Hardouin, Seigneur de Fontaines-Guérin

Trésor de Vénerie Composé l’an M. CCC. LXXXX.IV par Hardouin, Seigneur de Fontaines-Guérin, et publié pour le première fois par M. H[enri Victor] Michelant.

      Metz: Chez Rousseau-Pallez, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue des Clercs, 14 1856 - Octavo, pp. xvi, [138]. Each section has a small accompanying engraving copied from the original manuscript. Some foxing and offsetting. Original half calf binding, rubbed. Each illustration contains a form of notation for the rhythm to be played on the huntsman’s horn, only one note is indicated, the various calls and signals being based chiefly on rhythm, and the notes being left to the taste and skill of the huntsman. The black square (and it’s extensions) are crochets (one beat) and two white squares together are a quaver (one beat split into two half beats). One of a limited edition of 200 copies. [Attributes: Hard Cover]