Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FREDERICK II, Emperor. De arte venandi cum avibus. 2 volumes. Folio, facsimile in original reversed leather, commentary volume (in German) in original 1/4 reversed leather; publisher's board slipcase with reversed leather spine panel. Graz, 1969

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one of 1000 sets. Facsimile of Vatican Ms. Pal. Lat. 1071, a 13th-century illuminated Latin manuscript on hunting with birds of prey, "one of the most important zoological works of the Middle Ages" (Sarton), derived largely from Aristotle and Muslim sources. Sarton II, 575; Walther & Wolf 172.