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Leipzig: im Weidmannischen Buch-Laden, 1734. Hardcover. Very Good+. 59 double-page etched plates. [20], 198, [2]; 122, [2] pages, including etched additional title. Folio, 18th-century 1/2 calf; text a bit browned, plates lovely and clean. Bookplate "Aus Der Bucherei L. M. Kluftinger". Fourth and best edition of one of the outstanding German hunting books of the period, first published in 1682. The 'Diana's Hunting Secrets' are divided into three parts, and cover practically the whole range of the arts of hunting, shooting, trapping, sporting dogs, etc. . . . The plates are curious and give a complete survey of all the features of the great state hunts which were organized in a lavish manner by most of the German potentates"--Schwerdt II, 246. A few of the plates show animals in a state of copulation.

[20], 198, [2]; 122, [2] pp.The first edition, richly illustrated with engraved plates, of the classic manual on hunting by Johan Täntzer (ca. 1633-1690), published together with the treatise on deer hunting by Von Pärson, which Lindner calls one of the best hunting books of the 18th century, though it remained largely unknown because it was never published separately. The main work by Täntzer, an encyclopaedic manual on all aspects of hunting all sorts of animals with all sorts of dogs and devices, even including hunting young seals at the North Pole, had first been published in three parts at Copenhagen, in 1682, 1686 and 1689 respectively.The book is richly and attractively illustrated with hundreds of hunting plans in woods, mountains, fields, on the ice, etc., with scenes of animal behaviour and animals in action, with all sorts of hunting dogs in packs and singly, as well as a large number of hunting impliments and devices, like nets, corridors, traps, whole buildings, cages, etc. The added… Read More