Falcons - Falconry
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Kawanabe, D. [K.]
[Ehon Taka Kagami. An Illustrated Mirror of Falconry].
Tōkyō, Suharaya Sasuke, Kinkadō, [early-Meiji period, ca. 1863-1868]. Two parts in five. "8vo"-size (22.9 x 15.8 cm). Printed on double leaves, fukurotoji-style. 52 [10; 10; 12; 10; 10] leaves. Original limp boards, covered with yellow, flower-patterned paper, with original daisen title slips, mounted. In slipcase with two hand-coloured pictorial titles mounted (and the same, in plain state on blue paper, tipped in on two front board versos).
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Salvin, F. H. and W. Brodrick
Falconry in the British Isles.
London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to (27.5 x 18.0 cm). vii, 147 pp.; 24 chromolithographed plates (XI and XIII acting as frontispieces) with fine hand-colouring. Early 20th-century dark green half morocco over linen boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt ornithological vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original embossed limp cloth boards with large gilt vignette and gilt on the front board, bound in the rear.
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Ferrer de Valdecebro, A.
Govierno general, moral y politico hallado en las Aves mas generosas, y nobles, sacado de sus naturales, virtudes, y propiedades le escrive el Padre Maestro Fray Andres Ferrer de Valdecebro...le consagra al gloriosissimo Padre, y apostol Valenciano San Vicente Ferrer.
Madrid, M. Alegre, 1670. 4to (20.5 x 13.7 cm). [xl], 205 numbered leaves, 30 pp. of "tabla general" (general index); one engraved portrait of San Vicente Ferrer and 18 text engravings; all of the birds discussed. Limp vellum with beautifully contemporary calligraphed title on the spine.
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Donald, C. H.
The Raptores of the Punjab. [AND] The Birds of Prey of the Punjab I - VII. [AND] Falconry - The Catching of Hawks and Falcons. Being a Supplement to "The Birds of Prey of the Punjab". [COMPLETE].
Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Society of Natural History, 1917-1921. In eight parts. 8vo (22.7 x 15.9 cm). 145 pp.; seven plates. Disbound.
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Riesenthal, O. von
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und den benachbarten Ländern von Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Raubvögel. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem text [Atlas].
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1894. Folio (39.5 x 29.3 cm). Title page, [iii], 56 pp.; 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary quarter burgundy linen over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.
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