The Art of Falconry - Hardcover

THE ART OF FALCONRY. By The Hon. Gerald Lascelles.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1971). (1892, 1971) 1980 reprint. Small 8vo (126 x 192mm). Pp172. B/w illustrations from photographs, engravings by George Lodge & others. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Gift inscription and tanning to end-papers and edges, an occasional fingerprint. Good-plus in slightly browned and used dust-wrapper. Originally published in 1892 as part of the Badminton Library volume on "Coursing and Falconry". Chapters include: The modern falconer, implements used; The peregrine, eyasses, training, game hawking; The peregrine, passage hawks, advantages of how caught, mode of training, lost hawks; Gerfalcons, kite hawking, hare hawking, merlins, how managed, lark hawking, the hobby, the lanner, the sacre, shahins, sport in India; The short-winged hawks, goshawks, how obtained, rabbit hawking, the sparrow-hawk, blackbird hawking; Celebrated falconers, Scotch, Dutch and English clubs, The Loo Club, The Old Hawking Club, famous hawks; general management, news, blocks, perches, condition, feeding, various diseases, general hints. . Artikel-Nr. 63458

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