Author: GAFFET, Antone, Sieur de la Brifardie`re (Pierre Clement de CHAPPEVILLE, ed.).
Title: Petit traite´ de fauconnerie ou se trouvent les termes de cette espe`ce de chasse, avec la manie`re de bien tenir, soiguer et traiter les oiseaux, la connaissance des viandes qui leur sont propres, les maladies et accidents qui leur surviennent, la manie`re de les panser …Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885. 8vo. Later half morocco, gold-stamped spine, with the original publisher’s printed wrappers bound in.
Description: 26, [2] pp.Very rare first and only edition, one of 150 copies: "tire´ a` cent cinquante exemplaires sur papier de Hollande", of an edited extract by Pierre Clement de Chappeville of Nouveau traite´ de ve´nerie by Antone Gaffet (Paris, 1742). P.C. de Chappeville was a “gentilhomme de la ve`nerie du Roy”. He extracted the parts on falconry and ornithology from Gaffet’s more general 1742 work on hunting to make a separate monograph on those subjects.From the library of Carl Franz Georg Richard Schwerdt, author of the authoritative falconry bibliography Hunting, hawking, shooting: illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings. Spine rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Schwerdt I, 103; Thiébaud 166.

Keywords: [439A0DC5CB7B] HORSES, HUNTING, SPORT & GAMES|[439A0DC5CB7B] HORSES, HUNTING, SPORT & GAMES -> [C06F0DBE9BE2] Falconry, Fishing & Hunting|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [79AAA7E3725F] Birds / Ornithology|