ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean). Agriculture and rustic house. With a treatise on the hunting of deer, wild boar, hare, fox, blereau, rabbit, wolf, birds and falconry. And of the manufacture of the gauge, or diapason, with figures. Augmented with an instruction to know in what time, month & season one must sow & replant according to the cold or hot country, to advance & delay the seeds, & all kinds of seeds. Lyon, Laurens, 1702. In-4, granite basane, spine with ornate nerves. Last edition of this famous treatise on country life in the 16th century. It is illustrated with 59 woodcut figures in text, 2 of which are full-page and 37 mid-page. It is a true encyclopedia of country life containing many chapters on hunting, gastronomy, gardens, etc. (Thiébaud 356.) Nice copy, small worm gallery in the white margin of about ten pages.

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