[Burgundy]. COURTÉPÉE, Claude. Relation du grand prix rendu - Lot 234

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[Burgundy]. COURTÉPÉE, Claude. Relation du grand prix rendu - Lot 234
[Burgundy]. COURTÉPÉE, Claude. Relation du grand prix rendu à Beaune en août 1778, Dijon : Causse, 1779. In-8 of [8]-122-[4] p., vignette on the title, headband. Half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, brown morocco title-piece, renewed endpapers (modern binding). Important ethnographic work concerning the "Noble Games of the bow, crossbow and harquebus". "One of the rarest books of Courtépée" according to Clément-Janin (in Imprimeurs de la Côte d'Or, p. 174). "Courtépée combines scholarly research to make the history of these societies with field observations, so much so that his Relation du Grand Prix rendered in Beaune in August 1778 sometimes has the appearance of an ethnographic description. In doing so, he is at the origin in the 19th century of a solid tradition of study of archery companies and games in Burgundy which has no equivalent in France. (cf. Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves. "In the shadow of the Abbé Courtépée. Edmé Béguillet between provincial erudition and participation in public debates at the end of the eighteenth century," 2012). According to "L'esprit des journaux françois et étrangers", July 1780: "The very merit and success of this work did not allow us to make it known according to the first edition: it was sold out in Burgundy in the space of 15 days; the second differs from it only by the addition of two or three notes on Dijon and by the correction of some names of knights."
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