1 64 BOOKS ON FAL CONR V. 



303. GESNER (Conrad). Historia Animalium. 

 Lib. III. De AVIUM NATURA. Tiguri. 1554. 5 vols, folio. 



Other editions, Frankfort 1585, 1586, 1603, 1617, 1620. 



A German translation by Rud. Heusslein was printed at 



'Zurich in 1581, and at Frankfort in 1600 and 1609, all in 



folio. An English translation by Topsell, with the title "A 



Historie of Foure-footed Beastes," &c., was published in 1658, 



folio, of which another edition appeared in 1607. 



Gesner has been surnamed the German Pliny, and it was to 

 him that Dr. Caius addressed his celebrated Libellus de Canibus 

 Britannids. For much of the information in his treatise de 

 Avibus regarding the training of hawks, Gesner was apparently 

 indebted to the now very rare work of Eberhard Tapp (No. 93), 

 and to a MS. of Demetrius of Constantinople (No. 327). 



304. TARDIVUS (Guillelmus). De arte Acci- 

 piTRUM una cum Frederici II. Imperatoris de arte 

 Venandi cum avibus, et Manfredi regis additionibus. 

 Geneva. 1560. 8vo. 



Other editions, Basle, 1578, 8vo, and Augsburg, 1596, 8vo 

 {fide Lallemant). See note to the " Livre de I'art de Faulcon- 

 nerie par Guillaume Tardif," antea^ P- 72. 



305. HERESBACH (Conrad). Rei Rustics Libri 

 QuATUOR universam rusticam disclplinam complec- 

 tens etc. Item De Venatione, Aucupio, atque Pisca- 

 tione Compendium, in usum etc. Auctore D. D. 

 Conrado Heresbachio .... [Vignette.] Colonise apud 

 Joannem Birckmannum. Anno 1570. sm. 8vo. 



Editio altera, Spirae Nemetum, 1594, 8vo. The four books of 

 Husbandry occupy 330 leaves. Then follows, to 346 verso, a 

 treatise on the laws relating to Agriculture. To this succeeds 

 " Thereutices ; hoc est de Venatione, Aucupio, atque Piscatione 

 Compendium ; " wherein (at p. 375), in the section De Aucupio^ 

 we find observations on Hawking, with the side-notes, Accipi- 



