TRAITE DE FAUCONNERIE. By H. Schlegel and A.H. Verster de Wulverhorst.

TRAITE DE FAUCONNERIE. By H. Schlegel and A.H. Verster de Wulverhorst.

I.B.R. FALCONRY DIRECTORY 1998. 1st edition, 1998-1999. Edited by Jenny  Wray.

I.B.R. FALCONRY DIRECTORY 1998. 1st edition, 1998-1999. Edited by Jenny Wray.

THE ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKING. By E.B. Michell.

. 1900 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Ppxii,291 + 40pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Plates by G.E. Lodge, and from photographs, top edge gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt.

"The object of the author has been to describe as briefly as was consistent with clearness the birds now chiefly used in the chase, and the manner of training and flying them. His hope is that some of the sportsmen who read these pages many, in spite of the difficulties which they will have to encounter, resolve to give this old and honourable sport a trial". Chapters include: History and literature; The birds used in hawking; Furniture and fittings; Eyesses and hack hawks; Passage hawks; Training and entering; Rook hawking; Game hawking; Lark hawking; Gulls, heron, kite, duck, etc; The goshawk; The sparrow-hawk; Home life; Hawks in the field; Lost hawks; Accidents and maladies; Moulting; Virtue and vice; Anecdotes and adventures.
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Book Code
9990
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Author Michell (Edward Blair). (1842-1926).
Book Code 9990
ISBN B00G95M5VW.
Book Description Some water staining to bottom edge throughout (text generally unaffected). Unusually little foxing in the text. Good.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1900
Publisher Methuen and Co.
Place London.