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HERMAN SCHLEGEL (1804-1884) and ABRAHAM HENRIK VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST (1796-1882).
Traité de Fauconnerie. Leiden and Dsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., "1844"[1845]-1853. Large 2° (713 x 528mm). Lithographic title with falconry scenes by J.B. Sonderman, 12 colour lithographs of birds of prey after J.Wolf by Wendel with backgrounds after C. Scheuren and G. Saal, 2 colour lithographs of hoods and equipment after and by Portman and von Wouw, and 2 lithographic scenes after J.B.Sonderman by J. Dillman. (Occasional light spotting to plates, some fraying or marginal tears at edges of text leaves, heavier in final 3 leaves, small surface scratch on one plate, some light spotting and browning.) Loose in later linen portfolio, lithographic title label laid down on upper cover.
A large copy of the first and only edition of what is agreed to be "THE FINEST WORK ON FALCONRY WHICH HAS EVER BEEN PRODUCED" (Harting); "the life size illustrations of birds are by far the finest ever produced in any book on falconry" (Schwerdt). Its excellence is due to the happy collaboration of Schlegel, director of the National Natural History Museum in Leiden, Verster, Inspector of Hunting and Fishery in the Province of South Holland and author of other hunting works, a range of talented artists particularly Josef Wolf, who also worked for Elliot and Gould, and the realisation of all their efforts by the fine lithographic publishing firm of Arnz. Part of Wolf's original watercolours survive in the Artis Library and in the National Natural History Museum at Leiden. In his study of the Traité de Fauconnerie (Quaerendo 25, 1995, pp.289-308), Peter Tuijn has pointed out that one of Wolf's most famous images, that of the "Groënlandais" (white gyrfalcon on a gloved hand), is based on a portrait of the bird by Pierre Louis Dubourcq. Wolf's original watercolour of that bird was, incidentally, owned by Gould. The title page to the complete portfolio is dated 1844-1853, but Tuijn has demonstrated that the first fascicule was not issued until the end of 1845, when the dedicatee and subscribers such as the Ministry of the Interior, first received their copies. Although it has been claimed that only 50 (elsewhere, 100) copies were printed, Tuijn has found no information confirming these numbers. Harting 194, Lindner 11.1793.01; Nissen IVB 832, Great Bird Books 105; Schwerdt 2:150; Zimmer 554.
Traité de Fauconnerie. Leiden and Dsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., "1844"[1845]-1853. Large 2° (713 x 528mm). Lithographic title with falconry scenes by J.B. Sonderman, 12 colour lithographs of birds of prey after J.Wolf by Wendel with backgrounds after C. Scheuren and G. Saal, 2 colour lithographs of hoods and equipment after and by Portman and von Wouw, and 2 lithographic scenes after J.B.Sonderman by J. Dillman. (Occasional light spotting to plates, some fraying or marginal tears at edges of text leaves, heavier in final 3 leaves, small surface scratch on one plate, some light spotting and browning.) Loose in later linen portfolio, lithographic title label laid down on upper cover.
A large copy of the first and only edition of what is agreed to be "THE FINEST WORK ON FALCONRY WHICH HAS EVER BEEN PRODUCED" (Harting); "the life size illustrations of birds are by far the finest ever produced in any book on falconry" (Schwerdt). Its excellence is due to the happy collaboration of Schlegel, director of the National Natural History Museum in Leiden, Verster, Inspector of Hunting and Fishery in the Province of South Holland and author of other hunting works, a range of talented artists particularly Josef Wolf, who also worked for Elliot and Gould, and the realisation of all their efforts by the fine lithographic publishing firm of Arnz. Part of Wolf's original watercolours survive in the Artis Library and in the National Natural History Museum at Leiden. In his study of the Traité de Fauconnerie (Quaerendo 25, 1995, pp.289-308), Peter Tuijn has pointed out that one of Wolf's most famous images, that of the "Groënlandais" (white gyrfalcon on a gloved hand), is based on a portrait of the bird by Pierre Louis Dubourcq. Wolf's original watercolour of that bird was, incidentally, owned by Gould. The title page to the complete portfolio is dated 1844-1853, but Tuijn has demonstrated that the first fascicule was not issued until the end of 1845, when the dedicatee and subscribers such as the Ministry of the Interior, first received their copies. Although it has been claimed that only 50 (elsewhere, 100) copies were printed, Tuijn has found no information confirming these numbers. Harting 194, Lindner 11.1793.01; Nissen IVB 832, Great Bird Books 105; Schwerdt 2:150; Zimmer 554.
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Please note that the illustration in the catalogue for lot 135 is shown with lot 134.