$431
Falconry, Six Volumes. William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology , Volume IX, Birds of Prey, Edinburgh: Lizars, 1838, small octavo, with thirty-four colored plates, in later cloth; Begt Berg's Den Flygande Draken , Stockholm: Norstedt & Soners, [1931], large quarto, illustrated, in half-calf with paste paper boards and paste downs, 9 3/4 x 7 in. Fauconnerie Catalogue Illustre , produced for the Paris Exposition of 1889, Paris: Cerf, 1890, limited edition, numbered 47, in buckram, with some interior discolorations in the text, 11 x 7 3/4 in. Michell's The Art and Practice of Hawking , London: Methuen, 1900, in publisher's red cloth, blocked in gold, interior foxing, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. Richard Blome's Hawking or Faulconry , London: The Cresset Press, 1929, limited edition copy number 446 of 650, folding frontispiece, illustrated, bound in half vellum, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. [and] Captain C.W.R. Knight's The Book of the Golden Eagle , London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.], inscribed by the author on the half-title, illustrated, green publisher's cloth, stamped in gold, corners bumped, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (6)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31