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multiple works in one vol. [Falconry hunting; A book of 12 Faces of Falcons; Sizes of Falcons; Medicine of Falcons, etc.], hand-copied, circa eighteenth-century. Oblong 12mo, decorative paper wraps. Illustrated with 12 hand-colored woodcuts of species of hawks, seven anatomical woodcuts, and two of implements. Together with [Medicine on falcons], n.d., possibly Yoshida school, 2 vols., illustrated with three hand-colored woodcuts of falcons; and two other hand-copied works pertaining to falcon husbandry without woodcuts, comprising [Secret Book on Raising Falcons and Medicine], n.d., and [Illness of Falcons], n.d. (5)


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