Uccelliera, overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que’ che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli, e mantenergli e con le figure […] intagliate dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena […]

Formato: in quarto

Large 4to (256x189 mm.); modern red morocco, gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers; (5), 60 ll., 61-62 pp., 63-68 ll., 69-77, (13) pp. Engraved title-page and 66 full page copper plates, showing birds, banquets and hunting scenes. A fine copy.

SECOND EDITION containing some different plates from the first edition which appeared in 1622. The work describes 45 kinds of birds and several ways to catch them with net traps and to keep and cook them.

The plates are signed by Antonio Tempesta, Francesco Villamena and Vincenzo Leonardi. The edition was promoted by the great antiquarian and art collector Cassiano dal Pozzo, whose arms are depicted on the title-page.

Cicognara, 2072. Ceresoli, 386. Nissen, 693. Gamba, 2039.

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