De arte venandi cum avibus. L'Art de la chace des oisiaus. Facsimile del edizione critica del manoscritto fr. 12400 della Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Folio: 605 pp.

Mod. white half leather, flat spine, brown cloth over covers. Excellent copy.

Facsimile edition of this 13th-c. illuminated manuscript, holding the first treatise on falconry, written by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250). With a text part on the miniatures and the full transcription of the ms. text. Incl. large red pseudo-wax seal of Frederick II (broken into 4 pieces). Joined: 8 other fine facsimile editions on falconry: de Chamerlat, C.A. - La fauconnerie et l'art. Paris, ACR, 1986, 4to, publ. cloth with ill. d.j. - Das Falkenbuch Friedrichs II. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2000, 8vo, publ. cloth with dust jacket, slipcase. - Stradanus, J. - Jagd auf Tiere. Venationes ferarum. Hildesheim, Olms, 2000, oblong folio, ill. publ. boards. - La conférence des fauconniers de Charles d'Arcussia (...). Revue, corrigée & retranscrite sur l'édition de 1617. Brussels, Ragot Goguenard, Tarpan Tabasco, 2003, 8vo, half cloth. One of 30 copies (n. 5). - La fauconnerie ou Essais sur la chasse du vol. Paris, Montbel, 2004, 4to, sewn. Print repr. of a 18th-c. ms. on falconry, with 12 full page drawings. - La fauconnerie de Jean de Franchieres, (...). S.l., s.n., s.d., 8vo, half cloth. - La fauconnerie de Guillaume Tardif, du Puy en Vellay (...). s.l., s.n., s.d., 4to, sewn. Reprint of the 1567 work. - Harmont, P. - Le miroir de fauconnerie (...). s.l., s.n., s.d., 4to, sewn. Reprint of the 1634 work. Most vol. with bookpl. B. [Gobbe]. (10 vol.)