A Short Discourse Of Hawking: To The Field With High Flying Longwinged Hawkes Together With The Sorting And Ordering Of Spaniels.

Sherley , Thomas, Sir

ISBN 10: 0961983949 / ISBN 13: 9780961983949

Published by American Archives of Falconry, 2004

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numbered in pen. One of 375 copies in the (Subscriber's Edition) . Clean in fresh boards and cloth. Mylar wrapper. 79pp plus colored illustrations at rear -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Short Discourse Of Hawking: To The Field With High Flying Longwinged Hawkes Together With The Sorting And Ordering Of Spaniels.
• Publisher: American Archives of Falconry
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961983949
• ISBN 13: 9780961983949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: reissue .
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 28 ounces

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Synopsis

This work is the third book printed on the sport in English and the first such written by a practicing falconer based on personal experience. Only a single copy of this work is known to exist, presently in the Wagstaff Collection of Yale's Beineke Library. As such, it is clearly the rarest printed book on our sport in the English language. The famed falconry scholar and bibliographer, J.E. Harting, unaware of its existence, failed to list this work in his otherwise exhaustive Bibliotheca Accipitraria (1891). It has never been reprinted. Certainly Sherley's work was one of the few books on the subject available to Thomas Morton when he set forth from England to become America's first falconer.