Sold for:
$584
$584
Thou, Jacques Auguste de (1553-1617) Il Falconiere . Venice: Albrizzi, 1735. First Italian edition, quarto, engraved frontispiece, numerous fine engraved head- and tail-pieces used throughout the text, a large copy in later half morocco, marginal water stain at top edge, modern notes in pencil, 11 x 8 in. De Thou composed this long didactic poem on falconry in Latin hexameters, with the title, Hieracosophion . The original Latin text is printed here in parallel columns with the Italian translation.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
