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History of British Birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Vol. I. Containing the history and description of land birds.

BEWICK, THOMAS & (BEILBY, RALPH). Newcastle, S. Hodgson, 1797 [but 1798]. 8vo. XXX,(2),335,(1) pp. With 117 wood engravings of birds and 91 tailpieces. + BEWICK, THOMAS. History of British Birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Vol. II. Containing the history and description of water birds. Newcastle, E. Walker, 1804. 8vo. XX,400 pp. With 101 wood engravings of birds and 136 tailpieces. + BEWICK, THOMAS. A Supplement to the History of British Birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Part I. Containing the history and description of land birds. Newcastle, E. Walker, 1821 [but 1822]. 8vo. 50,(2) pp. With wood engravings. + BEWICK, THOMAS. A Supplement to the History of British Birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Part II. Containing the history and description of water birds. Newcastle, E. Walker, 1821 [but 1822]. 8vo. 49,(3) pp. With wood engravings. Volumes I and II bound in handsome 19th-century full red morocco, ruled in gilt, spines in compartments with raised bands, tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt. Endpapers foxed, some occasional light soiling and spotting, otherwise clean and fresh. Supplement uncut and bound in modern marbled boards. Some occasional light foxing and soiling. With the signature of H. S. Foljam dated 1803 on title page, and the signature of Gunnar Bruzewitz on front free endpaper of volume I. Tattersfield Thomas Bewick 1.14, 1.16. and 1.25. Roscoe Thomas Bewick a bibliography raisonné 15c and 17a, variant C, and 29c and 30c. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 91. Zimmer Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer ornithological library 57-58. An attractive mixed set of the second edition of "Land Birds", with the first edition of "Water Birds" and the second edition of the "Supplements", dated 1821 but published in October 1822. Though never formally taught, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) showed a talent for drawing from an early age. In 1767, when he was 14, he was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. In 1775 Bewick received a premium from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and became a partner in Beilby's workshop the following year. "A General History of Quadrupeds" was his first publication and appeared in 1790. By the late 18th century, the woodblock was the poor relation to steel or copper engravings. Bewick, unlike his predecessors, would carve in harder woods, notably boxwood, against the grain, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers. This proved to be far superior, and in so doing Bewick revolutionised the printing of illustrations using wood and brought the medium back to life and popularity. The success of "A General History of Quadrupeds" encouraged Bewick to begin working on his most famous work "History of British Birds". Issued in two volumes, the "History and Description of Land Birds" appeared in 1797, the volume devoted to water birds seven years later, in 1804. It was to be his tour de force with respect both to craftsmanship and creative imagination, and the work for which he will always be remembered. This time confining himself to only British species, he drew from live birds, specimens shot for him, or even from birds kept in his Newcastle garden for the express purpose of drawing them. Although criticised by some ornithologists for their lack of accuracy, his drawings nevertheless manage to seize the individual characters of the various birds. In addition, the work once again drew acclaim and was renowned for the many humorous and elaborate vignettes and tailpieces that so vividly capture English rural life. "Land Birds" features 140 descriptions of birds, 117 figures and 91 vignettes and tailpieces. Bewick's teacher Ralph Beilby (1744-1817) was an English engraver, working chiefly on silver and copper. As he had done for "A General History of Quadrupeds", Beilby once again wrote the descriptions for "British Birds", although by the time the second volume appeared Bewick had bought Beilby's share of the partnership, and composed the letterpress himself. "Water Birds" includes 144 descriptions, 100 figures and another 136 vignettes and tailpieces. These last are considered to be amongst his very best, and were certainly some of his own favourites. "History of British Birds" went through various revisions and expansions. Roscoe provides a detailed account of the various states of both volumes. Though dated 1797, the present copy of the "Land Birds" is in fact the second edition of 1798 as revealed by the price on the title page, and the images of the sea eagle and the magpie being in the second state. The infamous vignette at p. 285 appears here to be uncensored. The copy of the "Water Birds" is variant C according to Roscoe. In 1821, and revised in 1822, Bewick published "A Supplement to the History of British Birds", which, although sometimes found bound with the seventh edition, was also published separately and bound together in one volume, as found here.
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Six Months in the West Indies in 1825.

(COLERIDGE, HENRY NELSON) London, C. Roworth, 1826. 8vo. (4),332 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt with black morocco title label, covers with ruled border. Corners bumped and worn, with some light staining and scuffing. Some light foxing and soiling throughout. With pencil notes on front pastedown in a later hand. Author's name added to title page in blue ink. Gift presentation inscription for Emily Sarah Wortham dated Christmas 1843 to first blank. With the bookplate of Gunnar Brusewitz. Sabin A dictionary of books relating to America 14318. Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' library of economic literature 24940. The first edition, published anonymously. A second edition was published "with additions" in the same year. In the second edition, a few paragraphs from the first chapter were censored, probably by initiative of the family. There are claims that only half a dozen copies survived of this first edition, but that is probably not true. Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843), the nephew and son-in-law (he married his cousin) of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was plagued with spinal problems and rheumatism throughout his life. The purpose of his six-month voyage around the Caribbean, although ostensibly for his health, was a futile attempt by the family to break off his engagement to his cousin Sara. Coleridge's thinly disguised references to his intended punctuate this light-hearted account. Coleridge compares and contrasts twelve different islands, providing detailed descriptions of the landscape, vegetation and animal life, and the different customs of the inhabitants. The final chapter deals with the plantation owners and slaves, and indeed he soon became convinced by the abolitionists' arguments and supported the call for an end to slavery.
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Il falconiere di Jacopo Augusto Tuano. Dall’esametro latino all’endecasillabo italiano trasferito, ed interpretato. Coll’uccellatura a vischio di Pietro Angelio Bargeo pubblico professore in Pisa poemetto pur latino, similmente tradotto, e commentato. Ozii, e ameni studii di G. P. Bergantini.

THOU, JACQUES AUGUSTE de. Venice, G. Albrizzi, 1735. Folio. Engraved frontispiece,(38),223,(1 blank),1-50,(18) pp. & 1 engraved portrait. With 10 engraved vignettes. Contemporary Italian vellum, five rased bands, spine lettered in manuscript in brown ink. Covers a little soiled and vellum boards a bit warped. Portrait, dedication leaf, and final verso foxed, small stain affecting gutter of p. 46 of second pagination. Aside from some occasional light thumbsoiling and foxing, a crisp copy. Previous shelfmarks in brown ink on front pastedown, and with the bookplate of Gunnar Brusewitz and his signature in pencil dated Rome 1947. Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting II:261 lacking pp. 217-223. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 461. Ceresoli Bibliografia delle opere italiane latine e greche su la caccia 531. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 898. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 603. Harting Bibliotheca accipitraria 284. The engraved portrait of the dedicatee Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon, is engraved by R. Pozzi after A. David. The vignettes, partly depicting hunting scenes, are by G. Filosi, Cattini, F. Zucchi and Schmuzer. A most handsome copy of the first Italian translation, and the best edition overall according to Harting, of de Thou's Latin poem on hawking, "Hieracosophioy" or "Hieracosophion", first published in 1582. The second part contains P. Angelio's hunting poem "De aucupio", first published in Florence in 1566. The original Latin is here printed in parallel columns with Giovanni Pietro Bergantini's italian translation. Appended to the poem of de Thou are some notes dividing all hawks used by falconers into two classes, followed by the Latin-Italian version of "Cupido cruciatus" and two epigrams by Ausonius (c. AD 395). Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a French nobleman who succeeded his father, Christophe, as president of parliament. He was privy councillor to Henry III, and also to Henry IV of France. Apart from being the keeper of the royal library, de Thou was one of the foremost book collectors of his time. His elegant and celebrated verses on hawking were probably inspired by the experience he gained during time spent at foreign courts.
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Der vollkommene teutsche Jäger, darinnen die Erde, Gebirge, Kräuter und Bäume, Wälder, Eigenschaft der wilden Thiere und Vögel, so wohl Historice, als Physice und Anatomice: dann auch die behörigen gross- und kleinen Hunde, und der völlige Jagd-Zeug; letzlich aber die hohe und niedere Jagd-Wissenschaft nebst einem immer-währenden Jäger-Calender mit vielen darzu gehörigen, und nach dem Leben gezeichneten Kupffern, vorgestellet, colligiret und beschrieben. I-II.

FLEMING, HANS FRIEDRICH von. Leipzig, verlegts J. C. Martini, 1719-1724. Folio. (24),356,1-4,357-400 pp. & 62 engraved plates (including engraved portrait, nine double-page plates, several folding) + double page engraved frontispiece,(8),12,1-8,1-224,(2),225-364,(2),365-500,(32),1-111,(33) pp. & 49 engraved plates (including sixteen double page and several folding). Title pages printed in red and black. Two volumes, contemporary full calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and decorated in blind (gilt faded and oxidized). Head and tail of spines worn, head of spine of volume II with later repair, joints a little cracked, extremities and surfaces rubbed, corners worn. Somewhat browned throughout due to paper quality, with some occasional soiling. Lower outer corner of first double-page plate in volume I repaired, vertical tear at p. 309 obscuring text a little with loss of a few letters. Lower outer corner of p. 471 in volume II repaired. With Carl Gustaf Tessin's signature on both title pages and his shelfmark in ink on free endpaper. From the library of Gunnar Brusewitz. Lacking the two leaves giving the plates list usually found at the end of each index. Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting I:175 lacking one half-title leaf in volume II. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 187. Lindner Bibliographie der deutschen und der niederländischen Jagdliteratur 11.0611.01. Harting Bibliotheca accipitraria 99. Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria 95. A second edition was printed in 1749. First edition of "the foremost eighteenth century German classic on hunting, shooting, hawking, fishing [.] it is a notable production and the copper plates contained therein are original and of considerable interest. Fleming was an experienced sportsman and, although part of his text can be traced to previous writers, much of it was evidently based on personal knowledge" according to Schwerdt, who also remarks that copies with all of the plates are hard to find. Hans (Johann) Friedrich von Fleming (1670-1733) wrote several works on hunting and militaria. Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695-1770) was a diplomat and a politician and in his time one of Sweden's most prominent cultural figures. A famous art and book connoisseur, Tessin in 1757 was forced to sell his library due to financial difficulties. It was bought by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates for 60,000 thalers and given to crown prince Gustav for the purpose of his education. As was Tessin's nature, he immidiately started forming a new library, which was then sold at auction after his death. The shelfmarks present here indicate that these volumes were a part of Tessin's first collection.
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Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen. Ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen. Mit Kupfern. II-IV.

BECHSTEIN, JOHANN MATTHÄUS. Leipzig, bey S. L. Crusius, 1791-1795. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece,XVI,840 pp. & 18 engraved plates + engraved frontispiece,XX,(2),800 pp. & 12 engraved plates + engraved frontispiece,XVIII,(1,1 blank),946 pp. & 19 engraved plates. Three volumes, contemporary green marbled boards, rubbed and worn, with yellow handwritten paper labels. All edges yellow. Text with some occasional spotting and soiling. Plates slightly furled and thumbed along outer edge, a number of plates with contemporary notes in manuscript. Final plate in part IV soiled and a little dampstained. With Gunnar Brusewitz's bookplates. Lacking part I, and the alternative title leaves to each volume. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 38. Lindner Bibliographie der deutschen und der niederländischen Jagdliteratur 11.0109.01. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 80. A second edition was printed 1801-1809. The volumes present here all had an alternative title leaf, here cancelled, stating that they form parts of the "Naturgeschichte der Vögel" (Natural history of birds). Volume I (not present here) was printed in 1789 and treats general natural history and mammals. Volume II provides an introduction to the subject, before concentrating on birds of prey, woodland birds, and waterfowl. Marsh and domestic birds are discussed in volume III, with the final volume devoted to an introduction of song birds, together with a "birds calendar" and index. Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757-1822) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, and entomologist. He established a number of successful forestry institutes, and was a fervent campaigner for the protection of certain animals and birds that he believed to be beneficial to good forestry management. In England, he was known for his description of songbirds in his work the "Natural History of Cage Birds" (1795).
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Historiae avium prodromus cum praefatione de ordine animalium in genere. Accessit historia muris alpini et vetus vocabularium animalium msc. Cum figuris.

KLEIN, JACOB THEODOR. Lübeck, J. Schmidt, 1750. 4to. Folding engraved portrait,(16),238,(2 blank) pp. & 7 engraved plates, four of which folding. With engraved vignette on title page. Simple modern paper boards, with brown leather label lettered in gilt. Edges red. Portrait with small tear at lower gutter, touching image but with no loss. Paper repair to lower outer corner of p. 145. Scattered, partly cropped contemporary marginal notes in Latin and German (but of Swedish origin). From the library of Gunnar Brusewitz and with his bookplate. Anker Bird books and bird art 254. Zimmer Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer ornithological library I:353 calling for 7 plates only, possibly omitting the portrait. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 419 calling also for 7 plates. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 504 again calling for 7 plates. The engraved portrait of Klein is by Johann Christopher Sysang (1703-1757) who also executed the plates for Klein's "Quadrupedum" (1751). Casey A. Wood claims that this work is "one of the important and fundamental treatises on ornithology [.] and utilized in large part by many writers." A German translation was published in 1760. Chapters include bird migration, the hibernation of swallows and storks, and the life history of the Alpine marmot. On pp. 235-238 is printed a comparative list of names of animals in German and Latin, compiled in the beginning of the 15th century and taken from the 1549 Froben edition of Georgius Agricola's "De animantibus subterraneis". Jacob Theodor Klein (1685-1759) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist and is noted for having created his own zoological nomenclature based on the number of legs, their location and shape. The interesting annotations deal i.a. with contemporary observations on the occurrences and names of different birds. On p. 49 is given the Arab and Syrian names for the White Falcon as presented by Hasselquist. On p. 112, the annotator tells us that a wild turkey was taken from Mexico to France in 1560 and that another one was presented at the wedding of the Swedish King Charles IX. The passage on pp. 178-179 provides an account of the different occasions when large hermitages of thrushes have been seen on different places in Germany.
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Les ruses innocentes

Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & des plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. Et un traité tres-utile pour la chasse. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & les filets qu’on peut s’imaginer. Le tout divisé en cinq livres, avec les figures. Ouvrage tres-curieux, utile et recreatif pour toutes sortes de personnes qui font leur sejour à la campagne. Par F. F. F. R. D. G. dit le solitaire inventif.

(FORTIN DE GRANDMONT, FRANÇOIS) Paris, chez C. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. (16),445,(1 blank),1-12 pp. Title in red and black, with engraved headpiece and initial, 66 full-page woodcut illustrations (9 of which are folding) all included in the pagination, and woodcut initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, rubbing to surfaces and extremities, head of spine with some loss at upper joint, tail of spine chipped exposing headband, upper joint cracked exposing cords but holding. Upper cover with two small worm holes, rear cover a little stained, corners bumped and worn. Browned throughout with some foxing, and marginal dust-soiling, with dampstain at gutter from p. 414 through to the end, affecting a few plates, and further sporadic dampstaining. Gutter of title page and outer margin of front free endpaper reinforced, and with rather crude repairs to margins of plates 256, 263, 264, 269, 277 and 415. Outer margin of p. 217 torn with loss though not touching text, with page number of p. 256 torn and missing. Annotations on front free endpaper that the book was bought at the auction after Michael Törnflycht on 11 June 1740 by Carl Fredric Piper and further annotations recording that it was given in 1780 from his son Adolph Ludvig Piper to forester Joh. Er. Cons, inherited by his son J. E. Cons in 1818 and from him given in 1852 to his nephew, captain Ax. Fr. M. Lundeberg. Lundeberg has also recorded the births of his children and their height on the last leaf and rear endpaper. With the bookplate and signature of Gunnar Brusewitz. Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting I:181. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 636-637. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 408-409. Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria 180. Third edition of this celebrated work on the art of capturing game, fish and vermin with traps, nets and other means, first published in 1660. A second edition was published in 1668, a fourth in 1695, and this edition was reissued in 1700 with a cancel title page. The work is split into five books of which the last deals extensively with fishing. The striking and instructive woodcut illustrations show a variety of nets and traps. The plates are the same as appeared in the first edition. This edition includes for the first time the short 12-page "Traité tres-utile de la chasse" by Charles Strosse present at the end of the work. This work was to prove immensely popular and influential, inspiring the work of many subsequent authors, notably Liger in his "Amusements de la campagne", and who reproduced the first part of "Les ruses" without alteration, according to Westwood & Satchell. Michael Törnflycht (1683-1738) was a military, civil servant, and country gentleman. Under King Charles XII he took part in the Battle of Poltava 1709 and the siege of Fredrikshall 1718. Carl Fredric Piper (1700-1770) was his nephew and one of Sweden's foremost book collectors in his time. His extensive library at Ängsö castle was inherited by his son Adolf Ludvig Piper (1750-1795), married to Sophie von Fersen. Forester Johan Cons, or Conz, (1739-1818) was born in Strassbourg and lived in Dyvik by Ängsö. His daughter Hedvig Sophia Cons (1785-1864) was married to the factor at Ängsö Johan Petter Lundeberg. Their son was Axel Fredrik Marcus Lundeberg (1809-1873). Brusewitz's signature is dated 1975. Laid in is also a catalogue clipping from Hagelin Rare Books, where Brusewitz bought this book.
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Traité universel des eaux et forests de France, pesches et chasses. Contenant les moyens de les gouverner & administrer dans toute l’étenduë du royaume, conformément aux ordonnances, tant anciennes que nouvelles, edits, arrests & reglemens de sa majesté, même ceux intervenus depuis l’ordonnance de 1669. Et la maniere de proceder dans toutes les maistrises & jurisdictions desdites eaux & forests, soit en matiere civile ou criminelle, suivant l’usage qui se pratique en icelle. Avec une instruction tres-ample pour les gardes des forests, pêches & chasses, & la maniere de bien dresser leurs procez verbaux & rapports. Dedié à monseigneur le chancelier.

Paris, E. Michallet, 1699. 8vo. (8),515,(27) pp. With woodcut illustrations on pp. 379-380 and a number of woodcut diagrams. Half calf, rebacked in late 19th century over older boards, endpapers renewed. Spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and tooled in gilt with red morocco label and date of 1699 in gilt at tail. All edges speckled red. Head and tail of spine nicked and worn exposing headbands. Upper joint cracked. Extremities bumped and worn. Some light browing and soiling. Vertical tear with no loss in outer margin at tail of leaf Lii in table of contents. With the bookplate of Thomas Westwood, one unidentified bookplate, and from the library of Gunnar Brusewitz. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 346. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 325. Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria 83. Scarce first edition of this comprehensive late 17th-century legal manual, which "Treats solely of the laws affecting hunting and fishing" (Westwood & Satchell) and thus provides the means by which to "govern and adminster throughout the whole kingdom". The work outlines forestry, water, fishery and game laws and legislations and the procedures to follow in both civil and criminal matters. The author wrote a number of other legal works. This is the copy of bibliographer and poet Thomas Westwood (1814-1888). According to a notation in Brusewitz's own copy of Souhart, he bought this book in Paris in 1958.
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting. Sixth edition, corrected, enlarged, and improved: with explanatory plates and wood cuts.

London, T. Davison, 1830. Large 8vo. Lithograph frontispiece,(2),XX,480 pp. & 1 lithographed portrait & 6 lithographed plates & 1 tipped in printed note. With text illustrations. + HAWKER, P. Abridgment of the New Game Laws; with observations and suggestions for their improvement. Being an appendix to the sixth edition of "Instructions to Young Sportsmen." London, Manning and Smithson, 1832. Large 8vo. 32 pp. + Modern Publications, and new editions of valuable standard works, printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Gree, and Longman, Paternoster-Row [=heading]. (London, 1832). 8vo. 16 pp. Bound together and uncut in 20th-century green half calf using old cloth boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt with blindstamped motif. With later endpapers. Binding slightly worn, spine faded. Aside from a few small stains, clean and crisp interior. With Gunnar Brusewitz's bookplate. The publisher's catalogue is bound at beginning. The printed note is tipped in after the preliminaries. The first edition of this widely read handbook for hunters was published in 1814. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853) was primarily a military writer, but is best remembered for his works on hunting, guns and fishing. According to Schwerdt (I:234-235 for other editions), the present work was originally "written at the request of some friends and printed for private distribution, only a few supplementary copies being provided for ordinary readers, a fact which accounts for its rarity". To save costs the early editions did not have plates, but "the author soon found it necessary to issue enlarged and illustrated editions".
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Neueröffnete Jäger-Praktika. Vierte zeitgemäss umgearbeitete Auflage. In Verbindung mit einer Gesellschaft praktischer Forstmänner herausgegeben von Carl Friedrich Leberecht Döbel und Friedrich Wilhelm Benicken. Mit Abbildungen, Planen und Vignetten. I-III.

Leipzig, J. F. Gleditsch, 1828. Large 4to. Engraved portrait,XXXV,(1 blank,2),124,1-20 pp. & 4 engraved plates (one folding) + engraved frontispiece,(8),224,1-14 pp. & 3 folding engraved plates + hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece,XVI,184,1-14,(2) pp. & 1 folding lithographed plate & 2 folding lithographed maps. With woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary pebble-grained green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine sunned, upper cover stained, small nick to lower cover, extremities somewhat worn. Slight foxing to plates, else clean and crisp internally. With Wilh. Boltenstern's signature and from the library of Gunnar Brusewitz. Lindner Bibliographie der deutschen und der niederländischen Jagdliteratur 11.0519.05, not noting that some plates are lithograph prints. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 143. The preliminary leaves of parts I and II are erroneously paginated. This copy without the two extra plates, as often. First published in 1746, this is the official fourth edition, not counting an edition printed in Vienna 1785-1786. It includes both a portrait and a brief biography of Heinrich Wilhelm Döbel (1699-1760). In Hunting, hawking, shooting (I:145), Schwerdt lists the three preceding Leipzig editions but not this one and comments: "one of the classics of Germanic sporting literature. The author claims to have written this book from his own long experience and that in no previous publication have so many original and practical hints been given to the sportsman".
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La nouvelle maison rustique, ou économie génerale de tous les biens de campagne; la maniere de les entretenir & de les multiplier; donnée ci-devant au public par le sieur Liger: dixiéme édition augmentée considérablement, & mise en meilleur ordre; avec la vertu des simples, l’apothicairerie; les décisions du droit françois sur les matieres rurales; et enrichie de figures en taille-douce. Par m. ***. I-II.

Paris, Chardon, 1775-(1776). Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece,(4),IV,(4),916 pp. & 14 engraved plates + (8),918,(2) pp. & 23 engraved plates. With two full-page and numerous smaller woodcuts in the text. Two volumes, attractive contemporary full mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands tooled in gilt with red and green morocco labels, blue marbled edges. Upper joint of first volume nicked and cracked with some loss but holding, head of spine frayed with some loss, extremities a little rubbed and worn. Some occasional light spotting and browning. Signature of Gunnar Brusewitz on first free endpaper. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 303. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 597. Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria 133. Vicaire Bibliographie gastronomique 521. The present edition was comissioned by Denis Humblot and subsequently sold by several different Paris booksellers. Hence Souhart, Thiebaud and Vicaire all catalogue this edition with Bailly as publisher, but this copy instead has "la veuve Savoye" printed on the title. Louis Liger's (1658-1717) popular rural and domestic encyclopedia was first published in 1700 under the title "?conomie générale de la campagne, ou nouvelle maison rustique" and was reprinted many times throughout the 18th century. It was itself an adaption of "La Masison Rustique" by Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault, published first in Latin in 1554 as "Praedium Rusticum". This compendious work contains all one needs to know about agricultural, horticultural, animal husbandry, forestry, estate management, gardening, and culinary practises as well as directions for hunting. The somewhat crudely executed woodcuts offer a sharp contrast to the elegant and elaborated engravings.
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A Discourse on the Emigration of British Birds; or, this question at last solv’d: whence come the stork and the turtle, the crane and the swallow, when they know and observe the appointed time of their coming? Containing a curious particular, and circumstantial account of the respective retreats of all those birds of passage, which visit our island at the commencement of spring, and depart at the approach of winter; as the cuckow, turtle, stork, crane, quail, goat-sucker, the swallow tribe, nightingale, black-cap, wheat-ear, stone-chat, whin-chat, willow wren, white-throat, etotoli, fly catcher, &c. &c. Also, a copious, entertaining, and satisfactory relation of winter birds of passage: among which are the woodcock, snipe, fieldfare, red-wing, royston crow, dotterel, &c. &c. Shewing the different countries to which they retire, the places where they breed, and how they perform their annual emigrations, &c. With a short account of those birds, that migrate occasionally, or only shift th

London, printed for John Brumby, 1814. 8vo. III-XV,(1),64 pp. Modern brown cloth with dark brown label lettered in gilt. Foxed and browned throughout. Short vertical tear at lower margin of title page. With Gunnar Brusewitz's bookplate. Apparently lacking half-title. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology p. 430. First published in two editions in 1780, with a third edition in 1795. In contrast to most copies of this edition, the date in the present copy has not been erased. All earlier issues ascribe this text merely to "a naturalist", and although the present title gives George Edwards (1695-1773) as the author, it was revealed by A. C. Smith in 1894 that it is the work of John Legg (1755-1802). Smith writes that "What makes this treatise so remarkable is that it enunciates the true story of the migration of birds, so far in advance of general belief on that point: for at the period when it was written, and indeed well into the present century, it, was commonly supposed that hybernation in hollow trees, holes of rocks and caves, and even submergence at the bottom of ponds, lakes, and rivers, during the winter, was the best explanation of the disappearance of the swallows, warblers, and other soft-billed species in the autumn. [.] but our anonymous author, more keenly alive to the truth, rejected these old-world fables, and boldly announced that migration beyond seas was the true solution of the problem [.]." Brusewitz took a keen interest in the question of hibernation or migration of birds, as can be seen by a laid-in note and a copy of a letter in his hand.
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Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & des plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les estangs. Et un traité tres-utile pour la chasse. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & les filets qu’on peut s’imaginer. Le tout divisé en cinq livres, avec les figures. Ouvrage tres-curieux, utile et recreatif pour toutes sortes de personnes qui font leur sejour à la campagne. Par F. F. F. R. D. G. dit le solitaire inventif.

Paris, chez C. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. (16),445,(1 blank),1-12 pp. Title in red and black, with engraved headpiece and initial, 66 full-page woodcut illustrations (9 of which are folding) all included in the pagination, and woodcut initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, rubbing to surfaces and extremities, head of spine with some loss at upper joint, tail of spine chipped exposing headband, upper joint cracked exposing cords but holding. Upper cover with two small worm holes, rear cover a little stained, corners bumped and worn. Browned throughout with some foxing, and marginal dust-soiling, with dampstain at gutter from p. 414 through to the end, affecting a few plates, and further sporadic dampstaining. Gutter of title page and outer margin of front free endpaper reinforced, and with rather crude repairs to margins of plates 256, 263, 264, 269, 277 and 415. Outer margin of p. 217 torn with loss though not touching text, with page number of p. 256 torn and missing. Annotations on front free endpaper that the book was bought at the auction after Michael Törnflycht on 11 June 1740 by Carl Fredric Piper and further annotations recording that it was given in 1780 from his son Adolph Ludvig Piper to forester Joh. Er. Cons, inherited by his son J. E. Cons in 1818 and from him given in 1852 to his nephew, captain Ax. Fr. M. Lundeberg. Lundeberg has also recorded the births of his children and their height on the last leaf and rear endpaper. With the bookplate and signature of Gunnar Brusewitz. Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting I:181. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 636-637. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 408-409. Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria 180. Third edition of this celebrated work on the art of capturing game, fish and vermin with traps, nets and other means, first published in 1660. A second edition was published in 1668, a fourth in 1695, and this edition was reissued in 1700 with a cancel title page. The work is split into five books of which the last deals extensively with fishing. The striking and instructive woodcut illustrations show a variety of nets and traps. The plates are the same as appeared in the first edition. This edition includes for the first time the short 12-page "Traité tres-utile de la chasse" by Charles Strosse present at the end of the work. This work was to prove immensely popular and influential, inspiring the work of many subsequent authors, notably Liger in his "Amusements de la campagne", and who reproduced the first part of "Les ruses" without alteration, according to Westwood & Satchell. Michael Törnflycht (1683-1738) was a military, civil servant, and country gentleman. Under King Charles XII he took part in the Battle of Poltava 1709 and the siege of Fredrikshall 1718. Carl Fredric Piper (1700-1770) was his nephew and one of Sweden's foremost book collectors in his time. His extensive library at Ängsö castle was inherited by his son Adolf Ludvig Piper (1750-1795), married to Sophie von Fersen. Forester Johan Cons, or Conz, (1739-1818) was born in Strassbourg and lived in Dyvik by Ängsö. His daughter Hedvig Sophia Cons (1785-1864) was married to the factor at Ängsö Johan Petter Lundeberg. Their son was Axel Fredrik Marcus Lundeberg (1809-1873). Brusewitz's signature is dated 1975. Laid in is also a catalogue clipping from Hagelin Rare Books, where Brusewitz bought this book.
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Arctic Zoology. I-II.

London, H. Hughs, 1784-1785. 4to. Engraved frontispiece,(2),CC,(14),185 pp. & 8 engraved plates, one of which is folding + (2),187-586,(13) pp. & 15 engraved plates. With engraved title page vignettes. Two volumes, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, with red and green morocco title labels lettered in gilt. All edges yellow, and with gilt ruled edges. Joints a little cracked and weak but holding, head of spines nicked with slight loss. Title page of volume I with old repair to outer margin. Some light marginal browning and occasional dust-soiling. With Gunnar Brusewitz's signature. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 713. Anker Bird books and bird art 397 for the second part. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 516, not mentioning the frontispiece. Sabin A dictionary of books relating to America 59757. First edition, a second edition was published in 1792. The present set is offered without the separately published supplement of 1787, and which included two folding maps. This is the author's most important and famous work on the natural history of the northern regions of America, Europe, and Asia and covering quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects. The work was at first "intended to bear a title indicating a study of the fauna of King George's dominions in North America. However, about this time the American colonies separated from the mother country, and the author adopted the above rather misleading caption" (Wood). The work is thus focused on North America, with separate sections on different parts of the continent including California, Alaska, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Island. Other sections are devoted to Scotland, the Orkneys, the Faroe Isles and Greenland and the "Icy Sea", or the Arctic Ocean. Pennant never travelled the regions himself, but relied on information derived from the accounts of others. Among his sources were James Cook, Peter Simon Pallas and, according to Anker, Samuel Ödmann. The text is illustrated with engraved plates by P. Mazell after George Stubbs, Moses Griffiths, P. Brown and others. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a Welsh naturalist, writer, and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire in Wales, and authored numerous works on natural history, together with his noted travelogues. Along with Latham, Pennant was the leading English ornithologist of the day. Gunnar Brusewitz travelled the Arctic waters on an expedition with the Swedish icebreaker Ymer in the summer of 1980 and wrote and illustrated a vivid book-length account of the journey in "Arktisk sommar" (1981).
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Lagographia curiosa; seu, leporis descriptio, juxta methodum & leges augustæ ac imperialis. Academiae Leopoldinæ nat. curios. adornata, selectisque observationibus & curiositatibus conspersa.

Augsburg, impensis L. Kronigeri & T. Goebelii Hæredum, 1691. Small 8vo. Additional engraved title leaf,(30),408,(4) pp. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, bumped and worn, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with raised bands, remains of paper label at head, head of spine worn exposing headband, nick with small loss at tail, upper joint cracked at tail but holding firm. Aside from some light marginal browning and occasional minor soiling, clean and crisp. With the armorial bookplate of W:m Wollascott esq., and the bookplate and signature of Gunnar Brusewitz. VD17 39:117610G. Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting IV:74. Lindner Bibliographie der deutschen und der niederländischen Jagdliteratur 557. First edition of this important work, being an early and comprehensive work on the hare, and including valuable references to other earlier writings. Christian Franz Paullini (1643-1711) was a German polymath writing in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, ethnography, and natural history. Probably best known for his "Heilsame Dreck-Apotheke", he also wrote a number of monographs on vertebrates, notably on dogs, wolves, the ass, and the mole. Brusewitz collected material for a planned book on the role of the hare in natural and cultural history, but unfortunately he never came to write it.
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Ioannis Ionstoni Theatrum universale omnium animalium quadrupedum tabulis octoginta ab illo celeberrimo Mathia Meriano aeri incisis ornatum. Ex scriptoribus tam antiquis, quam recentioribus, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Aeliano, Oppiano, Plinio, Gesnero, Aldrovando, Wottonio, Turnero, Mouffeto, Agricola Boetio, Baccio, Ruveo Schonfeldio, Freggio, Mathiolo, Tabernamontano, Bauhino, Ximene, Bustamantio, Rondeletio, Bellonio Citesio, Theueto, Marggravio, Pisone et aliis maxima cura collectum et ob raritatem denuo inprimendum suscepit.

(Nuremberg), typis C. de Lannoy, 1755. Folio. Additional engraved title leaf,(14),236,(6,2 blank) pp. & 80 engraved plates. Title page in red and black. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt with red morocco label. Head of spine and both upper joints rubbed and worn with loss of calf, tail of spine and lower edge of upper cover also worn with loss, covers a little scratched and scuffed, extremities worn, upper hinge cracked but holding. Plates not consecutively bound but all present. First dedication leaf somewhat creased, some occasional light marginal browning and soiling, small nick at tail of p. 105. Large tear through image in plate 56 skillfully repaired. From the library of Gunnar Brusewitz. First volume only. Nissen Die zoologische Buchillustration 2139 calling for (8) preliminaries only. The first volume only of six, of the 1755-1768 Eckebrecht edition of this noted work by the naturalist John (or Jan) Jonston (1603-1675). It was first published between 1650 and 1653 with engraved plates by Caspar and Matthias Merian. The present volume deals with quadrupeds including i.a. lions, elephants, horses, frogs, unicorns and a griffin. The publication of this issue is somewhat peculiar, since the stated intention is scientific but at the same time ignores the last 100 years of zoological science. One would presume that the striking images simply were too good not to reissue.