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GALLEGARIS, Bernardino. Lo strucciero... dove si discorre del modo di conoscere, allevare, e ridurre gli uccelli rapaci all'uso della caccia, e di come si curino li loro mali. Venice: Minerva, 1646. 8° (154 x 102mm). Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (Without final blank, small repairs on title and small clean tear to A6, marginal light waterstaining to a few leaves.) 19th-century red half morocco, gilt spine and top edge (some rubbing). Provenance: Grandjean d'Atteville (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION OF ‘A SCARCE BOOK ON HAWKING’ (Schwerdt). The author asserts that the falcon came originally from Babylonia and that Dancus, king of that country, was the first to recognise its nature. Ceresoli p. 261: ‘rara… una delle cose classiche della falconeria italiana’; Harting 282; Schwerdt I, p. 195; Souhart 266.
FIRST EDITION OF ‘A SCARCE BOOK ON HAWKING’ (Schwerdt). The author asserts that the falcon came originally from Babylonia and that Dancus, king of that country, was the first to recognise its nature. Ceresoli p. 261: ‘rara… una delle cose classiche della falconeria italiana’; Harting 282; Schwerdt I, p. 195; Souhart 266.
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