Lot n° 181
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OLINA, Giovanni Pietro - Lot 181
OLINA, Giovanni Pietro
Uccelliera overo discorso della natura, e proprieta' di diversi uccelli
Rome, Andrea Fei, 1622
THE ART OF ATTRACTING BIRDS according to Olina, the steward of Cassiano Dal Pozzo, Poussin's famous patron.
A REMARKABLE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION
In-4 (234 x 167mm). Engraved arms on title page. Engraved initials, headbands and tailpieces.
COLLATION: A-K8 2A6. Some signature and pagination errors.
ILLUSTRATION: 66 full-page woodcuts by Antonio Tempesta, Francesco Villamena, Vincenzo Leonardi
ANNOTATIONS: French translation of bird names and a few words, in ink, in the margins, by a contemporary hand.
CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Calf, gilt decoration, framed with fillets, decorated spine, speckled edges.
Mottling to title, some freckling, small snag in thistle plate.
"A friend of Galileo, correspondent of Peiresc and patron of Poussin, as well as a great collector of birds, Cassiano dal Pozzo took a very close interest in the ornithological work published under the name of his steward, Giovanni Pietro Olina. It's a practical hunting manual that shows, with diagrams, the various ways of catching and killing birds. With the exception of a few exotic birds, most of the fifty-three species represented are native to the area around Rome. Although they never mention it, Olina and Dal Pozzo were directly inspired by Antonio Valli da Todi's Il Canto degl'angelli (Rome, 1601), some of whose plates have been reused. Originally engraved by Giovanni Maggi and Antonio Tempesta, they have, according to the reader's notice, been reworked by Vincenzo Leonardi, who was a member of the studio of painter and engraver Francesco Villamena, one of Dal Pozzo's regular artists. The originality of l'Uccelliera therefore comes from the new plates engraved from the drawings collected in the immense compilation that Cassiano dal Pozzo had put together, known as the Museo cartaceo" (Rare books).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, IV, 179 -- Schwerdt, II, p. 48 -- Anker, 380 -- Nissen, IVB 693 -- Souhart, 355-356 -- Des livres rares depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie, Paris, 1998, no. 106
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