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194. SCHLEGEL (H.) and WULVERHORST (A. 



H. Verster de). Traite de Fauconnerie. Leiden et 



Dusseldorf, chez Arnz et Comp. 1844-53. Atlas 



folio. 



The finest work on Falconry which has ever been produced ; 

 not only on account of the beauty of the plates, wherein the 

 hawks are depicted life-size and of the natural colours, but also 

 for the general accuracy of the letterpress, which was written by 

 the late Prof. H. Schlegel, of Leiden. Exclusive of the " Tide " 

 (which is surrounded with a series of vignettes illustrative of 

 scenes in the life of a hawk), " Dedication " to the King of 

 Holland (William III.), and " Avant-Propos," it contains 90 pp. 

 of text, followed by vi. pp. devoted to a " Catalogue Raisonn^ 

 des Ouvrages de Fauconnerie," one page for " Explication des 

 Planches," and one page for " Index." 



The "Catalogue Raisonne" (pp. i-vi.), although extensive 

 as compared with previous lists of the kind, is conspicuously 

 deficient in regard to the titles of English and French works on 

 Falconry; not because many of these were published after 

 Schlegel's " Traits " had appeared (which would of course have 

 been a sufficient reason for omitting them), but because they were 

 evidently unknown to him. Of those which he does cite, the 

 titles are often defective, having been apparently copied " with 

 all faults " from. Hammer Purgstall and the inaccurate Kreysig. 



Exclusive of the ornamented title-page above referred to, 

 there are 16 folio plates, 2 of which are illustrative of Heron 

 Hawking at the Loo, in 1844, with portraits of contemporary 

 falconers ; 2 others contain figures of hoods, jesses, lure, and 

 other accessories ; and the remaining 12 give life-sized coloured 

 figures of the hawks employed by falconers, admirably drawn by 

 Joseph Wolf and J. B. Sonderland. On the sale of Prof. 

 Schlegel's books at Leiden after his death the present writer 

 secured the author's own copy of this fine work, and the original 

 water-colour drawings for the plates were purchased, partly by 

 the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, partly by M. Pierre A. 

 Pichot of Paris, in whose libraries they are now preserved. The 

 work was originally published in 3 parts, between 1844 and 

 1853, costing 55 th. (2iof., or £,Z 8s.), a value which it has 

 ever since justly maintained. See note to No. 221. 



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