Second edition of this exceedingly scarce work on the chase and falconry, one of the earliest and most important of those written in Spanish in the 16th century; the work focuses on the laws of hawking and hunting, it was the first Castilian printed book on hunting and the first to deal with its legal and moral aspects. The treatise was first published in 1543 in Alcala, which is now scarce. “Avendano wrote the Aviso to show the Castilian aristocracy its responsibilities regarding hunting. He argued that hunting was made legal by natural law and ius gentium and could be controlled by the monarch only when hunting threatened the public interest" (John Marshall Carter, "Medieval Sport," in Journal of Sport History, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1982, p.71). Uhagon says of the present edition "Los ejemplares de esta segunda edicion son quiza mas raros que los de la primera". A rare book, of whish we find copies in the United States at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Library of Congress, UC Berkeley, and National Library of Medicine. The only comparable example to have appeared at auction was sold in 1992, lot 320, Sotheby´s, £5,500.
Palau 197084 (first edition), 197089; Schwerdt II, p.46. Jeanson 1266; Uhagon 297.
