LATHAM (SIMON) Falconry: or, the Faulcon's Lure, and Cure, 2 parts in one, 1633
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LATHAM (SIMON)
Falconry: or, the Faulcon's Lure, and Cure, 2 parts in one vol., large woodcut vignette on the first title, woodcut illustrations in the text, additional engraved plate bound in before titles, without initial blank to second part, some headlines shaved, title to second part soiled, blindstamp on title and final leaf, shelfmark on verso of title, bookplates of Matthew Wilson, Frances Mary Richardson Currer, and John Climenson, later calf, covers detached, lacks spine [STC 15268.7; Schwerdt I, p.302], small 4to, Thomas Harper, for John Harison, 1633
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  • "One of the principal books on hawking in the English language" (Schwerdt). Harting considered this second edition to be "quite as good as the first [of 1615], of which it is a reprint without alteration".

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