{"id":90531,"date":"2026-05-07T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/thou-jacques-auguste-de-hieracosophioy-sive-de-re-accipitraria-libri-tres\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:27:51","slug":"thou-jacques-auguste-de-hieracosophioy-sive-de-re-accipitraria-libri-tres","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/en\/thou-jacques-auguste-de-hieracosophioy-sive-de-re-accipitraria-libri-tres\/","title":{"rendered":"THOU Jacques-Auguste de Hieracosophioy, sive de Re Accipitraria..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><i>Thi\u00e9baud, 897; Souhart, 461; see Schwerdt, II, 261 (other editions); Frank, II, 288; Renouard, Estienne, p. 185; Ronsil, 3516.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">First complete edition of one of the most famous and longest of De Thou&#8217;s poems, a didactic verse in about 2780 hexameters devoted to hunting with falcons and other birds of prey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Composed in three &#8220;libri&#8221; and addressed to Fran\u00e7ois, Duke of Alen\u00e7on, Anjou and Brabant (1555-1584), the youngest son of the late King Henri II and Catherine de&#8217; Medici, and brother of the reigning King Henri III, this learned didactic poem on falconry was written by the young bibliophile and humanist Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). Versified in Latin hexameters, de Thou studies the different species of birds of prey and gives lessons to guide the choice of falconers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Book 1 discusses the various kinds of birds of prey used in falconry and how to choose one, book 2 discusses their care and feeding, training and the practice of hunting with them, and book 3 discusses their medical care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&#8220;De Thou was not yet thirty when he composed this elegant poem, which reveals his author&#8217;s in-depth knowledge of everything to do with falconry&#8221; (see Thi\u00e9baud).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The poem ends on p. 95, with the next page containing an &#8220;important&#8221; (Harting) note about the various kinds of birds of prey used for falconry and giving their French and Latin names. The last six leaves contain Thou&#8217;s 11-page letter to Philippe Hurault (1528-1599), French chancellor under King Henri III, on the subject of falconry, and on the last page the corrigenda. The preliminaries contain laudatory verses by Sc\u00e9vole de Sainte-Martin and Pierre Pithou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Falconry was so popular in France from the reign of Fran\u00e7ois I to that of Louis XIII that it can be considered the national pastime of the French nobility, as well as the prominent clergy, military figures and politicians in that period, 1515-1643.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This edition was printed by Mamert Patisson, who in 1574 had married Denise Barb\u00e9, the widow of Robert II Estienne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Occasionally the <i>Hieracosophioy<\/i> was attributed to the poet Sainte-Marthe and sometimes works of both poets are found bound together, as is the case with this copy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">[Bound in at head:]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>SAINTE-MARTHE, Sc\u00e9vole de.<\/strong> Paedotrophiae libri tres. <i>Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1584.<\/i> 4to, 2 unn.ll., 60 pp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">First edition, very rare.<\/span> It was only translated into French in 1698 under the title <i>La Mani\u00e8re de nourrir les enfants \u00e0 la mamelle<\/i>. An English translation was printed in 1710 under the title <i>The Art of Nursing and Rearing Children<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">It contains a long poem on the way on how to nurse children, as a reaction by Sc\u00e9vole de Sainte-Marthe to the illness of one of the poets\u2019 sons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Light waterstain to lower right corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Provenance : old ownership inscription scribbled out on the title of <i>Paedotrophiae<\/i> &#8211; Hubert Lebaudy (bookplate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">4to (240 x 160 mm) 2 nn.ll., 95 pp., 6 nn.ll. 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