$923
Falconry, Four Facsimiles of Early Books. Dame Juliana Berners's The Boke of Saint Albans , London: Eliot Stock, 1881, large quarto, untrimmed, bound in full blind-stamped vellum over board, gold tooling to spine, some offsetting to endleaves, spine darkened, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. J.E. Harting's A Perfect Booke for Kepinge of Sparhawkes or Goshawkes , London: Quaritch, 1886, quarto, limited edition, copy number 41 of 100, in newer half-morocco, 8 x 6 1/2 in. Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking , London: Quaritch, 1891, quarto, limited to 100 copies, signed by the printer on the limitation page, in half red morocco, worn, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. [and] Pierre de Gommer, Seigneur de Lusancy's, L'Autoursserie et de ce qui Appartient au Vol des Oiseaux , Paris: Aubry, 1878, octavo, edited by Henri Chevreul, a facsimile copy of the 1594 edition, in publisher's limp paper wrappers and glassine dust jacket, 8 x 5 in. (4)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
