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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1977). (1971) 1977 revised edition. Stapled large 8vo paperback (175 x 266mm). Ppvi,46. Plans for cage-traps for raptors. Staples rusty else near fine. ~. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). (1962) 1976 2nd edition. 4to (187 x 267mm). Ppxii,97. Six tipped-in colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations. Yellow buckram, Japenese text printed in black on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Pages cut but a very good copy in acetate dust-wrapper. A publisher's slip laid in states that the book was issued with pages uncut, and recommends slitting the pages open with an ordinary table knife. A former owner has done just this. Bookplate of falconry book collector, Count Umberto Caproni di Taliedo. This is a fascinating and detailed discussion of the history of hawking in Japan. Chapters include, history, the sporting hawks of Japan, housing and equipment, methods of obtaining hawks, manning and training, hawking in the field, daily care. Two valuable appendices give a discussion of several important Japanese books on hawking and a glossary of Japanese hawking terms. Swift states that approximately 700 copies were printed. (Swift 300.02). . …