Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium
Subtitle: pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum
By: depictae a Joanne Stradano, editae per Nicolaum Visscher ...
Published: 1600
Place of publication: Antwerp
Language: lat
Number of pages: 102
Notes: Title in Dutch at foot.

Each plate has description in Latin on lower margin; plates variously signed A. Collaert, J. Collaert, C. Galle, and I. & C. de Mallery.

First published in 1578 as a series of 44 plates, subsequent printings are described as "a still untangled mystery of numerous editions and renditions with constant changes in the numbers and sequence of engravings ..." by Manfred Selink and Marjolien Leesberg in Philips Galle (2001). Selink and Leesberg note that it was the second edition that first contained an additional 61 plates by A. Collaert, J. Collaert, C. Galle, and I. & C. de Mallery; its first state numbered the plates 1-104.

Gift; Daniel B. Fearing; 1915.

From the library of Daniel B. Fearing.

Without plates 103-104 or dedicatory leaf; some plates may be from different states; sheets are mounted on blue paper and bound into a larger volume with Straet's Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium ... ([ca. 1600]); a.e.g.; bound in blue gilt morocco (rubbed).