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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1826) 1973 facsimile edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppii,64. Unillustrated. Green cloth, spine titled in green. Damp stains to cloth else clean internally. Smells slightly musty, good in like dust-wrapper. "Describing the mode of breaking and managing the several kinds of hawks used in falconry". "Sebright like many of the recognised important authors and falconers is referred to probably in every worthwhile classic and modern work relating to hawking and falconry in print today. This work was privately printed originally in 1826, and is much sought after." .…

pp. 31, (i) blank. Stitched into later wrappers with title in ink on the front cover, small ink blot in the lower margin of the title, also a small brown blot, very slight wear to the lower edge of the spine, uncut, a very good copy ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar, with his brief note on the front - 'See Origin 6ed. p.15'. *COPAC records a number of copies in UK academic libraries but it has not appeared at any major auction in the past 25 years and is obviously scarce in commerce. SEBRIGHT [1767-1846] landowner and politician and agricultural innovator. In addition to the above pamphlet, Sebright was also author of Observations on Hawking, describing the mode of breaking and managing several kinds of hawks used in falconry, 1826; and of Observations upon the Instinct of Animals, 1836. Charles Darwin commented on Sebright's practical skill as a breeder in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. See also The Origin of Species, 1872, 6th. edition, Chapter one - Variation under Domestication - '. the possibility of making distinct races by crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Many cases are on record, showing that a race may be modified by occasional crosses, if aided by the careful selection of the individuals which present the desired character; but to obtain a race intermediate between two distinct races, would be very difficult. Sir J. Sebright expressly experimented with this object and failed.' SEE : MICHAEL RUSE. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1975), pp. 339-350.…

Facsimile rep of the 1826 1st Edn.. (ii) -64. pages, Number 165 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Very good in DJ some browning to inner flaps of the DJ. . "Describing the mode of breaking and managing the several kinds of hawks used in falconry". "Sebright like many of the recognised important authors and falconers is referred to probably in every worthwhile classic and modern work relating to hawking and falconry in print today. This work was privately printed originally in 1826 and is much sought after." Swift 510.04.…