$1,353
Salvin, Francis Henry (b. 1821) and William Brodrick (1814-1888) Falconry in the British Isles . London: John Van Voorst, 1873. Second, expanded edition, large octavo, illustrated with twenty-eight lithographic plates, hand-colored and heightened with gum arabic, in the publisher's pebbled green cloth, front board with large gold-stamped portrait of a man carrying four birds on a cadge, spine lettered in gold, the binding worn, probably rebacked or recased, some damage to the inner margin of the first half of the text, including a persistent tear along the blank gutter margin, repaired, some leaves thrown out slightly further than others, with attendant chipping, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
