first edition
1619 · Amberg
by WALDUNG, Wolfgang (1555-1621)
MONOGRAPH ON HARE
4to (mm 189x135); contemporary full calf (worn and rubbed, front hinge and top of the spine repaired); 82 [i.e. 91], (5) pp. Numerous errors in pagination. With 8 woodcut illustrations in the text, depicting the hare, while jumping or grazing, and its anatomy. From the libraries of Alfred Barmore Maclay and Dodgson Hamilton Madden. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Tilliana. Slightly browned, but a very good, fresh copy.
FIRST EDITION of this comprehensive monograph on the hare, studied from a zoological, medical, historical, gastronomical, cynegetic, and literary perspective. "A quaint and amusing book on the hare in 57 chapters, of which chapter 37 (Venatio & Captura) and 38 (Fuga & Cursus) deal with hare hunting; Chapter 50 contains a treatise on the horned hare" (Schwerdt, II, 288).
Waldung was professor of medicine at Altdorf from 1592.OCLC, 14304468; Ceresoli, 553; Krivatsy, 12578. (Inventory #: 149)
4to (mm 189x135); contemporary full calf (worn and rubbed, front hinge and top of the spine repaired); 82 [i.e. 91], (5) pp. Numerous errors in pagination. With 8 woodcut illustrations in the text, depicting the hare, while jumping or grazing, and its anatomy. From the libraries of Alfred Barmore Maclay and Dodgson Hamilton Madden. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Tilliana. Slightly browned, but a very good, fresh copy.
FIRST EDITION of this comprehensive monograph on the hare, studied from a zoological, medical, historical, gastronomical, cynegetic, and literary perspective. "A quaint and amusing book on the hare in 57 chapters, of which chapter 37 (Venatio & Captura) and 38 (Fuga & Cursus) deal with hare hunting; Chapter 50 contains a treatise on the horned hare" (Schwerdt, II, 288).
Waldung was professor of medicine at Altdorf from 1592.OCLC, 14304468; Ceresoli, 553; Krivatsy, 12578. (Inventory #: 149)
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