[Deer hunting. Music] Les Dons des Enfans de Latone:

La Musique et La Chasse du Cerf, Poëmes dédiés au Roy. [Jean de Serre de Rieux]. Prault, Desaint (et) Guerin, 1734. 8vo, leather, title on spine in red and gilt stamping, marbled endpapers, half title, illus. frontispiece by Le Bas, title with vignette, XII,330 pp., 14,4,32 numbered pages with music scores and 6 full-page engravings (incl. frontispiece) by Le Bas after Oudry accompanying the poem Diane. Pages 297-316 with the play Nouvelle Chasse du Cerf are not bound along here.

In original binding. First and only edition of this complex work which among other things contributed greatly to the development of opera in France in the 18th century. It also contains fanfares by the Marquis de Dampierre. Despite the missing chapter on "new deer hunting", an interesting and important work.