Jean de Serré de Rieux [Jean de SERRÉ DE RIEUX]
Les Dons des enfans de Latone : la musique et la chasse du cerf, poëmes dédiés au Roy[The Gifts of the Children of Latona: Music and the Hunting of the Stag, Poems Dedicated to the King]
Pierre Prault • Jean Desaint • Jacques Guérin|Paris 1734|12.3 x 17.3 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with 8 engraved plates outside the text by Le Bas after Oudry, including a frontispiece and 6 hunting plates depicting stag hunting scenes (cf. Cioranescu, 60 125. Thiébaud 836-39. Cohen 952, with the often fanciful collation characteristic of this bibliography).
A fine copy complete in all its parts, notably retaining leaf Diij, which is sometimes found supplied in facsimile or replaced by a cancel leaf.
Contemporary full mottled tan calf, spine with five raised bands gilt-ruled and richly gilt in compartments with floral tools, gilt rolls to the spine ends, marbled endpapers, two engraved bookplates pasted to the endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fille
€1,250