[FORTIN (François)]. The innocent tricks, in which one sees how one catches the passenger Birds, & the nonpassenger ones: & of several kinds of four-footed beasts. With the most beautiful secrets of fishing in the rivers & in the ponds. And a very useful Treatise for Hunting. And the manner of making all the Rets & nets that one can imagine. The whole divided into five books, with figures. [By F.F.F.R.D.G. dit Le Solitaire Inventif. Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1688. In-4 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). [1] f. (title)-[3] pp. (dedication to the count de la Chaize)-[11] pp. (warning, notice to the reader, privilege and table of the first book)-445 pp. including 66 engraved plates, some folding-[12] pp. (Treatise on hunting by Charles de Strosse). Second edition, very rare and perhaps more sought after than the first of 1660, as it includes the additions, notably the Traité de la chasse. (Thiébaud 408-409.) A work written by a religious of the abbey of Grandmont which describes all kinds of hunting of small game and fishing in rivers and ponds, with the way to make traps and nets, very illustrated. The original in-4 edition dates from 1660, this second one, still in-4, from 1668 is completed with the dedication to the Count of la Chaize and the hunting treaty. In 1695, a third edition was published, this time in an in-8 format, then in 1700, 2 editions: in-4 and, under a different title, in two in-12 volumes. This work was, without scruples, plundered and used for numerous editions, under various titles, throughout the 18th century, notably Amsterdam 1714, Amsterdam and Leipzig 1743, Liger 1753. (Thiébaud, 409; Barbier, IV, 398.) Binding worn and rubbed, leather missing from headpieces and corners, small scattered wormholes.