Götz, T. [M. G.]
Monographie des Hundes, oder: Beschreibung seiner Zucht, Wartung und Pflege sämtlicher Racen, deren Krankheiten und der Gebrauchsmittel dagegen, sowie Bekanntmachung des ursprünglichen Vaterlandes und Gebrauchs jeder Race. Für alle, deren Geschäft und Stand es erfordert, dieses Thier-Geschlecht halten zu müssen, so wie für jeden Liebhaber desselben. Gesammelt und herausgegeben.
Gotha, Hennings und Hopf, 1834. 8vo (18.3 x 11.3 cm) [vi], 114, [6] pp.; engraved, very large, folding frontispiece and 39 hand-coloured plates (several larger, folded). Contemporary sprinkled boards. Spine with gilt bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
A very rare work on dogs, written and illustrated by the German natural history artist and engraver Theodor Maximilian Georg Götz (1779-1853). On the plates he signed with Goetz. Each plate shows a different dog race, except the last plate, which shows plans of dog kennels. The large frontispiece shows Barri, or Bari, or Barry "der Menschenretter (1800-1814) ... a dog of a breed which was later called the St. Bernard that worked as a mountain rescue dog in Switzerland and Italy for the Great St Bernard Hospice. He predates the modern St. Bernard, and was lighter built than the modern breed. He has been described as the most famous St. Bernard, as he was credited with saving more than 40 lives during his lifetime, hence his byname Menschenretter meaning "people rescuer" in German (Wikipedia). Bound with: A. L. Hohnau, Anleitung zur Zucht und Dressur aller Arten der Jagdhunde, insbesondere des Hühner-, Leit-, Schweinhundes, des Saufiinders, des Hess-, Sau-, oder Packhundes, der Jagdhunde zur deutschen und zur französischen oder Par-Forcejagd, der Windhunde, des Dachsfinders, der Dachshunde, des Trüffelhundes &c. Nebst den neuesten, besten Mitteln, die am häufigsten vorkommenden Krankheiten der Hunde zu heilen. Eine nützliche Schrift für Jäger und Jagdfreunde. Quedlinburg and Leipzig, G. Basse, 1833. 126 pp. Another, very uncommon, tract, published without illustrations. Provenance: mounted on the front pastedown a pictorial hunting bookplate, in medieval style, of Hans Dedi, probably the German (although born in Basel) merchant Hans Dedi (1918-2016). Spine slightly rubbed, with an old, brown paper label; a few plates with plate number cropped, or the illustrations very close to the gutter; some scattered, light foxing to the text; the plates all clean. Lindner 11.0749.01. Not in Nissen, ZBI.
