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Peregrine Fund, 2004. Hardcover. New. A Short Discourse of Hawking to the Field with High Flying Long-winged Hawkes, together with the Sorting and Ordering of Spaniels. Archives of American Falconry, Volume III. Written in 1603, only one copy of the original of this title is known to exist. It is also the first book on Falconry printed in English, and the first such written by a practicing falconer based on personal experience. Mylar dust jacket, #307 of the Subscriber's Edition.
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This work is the third book printed on the sport in english and the first such written by a practicing falconer based on personal experience. Only a single copy of this work is known to exist, presently in the Wagstaff Collection of Yale's Beineke Library. As such, it is clearly the rarest printed book on our sport in the english language. The famed falconry scholar and bibliographer, J.E. Harting, unaware of its existence, failed to list this work in his otherwise exhaustive Bibliotheca Accipitraria (1891). It has never been reprinted. Certainly Sherley's work was one of the few books on the subject available to Thomas Morton when he set forth from england to become America's first falconer.
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- Title A Short Discourse of Hawking
- Author Sir Thomas Sherley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Numbered
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Peregrine Fund, U.S.A.
- Date September 30, 2004
- ISBN 9780961983949 / 0961983949
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