Second edition of Harting's manual on falconry and hawking, together with a historical description of practical falconry. For the present edition the author revised the original text and made considerable additions, also adding new illustrations. The plates show a hooded falcon, heron hawking, kite hawking with jerfalcons, the falconer's knot, a falcon in flight, and more.With a bookplate and owner's inscription on the back of the frontispiece. First and last leaves slightly foxed. Binding worn along the extremities.l Cf. Harting 80 (first edition); Schwerdt I, p. 233 (first edition). With 11 plates and 42 illustrations in text. Pages: VII, 268 pp. Seller Inventory # DCKA0UA2G73N

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Title: Hints on the management of hawks . to which ...

Publisher: Horace Cox,, London,

Publication Date: 1898

Binding: Hardcover

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