Maidenhead: Thames Valley Press, 1971. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Facsimile. Facsimile of edition first published in 1855, near fine dark green boards with gold lettering to spine, 11.25 x 7.5 inches approx. , very good pictorial coloured dust jacket, front and spine with some fading, a hint of creasing to top edge, not price clipped, beige endpapers, no inscriptions, top edge gilt, vii, 147 pages, two frontispieces, 20 further superb colour plates. The first edition of this book was claimed by Harting in his Bibliotheca Accipitraria as "the best modern book in English on the art and practice of falconry".; Colour plates; 147 pages .

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Title: Falconry in the British Isles
Author: Salvin, Francis Henry & Brodrick, William
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: Facsimile
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Maidenhead: Thames Valley Press, 1971
Date Published: 1971
Keywords: Falconry, Birds Of Prey, Ornithology, Sport

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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