Biblioteca Accipitraria A Catalogue Of Books Ancient And Modern Relating to Falconry, With Notes Glossary and Vocabulary
Author:
HARTING James Edmund
Year:
1891
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Bernard Quaritch
Summary:
xxviii ? 289 (1) 2pp advert leaf pages uncut, coloured frontis and 25 plates as plate list, woodcut hooded falcon vignette to the title page and perched woodcut of a falcon at the end of the contents page, offset from the frontis tissue guard to the title page. Publishers light brown cloth, a very good copy Also includes a receipt for the book and 2 others from Hatchards in 1941, and a Quaritch General Natural History catalogue for 1940 which includes falconry, both came with the book. The bibliography contains 378 entries with an excellent introduction on the history of falconry, only 300 copies were published. Swift 143,Mullins and Swann 272
Ref:
24346
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