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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques (ca 1521-1580), and others]. Neuw Jag unnd Weydwerck Buch, Das ist, ein grundtliche beschreibung vom Anfang der Jagten. -[Part 2:] Anderer Theil der Adelichen Weydwerck, Nemlich Falckenerey, Beyssen und Federspiel. Frankfurt: Johann Feyerabend for Sigmund Feyerabend 1582.
DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques (ca 1521-1580), and others]. Neuw Jag unnd Weydwerck Buch, Das ist, ein grundtliche beschreibung vom Anfang der Jagten. -[Part 2:] Anderer Theil der Adelichen Weydwerck, Nemlich Falckenerey, Beyssen und Federspiel. Frankfurt: Johann Feyerabend for Sigmund Feyerabend 1582. 2 parts in one volume, 2 o (308 x 196 mm). Part 1 title printed in red and black with woodcut of hunting scene, part 2 title with woodcut of a falconer in his shed with hawks and hounds, 172 woodcuts printed from 90 blocks (part 1: 115 cuts from 73 blocks; part 2: 57 cuts from 19 blocks, of which 2 are repeated from part 1), most or possibly all after JOST AMMAN a few signed with the initials of Christophe Maurer, Ludwig Frig, and the unidentified engravers M.B. (Nagler 1651) and H.S. (Nagler 1503); woodcut initials and tailpiece ornaments, two large printer's devices (different) on c3v and 2S5v, printed music (hunting calls). (Dampstain to upper fore-corners throughout, occasional light foxing or soiling, first title darkened, small hole to Z2 affecting 2 letters and ornament on verso.) 17th-century vellum over pasteboard, sides panelled in gilt with large central interlaced monogram "JK"(?), coronets at corners of inner panel, spine gilt with 19th-century ink-stamped title in second compartment, edges red-sprinkled (some minor discoloration to covers, small circular repair at tail of spine). Provenance : unidentified supralibros as above, 19th-century shelfmark gilt stamped in lowest spine compartment; T.G. (manuscript initials on part 1 title). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of La Vénerie and the first edition thus illustrated. The text is a compilation of several popular hunting and falconry books, including Jean de Clamorgan, La chasse du loup, Jean de Franchières, La fauconnerie, and other French, German and Italian works, including a treatise on fishing (part 2) in addition to Du Fouilloux's text. The collection was probably compiled by Johann Heller and Sigmund Feyerabend who are described as having prepared the edition in the title to the second part. Feyerabend used 40 of Amman's fine woodcuts in two other editions published during the same year: a quarto-format edition of the cuts alone ( Künstliche, Wolgerissene New Figuren ), and a quarto edition of Lonitzer, Venatus et accipium. A portion of the cuts also appear to have been used in Feyerabend's 1576 and 1581 editions of Noe Meurer, Jag und Forstrecht (cf. Hollstein I:52 and Nissen ZBI 104), but the full series was first published here. The blocks were re-used as late as 1661 ( Adeliche Weydwecke, Frankfurt, 1661) and possibly as late as 1699, in a Prague edition of the same title. VERY RARE. Hollstein II:52; Nissen ZBI 1175; Schwerdt I:30; Souhart 12; Thiébaud 312-313.