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Edité par Windward, Leicester, 1980
ISBN 10 : 0711200904ISBN 13 : 9780711200906
Vendeur : G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 147 pages, a near fine hbk in a vg+ dj [0711200904]. Book appears unused, so in excellent condition - mild shelf wear only.
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Edité par Windward, Leicester (Reprint), 1980
Vendeur : Le Plessis Books, LISKEARD, CORNW, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1980 reprint of the original 1855 publication by Salvin and Brodrick, published by John van Voorst of London. Beautifully illustrated with 24 colour plates. Comprises 11 chapters on birds of prey and a glossary of terms. In VG condition, a handsome edition printed on dark green boards with gilt lettering, 147 pages. With VG illustrated dustjacket, non price-clipped. Heavy book for postage, 772g + packaging.
Edité par Beech Publishing House, 1997, 1997
Vendeur : GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, Royaume-Uni
Beech Publishing House, 1997. Hardback, d/j, 4to, [vii],147pp, 24 plates. D/j slightly shelf worn. A good copy. 185736094X.
Edité par Beech Publishing House, 1997
ISBN 10 : 185736094XISBN 13 : 9781857360943
Vendeur : Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition.
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Edité par Beech Publishing House. Midhurst, West Sussex. 1997., 1997
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Etat : new. (Hardcover, 1997). (1855) 1997 new edition. 4to (194 x 259mm). Ppviii,xxiv,147. 28 full colour plates, glossary. Burgundy cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Fine in creased dust-wrapper. "If any book deserves to be called a Classic, a work of outstanding merit, Falconry in the British Isles may justifiably lay claim to this description. The 24 beautifulillustrations are based on painting by Brodrick and display in great detail Peregrines, Iceland Falcons, Greenland Falcons, Saker, Lanner, Barbary Falcon, Goshawk, and Sparrow Hawk, also distinguishing sex and age for some of the species. The Colour Plates of implements are quite useful as a guide to what is required." PREVIOUS PRICE £30.00.
Edité par Thames Valley Press. Maidenhead. 1971., 1971
ISBN 10 : 0900294027ISBN 13 : 9780900294020
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre
(Hardcover, 1971). (1855) 1971 reprint. 4to (194 x 284mm). Ppviii,147. 28 full colour plates, glossary. Bumped else very good in spine-faded dust-wrapper. "Falconry in the British Isles has long been recognised as one of the leading works in this field, admired by the cognescenti for its sound technical advice and by the art-lover for its plates, depicting hawks and their caparisons in subtle nuances of colour, drawn from real life and masterpieces of their genre." .
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Edité par Windward, GB, 1980
Vendeur : Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, Royaume-Uni
Hardback. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG DW. Facsimile Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Top edge bit spotted. Entire DW is faded over spine not affecting lettering.
Edité par Windward, Leicester, 1980, 1980
Vendeur : Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. reprint of 1855 original.Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 11.25ins x 7.75ins, [ii], vii, (i), 147pp plus colour frontis and 24pp colour plates. VG / VG.
Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Facsimile. Facsimile of edition first published in 1855, near fine dark green boards with gold lettering to spine, 11.25 x 7.5 inches approx. , very good pictorial coloured dust jacket, front and spine with some fading, a hint of creasing to top edge, not price clipped, beige endpapers, no inscriptions, top edge gilt, vii, 147 pages, two frontispieces, 20 further superb colour plates. The first edition of this book was claimed by Harting in his Bibliotheca Accipitraria as "the best modern book in English on the art and practice of falconry".; Colour plates; 147 pages.
Edité par Windward, 1980
Vendeur : The Bookmonger, Nottingham, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1980 facsimile reprint of book published in 1855. 147 pages, 19 5 x 28.5 cm, lovely colour illustrations. In very clean and sound condition, dust jacket excellent in protective wrapper.
Thames Valley press, 1971, un vol in 4 reliure toile editeur, jaquette illustrée, 147 pages, illustré de 24 planches en couleurs. En anglais. Très bon état.
1973 facsimile reprint, 4to, viii, 147pp. 25 colour plates, top edge gilt, one small tear to dust wrapper,very good.
Date d'édition : 1980
Vendeur : Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. 1980, Leicester, Windward, reprint, 4to, ppvi + 147, colour illustrations, green cloth in dustwrapper.
Edité par Thames Valley Press, 1971
Vendeur : Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Reprint. 4to. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. A clean copy free of foxing or ownership inscription. 147pp. 24 colour plates. This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1855.
Edité par The Tabard Press Facsimile edition, 1970
Vendeur : Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Sm.Folio. 148pp. Illustrated with 24 colour plates. Green cloth in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy of the reprint of this famous work originally published in 1855.
Vendeur : Antiquaria Bok & Bildantikvariat AB, Göteborg, Suède
Beech Publishing House 1997. (6), XXIV plates, 147 pp. Publisher`s hardcover with dustjacket. 26 x 19,5 cm.[#\34894].
Edité par The Tabard Press, 1970
ISBN 10 : 0901951188ISBN 13 : 9780901951182
Vendeur : Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Thus. Type: Book An unread book. A facsimile edition of the 1855 John Van Voorst original. DJ shows very slight use, is complete.
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Facsimile of edition first published in 1855, near fine dark green boards with gold lettering to spine, 11.25 x 7.5 inches approx. , top front right corner very slightly bumped, near fine pictorial coloured dust jacket, a hint of creasing to top of spine, price clipped, beige endpapers, no inscriptions, top edge gilt, vii, 147 pages, two frontispieces, 20 further superb colour plates. The first edition of this book was claimed by Harting in his Bibliotheca Accipitraria as "the best modern book in English on the art and practice of falconry".
Edité par John Van Voorst, London, 1873
Vendeur : Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. 4to. Hardcover. Pp. 171. Second edition ('revised and enlarged'), Complete with 28 hand-coloured lithographic plates, with ownership inscription to front free endpaper. In very good condition; green cloth boards with gilt illustration and border on cover. Slight rubbing to the spine and corners bumped. Minor scuffs and marks as expected with age. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid on. Endpaper relined. Plate 1 browned with tape repair to gutter. List of plates frayed at the bottom, with tape repair at the margin. A few other leaves frayed with small marginal loss. Small mark at the top of content page which has a small hole near the bottom, not obstructing text. Some page corners are folded or slightly torn, Small piece of tape at the edge of plate XXI (p. 113). Some small tears to a number of tissue protective guards. Otherwise in very good condition overall. Falconry in the British Isles will shed considerable light on the history of the management of hawks and falcons for the sport of falconry in England, Wales and Scotland during the 19th Century. 'The best English book on falconry' (Schwerdt). 'This is the "best" edition, the plates of the first issue [1855] having been redrawn and several new ones added' (Wood).
Vendeur : Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Pays-Bas
Edition originale
VII [1 blank], 147 [1 blank] pp.First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication'' (Schwerdt). The treatise is illustrated with lithographs by William Brodrick (1814-1888); they show 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22-24 depict equipment used for falconry. The stones for the first edition were destroyed after publication so the plates for the second edition (London, 1873) had to be redrawn. With bookplate. Some pages and plates reinforced, two plates loose, some spotting, but still in good condition. Binding discoloured and slightly worn.l Nissen, IVB 147; Souhart 419; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Wood p. 541; not in Thiebaud.
Edité par London, John van Voorst, 1855., 1855
Vendeur : Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Autriche
Edition originale
4to (29 x 19.5 cm). VII, (1 blank), 147, (1 blank) pp. With 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick. Publisher's blind- and gold-blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon. First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by F. H. Salvin (1817-1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication'' (Schwerdt). - The treatise is illustrated with lithographs by William Brodrick (1814-1888); they show 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22-24 depict equipment used for falconry. The stones for the first edition were destroyed after publication so the plates for the second edition (London, 1873) had to be redrawn. - With bookplate of Leon Colin Somervell on front paste-down. Some pages and plates reinforced, two plates loose, some spotting, but still in good condition. Binding discoloured and slightly worn. - Nissen, IVB 147. Souhart 419. Schwerdt II, p. 145. Wood p. 541. Not in Thiebaud.
Edité par John Van Voorst. London. 1873., 1873
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1873). (1855) 1873 2nd edition. 4to (200 x 290mm). Ppix,171,ii pp advertisements. 28 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's original dark green pebbled cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board with gilt design of a falconer and cadge withing a gilt border. Slight use, embossed ownership stamp (Brian Bird) to front end-paper and slight rubbing to corners. Internally, inner hinges are tender with some sections partially detached, 2 pages loose. Probably recased in the past. Externally a very handsome copy in the wonderful original gilt-decorated pictorial binding showing a falconer and cadge of falcons. "The best modern book in English on the art and practice of Falconry. The second edition is to be preferred for the emendations and additions to the text, but the illustrations to the first edition are much superior." (Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, 1891). .
Edité par London: John Van Voorst, 1855, 1855
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First edition of Francis Salvin's first work, with attractive illustrations by the falconer William Brodrick, himself the owner of a remarkable collection of working birds. Salvin's (1817-1904) lifetime of devotion to the sport lead his fellow falconer C. H. Fisher to call him "the father of the craft in England" (p. 178). "Salvin's early love of hawking was stimulated by an acquaintance with John Tong, a one-time assistant falconer to Colonel Thomas Thornton. In the manner of Thornton, he made a highly successful hawking tour of northern England in 1843 with John Pells (then in the pension of the hereditary grand falconer of England)" (ODNB). When serving with his regiment in Ireland in 1855, Salvin used to fly peregrine falcons at rooks and tiercels at magpies. William Brodrick (1814-1888) owned "most, if not all, of the hawks and falcons usually employed in modern falconry. Under his care, examples of the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian gerfalcons, sakers, and lanners lived for years, a source of admiration to all who saw them" (Fisher). The stones for Brodrick's plates were destroyed after publication, so they had to be redrawn for the second edition (1873). The plates in the first edition are celebrated as "much superior" (Harting). Harting 67; Nissen, IVB 147; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Souhart 419; Wood, p. 541; not in Thiebaud. C. H. Fisher, Reminiscences of a Falconer, 1901. Quarto (279 x 184 mm). Twentieth-century dark green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for R. D. Steedman, pale green cloth sides, raised bands with gilt dotted roll, second and third compartments lettered in gilt, bird devices to remaining compartments within single fillet panel, spine and corners bordered with gilt rules, grey-green endpapers, top edge gilt. With 2 hand-coloured and tissue-guarded lithograph frontispieces heightened with gum arabic, 22 similar plates, all by Brodrick and printed by Ford & West. A little shelf wear, light soiling to boards, plates generally bright. A very good copy.
Edité par London: John Van Voorst, 1855, 1855
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First edition of Francis Salvin's first work, with attractive illustrations by the falconer William Brodrick, himself the owner of a remarkable collection of working birds. Salvin's (1817-1904) lifetime of devotion to the sport lead his fellow falconer C. H. Fisher to call him "the father of the craft in England" (p. 178). "Salvin's early love of hawking was stimulated by an acquaintance with John Tong, a one-time assistant falconer to Colonel Thomas Thornton. In the manner of Thornton, he made a highly successful hawking tour of northern England in 1843 with John Pells (then in the pension of the hereditary grand falconer of England)" (ODNB). When serving with his regiment in Ireland in 1855, Salvin flew peregrine falcons at rooks and tiercels at magpies. William Brodrick (1814-1888) owned "most, if not all, of the hawks and falcons usually employed in modern falconry. Under his care, examples of the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian gerfalcons, sakers, and lanners lived for years, a source of admiration to all who saw them" (Fisher). The stones for Brodrick's plates were destroyed after publication, so they had to be redrawn for the second edition (1873). The plates in the first edition are celebrated as "much superior" (Harting). Harting 67; Nissen, IVB 147; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Souhart 419; Wood, p. 541; not in Thiebaud. C. H. Fisher, Reminiscences of a Falconer, 1901. Quarto. Original green cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, vignette of stooping Barbary Falcon in gilt on front cover, similar vignette and title in blind on rear board, light yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. With 2 hand-coloured and tissue-guarded lithograph frontispieces heightened with gum arabic, 22 similar plates, all by Brodrick and printed by Ford & West; 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Recent pencilled initials on front free endpaper recto. Cloth sunned, gilt vignette bright, wear to tips, text and plates lightly foxed: a very good copy.
Edité par London John Van Voorst, 1855
Vendeur : Shapero Rare Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
First edition; 4to; 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Brodrick, occasional light spotting; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine, a very good copy; vii, 147pp. 'First edition of the best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication' (Schwerdt). A complete treatise on the art of falconry, with descriptions and illustrations of the various species of hawks used in England in that sport. Salvin and Brodrick were keen north country falconers. Salvin was a military man whose love of hawking is supposed to have been stimulated by his acquaintance with John Tong, assistant falconer to the celebrated sportsman Colonel Thornton. Salvin was also a frequent contributor to the Field. Brodrick learnt hawking on the moor of his uncle, 'the celebrated Selby of Twizzell' (Mullens & Swann). Brodrick drew all he illustrations from life and also contributed to the text. Ayer/Zimmer p. 541; Harting 67; Mullens & Swann 95-96 & 504-505; Schwerdt II, p.145.
Edité par London: John Van Voorst, 1855, 1855
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To John Hancock. Presented by the Authors". Hancock owned the Saker and Norwegian falcons depicted in this striking work, which is considered "the best English book on falconry, and a very attractive publication" (Schwerdt). "Salvin's early love of hawking was stimulated by an acquaintance with John Tong, a one-time assistant falconer to Colonel Thomas Thornton. In the manner of Thornton, he made a highly successful hawking tour of northern England in 1843 with John Pells (then in the pension of the hereditary grand falconer of England)" (ODNB). When serving with his regiment in Ireland in 1855, Salvin used to fly peregrine falcons at rooks and tiercels at magpies. His lifetime of devotion to the sport led his fellow falconer C. H. Fisher to call him "the father of the craft in England". This is Salvin's first book, written in collaboration with William Brodrick (1814-1888), who himself had a remarkable collection of working birds. Brodrick had "most, if not all, of the hawks and falcons usually employed in modern falconry. Under his care, examples of the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian gerfalcons, sakers, and lanners lived for years, a source of admiration to all who saw them" (Fisher). Brodrick's most significant contribution to the book was the "capital illustrations, all drawn by him from the life. The figures of hawks are in their way inimitable, and bear comparison with the best work of his friend and only rival in the same line, the accomplished animal painter Joseph Wolf". The stones for the plates were destroyed after publication, so they had to be redrawn for the second edition (1873). The plates in the first edition are celebrated as "much superior" (Harting). Provenance: the recipient was the British taxidermist and ornithologist John Hancock (1808-1890). He is mentioned numerous times in this work, twice attributed as supplying falcons as models. The Zoologist described him as a friend of Brodrick and noted that, "there is but one man in England, Mr Hancock, who can stuff a hawk properly" (p. 76). One of Hancock's most famous taxidermy pieces is "Struggle with the quarry", an extraordinary tablaeu of a falcon attacking a heron (now on show at the Hancock Museum), exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Hancock was one of the original members of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, founded in 1846, and vice-president of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. This handsome book also has the Bewick bookplate of Dr John Cresswell of Rothbury House, Heaton, near Newcastle, a keen collector of the artist. Harting 67; Mullens and Swann P.504; Nissen, IVB 147; Souhart 419; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Wood p. 541; not in Thiebaud. Charles Hawkins Fisher, Reminiscences of a Falconer, 1901; F. S. Dugmore, "The Revival of Falconry", The Zoologist, vol. 2, 1878, pp. 73-84. Quarto. Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, illustration of stooping Barbary Falcon gilt on front cover and in blind on back cover, light yellow surface-paper endpapers, edges uncut. With 24 hand-coloured lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic, by Brodrick, printed by Ford & West; 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Sometime neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, tips restored, spine and edges sunned with a few marks, cloth mottled and variably faded, repaired marginal tear to plate XII (not affecting image). A very good copy.
Edité par John Van Voorst. London. 1873., 1873
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1873). (1855) 1873 2nd edition. 4to (200 x 290mm). Ppix,171,ii pp advertisements. 28 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's original dark green pebbled cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board with gilt design of a falconer and cadge withing a gilt border. Generally a very good copy. Edges show slight wear & front inner hinge just starting. On the front paste-down is a small original photograph of A.E. Knox holding a 43lb salmon caught on the River Spey in October 1868. Below the photo are Knox's initials. Pasted to the front end-paper is a small envelope addressed to Knox, enclosing a brief note to Knox from Prince Edward Saxe Weimar (9.5.77). Name on half-title - Helen Fletcher, Dale Park, Arundel, & same address on a sticker on upper board. Pencil annotations throughout. A very handsome and interesting copy in the wonderful original gilt-decorated pictorial binding showing a falconer and cadge of falcons. "The best modern book in English on the art and practice of Falconry. The second edition is to be preferred for the emendations and additions to the text, but the illustrations to the first edition are much superior." (Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, 1891). .
Vendeur : Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Pays-Bas
Edition originale
[10], 171, [1] pp.Second edition, revised and enlarged: the best edition of this handsome work. The present copy, with an impeccable provenance, is enriched by the inclusion of 3 fine original watercolours by the eminent William Brodrick (1814-88), falconer, taxidermist, physician and artist, whose works of avian portraiture set the standard of his times.The first edition was published in 1855. The author, Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), was not satisfied with the first edition, so he made improvements and important additions. The resulting second edition must be preferred to the first, and Salvin wanted to leave no doubt that it would be the best modern book on falconry even written in England. It indeed remains even today an essential standard work. To illustrate the second edition new lithographs had to be made from scratch, because the stones that were used to illustrate the first edition were destroyed. The ornithological artist William Brodrick took up the task once more and apparently made some drawings for it that did not make the edition, but his original watercolour drawings are included in the present copy. These are, according to inscriptions by Brodrick himself: a saker (barred variety, 2 year old female); a 5 year old Dutchess falcon belonging to J. Pells; Comet, a 4 year old tierce.With an inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: "Wm. Brodrick, Little Hill, 1873" and a partially erased pencil inscription on the title-page. Occasional spotting, heavier in the endpapers and half-title, but still in very good condition. Spine faded to brown, corners worn, rubbed.l Harting 67; Nissen IVB 147; Schwerdt II, 145.
Edité par London, John van Voorst, 1873., 1873
Vendeur : Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Autriche
4to. (10), 171, (1) pp. William Brodrick's copy with 3 original watercolours by him, heightened with gum arabic. 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates after William Brodrick, some heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt. Second edition, revised and enlarged: the best edition of this handsome work. This copy, with an impeccable provenance, is enriched by the inclusion of three fine original watercolours by the eminent William Brodrick (1814-88), falconer, taxidermist, physician, and artist, whose works of avian portraiture set the standard of their times. - Provenance: "Wm. Brodrick, Little Hill, 1873" (ink inscription to front free endpaper, and a partially erased pencil inscription to title). - Occasional spotting, heavier to endpapers and half-title; spine faded to brown, corners worn, rubbed. - Harting 67. Nissen IVB 147. Schwerdt II, 145.
Edité par Great Britain, 1872
Vendeur : James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Comprised of: 1) a disbound set of the first edition sheets which have been heavily-corrected throughout in manuscript by Salvin, with 9 additional pages of manuscript tipped in (i.e., 1-94, 101-105, 111-147 [without the title, table of contents and a portion of Chapter 8 lacking]), with a manuscript note in the upper margin of the first page: "Revise & Proof returned to Printers Nov. 25th 1872"; 2) a complete unbound set of proof sheets, being reset intermediate(?) sheets between the first and second editions, with a few minor manuscript pencil corrections, and with lithographed proofs of plates I-III and V-XXIV (12 hand colored presumably by Brodrick), and with plate IV from the first edition (Female Peregrine Adult) present an an original watercolor by Brodrick; 3) 3 sets of tall galleys of the 2-page Glossary of Terms from the first edition, each with manuscript corrections by Salvin for the second edition; and 4) folded 8vo sheet with three original watercolors attributed to Salvin of an Elizabethan lady's hawking purse (depicted from both sides) in green velvet with gold embroidery, as well as a wooden case covered in green silk to hold it. 4to. The Author's Revisions for the Second Edition. Falconry in the British Isles by Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), with plates by William Brodrick (1814-1888), is the most important work on the subject produced during the nineteenth century, and an essential standard work. The first edition was published in 1855, and a new edition in 1873. Harting states that this "second edition is to be preferred for the emendations and additions to the text" and describes it as the "best modern book in English on the art and practice of Falconry." Salvin's set of working proofs for the expanded edition includes two sets of sheets of the 1855 first edition (from slightly varying settings of type). The first set is heavily revised and emended, with the insertion of nine full sheets of holograph additions in ink, and a multitude of smaller corrections and additions throughout the text. With title, contents, and index; and with corrected long galleys of the glossary. The first sheet is marked in manuscript: "Revise & Proof / returned to Printers Nov 25th 1872." There are several minor corrections in pencil to the second set of sheets. The stones for the 24 plates to the 1855 edition were destroyed after publication, requiring the complete revision of all images. Present here are an original watercolor by Brodrick of an adult female peregrine and 23 lithographic plates, of which 15 are proofs before letters; eleven are fully or partially hand-colored. THE AUTHOR'S WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THIS LANDMARK IN THE LITERATURE OF FALCONRY. Harting 67; Nissen IVB 147; Souhart 419; Schwerdt II, p. 145 ("the best English book on falconry,"); Wood p. 541 Housed in a chemise and black morocco backed box Comprised of: 1) a disbound set of the first edition sheets which have been heavily-corrected throughout in manuscript by Salvin, with 9 additional pages of manuscript tipped in (i.e., 1-94, 101-105, 111-147 [without the title, table of contents and a portion of Chapter 8 lacking]), with a manuscript note in the upper margin of the first page: "Revise & Proof returned to Printers Nov. 25th 1872"; 2) a complete unbound set of proof sheets, being reset intermediate(?) sheets between the first and second editions, with a few minor manuscript pencil corrections, and with lithographed proofs of plates I-III and V-XXIV (12 hand colored presumably by Brodrick), and with plate IV from the first edition (Female Peregrine Adult) present an an original watercolor by Brodrick; 3) 3 sets of tall galleys of the 2-page Glossary of Terms from the first edition, each with manuscript corrections by Salvin for the second edition; and 4) folded 8vo sheet with three original watercolors attributed to Salvin of an Elizabethan lady's hawking purse (depicted from both sides) in green velvet with gold embroidery, as well as a wooden case covered in green silk to hold it. 4to.