1566 - 1710 FALCONRY and HUNTING. BOOKS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, MISCELLANEA etc.
77 1606 Latham S 
77 1606 Latham S 
- Occas. trifle foxed in blank margins. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. Fine copy.
= The second part is titled: Latham's New and Second Book of Faulconry. The two works were first published separately in 1614 and 1618. The frontisp. to the first part shows the Haggard falcon surrounded by various falconer's tools; the woodcut vignette on the title-p. of the second work shows a falconer on horseback carrying his falcon on his arm. Harting 20 (note); Souhart p.285 (note) and cf. Schwerdt I, p.302. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
77 1607 Le Masson E 
- Uncut copy with approx. half of the leaves sl. frayed in outer margin. Wrappers chipped/ frayed.
= Thiébaud 578.
AND 4 others, i.a. H. ADELON a.m.o., La chasse moderne. Encyclopédie du chasseur (Paris, n.d. (±1900), 11th ed., ills., scores, modern boards, orig. wr. pres. Bookplate on first free endpaper); J. DE SABRAN-PONTEVÈS, Les Veillées du Gerfault. Epilogue by P. Ternier (Paris, n.d. (±1910), 5th ed., num. plates/ ills., orig. wr. Wrappers sl. foxed/ spotted and w. owner's entry in top margin) and J.C. CHENU (ed.), Les trois regnes de la nature. Lectures d'histoire naturelle. Year 1865, no.55-105 (Paris, 1865, 51 issues in 1 vol., num. woodengr. ills., orig. gilt dec. cl., 4to. Sl. yellowed and sl. foxed; upper hinge split).
77 1608 Leonardi G 
- Both outer corners of frontwr. vaguely folded. Otherwise fine.
Blain, G. Falconry. London, Philip Allan, 1936, 1st ed., 252,(3)p., 8 plates and 14 ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Owner's entry on recto and bookplate on verso of first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Backstrip sunned and whitish stain on frontcover.
= With tipped-in manuscript menu for a falcon lover at the end, with a small drawing of a perched hooded falcon (dated 1941).
AND 10 others in 13 vols., i.a. T.J. CADE a.m.o., Peregrine Falcon Populations. Their management and recovery (Boise, 1988, num. monochr. ills. on plates, maps and diagrams, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Bookplate on upper pastedown. Fine copy); F.L. BEEBE, The Marine Peregrines of the Northwest Pacific Coast (n.pl., (1960), col. plate, orig. wr. Offrprint from The Condor May/ June 1960); R.R. and S. OLELNDORFF, An Extensive Bibliography on Falconry, Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Other Diurnal Birds of Prey (n.pl., 1968, 3 vols., printed in 1000 numb. copies, orig. unif. wr., 4to. All vols. bookplate on verso frontwr.) and R.T. WATSON a.o., Gyrfalcons and Ptarmigan in a Changing World (Boise, 2011, 2 vols., orig. unif. wr.).
77 1609 Lindner K 
= 1. Die Jagd der Vorzeit; 2. Die Jagd im frühen Mittelalter.
AND 4 others, i.a. A. GILLE, Anleitung zum Fangen des Raubzeuges (Liegnitz, Haynauer Raubtierfallen-Fabrik, 1893, 4th enl. ed., ills., contemp. hcl.).
77 1610 Manuscripts Dauvet A F Marquis Desmarets Grand Fauconnier de France 
= Alexis-François marquis Desmarets was the Grand Falconer of France from 1672 till 1688 (his death). This documents states that Charles Huerne "sieur de Lorme" was in service of the Grand Fauconnerie of France with the accompanying rights, exemptions and wages.
77 1611 Manuscripts Ordinance forbidding falconry in Holland and Westfriesland during the hunting season 
= On 17th century laid paper with foolscap watermark. Probably a transcript duplicate of the official ordinance by the "deurwaarder ofte geswooren exploictier van den comptoire des ontvfangers van des graeffelijckheijts Wildernisse". The reason for forbidding the hunting of partridges is the extensive falconry by licensed people and poachers causing a sharp decline of the birds. "(...) Doen te weten alsoo t'seder eenige jaeren herwaerts het hoen ofte partrijs alomme in den Lande van Hollandt ende Westvrieslandt seer is geruijneert door het continuel vliegen soo van de weijluijden daer toe gequalificeert, als door de disordre en de onbehoor[lick] vliegen van de Valckeniers ende andere, sulckx dat geschapen is dat het landt daer van t'eenemael in korten sal wesen gedepopuleert, ten waere daerinne promptelijck wierde voorsien (...)".
77 1612 Martin C 
77 1612 Martin C 
77 1612 Martin C 
- Lacks engr. title-p., map and 2 tables; waterstained throughout; heraldic plate cut short; closed tear in 3 plates (into/ touching image); one plate dam. (hole in image). Vellum stained. Sold w.a.f.
= Attractive plates, the first 7 showing the "forestiers" with their falcons and/ or with their hunting dogs; the remaining 33 plates show the 33 Counts of Flanders, starting with and ending with King Philip II of Spain. Funck, Le livre belge à gravures, p.359f; Simoni M50; De Wind p.250f; Hollstein 1402 (Collaert). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
77 1613 Mavrogordato J 
77 1614 Mavrogordato J 
77 1614 Mavrogordato J 
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. A fine copy.
= SIGNED twice on htitle (1x dated "September 1968" and 1x dated "August 1974". Standard work. The rare first edition.
77 1615 Mavrogordato J 
77 1615 Mavrogordato J 
- A fine copy.
= Standard work, published as a companion volume and sequel to A Hawk for the Bush. The rare first edition.
Idem. A Hawk for the Bush. A Treatise on the Training of the Sparrow-hawk and other Short-winged Hawks. New York, C.N. Potter, n.d. (1973), XVIII,206p., 9 (col.) plates and 12 ills. by G.E. LODGE, 12 plates w. hoods, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. Dustwr. trifle rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
77 1616 Mavrogordato J 
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. A fine copy.
= SIGNED on htitle and dated "August 1974". Standard work, published as a companion volume to Mavrogordato's A Falcon in the Field. The rare first American edition.
77 1617 McElroy H 
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. = SIGNED on first free endpaper
77 1618 Meredith R L 
- Very fine copy.
= One of 125 numb. copies printed in the Patron's Edition. Published as vol.I of the Heritage Publications Series.
77 1619 Michell E B 
- Bookplate of Charles Edward Walker on upper pastedown; first few leaves sl. foxed. Backstrip trifle rubbed.
= Schwerdt IV, p.66.
77 1620 Miscellanea A falconer holding a rack full of hooded hawks 
77 1620 Miscellanea A falconer holding a rack full of hooded hawks 
77 1620 Miscellanea A falconer holding a rack full of hooded hawks 
= Intricate and delecate carving.
77 1621 Miscellanea Falconer on horseback 
77 1622 Miscellanea Inro 
77 1622 Miscellanea Inro 
77 1622 Miscellanea Inro 
77 1623 Miscellanea A lady falconer 
- Wormholed on verso.
= Probably a panel placed in a cabinet or chest. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
77 1624 Miscellanea Leather cigar ? case w mounted bronze plaque showing a falconry hunt party resting 
77 1625 Miscellanea Rien sans pennes Button w mounted falcon 
= From the attire of a French falconer, a monsieur Charmerlot (from Allier).