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BELON DU MANS (PIERRE)
L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portraicts retirez du naturel, 7 parts in 1 vol., Paris, [Benoist Prevost for] Guillaume Cavellat, 1555

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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BELON DU MANS (PIERRE)

L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portraicts retirez du naturel, 7 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on general and each parts title, numerous woodcuts of birds (and 2 of skeletons, one human, one of a bird) by Pierre Gourdelle and others, ornamental woodcut initials and head-pieces, lacks title (supplied in facsimile) and final blank, small holes touching letters where early ownership inscription erased from dedication leaf, a few short marginal tears and occasional light dampstaining, early calf, restored [Anker, pp.9-10; Garrison-Morton 283; Nissen IVB 86], folio (333 x 225mm.), Paris, [Benoist Prevost for] Guillaume Cavellat, 1555

Footnotes

In L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux Belon du Mans, "one of the founders of of the renewed studies of birds, ... mentions about two hundred different birds, mainly European, but some foreign. He make many original observations.. [also treating] anatomical and morphological conditions" (Anker), whilst also drawing upon earlier writers such as Aristotle and Pliny. Schwerdt notes that the second part "is interesting to falconers", the fine woodcut illustrations including a depiction of a falconer luring a bird, and several of owls, "including the eagle owl, much used in hawking".

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