In 8°(mm 264x194); pp. (4), 116, vignette showing the various tools of birding (rifle, cages, nets, paretaio, etc.), 3 large engraved allegories at the head of the 3 books illustrating three different ways of birding, attributable to Lorenzi, 3 figured capilettera and finalino. Dedication To His Excellency the N. U. Mr. Angelo Carminati, Captain and Vice Podestà of Verona. Coeval half-leather binding, with marbled piati, title on spine gilt fillets, red boards. Original posthumous edition, edited by the Author's widow. A poem in loose endecasyllables in which Tirabosco (1707-1773) sings of the amenity of the Veronese countryside contrasting it with the city brigs and presents the different ways of catching birds such as the ragnaia and the boschetto in summer, the roccolo in autumn; interesting the part about the electric aucupio, perhaps inspired by recent Furian discoveries. Inside the plates there are annotations regarding technical terms with Lombard-Italian translation, at the guard sheet instead appear ancient notes on the character of Tirabosco and at the final sheet curious notes on how to keep birds in cages; Gian Giacomo Bergamini possession note. Good copy despite a noticeable halo at the beginning and end and a lack at the lower cuff of the spine, as well as other defects and stripping to the binding.