La chasse du loup, necessaire a la maison rustique … en laquelle est contenue la nature des loups, & la maniere de les prendre, tant par chiens, filets, pieges, qu'autres instrumens: le tout enrichy de plusieurs figures & pourtraicts representez apres le naturel ….
by CLAMORGAN, Jean de
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[Lyon or Geneva], Par Gabriel Cartier, 1597.. 8°, modern green half calf, spine with raised bands at head and foot, each of the two with small gilt ornaments, title stamped vertically in gilt between the bands; all edges gilt. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial letters, 14 large woodcut illustrations in text. Slight dampstaining. In fine condition. Bookplate inside cover: "Ex-Libris John Arthur Brooke / Fenay Hall," with a tasteful illustration of an aristocratic library. 43 pp. *** Later edition of this popular work on wolf hunting. Clamorgan first offers observations drawn from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Olaus Magnus on the natural history of wolves and the medicinal uses of preparations derived from wolf excrement and body parts. Clamorgan acknowledges that most of the medicinal information (pp. 15-17) derives from Pliny the Elder's Natural History, for example: wolf's liver in mulled wine as a cure for a cough, wolf excrement as a cure for cataracts, and wolf fat as a treatment for conjunctivitis. The chapter's subsections include uses for wolf's excrement, fat, liver, gall, bones, oil, flesh, and hide. Clamorgan also notes that, as stated in Pliny, wolf's parts have been used against magic.Later chapters address such topics as training bloodhounds for the hunt, how to distinguish wolf tracks from dog tracks, and strategies for capturing wolves using traps, nets, and decoys. Each method is illustrated by one or more nearly full-page woodcuts.The Chasse du loup was first printed in 1566 (Paris: J. Du Puys) to accompany the third edition of Charles Estienne's L'agriculture et maison rustique. Both works were frequently reprinted well into the seventeenth century and are often found bound together, though each also seems to have been published separately on occasion. An earlier Gabriel Cartier edition appeared in 1584, without place of publication. The 14 woodcuts in this edition are free copies of those in the earlier Du Puys editions.Clamorgan served in the French navy for nearly 50 years. Although La chasse du loup is his only published work, he also wrote an unpublished treatise on navigation and shipbuilding.*** Schwerdt I, 113: collating 43 + [1 b.] pp. (A-B8, C6). Jeanson 1138. Jeanson sale I, lot 138. Thiébaud 350. Souhart 106. Kelso, English Gentleman (suppl.) 119. See also Mortimer, French 142n: locating a copy at Harvard and ascribing this edition to Lyon or Geneva. NUC: DFo.
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- La chasse du loup, necessaire a la maison rustique … en laquelle est contenue la nature des loups, & la maniere de les prendre, tant par chiens, filets, pieges, qu'autres instrumens: le tout enrichy de plusieurs figures & pourtraicts representez apres le naturel ….
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- CLAMORGAN, Jean de
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- [Lyon or Geneva], Par Gabriel Cartier, 1597.
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- hunting, illustrated books, medicine, natural history, wolf, wolves, Aristotle, Olaus Magnus, woodcuts, dogs, Illustrated books, Lyon (?) imprints, Early printed books, eyes, ophthalmology, cataracts, magic, Pliny the Elder
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