Longmans, Green and Co, London, New York and Bombay , Fun, Feather, and Fin Series Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1898 Book condition, Etat : Moyen hardcover, editor's cream binding, illustrated, title in red with the name of the serie Fur, Feather and Fin in large letters In-8 1 vol. - 265 pages
8 plates (on a total of 10, 2 first plates are missing, frontipisce and first plate) 1st Edition, 1898 Contents, Chapitres : Preface by Alfred E.T. Watson, Contents, List of Illustrations, ix, Text, 256 pages and catalogue - The natural history of the rabbit - The warren - Ferreting - Shooting - Trapping, snaring, netting and bolting - Poaching - The ground game act - Rabbit-hawking with the goshawk - The cookery of the rabbit - Index - nb : Un chapitre sur la chasse au vol, la fauconnerie ou autourserie (pages 213 à 221, 8 pages et une planche), chasse au lapin avec un autour des palombes The editor's illustrated binding is in rather nice condition, with few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the spine-end on the front part is lightly used and damaged (the leaves are not mooving from the binding), Text is clean, unmarked, paper lightly yellowing, TWO PLATES ARE MISSING. It remains a good reading copy with a chapter on Rabbit-Hawking with the Goshawk (8 pages and a plate)
The Holland Press, 1964, gr. in-8vo, frontispiece + XXVIII + 289 p., orig. publ. clothbound.
Important bibliographie sur les faucons et la faconnerie.
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(London), The Holland Press, 1977. xxviii,289pp. 8vo (15 x 23 cm.). Original cloth. With a frontispiece and 25 plates.
First published by Quaritch in 1891. This work is the only bibliography in English relating to falconry. Books in over 20 languages are catalogued (378 references), all with extensive and illuminating notes. This is a photomechanical reprint of 1977, which was first issued in 1963. P. Smit, Life Sciences p. 55.