Part 34

* Belisarius Aquaviva de Venatione, Aucupio, &c. Nap. 1519. Basil. 1571. apud Conrad. Gesner. Histor. Quadrupedum.

Ad Christianissimum Regem Galliæ de Canibus et Venatione Libellus. Authore Michaele Angelo Blondo. In quo omnia ad canes spectantia, morbi, et medicamina continentur, Prisca et Neoterica etiam exempla, à nemine hactenùs accuratiùs scripta, insidiæ ferarum, et proprietates, cum quibusdam venationibus nostri sæculi maximorum principum cognitu dignissimis, Romæ, +mdxliiii.+ One of the rarest of the Cynegetica of the 16th century. A small thin 4to of thirty-seven leaves. The passages cited by the author are principally from Gesner’s H. Q.

* Gulielmus Tardivus de Accipitribus et Canibus Venaticis, apud Conrad. Gesner. Histor. Quadrupedum. (Auctores Gallici.)

Conrad. Heresbachii Rei Rusticæ L. +iv.+ item de Venatione, Aucupio, et Piscatione Compendium, in usum Heroum et Patrumfamilias ruri agentium concinnatum. The latter part is noticed in the preface to Arrian’s Cynegeticus under the name of Compendium Thereuticæ Universæ, a title given it by Rittershusius in his Oppianic Prolegomena. The author’s quotations are principally from Conrad Gesner’s Historia Quadrupedum; but since the prefatory remarks have been sent to press, he has examined a copy of the original (Spiræ Nemetum +CIↃ.IↃ.XCIV+). As an Epitome of Xenophon and Oppian, the appendix has merit—containing brief notices of many varieties of ancient and modern hounds, their style of hunting, quarry, &c. Part of the third book De Re Rusticâ treats of dogs connected with rural economy, the Œcurus, Villaticus, &c.

Hier. Fracastorii Alcon, sive de Cura Canum Venaticorum. Venet. +mdlv.+ Fracastor’s poem is appended to the Poetæ Venatici of Johnson. Lond. +mdcxcix.+ and of Kempher. Lugd. Bat. +mdccxxviii.+

Petri Lotichii Secundi Eclogæ. The author’s citations are from the Poemata Omnia Petri Lotichii Secundi à P. Burmanno Secundo. Amstel. +mdccliv.+

Natalis Comitum Veneti de Venatione, Libri +iiii.+ Ald. Fil. Venet. +mdli.+ also attached to his Mythologiæ Libri Decem. Lugduni. +mdcv.+

Petri Angelii Bargæi Cynegeticon. Poemata Omnia, &c. Florent. apud Juntas, +mdlxviii.+ The poem De Aucupio is also cited in a separate form apud Juntas, +mdlxvi.+

Joannis Darcii Venusini Canes. Paris, +mdxliii.+ Francofort. +mdlxxxii.+

Joannis Caii Britanni De Canibus Britannicis Liber Unus. Londini, +mdlxx.+ This Libellus is also annexed to Johnson’s Edition of Gratius and Nemesian, and to Kempher’s Poetæ Venatici, Holinshed’s Account of British Dogs is a translation from Caius’s work.

La Vénerie de Jaques Du Fouilloux, &c. Paris, +mdlxxxv.+ +mdcxiiii.+ The author’s references are to the latter edition, wherein are contained Adjonctions à la Vénerie de Jacques Du Fouilloux. La Chasse du Loup (by Jean de Clamorgan): La Chasse du Connin: and an additional Essay on Cyniatrics, entitled Autres Remèdes pour guarir les Chiens Malades de Diverses Maladies, &c.

The Compendium of Hunting in La Maison Rustique is epitomised, according to Christopher Wase, from Fouilloux’s Treatise.

The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, &c. London, 1575. 1611. The authorship of this version of Fouilloux is much disputed:—by some it is given to Turbervile, the undoubted translator of the Booke of Falconrie; by others to Gascoigne; and by a third party to C. Burke. The citations are from the edition of 1611, and generally under the name of the first-mentioned author.

* A Short Treatise of Hunting, compyled for the delyght of Noblemen and Gentlemen, by Sir Thomas Cockaine, Knight. London, 1591. The writer has never seen the rare tract of this “professed hunter, and not a schollar.”

The Gentleman’s Academie; or, The Booke of St. Albans, &c. by G. M. London, 1595.

Maison Rustique; or, The Countrie Farme, &c. translated into English by Richard Surflet. London, 1600.

The Countrey Farme, &c. (as the last,) by Gervase Markham. London, 1616.

A Jewell for Gentrie, &c. London, 1614.

Countrey Contentments; or, The Husbandman’s Recreations, &c. by G. M. London, 1633.

* Jacobi Micylli Κυνολόγιον. A Latin poem mentioned by Paullini in his Cynographia Curiosa: where also occur * Angelinus Gazæus, * Ronsæus, and others; the Venatio Medica of the latter being rather above the ordinary stamp of the muse of Æsculapius.

De Venatione Tractatus, in quo de Piscatione, Aucupio, Sylvestriumque insectatione agitur. Auctore Alfonso Isachio. Regii, 1625. A very ridiculous treatise on Piscatorial Licences, &c. of some rarity, but of no value to practical or literary sportsmen. It has been re-published, with other Cynegetical tracts of like description, by Fritsch.

Album Dianæ Leporicidæ, sive Venationis Leporinæ Leges. Auctore Jac. Savary, Cadomæo. Cadomi, +mdclv.+ To some editions of this poem is annexed Venatio Vulpina et Melina of the same author; but the writer’s copy has it not.

Venationis Cervinæ, Capreolinæ, Aprugnæ, et Lupinæ Leges. Autore Jac. Savary Cadomensi. Cadomi, +mdclix.+

Jacobi Vanierii, &c. Prædium Rusticum. Tolosæ, +mdccxxx.+ +mdccxlii.+ The author’s citations are from the latter edition.

The Gentleman’s Recreation: in four parts. London, 1706.

The Gentleman’s Recreations: in three parts. By R. Blome. London, 1710.

The Chace. A poem by William Somerville, Esq.

To this list might be added the French Cynegetica of Gauchet, Pomey, Passerat, De Salnove, De Serey, Du Sable, Gaffet, De la Conterie, D’Yauville, and others; the Encyclopédie Méthodique, Dictionnaire de toutes les espèces de Chasses; and the Italian Cynegetica of Scandianese, Valvasone, Raimondi, Poggesi, Gatti, and others; to some of which the author is beholden for a few remarks. The catalogue might be amplified, too, by incorporating the numerous tracts on the laws of the Chase collected by Fritsch and Manwood; the notices of early British and Anglo-Saxon hunting gathered by Pegge, in the Archæologia; by Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes; and by Turner, in his History of the Anglo-Saxons; and though last, not least valuable, whether we regard the novelty of such a summary, or the elegance and classic taste of its execution, the article on Hunting by Mr. Smedley, in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana.