A SHORT DISCOURSE OF HAWKING TO THE FIELD WITH HIGH FLYING LONG WINGED HAWKES, TOGETHER WITH THE SORTING & ORDERING OF SPANIELS. By Sir Thomas Sherley. Subscriber's Edition limited to 375 numbered copies.

Sherley (Sir Thomas).

ISBN 10: 0961983949 / ISBN 13: 9780961983949

Edité par Archives of American Falconry. Boise, Idaho. 2004, 2004

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2004). (1603) 2004 2nd edition - Subscriber's Edition. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxxxiv,79. Colour plates at rear. Green cloth boards, brown cloth spine, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Edited & introduced by Peter Devers. A fine unread copy. ".Dedicated (as a Sommers solace) unto all such as either delight in, or hereafter shall use that Gentleman-like and pleasant recreation." The first reprint of the world's rarest falconry book! .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. Unknown to Harting, its authorship has only recently been proved by Peter Devers. From a total edition of 625 copies. The Historian's Edition limited to 75 copies, the Patron's Edition limited to 175 copies, and the Subscriber's Edition limited to 375 copies. .

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• Titre: A SHORT DISCOURSE OF HAWKING TO THE FIELD WITH HIGH FLYING LONG WINGED HAWKES, TOGETHER WITH THE SORTING & ORDERING OF SPANIELS. By Sir Thomas Sherley. Subscriber's Edition limited to 375 numbered copies.
• Éditeur: Archives of American Falconry. Boise, Idaho. 2004
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0961983949
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780961983949
• Reliure: Couverture rigide

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Synopsis

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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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.