100 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



in which will be found sundry observations on Falconry, as 

 practised by the Arabs. 



200. CHENU (J. C.) et DES MURS (O.). La 



Fauconnerie ancienne et moderne. Paris, Hachette. 



1862. i2mo. 



A pocket volume of 176 pages, illustrated with woodcuts. 

 Some copies are coloured. In the " Observations sur le vol des 

 Oiseaux" (pp. 121-149), the authors have reproduced the 

 greater part of Ruber's work (No. 182) with reduced copies 

 of his illustrations. The woodcut on p. 40, which is lettered 

 ^^ Faucon sur une Gazelle (faprh une ancienne gravure" vs, copied 

 from the plate of a Goshawk and Gazelle, by Joseph Wolf, which 

 forms the frontispiece to Burton's work, published in 1852 

 (No. 66). 



201. PICHON (Baron Jerome). Du traite de 



Fauconnerie, compos6 par Temp^reur Frederic II., de 



ses manuscrits, de ses editions, et traductions. Paris. 



1 864. 8vo. 



An admirable commentary, published originally in Techener's 

 " Bulletin du Bibliophile." A few copies were separately printed, 

 of which one is in the collection of the writer. 



202. BOISSOUDAN (Jacques Elie Manceau, 

 Seigneur de). Methode pour dresser et faire 

 voler les Oyseaux pour le vol de la Perdrix. Ou 

 il enseigne a bien tenir les Oyseaux, etc. Par Mon- 

 sieur de Boissoudan. Dedie a ceux qui aiment la 

 Fauconnerie. \c. 1745.] a Niort, chez Robin et L. 

 Favre, Imprimeurs, Rue Saint Jean. 1864. 4^0. 



This treatise, composed by a gentleman of Poitou, about the 

 year 1745, was only published for the first time at the end of an 

 edition of " La Vdnerie," de Jacques du Fouilloux, in 1 864. Two 

 years later it was edited by Baron Pichon, and printed, with 

 other rare treatises {e.g., Mouret's Chasse du Roy, 1725), in the 

 Melanges de Littcrature et d'Histoire, rdcueillis et publi(^s par la 



