1566 - 1710 FALCONRY and HUNTING. BOOKS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, MISCELLANEA etc.
= From an unidentified 17th century edition of CH. D'ARCUSSIA, La fauconnerie ... divisee en cinq parties (Paris, 1615-1650). Cf. Harting 153 (note). Nissen, IVB 35; Schwerdt 41; Souhart 16; Thiébaud 28 & Suppl. col. 1050. Wellcome I, 388; Lindner 11.0077.01.
- Some foxing in margins.
- Small crease in image; browned w. offsetting from former passepartout; trifle foxed in lower margin; backed with linen.
= Proof before the engraved artists' names, but with the printer's. Scarce and impressive print, rarely found signed. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
- Backed with linen and reinforced with stiff paper; closed tear in upper part; browned w. offsetting of former passepartout; lower left corner blank margin sl. dam.
= Proof before the letters. Scarce and impressive print, rarely found signed. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
- Cut just within the borderline; two closed tears in upper part; fingersoiled.
AND 12 other 17th/ 18th cent. prints, related to falconry or hunting, incl. book illustrations.
- Apart from some sl. dustsoiling in margins of first print and a small lacking portion of the blank lower corner of the final print, a fine set.
= 1. Title-leaf; 2. "Schlag-baum vor einen Luchs aufgestelt!"; 3. "Selbst-Geschoss, auf einen Baehren."; 4. "Selbst-geschoss auf ein Schwein in der Suhle."
Idem. Der Reyer wird von den Falcken oben herab geschlagen. Engraving, ±30x21 cm., tipped onto mount.
- Without caption and trimmed within the borderline.
Idem. Falconier Knecht den Uhu auf der Hand führend. Engr. by M.E. RIDINGER after J.E. RIDINGER, ±30x21 cm., tipped onto mount.
- Without caption and trimmed within the borderline.
AND 1 other from the same series (similar condition).
= Part of the series of society portraits in Vanity Fair. Lascelles was the deputy surveyor of the New Forest and author of i.a. "The Art of Falconry".
AND 4 other prints, i.a. a hooded falcon with attributes (col. lithogr. plate XXVI from O. VON RIESENTHAL, Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas).
- Ample margins.
= Part of the series Hunting parties. First print: New Hollstein (P. Galle), 546, 4th state of 4; 2nd print: New Hollstein (Stradanus) 520, 3rd state of 3. Probably from the edition of 1634.
= The artist was one of the most profound falconers of the 20th century in Europe. He reïntroduced falconry in Germany (and Europe) from 1920 onwards and was responsible in 1923 for the foundation of the Deutschen Falkenordens (DFO. Order of the German Falcons), of which he was chairman from 1932 till 1957. His book "Der wilde Falk ist mein Gesell", first published in 1937, is still regarded as one of the most important standard works in modern falconry (5th edition in 2010). This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.
- Good impression with margins.
= Hollstein 63, the 2nd state (of 3), before the Basan edition. Showing two huntsmen on horseback with a servant running behind them.
- Somewhat foxed.
AND 4 other (chromo)lithogr. plates showing falcons and hawks, i.a. "Falco Gyrfalco" (from O. VON RIESENTHAL, Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mittel-Europas (1894)) and a Northern Goshawk.
- Sections repainted; w. heavy craquelure in the right part.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown (Harry Cecil Clifton) and first free endpaper. Most leaves fingersoiled in lower outer corner; occas. (sl.) stained (affecting plates); one quire (p.433-440) browned and waterstained; 2 quires (p.457-464 and p.473-480) sl. waterstained mainly in margins; one plate sl. stained.
= Souhart p.395; Harting 277 (p.150); Nissen ZBI, 3273; cf. Schwerdt II, p.123 (misprint of page number 337 not in our copy): "One of the most noted Italian books on hunting". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.