Frank, I, 234-235 (for the Lyon counterfeit of 1565)<\/i>; Thi\u00e9baud, 338; Souhart, 169; Schwerdt, I, 165 (“very rare”); Jeanson, 211; Brunet II, 1074; IA 165.309; Mortimer, French, 214 note; Simon, Bacchica, II, 224 & Gastronomica, 610 note; Arents, 12 note; Einaudi, 1790 note.<\/i><\/p>\n
Extremely rare first edition of the first major treatise on agronomy in French.<\/span><\/p>\n First edition, first issue, with the errata leaf (the Jeanson copy that appeared in the famous 1987 sale was in second issue, with the corrected errata and therefore without the errata leaf).<\/p>\n La Maison rustique<\/i> is a treatise on agriculture, gastronomy, botany, gardening, and domestic medicine. A large part of the book is devoted to livestock, how to make butter and cheese, poultry (hens, geese, peacocks, pheasants, thrushes, quails, pigeons), kennels, horse-breeding, vegetable and ornamental gardens, medicinal plants, orchards, and beekeeping. There are also many recipes for preserved fruit, jams, and oils.<\/p>\n Estienne also devotes many chapters to the making of wines, beers, and liqueurs, to the cultivation of the vine; he gives advice on distillation, baking, pastry-making, verjuice and vinegar.<\/p>\n Finally, this work is of great importance in hunting literature, the end of the volume (leaves 136-155) being entirely devoted to venery, fox hunting, boar hunting and falconry.<\/p>\n The chapter on falconry opens with general consideration on the subject with a note printed in the margin indicating that this is actually a recently created sport (\u201cFauconnerie est un art recent<\/i>\u201d). The chapter continues with considerations on which birds of prey are useful for the sport, followed by a general description of vultures, buzzards, etc. The final portion gives details on bird hunting with the help of whistles.<\/p>\n This text was well received by the public and Souhart lists 109 editions of this book printed in five different languages: French, Italian, German, English and Latin.<\/p>\n “Charles Estienne (vers 1504-1564), fr\u00e8re de Robert I, form\u00e9 dans l\u2019atelier familial et en Italie, devenu tardivement m\u00e9decin (1542), publie \u00e0 partir de 1535 des opuscules p\u00e9dagogiques sur les diff\u00e9rents aspects du lexique agricole latin (le jardin, la p\u00e9pini\u00e8re, la vigne\u2026), pour lesquels il convoque aussi un riche vocabulaire fran\u00e7ais sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 afin de faciliter la compr\u00e9hension des textes classiques. En 1554, alors qu\u2019il a pris la direction de l\u2019atelier parisien apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Robert \u00e0 Gen\u00e8ve, il tire de ces opuscules un vaste trait\u00e9 latin, le Praedium rusticum<\/i> (‘domaine rustique’), destin\u00e9 aux \u00ab jeunes gens qui \u00e9tudient les bonnes lettres \u00bb, mais que son organisation syst\u00e9matique en 10 livres et son copieux index offrent aussi \u00e0 une consultation \u00ab pratique \u00bb. Enfin, en 1564, alors qu\u2019il est emprisonn\u00e9 pour dettes, il fait para\u00eetre un livre fran\u00e7ais au titre analogue, L\u2019Agriculture, et Maison rustique<\/i>, mais au contenu enti\u00e8rement renouvel\u00e9, visant cette fois \u00e0 r\u00e9unir \u00abtout ce qui peut estre requis pour la perfection de l\u2019agriculture Fran\u00e7oise<\/i> \u00bb.<\/p>\n Charles Estienne n\u2019est pas lui-m\u00eame propri\u00e9taire terrien. Le savoir qu\u2019il rassemble est issu de ses lectures, de sa connaissance du pays (il en a d\u00e9j\u00e0 tir\u00e9 en 1552 La Guide des chemins de France<\/i>) et de ses enqu\u00eates : il dit avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab contraint de rustiquer souventesfois, et familierement converser avec toute sorte de gents rustiques <\/i>\u00bb. Il peut se pr\u00e9senter alors comme \u00ab auteur oculaire et quasi practicien<\/i> \u00bb. Organis\u00e9 en six livres th\u00e9matiques (maison, jardin, verger, prairie et \u00e9tang, labours et vignes, chasses), sur le mod\u00e8le des trait\u00e9s de Caton et Columelle, r\u00e9dig\u00e9 en brefs chapitres et compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par un index, l\u2019ouvrage est \u00e0 la fois un recueil de conseils pratiques, un vaste tableau des plaisirs rustiques et une somme linguistique sur le lexique agricole fran\u00e7ais. Il se pr\u00eate ainsi \u00e0 des lectures particuli\u00e8rement vari\u00e9es, ce que va confirmer son impressionnant succ\u00e8s”. Michel Jourde, Le succ\u00e8s de la Maison rustique (1564).<\/i> Biblioth\u00e8que municipale de Lyon, exposition en ligne.<\/p>\n Carefully washed, title with small restoration in the margin not touching text.<\/p>\n Provenance : Kilian Fritsch (his book plate with the motto ‘\u00e9perons de nos vertus’) – Pierre de Crombrugghe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (228 x 156 mm) 10 unn.ll., (including last blank), 155 num.ll., 13 unn.ll.(11 index, errata, and the last blank). 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