PRACTICAL FALCONRY; TO WHICH IS ADDED, HOW I BECAME A FALCONER. By Gage Earle Freeman, M.A. ("Peregrine" of "The Field"). First Hecht edition.

(1869) 1954 1st Hecht edition. Ppx,89. B/w frontispiece and vignette illustrations by R.P. Grossenheider.

An excellent early reference for the gentleman sportsman falconer, including some "trifling anecdotes". "This little book, written from personal experience of the author, has done much to keep alive the traditions of falconry and encourage its modern revival". Harting. Bibliotheca Accipitraria. 1891.