ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF FALCONRY. Edited by Kenyon Gibson. De luxe edition.

2004 1st edition. Large 8vo (171 x 257mm). Ppx,207. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates. One of 125 signed and numbered copies half-bound in black leather.

A falconry collection including works on Syrian, Afghan, Indian, Persian, Arab, North African and Mongolian hawking. Notes on the houbara, lesser florican, little bustard, hoopoe, jack snipe and other game birds are included in the context of falconry. Pieces by Sid Mohamed El Mangali, Sir John Chardin, Sir John Malcolm, D.C. Phillott, Stephen Biddulph, Stuart Baker, F.H. Salvin, Charles Thompson, Gerard Lascelles and C.H. Donald. Many of these are previously unpublished or unavailable in English.