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Lot 563

SCHLEGEL (HERMAN) and ABRAHAM HENRIK VERSTER VAN WULVERHOLST
Traité de fauconnerie

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SCHLEGEL (HERMAN) and ABRAHAM HENRIK VERSTER VAN WULVERHOLST

Traité de fauconnerie, first edition, tinted lithographed title with 11 vignettes illustrative of hawking by J.B. Sonderland in the border, 2 lithographed hawking scenes by J. Dillmann after Sonderland, 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falconry equipment by Portman and von Wouw, 12 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates of falcons by Wendel after Joseph Wolf, early red half morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed [Nissen IVB 832; Schwerdt II, p.150; Harting 194], folio (695 x 515mm.), [Leiden and Düsseldorf, Arnz and Comp, 1844-1853]

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A FINE COPY OF "THE FINEST WORK ON FALCONRY WHICH HAS EVER BEEN PRODUCED" (Harting). "First and only edition of a superb work...the life size illustrations of birds are by far the finest ever produced in any book on falconry" (Schwerdt).

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