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Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2014). (1619) 2013 1st edition in English. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Ppxxx,482. B/w illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper - signed by John Loft. Harmont's Mirror of Falconry, and The Falconry of Francois de Saincte Hilaire came to John Loft's notice after the publication of his D'Arcussia's Falconry. The original books used by Loft were made available by M. Patrick Paillat who went to the trouble of photographing 472 pages of text in order to make the translation possible. The Mirror of Falconry was first published in 1634 by Pierre Bilaine although the current translation is of a reprint of 1650. The Falconry of Francois de Saincte Aulaire was first published in 1619 by Robert Fouet. Only a dozen copies are now known to exist and it was not reprinted until 1888. The text used for Loft's translation was the 1619 first edition. "Those who have read Loft's translation of d'Arcussia's Falconry will know roughly what to expect from this new work when they are told it concerns the same period and comes in the same format, but where d'Arcussia was discursive and anecdotal these two authors never stray from their subject and St. Aulaire considers it his religious duty to pass on the knowledge he has gained in his half-century of managing and flying birds of prey, as he calls them. He was an excellent instructor. Falconry has come a long way since then and we do not need his instructions but we can still admire his expertise on all fronts and enjoy what he reveals about the different conditions, beliefs, and practices of the times. Harmont, the professional falconer, was as methodical in setting out his information as he must have been in managing his section of the huge royal falconry establishment, both when at court and when on campaign. He writes with noticeable confidence. It is of particular interest that he flew and looked after two alethes. (It seems unlikely that they were ever brought over from America in numbers). St. Aulaire was a country gentleman but any professional he employed would have been there merely to serve and not to advise him. He was familiar with all the falcons and hawks then available, but his first love was the peregrine. He did not despise goshawks in spite of some prejudice against them and, according to his masterly description of their behaviour, his (unimprinted) hawks differed not a jot from ours. This is a handsome as well as a fascinating volume. It is one to be treasured." John Loft himself writes; "In truth few copies [of this book] will be read right through to the end." Loft does a disservice to his own book which is an exemplary translation of a major work, to which he has contributed many pages of informed commentary. The two books are of interest for their own sake: John Loft's own contribution should be read by anybody who has read, or intends to read, other works on falconry of the period. If you haven't, you should. PREVIOUS PRICE ££40.00.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Le Miroir de Fauconnerie | Pierre Harmont | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Französisch | 2020 | Hachette Livre - BNF | EAN 9782329400761 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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FIFTH EDITION 1650 (first publied 1620). Slim 4to, approximately 225 x 160 mm, 9 x 6½ inches, title with woodcut hunting scene, 7 woodcut illustrations of falcons, 38 pages, quarter calf, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers. ½ inch split to upper hinge and small repair to head of spine, corners worn at tips with board just showing, pale age-browning and spotting throughout, bookplates of L. Heron and A.E.H. Swaen to front and rear pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. This work provides all the information necessary for keeping and training falcons, hawks and other birds of prey: how to choose birds, how to train them; how to treat them throughout the year; how to treat their illnesses or accidents. The author wrote from personal experience, having served 2 kings as falconer for over 45 years. Found in some editions of Du Fouilloux's La Venerie, see Carl F. G. Richard Schwerdt Volume I, pages 153 & 230-231 (1620 edition); James E. Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, page 83, No. 156; Sotheby's, Bibliotheque Cynegetique du Verne, Paris 5th October 2016, pages 90-91, No. 128 & 129, listing earlier editions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

4to (230 x 165 mm). With a woodcut illustration of a hunt using falcons on the titlepage (90 x 95 mm), 7 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of birds of prey on integral leaves. 38, [2 blank] pp. Half red goatskin morocco (1930s?). Rare fifth edition, the first published outside of Paris, of a concise practical handbook on the choosing, training, care and feeding of birds of prey for hunting, by the falconer to Louis XIII, first published in 1620. "Copies of this work [in any edition] are very difficult to procure" (Harting). The hunting scene on the title-page, which has no related illustration in the first edition or in d'Arcussia, shows two men in the foreground, one blowing a horn and with a dog on a leash, the other holding a falcon and with hawking paraphernalia. It shows falcons attacking birds in the sky, and a hunting scene with dogs and men on horseback chasing a stag in the background. - With the modern armorial bookplate of the Verne d'Orcet family, whose great library on the subject of hunting was begun ca. 1900. With a few minor stains and faint offsetting, but still in good condition, the binding with very slight wear to the fore-edge corners, but otherwise fine. A rare and important practical hondbook on falconry, illustrated with the woodcuts of the second (1634) edition, including a hunting scene not in the first edition. - Bibl. Mun. Rouen, Histoires de chasses (exhib. cat. 199293), 79; Harting, Bibl. accipitraria 156 note; Souhart, col. 238; Thiébaud, col. 493; USTC 6814292 (1 copy); cf. Schwerdt, pp. 230231 (1620 ed.); for the binder: Fléty, p. 159.

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