Hints on the management of hawks . to which is added practical falconry, chapters historical and descriptive.

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). Original publisher's green cloth, title in gold on spine and decoration in gold on front board. With 11 plates and 42 illustrations in text. Pages: VII, 268 pp.