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Limited edition, from the library of Carl Schwerdt

GAFFET, Antone, Sieur de la Brifardie`re (Pierre Clement de CHAPPEVILLE, ed.). Petit traité de fauconnerie ou se trouvent les termes de cette espèce de chasse, avec la manière de bien tenir, soiguer et traiter les oiseaux, la connaissance des viandes qui leur sont propres, les maladies et accidents qui leur surviennent, la manière de les panser ...
Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885. 8vo. Later half morocco, gold-stamped spine, with the original publishers printed wrappers bound in. 26, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,800
Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting
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Early and esteemed work on falconry, by the falconer of the Gonzagas' court in Mantua

GIORGI, Federico. Libro ... del modo di conoscere i buoni falconi, astori, e sparavieri, di farli, di governarli, et di medicarli, come nella tavola si puo vedere.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo. With Giorgi's woodcut phoenix printer's device on title-page and a stunning larger one at the end. Blue stiff paper wrappers (ca. 1800). 53, [2], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
Birds - Ornithology Early Printing - 16th century Falconry, Fishing & Hunting
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13th-century treatise on falconry, in the original Turkish with a German translation, with two other early falconry treatises

HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ...
Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume. Frontispiece plus [8], XXXII, [2], 115, [2], [1 blank] pp.; 48 ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Faunas & General Zoology Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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With 8 woodcuts made for the 1634 edition (a hunting scene using falcons, and 7 birds of prey)

HARMONT, Pierre. Le miroir de fauconnerie, ou se verra l'instruction pour choisit, nourrir, & traicter, dresser & faire voler toute sorte d'oyseaux, ...
Rouen, Clément Malassis, 1650. 4to (23 x 16.5 cm). With a woodcut illustration of a hunt using falcons on the title-page (9 x 9.5 cm) and 7 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of birds of prey on integral leaves. Half red goatskin morocco (1930s?) signed on the free endleaf "F. SAULTIER REL.". 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting
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"The first ever monograph on canaries"

HERVIEUX DE CHANTELOUP, Joseph-Charles. Nouveau traité des serins de canarie, contenant la maniere de les élever & les appareiller pour en avoir de belles races; avec des remarques sur les signes & causes de leurs maladies, & plusieurs secrets pour les guérir. ... Nouvelle edition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée ...
Paris, Saugrain Fils, 1745. 8vo. With 1 engraved plate, 2 pages with woodcut music scores, and 1 folding engraved plate with music scores on both sides. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], XXXVIII, [6], 368, [16] pp. Full description
€ 300
Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology
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A natural history with 56 hand-coloured plates: the fossils, flora and fauna of the earth

HILL, John. A general natural history: or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics: ...
London, Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1748-1752. 3 volumes. Folio. With 56 hand-coloured plates (16 on plants, 28 on animals and 12 on fossils, some signed by B. Cole) and in volume 3 also 1 folding table.Contemporary green morocco, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco labels, gold-tooled frames on the boards, marbled endpapers. Volumes misnumbered on the spines (vols. 1-3 labeled 3, 1 and 2 respectively). [12], 1-228, 333-592, *457-*592, 593-654, [6]; XXVI, 642; [7], [1 blank]; [8], 584, [4]; pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Earth Sciences Faunas & General Zoology Fishes Floras & General Botany Flowering Plants Insects & Spiders Mammals Shells & other Invertebrates
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