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Belany Treatise upon Falconry 1841

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2 parts in 1, first edition, with extensive contemporary ink annotations and accomplished colour sketches and vignettes relating to Falconry throughout, wood-engraved frontispiece (with later hand-colouring and annotations beneath), title laid down and with lower portion missing, affecting imprint, occasional light foxing and finger soiling, a few short marginal tears, new endpapers, original cloth, spine gilt, repaired, spine faded, slightly rubbed, [Harting 64; Schwerdt I., p.58], 8vo, [Berwick-upon-Tweed], [1841].

***The sketches and vignettes depict hunting scenes, falconers, hawks, eggs and falconry kit..

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