THOU, JACQUES AUGUSTE de. 
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Il falconiere di Jacopo Augusto Tuano. Dall’esametro latino all’endecasillabo italiano trasferito, ed interpretato. Coll’uccellatura a vischio di Pietro Angelio Bargeo pubblico professore in Pisa poemetto pur latino, similmente tradotto, e commentato. Ozii, e ameni studii di G. P. Bergantini. Venice, G. Albrizzi, 1735. Folio. Engraved frontispiece,(38),223,(1 blank),1-50,(18) pp. & 1 engraved portrait. With 10 engraved vignettes. Contemporary Italian vellum, five rased bands, spine lettered in manuscript in brown ink. Covers a little soiled and vellum boards a bit warped. Portrait, dedication leaf, and final verso foxed, small stain affecting gutter of p. 46 of second pagination. Aside from some occasional light thumbsoiling and foxing, a crisp copy. Previous shelfmarks in brown ink on front pastedown, and with the bookplate of Gunnar Brusewitz and his signature in pencil dated Rome 1947.
Schwerdt Hunting, hawking, shooting II:261 lacking pp. 217-223. Souhart Bibliographie générale des ouvrages sur la chasse 461. Ceresoli Bibliografia delle opere italiane latine e greche su la caccia 531. Thiébaud Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse 898. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 603. Harting Bibliotheca accipitraria 284. The engraved portrait of the dedicatee Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon, is engraved by R. Pozzi after A. David. The vignettes, partly depicting hunting scenes, are by G. Filosi, Cattini, F. Zucchi and Schmuzer. A most handsome copy of the first Italian translation, and the best edition overall according to Harting, of de Thou’s Latin poem on hawking, ”Hieracosophioy” or ”Hieracosophion”, first published in 1582. The second part contains P. Angelio’s hunting poem ”De aucupio”, first published in Florence in 1566. The original Latin is here printed in parallel columns with Giovanni Pietro Bergantini’s italian translation. Appended to the poem of de Thou are some notes dividing all hawks used by falconers into two classes, followed by the Latin-Italian version of ”Cupido cruciatus” and two epigrams by Ausonius (c. AD 395). Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a French nobleman who succeeded his father, Christophe, as president of parliament. He was privy councillor to Henry III, and also to Henry IV of France. Apart from being the keeper of the royal library, de Thou was one of the foremost book collectors of his time. His elegant and celebrated verses on hawking were probably inspired by the experience he gained during time spent at foreign courts.
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