CLASSIC NATURAL HISTORY PRINTS: BIRDS OF PREY BY JOSEPH WOLF. Edited by S. Peter Dance.

CLASSIC NATURAL HISTORY PRINTS: BIRDS OF PREY BY JOSEPH WOLF. Edited by S. Peter Dance.

THE MODERN FALCONER: TRAINING, HAWKING and BREEDING. By Diana Durman-Walters.

THE MODERN FALCONER: TRAINING, HAWKING and BREEDING. By Diana Durman-Walters.

FALCONRY IN MEWS AND FIELD. By Emma Ford.

1982 1st edition. 4to (192 x 255mm). Pp192. Full page colour photographs, b/w photographs, illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in silver gilt.

A detailed and useful manual aimed at the beginner and intermediate falconer. Chapters include: The history of hawking; General husbandry; Equipment; Lure swinging; The hawk's larder; The choice of a hawk; The early stages; The kestrel; The buzzards; Sparrowhaks and goshawks; The falcons; The eagles; The unusual; Captive breeding; The transportaion of raptors; Lost hawks; Conservation and the law; Falconry worldwide.
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Book Code
20540
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Author Ford (Emma).
Book Code 20540
ISBN 0713440473 / 0713440473.
Book Description Inscription and some use but good-plus in used dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1982
Publisher B.T. Batsford.
Place London.