Our shipwrecked protagonist shoots one of the creatures, finds her nest, and brings up the young who become quite tame. The tame ‘Dog-Birds’ help him to rescue his beloved from cannibals (naturally, she had been shipwrecked herself on the way to an enforced marriage in India).
Meet the 'Dog-Birds' of The Travels and Adventures of William Bingfield, Esq. (1753), the strangest apex predators we've ever seen ... capable of taking down tigers and stags alike, they have the tail of a pig, sharp teeth, shaggy hair, and a bird's talons.
See it for yourself at Stand 30 at the York Book Fair, 13–14 September 💌
The rear free endpaper contains 54 lines of French love poetry in a near-contemporary hand (‘Helas permetras tu’, ‘Amour ma pris par la ficelle’, ‘Odieux qui du pourpris celeste’), with verse on a similar theme in another near contemporary hand to the front endpapers.
Tycho Brahe had arranged for his nephew, Albret, to study in Padua in 1590, and Albret's brother Jørgen (or Georg), who owned this copy of Parabosco's Lettere amorose (perhaps a souvenir of his studies abroad?), followed in his footsteps shortly thereafter.
Our 2024 Summer Miscellany is now available to read online! No. 18 is a wonderful archive tracing the artistic development of Margaret Grubbe (1911–1997) from her childhood into middle age and featuring over 100 original drawings and watercolours ... http://buff.ly/4dBwVET
🍎 ✏️School may be out for the summer, but we still have education on our minds! Our latest catalogue, a curated selection of forty rare books and manuscripts on education, is now available to read online (with a sneak peek pictured here) ... http://buff.ly/3SFbcU1
