SELINCOURT (N. de). Le parfait chasseur, pour... Lot 332

SELINCOURT (N. de). Le parfait chasseur, pour l'instruction des personnes de qualité ou autres qui aiment la chasse, pour se rendre capable de cet exercice, apprendre aux veneurs, picqueurs, fauconniers et valets de chiens à servir dans les grands équipages... Paris, Quinet, 1683. in-12, 19th-century binding, signed L. Pouillet, in purplish morocco, triple gilded fillet framing the boards, gilded coat of arms in the center of the boards, ribbed spine decorated with gilded hunting motifs, gilded inner lace, gilded edges. First edition of the most complete hunting treatise of the 17th century. A very fine copy in signed morocco, bearing the arms of the de Buttet family. Thiébaud 836 ("highly esteemed and extremely rare work, which has never been reprinted").