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Horses, Hunting, Sport & Games / Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

First Italian edition (along with the original Latin) of a classic practical guide and scholarly study of falconry,
from the library of James Edmund Harting

THOU, Jacques-Auguste de. Il Falconiere.
Venice, Giambatista Albrizzi, 1735. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, title vignette, portrait and 9 engraved vignettes, some with falconry themes. Contemporary vellum. [34], 50, [18], 223 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

First complete edition of the first major Latin publication devoted to falconry: lessons in choosing,
training and caring for hunting birds in about 2780 lines of verse

THOU (THUANUS), Jacques-Auguste de. Hieracosophioy, sive de re accipitraria libri tres.
Paris, Mamert Patisson, Kings Printer "in officina Robert Estienne", 1584. Small 4to (22 x 15 cm). With the late Robert I Estienne's large woodcut device on the title-page. With the poem and Thou's 11-page verse letter to Philippe Huralt in italic type and the preliminaries and some end matter in roman. Half parchment (ca. 1892). [4], 95, [13] pp. Full description

€ 8,000

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Literature

Very rare edition of a satire on 19th-century falconry

ZEGGELEN, Willem Josephus. De valkenvangst.
The Hague, W.P. van Stockum, 1841. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece by "I.B." (=Johannes Bosboom). Contemporary boards (rebacked in modern dark brown half morocco). [8], 83, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

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Horses, Hunting, Sport & Games / Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

First Italian edition (along with the original Latin) of a classic practical guide and scholarly study of falconry, from the library of James Edmund Harting

First complete edition of the first major Latin publication devoted to falconry: lessons in choosing, training and caring for hunting birds in about 2780 lines of verse

Very rare edition of a satire on 19th-century falconry

First Italian edition (along with the original Latin) of a classic practical guide and scholarly study of falconry,
from the library of James Edmund Harting

First complete edition of the first major Latin publication devoted to falconry: lessons in choosing,
training and caring for hunting birds in about 2780 lines of verse