Lot n° 32
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HUNTING. - HIERACOSOPHION]. Rei accipitrariae scriptores nun - Lot 32
HUNTING. - HIERACOSOPHION]. Rei accipitrariae scriptores nunc primum editi. Paris, Jérôme Drouart, 1612. 2 parts in one volume in-4, granite brown calf, spine decorated, speckled edges (modern pastiche binding).
Unique edition of this collection of 10 treatises in Greek on the art of falconry, published by Nicolas Rigault, librarian to Louis XIII. Two of them are in the princeps edition: the Hieracosophion and the Orneosophion, attributed to Demetrius of Byzantium.
(Thiébaud, col. 499-500.)
A fine copy, very well bound.
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