The Art Of Falconry being the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus
Author:
FREDERICK II OF HOHENSTAUFEN
Year:
1955
Edition:
reprint Edn,
Publisher:
Charles T Branford Company
City of Publication:
Boston, USA
Summary:
CX 637 pages, coloured frontis portrait, numerous illustrations from drawings, old prints, photographs etc, original cloth gilt decorated spine, vg. Translated and edited by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe of the medieval treatise on zoology and falconry. A translation of one of the earliest works of falconry, Frederick II an avid falconer travelled with hundreds of falcons wherever he went also includes a 35 page introduction + bibliography + extra material. Swift 608.
Ref:
18250