JAMARRO, Juan Bautista. Conocimiento de las diez aves menores de jaula. Madrid: Emprenta Real, 1604. Small 4° (175 x 130mm). Woodcut arms on title, 9 woodcuts of birds. (Title, second leaf and final leaf relaid, some small repairs affecting text and other leaves repaired at bottom corner, soiling, staining and browning throughout.) Blue morocco gilt by Marquez. Provenance: Joaquin M. Abaurre (bookplate).
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JAMARRO, Juan Bautista. Conocimiento de las diez aves menores de jaula. Madrid: Emprenta Real, 1604. Small 4° (175 x 130mm). Woodcut arms on title, 9 woodcuts of birds. (Title, second leaf and final leaf relaid, some small repairs affecting text and other leaves repaired at bottom corner, soiling, staining and browning throughout.) Blue morocco gilt by Marquez. Provenance: Joaquin M. Abaurre (bookplate).

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JAMARRO, Juan Bautista. Conocimiento de las diez aves menores de jaula. Madrid: Emprenta Real, 1604. Small 4° (175 x 130mm). Woodcut arms on title, 9 woodcuts of birds. (Title, second leaf and final leaf relaid, some small repairs affecting text and other leaves repaired at bottom corner, soiling, staining and browning throughout.) Blue morocco gilt by Marquez. Provenance: Joaquin M. Abaurre (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'CURIOUS' TREATISE on cage birds. Jamarro, a Neapolitan surgeon-barber to King Philip III, describes their captive breeding, singing, and the remedies for illness. Gutierrez de la Vega comments: 'Jamarro publicó un libro curioso sobre las aves de canto, su cria y su racion, que algunos bibliógrafos han contado entre las obras de caza, y que nosotros estimamos nada más que como un libro raro y digno de estudio para los cazadores' (Libro de la Monteria, 1877, I, p. 136). No sales are recorded in ABPC/AE online. Palau 122861; Schwerdt II, p. 303.
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