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JAMESON E.W. |
The Hawking Of Japan, The History And Development Of Japanese Falconry
1976.
reprint Edn,.
Davis.
California.
94 pages, 4 page index, large 8vo., coloured frontis, 5 plates in colour, 5 b/w plates, full page drawings + text illus, neat ownership name and from address to top blank margin corner to title page, neatly tipped in before frontis page loose sheet with ink presentation inscription signed by Jameson and dated 1993, pale orange cloth, reprint of the scarce 1962 edition. the work covers the ancient and present practiced in Japan. Chapters on the history, sporting hawks in Japan, housing and equipment, methods of obtaining hawks, manning and training etc. A fine copy. Swift 300-02
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£195.00 |
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Johnson, T.B. |
The Sportsman's Cyclopaedia; Comprising A Complete Elucidation of the Science and Practice of Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Hawking, Cockfighting, and other Sports and Pastimes of Great Britain Embellished with a profusion of highly finished engravings, after Landseer, Ward, Cooper, Hancock, and other eminent artists.
1848.
revised.
Henry H Bohn.
2 volumes . vi, 940, 5 pp. 57 woodcut and steel engraved full-page plates. Bound in a contemporary ? green calf red title labels. Schwerdt only list the 1831 one volume 1st edition (vol 1 271pp) as does Chute, 351, as Swift 305-01 but notes this edition, Westward Satchel 124, list the 1831 edition with footnote (A few copies re-issued with new title-page and additional illustrations by Mr Bohn in 1848.)
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£220.00 |
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