DeutschWith Wildungen’s 22page Story
“ THE BAVARIAN HIESEL ”
Wildungen, L. C. E. H. F. Weidmanns Feierabende (a new Handbook for Hunters and Friends of Hunting). 2nd annual. Marburg, Krieger, 1816. 2 ll. frontispiece + engraved title, 198 pp., 2 ll. contents + advertising. Green orig. card wrap. with engraved hunting allegory.
Lindner 11,2263,01; Mantel I, 137. – Comp. with Schwerdt II, 297 + Souhart 494. – Owner + (duplicate-)stamp of the Warsaw University Library verso of the title and on the white p. 2 resp. – Page 137 misnumbered as “139”. – Title browned, the text partly, but mostly only slightly foxed. Outer corner of the wide white lower margins with a pressure mark throughout. The nice cover a little time-marked as usual.
Contains i. a. reports on the saga of the wilde hunter Hans von Hackelberg (Wolfenbüttel 1521 – Wülperode near W. 1581, probably a Brunswick supreme hunting master, his gravestone here as frontispiece), hunting legends + memories of prehistoric times , an extraordinary deer hunting in New California , a Württemberg decree of 1815 regarding the struggle against the damage done by game , the first edition of a scene of the play “Hunter’s Yarn” , poetry + anecdotes . Most exhaustively written by Wildungen himself as the largest article of the publication
“ The Bavarian Hiesel ”
in his career, rage + ending, on his “boy”, and – on 2 pages – his hound Tyras and how he got it!
Wildungen’s “Feierabende” (finishings) published in 6 annuals from 1815-1821 were the last set of his series, beginning with the “Neujahrsgeschenke” (New Year’s gifts) in 1794 and continued with the “Taschenbuch für Forst- und Jagdfreunde” (pocket-book for friends of forestry and hunting) from 1800-1812. These series are
“ … beautiful sets of small almanacks he presented to lovers of our subject from 1794 to 1821. We know of
no others in any language
dealing exclusively with matters concerning the chase which could compete … for general attractiveness, due to the neatness of get-up … ”
(Schwerdt).
Wildungen (Cassel 1754 – Marburg 1822) “less distinguishes by knowledge of forestry than by a lively sense for nature, especially the wood, and by his thorough understanding for hunting which he comprehended from a higher point of view. One can characterize him as the sculptor of the modern hunting-art …” (ADB XLII, 513 ff.).
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