book proved very popular and the prototype of the genre. The present third edition is dedicated to François Daix, Comte de la Chaize, and adds an extra treatise on hunting at the end, by Charles Strosse.
In good condition. Binding slightly rubbed, head and foot of spine slightly damaged. Lindner 11.0621.01-02; Schwerdt I, 181; Thiébaud 408-409.
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