Author: MERULA, Paulus.
Title: Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck van de wildernissen. (1.Van de hout-vesterie. 2.Cynegetica of Jaght-Bedryf. 3. Ixeutika of Vlught-Bedryf.)
Description: 's Gravenhage, Beuckel Cornelisz Nieulant, 1605. Folio. (29, 3x19 cm.). 3 parts in 1 volume. (Part 2 and 3 with separate title-pages). [xxiv], 264-124-59 pp. With engraved title-page; woodcut printer marks on the title-pages to book 2 and 3, and 2 double-page woodcut plates (view of the ruin of Huis te Teylingen; and view of Huis te Warmond). Full speckled calf (ca.1700), gilt spine with raised bands. (Front joint starting, but holding firm; corners and spine ends worn; very small worming in the bottom margin of book 2 and some more serious worming in 30 pp. of the last part. A fresh copy) ¶ First edition of an early Dutch work on forestry, hunting, fowling and falconry. The first part contains over a hundred proclamations, mostly on hunting in the wilderness and waste lands; the second book is an historical survey taken from Greek, Latin, and French authors, and a legal study of the impliations of the hunt; Book three deals with birds and fishes, and the hunt with birds of prey (i.a. falcons). "Das wichtigste Buch der frühen niederländischen Jagdliteratur. Jagdgeschichtlich bedeutsam sind der zweite, der Jagd, und der dritte, der Falknerei und dem Vogelfang gewidmete Teil."(Lindnder, Bibliographie der deutschen und der niederländischen Jagdliteratur). Laudatory poems by Philibert van Borsselen, Petrus Scriverius, Pieter Bor, H.Delmanhorst, Johannes Huswedelius, I.Endius and Justus Bulaeus (vicar at Warmond)

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