GERMAN. 



45 



Placate.nt e.v Ordenancten op 't stuck van 



de Wildernisse, Hout-Vesterye, Vogelerye, ende 



Visscherye .... van Merula uytgegeven. 'S 



Gravenhage. 1672. 4to. 



According to Schlegel the third book, entitled Ixeutica of 

 Vlught-Bedrijf, contains a brief account of Falconry in Holland. 



85. ACKERSDIJCK (W. C). De Valkenjagt te 

 Valkenswaard en Waalre. 1838. 8vo. 



Nieuwe Algemeene Konst-en Letterbode. 1838. ii. p. 179. 



Unknown to Schlegel. See also an anonymous pamphlet, 

 published at the Hague in 1840, entitled *' Quelques de'tails 

 sur les Faucons et I'art de les dresser a la chasse." Both these 

 publications refer to the doings of the Loo Hawking Club in 

 Holland. 



%6. WULVERHORST (A. H. Verster van). 



Geschiedkundige Ainteekeningen over het Jagtwezen. 



Amsterdam. 1 840. 



Not seen ; cited by Schlegel and said to contain some obser- 

 vations on Falconry (pp. 25-40). Wulverhorst was part author 

 with Schlegel of the Trait'e de Fauconnerie. 



(Berman. 



^"j. ANON. Das erste Buch vahet also an und 



leret paissen [beyssen, beizen, oder beitzen] und auch 



den Habich erkenne Augsburg [c. 1472]. sm. 4to. 



Black letter, 46 leaves unpaged, and without signatures ; 

 22 lines to a page. Without author's name or date. The 

 earliest printed book on Falconry in any language. Extremely 

 rare. The only copy mentioned by bibliographers is one for- 

 merly in the library of the Abb^ de Bearzi. 



