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LE MIROIR DE FAUCONNERIE, OU SE VERRA L’INSTRUCTION POUR CHOISIR, NOURRIR & TRAICTER, DRESSER & FAIRE VOLER TOUTE SORTE D’OYSEAUX, LES MUER & ESSIMER, COGNOISTRE LES MALADIES & ACCIDENTS QUI LEUR ARRIVENT, & LES REMEDES POUR LES GUERIR.
by HARMONT, (Pierre de).:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Rouen, Clement Malassis, 1650.. FIFTH EDITION 1650 (first publied 1620). Slim 4to, approximately 225 x 160 mm, 9 x 6½ inches, title with woodcut hunting scene, 7 woodcut illustrations of falcons, 38 pages, quarter calf, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers. ½ inch split to upper hinge and small repair to head of spine, corners worn at tips with board just showing, pale age-browning and spotting throughout, bookplates of L. Heron and A.E.H. Swaen to front and rear pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. This work provides all the information necessary for keeping and training falcons, hawks and other birds of prey: how to choose birds, how to train them; how to treat them throughout the year; how to treat their illnesses or accidents. The author wrote from personal experience, having served 2 kings as falconer for over 45 years. Found in some editions of Du Fouilloux's La Venerie, see Carl F. G. Richard Schwerdt Volume I, pages 153 & 230-231 (1620 edition.); James E. Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, page 83, No. 156; Sotheby's, Bibliotheque Cynegetique du Verne, Paris 5th October 2016, pages 90-91, No. 128 & 129, listing earlier editions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47549
- Title
- LE MIROIR DE FAUCONNERIE, OU SE VERRA L’INSTRUCTION POUR CHOISIR, NOURRIR & TRAICTER, DRESSER & FAIRE VOLER TOUTE SORTE D’OYSEAUX, LES MUER & ESSIMER, COGNOISTRE LES MALADIES & ACCIDENTS QUI LEUR ARRIVENT, & LES REMEDES POUR LES GUERIR.
- Author
- HARMONT, (Pierre de).:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Rouen, Clement Malassis, 1650.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- falconry raptors hawks hawking field sports hunting falcons fauconnerie
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Roger Middleton
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