1566 - 1710 FALCONRY and HUNTING. BOOKS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, MISCELLANEA etc.
77 1626 Miscellanea Saint Tryphon on horseback with a falcon 
77 1627 Miscellanea Saint Tryphon on horseback with a falcon 
77 1627 Miscellanea Saint Tryphon on horseback with a falcon 
- Left rim of silver cover split.
= Silver hallmarked 84 zolotniki (.875 silver), dated 1864, probably Moscow, maker's mark unidentified.
AND a larger miniature icon with the same saint, hallmarked 84, St. Petersburg, date mark 1890, maker's mark "AC".
77 1628 Miscellanea Lot of 4 lacquer boxes showing falcons 
= I.a. twice with the same scene showing a trained falcon on a stick.
77/1629 Miscellanea Lot of 5 Russian lacquer boxes 
= I.a. 3 boxes from the village of Mstera and one from Palekh.
77 1630 Morais de Fortille C de 
- Wrappers sl. foxed. Fine copy. = Bibliothèque de la Gazette des chasseurs II. Thiébaud 668.
77 1631 Morel P 
= SIGNED on title-p.
Amirsadeghi, H. Sky Hunters. The Passion of Falconry. London, Thames & Hudson, 2008, 318p., lavishly illustrated, orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Fine copy.
AND 2 others, i.a. P. MOREL, l'Art de la Fauconnerie (Chaumont, 2013, richly illustrated, orig. boards, obl. 4to. With SIGNED DEDICATION on title-p.).
77 1632 Nahayan Zaid Bin Al 
- Plasticized. Otherwise very fine.
Osman, S.M. Falconry in the Land of the Sun. The memoirs of an Afghan Falconer.
Ranchester, Western Sporting Publications, 2001, 268p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. (sl. frayed) dustwr.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper.
AND 3 others, i.a. M.C. JENNINGS, The Birds of Saudi Arabia: A check-list (Whittlesford, 1981, ills., orig. wr.).
77 1633 Newton I 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
Cobham, D. and Pearson, B. A Sparrowhawk's Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey Are Faring. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014, 272p., ills., orig. boards w. dustwr. - AND 8 others, i.a. P.A. JOHNSGARD, Hawks, Eagles, & Falcons of North America (Washington/ London, 1990, num. (col.) plates and ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo); D.S. HEINTZELMAN, The Migrations of Hawks (Bloomington/ Indianapolis, 1986, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Bookplate on first free endpaper); H. WALTER, Eleonora's Falcon. Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor (Chicago/ London, 1979, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and J. MAVROGORDATO, A Hawk for the Bush (...) (Saffron Walden, 1985, (full-p.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Bookpate on first free endpaper).
= For the larger part dealing with Kazakh falconry.
AND 20 others, all Russian (language), i.a. V. FLINT and A. SOROKIN, Sokol na perchatke (Moscow, 1999, col. plates, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle); V. FYODOROV and A. MALOV, Sokolinaya okhota (ibid., 2005, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to); I. STARKOV and P. STARIKOV, Pernatye khischniki Buryatii (Ulan-Ude, 1984, ills., orig. wr.) and several small publications on Kazakh traditional falconry.
77 1635 Phebus G 
77 1635 Phebus G 
- Sm. owner's entry on lower pastedown.
= Codices Selecti series, vol. LIII. Facsimile edition of the Manuscrit français 616 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Zotter 426.
77 1636 Phillott D C 
77 1637 Photographs and picture postcards Anonymous early 20th cent 
77 1638 Photographs and picture postcards Michel Eugene late 19th cent 
77 1639 Picard E 
- One plate (printed in red) yellowed/ browned; frontwr. and backwr. browned; bookplate on first free endpaper. Otherwise fine.
= Thiébaud 739: "Devenu rare".
77 1640 Pichot P A 
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. Fine copy.
= An interesting work on the history of falconry and sport birds, dealing with i.a. cockfighting, pigeon shooting, hawk hunts, cormorant fishing, etc. Thiébaud 471.
77 1641 Pitcher E and Velarde R 
- Dustwr. sl. rubbed along extremities and a sm. stain on both wrappers.
= SIGNED by both the author and the artist and w. hooded falcon blindstamp on htitle.
Upton, R. Hood, Leash & Lure. Falconry in the 20th Century. Preface by U. Caproni de Taliedo. Marlborough, the author, 2004, 1st ed., 303,(1)p., num. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on title-p.
= SIGNED by the author and Count Umberto Caproni di Taliedo on the title-p.
77 1642 Prints drawings and paintings Andrieux A L 1879 1945 
= Ticket on verso: "Andrieux (Alfred Louis) 42 rue Scheffer Paris XVI no.4 Chasse au Grand-Duc". From the collection of André & Alexe Dupuy.
77 1643 Prints drawings and paintings Anonymous late 17th cent 
= Not found in the usual reference works. No other copy traced. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
77 1644 Prints drawings and paintings Anonymous 17th/ 18th cent 
= Probably decoys for birds of prey.
77 1645 Prints drawings and paintings Anonymous 18th cent 
= Slightly in the style of Jacob Bogdani. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.