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Limited edition, from the library of Carl Schwerdt

GAFFET, Antone, Sieur de la Brifardie`re (Pierre Clement de CHAPPEVILLE, ed.).
Petit traité de fauconnerie ou se trouvent les termes de cette espèce de chasse, avec la manière de bien tenir, soiguer et traiter les oiseaux, la connaissance des viandes qui leur sont propres, les maladies et accidents qui leur surviennent, la manière de les panser ...
Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885. 8vo. Later half morocco, gold-stamped spine, with the original publishers printed wrappers bound in. 26, [2] pp.
€ 4,800
Very rare first and only edition, one of 150 copies: "tiré à cent cinquante exemplaires sur papier de Hollande", of an edited extract by Pierre Clement de Chappeville of Nouveau traité de vénerie by Antone Gaffet (Paris, 1742). P.C. de Chappeville was a "gentilhomme de la vènerie du Roy". He extracted the parts on falconry and ornithology from Gaffets 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. Schwerdt I, 103; Thiébaud 166.
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