FRENCH. 79 



pillier de la Grande Salle du Palais. 1604. Avec 

 privilege du Roy. 4to. 



Falconry receives attention as one of the pleasures of the 

 country. 



Schlegel, who, under a much abridged title, cites the second 

 edition of 1604, characterizes this laborious composition of 

 more than 300 pages (pp. i.-iv., 1-319) as a poem of no literary 

 merit and of no scientific interest, though this opinion is not 

 shared by modern French sportsmen {cf. Dunoyerde Noirmont). 



Both these editions are now very rare. Two modern editions 

 have been published — one, Paris, 1869, i2mo ; the other, much 

 superior, and with an Introduction by M. Ernest Jullien, Paris, 

 Firmin Didot, 1879, 2 vols. 4to. 



152. GOMMER (Pierre et Frangois de). L'Autour- 

 SERiE de Pierre de Gommer, Seigneur de Lusancy, 

 assiste de Fran9ois de Gommer, Seigneur de Brueil, 

 son frere. Au Seigneur de Forges. A Chalons-sur- 

 Marne, chez Claude Guyot, imprimeur du Roy. 1594. 



8vo. 



First edition with woodcuts, now very rare. At the sale of 

 Baron Pichon's library, in 1869, a copy sold for 3oof. A 

 second edition, with a slight addition to the title, as follows : — 



De l'Autourserie et de ce qui appartient au Vol 



de Oyseaux par P. de Gommer, Seigneur de Lusancy, 



et F. de Gommer, Seigneur de Brueil, son frere. A 



Paris, chez Jean Houz6, au Palais en la Gallerie des 



Prisonniers allant a la Chancellerie. 1605. ^^o. 



Almost as scarce as the first edition. Published in the same 

 year as the third edition of d'Arcussia (No. 153), it is sometimes 

 to be found bound up with it. A reprint of this appeared in 

 1608, but none subsequently until the following: — 



De l'Autourserie, etc. Nouvelle edition revue et 

 annotee par Henri Chevreuil d'apres I'edition de 1608. 



