SAYLER, Johann Wilhelm von (Gottfried Daniel HOFFMANN, praeses).
De libera venatione speciatim Suevo-Memmingensi. Auctioritate illustris iureconsultorum ordinis praeside Godofredo Daniele Hoffmanno philosophiae magistro iuris utriusque doctore sacri caesarei palatii comie serenissimi Wurtembergiae ducis consiliario iuris publici et feudalis professore publico ordinario pro licentia summos in utroque iure honores rite capessendi ad diem V. Maii MDCCLIII.
Including: Appendix sive adiuncta dissertationis: Recensio adiunctorum.
Tübingen, Johann Philipp Erhardt, 1753. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (18.5 x 15.5 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved folding map (18.5 x 27 cm) of Memmingen and the Bosserhard by J.F. Rupf, and with an elaborate woodcut headpiece (with a rising phoenix) and a factotum in the form of a person with shield and spear.
With: KESSEL, Johann Erhard (Stephan Christoph HARPPRECHT VON HARPPRECHTSTEIN, praeses). Sciagraphiam liberae venationis Germanicae imprimis vero Svevicae, vulgo Die freye Purts-Gerechtigkeit favente supremo numine annuente amplissimo Ictorum ordine publicae ventilationi sistit praeses Stephanus Christophorus Harpprecht, U. J.D. Prof. Jur. Extra-ordin. & serenissimi principis Hohen-Zollerensis Consiliarius.
Tübingen, literis Eitelianis [= Johann Konrad Eitel], 1702.
Ad 2 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments.
Modern brown decorated paper over boards. [2], 70, 20; 24 pp.
€ 1,950
Two rare 18th-century dissertations "Jagdrechtliche Hochschulschrifte" from the University of Tübingen, on the subject of hunting in Memmingen and the Bosserhard (or Booser Hart), the general area around Memmingen between the rivers Iller and Gunz. Free hunting (or stalking) was permitted in this area, based on a 400-year-old hunting law, unlike other areas in the German states where one needed authorisation and/or a permit to hunt from law enforcement or the landowner.
Ad 1: First edition of a very valuable dissertation for the history of hunting law in and around Memmingen. It discusses the hunting rights in the region of Swabia in the electorate (Kurfürstentum) of Bavaria, Germany. While Memmingen is located on the edge of Swabia, these rights and laws still applied to the general area and the Bosserhard in particular. The appendix presents ten rules, instructions, protocols and/or ordinances regarding hunting activity in the area from the 16th to 18th centuries. The book also includes a beautifully detailed map by Johann Friedrich Rupf, showing Memmingen and surroundings, including the outline of the Bosserhard.
Sayler's dissertation was republished as: "Dissertatio XX" with the same title, in Thesaurus rerum Suevicarum seu dissertationum selectarum volumen quartum (1760).
Ad 2: First edition of an early 18th-century dissertation by Johann Erhard Kessel, giving an overview of historical free hunting rights in the Bosserhard surrounding the city of Memmingen in the region of Swabia, in present-day Bavaria, Germany. The city and its surroundings officially became a part of the electorate and later kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, at which point all free hunting rights were terminated and abolished. Many conferences were held to evaluate the rights and restrictions of free hunting in the Bosserhard and surrounding area during the 16th century and thereafter and Kessel discusses this development and evolution of the free hunting rights in the region of Swabia.
The present copy comes from the famous hunting library (Bibliotheca Tiliana) of Kurt Lindner (1906-1987), a German entrepreneur, bibliophile and scholar on the subject of hunting.
With the brown and gold bookplate of the "Bibliotheca Tiliana", Kurt Lindner's famous hunting library, on the front paste-down and a small stamp of the same library on the back of the title page of ad 1 and on the last page of ad 2. The ends of the spine and corners of the boards are very slightly scuffed, slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition. Ad 1: Lindner 11.0973.01; VD18 14933810; WorldCat 165503260, 690355634; Ad 2: Lindner 11.0833.01; VD 18 11386495; WorldCat 165151735, 257770589, 1138200617.
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