FRENCH. 83 



156. HARMONT (Pierre, dit "Mercure"). Le 

 MiROiR DE Fauconnerie ou se verra I'instruction pour 

 choisir, nourrir, et traicter, dresser et faire voler toutes 

 sortes d'Oyseaux, et les muer et essimer, cognoistre les 

 maladies et accidents qui leur arrivent, et les remedes 

 pour les guerir. Dedie a Monseigneur le due de 

 Luynes, par Pierre Harmont, dit Mercure, Fauconnier 

 de la Chambre. Paris, Claude Percheron. 1620. 

 sm. 8vo. 



The first edition (pp. i.-vi. ; 1-96). A second, at Paris, C. 

 Besongne, 1635, and subsequent editions (appended to " La 

 Vdnerie de Jacques de Fouilloux") Paris, P. Billaine, 1634- 

 1635, 4to ; Paris, P. David, 1640, 4to ; and Rouen, Clement 

 Malassis, 1650, 4to. The author, who was " Fauconnier de la 

 Chambre du Roy Louis XIIL," and served also under Henri III. 

 and Henri IV., has in this book set down the results of 45 years' 

 experience. Copies of this work are very difficult to procure, 

 especially the first two editions in octavo. At the sale of Baron 

 de Selliere's Library, in London, in March 1887, a 4to copy 

 fetched £,(> 6s. At M. Bartel's sale in Paris, in April 1889, 

 the 8vo of 1620 fetched 9 if. 



157. RENE 'E'SiKSiQQil^ {pseudonynt). Essai des 



MERVEiLLES DE NATURE et des plus nobles artifices .... 



par Rene Fran9ois, predicateur du Roy [Louis xiii.]. 



Rouen. 162 1. 4to. 



This " essay " of an encyclopaedic nature, contains amongst 

 other things chapters on Hunting and Hawking (chap. iii. pp. 

 34-52). It passed through several editions at Rouen, 1622, 

 1624, 1625, 1626, 1631, 1632, 1667, and 1726; at Paris, 1639, 

 1646; and Lyons, 1642. The author's real name was Etienne 

 Binet. 



158. RANCONNET (Aimar de). Thresor de 

 LA Langue FRAN90YSE, tant ancienne que moderne 



