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Hawking or Faulconry
by Blome, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: The Cresset Press, 1929 xxxii, 123 pp with large folding chart of the breeds of hawk bound in before text. A limited edition reissue of Richard Blome's treatice on hawking published in 1686. Hand numbered 546 of an edition of 650 printed on handmade stock, top edges gilt. A loose illustration, possibly a copy of the original title page, is laid in. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, larked charge is uintact but has a dogear. Tan vellum boards with cream calf spine, gold-stamped titles to spine. Spine darkened. Richard Blome (1635-1705) was an English engraver, cartographer, and publisher.. Edition of 650. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Slender Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 600497
- Title
- Hawking or Faulconry
- Author
- Blome, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Edition of 650
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- Slender Octavo
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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