[Turberville, George]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

The Nobel Art of Venerie or Hunting. Wherein is handled and set out the Vertues, Nature, and Properties of fifteene sundry Chaces, together with the order and manner how to Hunt and kill every one of them. Translated & collected for the pleasure of all Noblemen and Gentlemen, out of the best approoved Authors, which have written any thing concerning the same: And reduced into such order and proper termes as are used here in the noble Realme of Great Britaine. London: Thomas Purfoot, 1611
Paper, Ink, Leather

4to (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 147 mm). Mostly black letter, title-page with large woodcut vignette of hunters and hounds, 47 woodcut illustrations 9including repeats) in text; lacking first blank, L7 with small marginal rusthole, a few lower fore-edge corners restored, occasional light soiling. Red morocco by Ramage, spine gilt in six compartments, covers gilt-panelled, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; joints rubbed.

Provenance

John M. Schiff (Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1990, lot 340; Schiff bookplate removed and spurious bookplate inserted)

Literature

STC 24329; McGill/Wood 604; Schwerdt 2:272

Catalogue Note

Second edition. The woodblock printed here on I3r has been altered to substitute the effigy of James I for that of Elizabeth I, which appeared in the edition of 1575.