THE FALCONRY & HAWKING
COLLECTION
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A wonderful and truly
unique collection of over 100 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the
first time on DVD DATA DISC covering all aspects of FALCONRY, HAWKING &
BIRDS OF PREY.
The ancient pursuit of
hunting wild animals in their natural habitat using birds of prey is a pastime
that is enjoyed the world over. Thought to have originated at around 2000 BC in
Mesopotamia, falconry has often been regarded
as the sport of kings and nobility. This is a real treasure trove of books,
some of which are extremely rare, providing a valuable research library for
anyone with an interest in this fascinating subject. Also included are books on
coursing, the pursuit of wild animals using hunting dogs. The full list of
titles speaks for itself….
This superb compilation of 110 vintage books on DVD
data disc provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous
photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in
high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop
or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can
also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in
English with several additional texts in other languages (see list below for
details).
This is
without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of
Titles is as Follows:
A descriptive catalogue of the
raptorial birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum - J. H. Gurney (1864)
A dictionary of sports; or,
Companion to the field, the forest, and the riverside Vol. 1 - H. Harewood
(1835)
A dictionary of sports; or,
Companion to the field, the forest, and the riverside Vol. 2 - H. Harewood
(1835)
A Hawking Expedition - F. C.
Clarke (1901) (article)
A history of British birds (Vol.
3 - Reptatores, creepers; Scansores, climbers; Cuculina; Raptores, plunderers,
or rapacious birds) - W. Macgillivray (1837)
A list of the diurnal birds of
prey, with references and annotations - J. H. Gurney (1884)
A sketch of the collection of
raptorial birds in the Norwich
museum - J. H. Gurney (1872)
A synopsis of the Accipitres
(diurnal birds of prey) comprising species and subspecies described up to 1920,
with their characters and distribution - H. K. Swann (1921)
A synoptical list of the
Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) - comprising species and subspecies, with
their characters and distribution Vol. 1 - H. K. Swann (1919)
A synoptical list of the
Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) - comprising species and subspecies, with
their characters and distribution Vol. 2 - H. K. Swann (1919)
A synoptical list of the
Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) - comprising species and subspecies, with
their characters and distribution Vol. 3 - H. K. Swann (1919)
A synoptical list of the
Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) - comprising species and subspecies, with
their characters and distribution Vol. 4 - H. K. Swann (1919)
A treatise of modern faulconry -
J. Campbell (1773)
A year of sport and natural
history - shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing by O. Crawfurd
(1895)
Arrian on coursing by W. Dansey
(1831 Ed)
Arte da caça de altaneria by D.
Fernandes Ferriera (1899)
Aves de rapiña y su caza - Duque
de Medinaceli (1918) (Spanish text)
Bert's Treatise of Hawks and
Hawking - E. Bert (1891)
Bibliotheca accipitraria; a
catalogue of books ancient and modern relating to falconry, with notes,
glossary and vocabulary by J. E. Harting (1891)
Bird guide - water birds, game
birds and birds of prey - C. A. Reed (1916)
Bird life in England - E. Arnold
(1887)
Birds and man - W. H. Hudson
(1915)
Birds that hunt and are hunted -
N. Blanchan (1905)
British field sports - embracing
practical instructions in shooting, hunting, coursing, racing, cocking, fishing
by J. Lawrence (1820)
British rural sports - comprising
shooting, hunting, coursing, fishing, hawking, etc. - J. Walsh (1886)
British sports - for the
amusement of children - W. Belch (1820)
Catalogue of the birds of prey
(Accipitres and Striges), with the number of specimens in Norwich museum - J. H. Gurney (1894)
Certain miscellany tracts - T.
Browne (1684)
Coursing and falconry - H. Cox
(1892)
Coursing and falconry (revised
ed.) - H. Cox (1899)
Descriptions of the rapacious
birds of Great Britain
- W. Macgillivray (1836)
Die europäischen Tag-Raubvögel
- H. Schlegel (1845) (German text)
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und
des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas Vol. 1 - O. Von Reisenthal (1876) (German text)
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und
des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas Vol. 2 - O. Von Reisenthal (1876) (German text)
El libro de las aves de caça by
P. L. de Ayala (1869)
El libro dela caza by D. J.
Manuel (1880)
Falconry - its claims, history,
and practice - G. E. Freeman (1859)
Falconry - W. Wood (1870)
(article)
Falconry by E. D. Radcliffe
(1890)
Falconry in the valley of the
indus - R. F. Burton (1852)
Falconry, the sport of kings by
L. A. Fuertes (1920)
Food habits of common hawks - W.
L. McAtee (1921)
Frank Forester's field sports of
the United States, and British provinces, of North America
Vol. 1 - H. W. Herbert (1874)
Frank Forester's field sports of
the United States, and British provinces, of North America
Vol. 2 - H. W. Herbert (1874)
Friends and foes of wild life. A
discussion of certain predacious birds and animals from the standpoint of the
sportsman, trapper and farmer - C. G. Abbott (1919)
Game birds and birds of prey,
life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey - N. Blanchan (1898)
Hawks and Hawking (1853)
(article)
Hawks and Owls from the
Standpoint of the Farmer - A. K. Fisher (1895)
Heinrich Mynsinger von den
falken, pferden und hunden - M. Albertus (1863)
Horses, guns and dogs - J. O.
Paget (1903)
Hunting dogs by O. Hartley
(c1909)
Il Manuale del moderno Falconiere - G. E. Chiorino
(1906) (Italian text)
Illustrated bird dictionary and
note book - Water birds, game birds and birds of prey - C. A. Reed (1912)
La conférence des fauconniers de
Charles d'Arcussia, réimprimée sur l'édition de 1644 - E.
Jullien (1883) (French text)
La fauconnerie, ancienne et
moderne - J. C. Chenu (1862) (French text)
Le livre de l'art de faulconnerie
et des chiens de chasse (Vol. 1) by G. Tardif (1882) (French text)
Le livre de l'art de faulconnerie
et des chiens de chasse (Vol. 2) by G. Tardif (1882) (French text)
Le livre du roi Dancus, suivi
d'un traité de fauconnerie - Albertus (1883) (French text)
Lord Lilford on birds, With
contributed papers upon falconry and otter hunting - T. Lilford (1903)
Manitoba birds of prey and the small
mammals destroyed by them - G. E. Atkinson (1899)
Manual of British rural sports -
comprising shooting, hunting, coursing, fishing, hawking, etc. - J. Walsh
(1861)
Observations upon hawking - J.
Sebright (1826)
On some new or little-known
species of accipitres in the collection of the Norwich Museum
- S. P. Sclater (1858)
Our birds of prey; or The eagles,
hawks, and owls of Canada.
With 30 photographic illus - H. G. Vennor (1876)
Practical falconry, to which is
added, How I became a falconer by G. E. Freeman (1869)
Rapacious birds of Ohio - J. Kirkpatrick
(1859)
Raptors - C. Ferguson (1908) (article)
Reliqua librorum Friderici II.
imperatoris, De arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi regis additionibus, ex
membranis vetustis nunc primùm edita (1596)
Reliqua librorum Friderici II.
imperatoris, De arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi regis additionibus, ex
membranis vetustis nunc primùm edita (1601)
Reminiscences of an old sportsman
(Vol. 1) by J. P. Hamilton (1860)
Reminiscences of an old sportsman
(Vol. 2) by J. P. Hamilton (1860)
Rural sports Vol. 1 by W. B.
Daniel (1801)
Rural sports Vol. 2 by W. B.
Daniel (1801)
Saddle and sirloin by H. H. Dixon
(1870)
Shooting - a manual of practical
information on this branch of British field sports - R. Blakey (1859)
Some common game, aquatic and
rapacious birds in relation to man - W. L. McAtee (1921)
Songs of the chace - containing
an extensive collection relative to the sports of the field, including the
several subjects of hunting, shooting, racing, coursing, angling, hawking, etc.
(1811)
Syanika satra or a book on
hawking by R. Rudradeva (1910)
The American hunting dog; modern
strains of bird dogs and hounds, and their field training - W. H. Miller (1921)
The Ancient Sport of Falconry
(1915) (article)
The art and practice of hawking
by E. B. Michell (1900)
The Badminton Library of Sports
and Pastimes - H. S. Beaufort (1892)
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian
treatise on falconry - Husam al-Dawlah Timur Mirza (English Translation)(1908)
The book of Saint Albans - A
treatise on Hawking, Hunting and Cote D'Amour
by J. Berners (1881)
The booke of falconrie or
hawking, for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen - G.
Turberville (1611)
The common hawks and owls of California from the
standpoint of the rancher - J. S. Dixon (1922)
The dog in health and disease -
Comprising the various modes of breaking and using him for hunting, coursing,
shooting, etc. - J. H. Walsh (1879)
The Driffield angler, To which
are added, instructions for shooting; with rules for the breeding, breaking,
and management of pointers and spaniels - A. Mackintosh (1806)
The gentleman's recreation - in
four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing by N. Cox (1686)
The hare National history by H.
A. Macpherson (1896)
The hawks and owls of Ontario - L. L. Snyder
(1921)
The hawks and owls of the United States
in their relation to agriculture - A. K. Fisher (1893)
The hawks of the Canadian prairie
provinces in their relation to agriculture - P. A. Taverner (1918)
The ornithology of Francis
Willughby of Middleton in the county
of Warwick by F.
Willughby (1678)
The raptorial birds of Iowa - B. H. Bailey
(1918)
The shooter's companion - T. B.
Johnson (1823)
The shooter's guide or, Complete sportsman's companion by T. B.
Johnson (1826)
The shooter's guide; or, Complete
sportsman's companion - T. B. Johnson (1814)
The South African birds of prey,
their economic relations to man - A. K. Haagner (1908)
The sporting dog by J. A. Graham
(1904)
The sports and pastimes of the
people of England.
From the earliest period - J. Strutt (1903)
The sportsman's British bird book
- R. Lydekker (1908)
The sportsman's cyclopaedia -
comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting,
shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting - T. B. Johnson
(1848)
The sportsman's library - J.
Mills (1845)
Traité de fauconnerie (Vol.
Plates) by E. Schlegel (1844)
Traité de fauconnerie (Vol.
Text) by E. Schlegel (1844)
With hound and terrier in the
field - hunting reminiscences by A. F. Serrell (1904)
An
absolute must for anyone with an interest in falconry, hawking, birds of prey
and hunting with dogs – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a
very small price!
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