Janus Ulitius [Jan van Vliet] - Venatio Novantiqua - Sammelband Jagd in rotem Maroquineinband - rara - 1645

Author:

Ulitius, Janus (actually Jan van Vliet)

Title:

Iani Vlitii Venatio novantiqua celsissimo Arausionis principi Guilhelmo dicata.

Place / Printer / Year:

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1645.

Collation / Size etc.:

16° (ca.13,5x8cm), with engraved allegorical title page. 12 unnumbered leaves (including the copper title), 491(1) pp., 8 unnumbered leaves, smooth red morocco binding with richly gold-tooled spine, spine label, fore-edge gilding and round-gilt edges

Description:

(Bibliographic references: Willems 597; Copinger 4833). – Rare first edition (Editio princeps) of this significant humanistic collection of texts on ancient hunting literature (Cynegetica). Compiled and extensively annotated by the Dutch philologist and jurist Janus Ulitius (1620–1666). Contains the foundational hunting-theory poems and didactic poems by Grattius Faliscus and Nemesianus, as well as excerpts from the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus. Printed in the famous Elzevir workshop in an elegant and typically small-format Baroque type. The decorative copper title page shows a finely executed hunting scene. Dedicated to Prince William II of Orange.

Condition:

Unsigned, splendid master binding of the 18th century - binding a bit rubbed and somewhat bumped, top corner worn.
Front flyleaf with an old library inventory tag.
Paper somewhat browned, very sparsely lightly foxed.

Overall a well-preserved, handsome copy of the sought title.

Keywords: hunting, miscellany, hunting lore, natural science, reference work