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TRAINING THE SHORT WINGED HAWK: AN ELIZABETHAN PERSPECTIVE. By Edmund Bert, edited by Derry Argue.
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Argue Publishing. Tain. 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0906924081
ISBN 13: 9780906924082
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Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2005). 2005 1st edition thus. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp192. B/w illustrations. Burgundy cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. "A Transcription of Two Important 16th Century Books on Training the Goshawk and Sparrowhawk for Falconry." An Approved Treatise of Hawks and Hawking by Edmund Bert [1619] and A Perfect Booke for Kepinge of Sparhawkes or Goshawks by an unknown author [1575]. Transcribed and edited to present a useable, practical text to the modern falconer. Short-winged hawks "need to come to 'love their keeper' and both books .excel in explaining how this behaviour is achieved and how faults such as hood-shyness, carrying, turning tail, extreme nervousness &c. can be cured." . Seller Inventory # 14964
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