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[FORTIN, François]

Les Ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers & de plusieurs sortes de bestes A quatre pieds.
Paris
P. Lamy
1660
€240 - €360

4°, [16], 55; [8], 57-119; [8], 121-184; [4], 185-230; [8], 231-288 pp, 65 (sur 66) planches gravées sur bois, pleine page ht, qq planches dépl. avec déch. sans manque, plein veau à nerfs d'époque (usé)

Edition originale rare. Réf. Thiébaud 408 ; Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting I, p.181: ""A celebrated and most important book which was the source of information for many subsequent writers on the art of taking game, fish and vermin with traps, nets and similar implements"" ; Westwood & Satchell, Bibliotheca piscatoria, p. 180: ""The most interesting contribution made by France to the literature of angling