[HUNTING - SERRÉ de RIEUX (Jean de)]. The Gifts of Latona’s - Lot 161

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[HUNTING - SERRÉ de RIEUX (Jean de)]. The Gifts of Latona’s - Lot 161
[HUNTING - SERRÉ de RIEUX (Jean de)]. The Gifts of Latona’s Children: Music and the Hunt for the Stag. Poems. Paris: Pierre Prault, Jean Desaint & Jacques Guérin, 1734. Small 8vo, calfskin, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, plain spine decorated with grotesque motifs (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION of this work, containing for the first time all the fanfares composed by the Marquis de Dampierre, “gentleman of the King’s Pleasures.” Eight plates, including a frontispiece, engraved by Le BAS, six of which are after OUDRY; and 46 pp. (out of 48) of engraved music. Original leaves D2 and D3 (pp. 51–54) replaced by a single-leaf cardboard insert paginated 51–52 by the publisher. From the libraries of •Viollet-Le-Duc; & •Georges Flore - Geneviève Dubois, with bookplates. Restorations to the binding; headband and jaw damaged; the section titled “Nouvelle chasse du cerf” (pp. 297–316) bound by mistake before the privilege page; the privilege page is slightly shorter at the bottom margin; the second sheet of engraved music for “Larcin de l’Amour,” normally placed between pp. 28 and 29, is missing. “There are copies that do not include folio D III, pp. 53–54, without any interruption in the text” (Thiébaud, 836–839); Souhart, 635; Schwerdt, II–156; Cohen, 952.
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