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SALVIN Francis Henry |
Falconry In The British Isles
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2nd revised and enlarged.
John Van Voorst.
viii(i) -171 pages + advert leaf, Pages uncut small 4to, illustrated with 28 fine hand coloured lithograph plates, includes 2 plates of implements. Chipping to the paper of the very outer blank margin edge of the index page, and to the outer blank margin edge of the first plate. The plates are clean and free of foxing. Recently recased retaining the original end papers in the publishers green pebbled cloth with gilt vignette to upper cover of a falconer carrying 4 falcons on a cadge, gilt title to the spine within decorative borders. The cloth clean and the gilt bright, overall, a vg copy of what Harting describes as "The best modern book in English on the art and practice of falconry". The second edition is to be preferred for the emendations and additions to the text. Harting 67, Swift 497.01
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£2300.00 |
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SCHLEGEL Hermann, WULVERHORST A.H.Verster Van |
Taite de Fauconnerie
1973.
1st thus reprint of the 1844 and 1853 Edn,.
Denver,USA..
VIII 115 90 VI pages, 17pp illus, 4to, text in English and the original French, vg in dj
[5421] |
£30.00 |
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SCHLEGEL Hermann, WULVERHORST A.H.Verster Van |
Taite de Fauconnerie
1973.
1st thus reprint of the 1844 and 1853 Edn,.
Chasee Publications.
Denver, USA..
VIII 115 90 VI pages, 17pp illus, 4to, text in English and the original French, vg in dj
[18734] |
£30.00 |
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SCHLEGEL Hermann, WULVERHORST A.H.Verster Van |
Taite de Fauconnerie
1973.
1st thus reprint of the 1844 and 1853 Edn,.
Chasee Publications.
Denver, USA..
viii 115 90 vi pages, 16 full page b/w plates, 4to, text in English and the original French, vg in dj
[21327] |
£30.00 |
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SCOTT George Ryley |
The History Of Cockfighting
1957.
1st Edn,.
Charles Skelton Ltd.
204 pages, T.E.G pages uncut 4to coloured frontis + numerous full-page illustrations, un-numbered copy of a limited ? edition of 1095 copies. Original red cloth binding with gilt title to the upper cover with a cock fighting vignette below, Vg.
[23934] |
£35.00 |
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SHAWYER Colin |
The Barn Owl
1998.
1st Edn,.
Harlequin Press.
Chelmsford.
VIII 213 pages, colour and b/w illus from photographs + drawings, a fine copy in dj. An in-depth monograph
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£65.00 |
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