Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SAVARY, JACQUES. Venationis cervinae, capreolinae, aprugnae, et lupinae leges. [8], 118 pages. 4to, old vellum with morocco lettering piece, surface defects on front cover; contents toned with some light foxing and marginal dampstaining; buckram slipcase. Caen: Jean Cavelier, 1659

Additional Details

first edition of a book of neo-Latin verse on hunting deer, boar, and wolves, "by a poet who flourished in the 17th century in Normandy, then one of the chief sporting provinces of France" (Schwerdt). Souhart 420; Schwerdt II, 148.