LATIN. 165 



trarium aucupium, Aucupii modi, Accipitrum genera, Pretium 

 accipitrum, and Domandi ratio. The author also describes the 

 " seeling " of hawks to tame them, and their periodical moult- 

 ing, adding remarks on taking partridges and quails. 



The " Four Books of Husbandry " were translated, under this 

 name, by " Barnaby Googe, Esquire," at London, and printed by 

 Richard Watkins, 1577, 4to. But he omitted the treatise dc 

 LegibuSj and the Compendium de Venatione, Aucupio, &c. 



306. THTJANUS (J. A.). Hieracosophion : sive de 

 Venatione per Accipitres. Libri duo. Burdegalse. 

 1582. 8vo. 



The first, though not the best, edition of this esteemed poem 

 by Jacques Auguste de Thou ; the quarto of 1735, in which the 

 Italian translation is given in parallel columns with the Latin 

 original, being generally preferred. 



In the second edition another " book " was added with the 

 following title : — 



Hieracosophion sive de re Accipitraria. Libri 



tres. [Vignette.] Lutetiae apud Mamertum Patis- 



sonium Typographum Regium : in officina Rob. 

 Stephani. 1584. sm. 4to, 



Title I, preliminary leaf (pp. 1-95), ending " Hieracosophion 

 Liber tertius et ultimus explicit." On p. 95 verso, an important 

 note on the various kinds of hawks used for Falconry, with 

 the Latin and French names for them. See note to No. 284. 



Following this note, six leaves (Nos. i.-vi.) with Epistola, in 

 verse, ad Philippium Huraltum Francise Cancellarium. 



Hieracosophion : sive de re Accipitraria. 

 Libri HL [Vignette.] Lutetlse apud Mamertum 

 Patissonium Typographum Regium : in officina Ro- 

 bert! Stephani. 1587. sm. 8vo. •• 



A third edition (pp. 1-109), including title. On p. 107 the 

 note on Hawks, with their Latin and French names, above 

 referred to. 



