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1738 · 6 — <p><strong>First Edition - The copy of king Louis Philippe I</strong></p><p><strong>Exceedingly rare hunting treatise on Bird trapping </strong><em><strong>pipée </strong></em><strong> AS A METHOD TO protect and preserve bush animals from birds of prey</strong></p><p>Simon Jean-Baptiste. <em>Moyens de conserver le Gibier par la destruction des oiseaux de rapine ; Et les Instructions pour y parvenir. </em><em>Traité de la pipée Chasse amusante & divertissante très-convenable aux Dames. </em>Paris Veuve Prudhomme 1738.</p><p>12° 163 x 10 cm contemporary full leather binding gilt decoration and title at compartments pp. 4 – first blank <em>recto</em> of second page engraved frontispiece xxvii 3 84 4 engraved handcoloured frontispiece original silk bookmark perfectly preserved red edges.</p><p>Hand coloured full page engraving at frontispiece representing a birds trap with the Latin <em>motto</em> "<em>Silentio Decipiuntur</em> Deceived in Silence"</p><p>Only three complete copies of this first edition recorded in worldwide libraries WorldCat</p><p>Extremely rare treatise on Birds Trapping <em>pipée</em> which as the author specifies in the preface can be considered the first and most complete popular and infomrative work on this hunting technique.</p><p>This method of hunting now prohibited and already discussed in Simon's time is based on the preparation of traps usually poles leaning against trees or branches sprinkled with a sticky substance towards which a team of beaters lures the birds with decoys.</p><p>Simon tries to valorise this hunting method not considering it only as it was mainly considered at the time a fun pastime perfectly suitable for ladies but as a very useful hunting method to control the number of birds of prey and therefore preserve bush animals otherwise destined to be their victims.</p><p>Book Structure:</p><p>· Hand coloured engraved frontispiece</p><p>· Title page</p><p>· Preface</p><p>· Table of Contents</p><p>· Chapter I – On the hunting methods of the "<em>pipée" </em>in general</p><p>· Chapter II – On the preparation of the "Glue" for the traps</p><p>· Chapter III – How to optimize the glue</p><p>· Chapter IV – On Glue in general</p><p>· Chapter V – About the best locations to prepare the traps</p><p>· Chapter VI – How to choose the tree and how to prepare it</p><p>· Chapter VII – Where to hide the hunt beaters</p><p>· Chapter VIII – IX How to set up the traps</p><p>· Chapter X – About the best time of the day to start the hunting</p><p>· Chapter XI – About the decoys in hunting</p><p>· Chapter XII – The best season for "<em>pipée"</em></p><p>· Chapter XIII – The best weather to practice Hunting</p><p>· Chapter XIV – Which are the birds usually captured with "<em>pipée"</em></p><p>· Chapter XV – How to build a perfect Hunting Team.</p><p>· Printing Authorization</p><p>· King's privilege</p><p>Simon Jean-Baptiste early XVIII century - 1762 was a French Lawyer member of the Parliament and Royal censor from 1742 to 1762. He was author of works on bees birds hunting and cosmography.</p><p>Census: exceedingly rare edition. Only three copies of this first edition are recorded in Worldcat plus one imperfect:</p><p>· 2 in USA Yale imperfect Berkeley</p><p>· 1 in Sweden Kungliga biblioteket</p><p>· 1 in France BnF.</p><p>Conditions: Perfect copy of an exceedingly rare hunting treatise with an important noble provenance and with hand colored illustration.</p><p>Provenance: I. From the prestigious <em>Bibliothèque royale de Louis-Philippe au château d'Eu </em>with his ownership stamp at title page. Louis Philippe 6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850 was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 the last King and penultimate monarch of France and <em>Château d'Eu</em> served as his summer residence. II: handwritten shelf location notes at front and back fly leaves.</p> Veuve Prudhomme