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RAIMONDI, Eugenio. Le caccie delle fiere armate e disarmate et de gl'animali quadrupedi, volatili et aquatici ... con perfetissimi animae stramenti di tutte le maniere dell' vecellare e de pescare con le loro figure ..., Brescia: Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621. 8, 6 full-page woodcuts only (of 7, least leaf of preliminaries torn with loss of text and with old restoration effacing the whole woodcut on verso, severe waterstaining at end), original limp paper boards with manuscript title on spine. FIRST EDITION. Schwerdt II, p. 122: "one of the most noted Italian books on hunting"; Souhart 394; Petit 1763 notes the reference to artificial flies on p. 338.
PACIFRESIO, Giacomo. Theatro della caccia e trattenimento geniale della villa ... nel quale si contiene la manierea & arte d'ucellare, pescare, caccia de'quadrupedi, e modo d'auvezzare i cani per essa ..., Bologna: Antonio Pisarri, 1673. 12, with 14 woodcuts in the text (lacks last 3 leaves including the final blank). 19th-century roan-backed mottled boards. Second edition following publication of the first at Milan in 1669. Schwerdt II, 57; Souhart 365; Petit 1643: "Le passage concernant la mouche artificielle est trs curieux". (2)
PACIFRESIO, Giacomo. Theatro della caccia e trattenimento geniale della villa ... nel quale si contiene la manierea & arte d'ucellare, pescare, caccia de'quadrupedi, e modo d'auvezzare i cani per essa ..., Bologna: Antonio Pisarri, 1673. 12, with 14 woodcuts in the text (lacks last 3 leaves including the final blank). 19th-century roan-backed mottled boards. Second edition following publication of the first at Milan in 1669. Schwerdt II, 57; Souhart 365; Petit 1643: "Le passage concernant la mouche artificielle est trs curieux". (2)