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Les fortifications ... contenans la maniere de fortifier toutes sorte de places ...Lyon, Philippe Borde, 1640 (engraved title-page 1641). With an engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 53 numbered engravings (10 double-page. Later 17th-century gold-tooled calf, each board with the French royal arms, gold-tooled spine. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.
Les fortifications ... contenans la maniere de fortifier toutes sorte de places ...Lyon, Philippe Borde, 1640 (engraved title-page 1641). With an engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 53 numbered engravings (10 double-page. Later 17th-century gold-tooled calf, each board with the French royal arms, gold-tooled spine. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.
VILLE, Antoine de. · 1596
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
Engraved title + [10], 441, [1 blank], [12] pp. plus 9 engravings not counted in the pagination.Second Lyons edition of the most comprehensive and most important French fortification manual before Vauban, especially noteworthy for the 53 engravings (plus the engraved title-pag...
Delle fortificationi ... libri cinque.Venice, Antonio Rampazetto, 1597 (colophon: 1596). Large folio (34.5 x 25 cm). With a large engraved device on the title-page, woodcut printer's device above the colophon, an engraved plate with a portrait of the author (often lacking), and more than 150 diagrams and woodcut illustrations on the integral leaves, many full-page or double-page. Modern vellum in 17th-century style.
Delle fortificationi ... libri cinque.Venice, Antonio Rampazetto, 1597 (colophon: 1596). Large folio (34.5 x 25 cm). With a large engraved device on the title-page, woodcut printer's device above the colophon, an engraved plate with a portrait of the author (often lacking), and more than 150 diagrams and woodcut illustrations on the integral leaves, many full-page or double-page. Modern vellum in 17th-century style.
LORINI, Buonaiuto. · 1597
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[12], “219” [= 217], [1], [2 blank] pp.First edition, one of the 1597 issues (with a rare dedication), of the pioneering "first systematic course of instruction in all aspects of military architecture, and the first work to give measured [fortification] plans in its illustrati...
L'architecture militaire moderne, ou fortification.Including: ... la partie qui concerne l'attaque & la deffance.Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. Folio. With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, 68 (of 70) double-page engraved plates: 28 (of 29) instructional plates A-Ff , showing plans, elevations, sections and equipment, and 40 (of 41) unnumbered fortification plans of numerous cities. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges.
L'architecture militaire moderne, ou fortification.Including: ... la partie qui concerne l'attaque & la deffance.Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1648. Folio. With an integral engraved, illustrated general title-page, 68 (of 70) double-page engraved plates: 28 (of 29) instructional plates A-Ff , showing plans, elevations, sections and equipment, and 40 (of 41) unnumbered fortification plans of numerous cities. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges.
DÖGEN, Matthias. · 1605
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[8], 547[=543], [1 blank], [20] pp.First edition of the French translation of an extensive, influential and extremely well-illustrated treatise on fortification, by the Brandenburg fortifications engineer Matthias Dögen (1605/06-1672) who worked in service of the Dutch stadhol...
De theorie van de vesting-bouw, vertoont in de drie versterkings manieren van den heer Vauban. ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, Gerrit Tresling, 1765. 8vo. With 29 numbered folding plates (I-XXIX) and 2 folding letterpress tables (A & B). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
De theorie van de vesting-bouw, vertoont in de drie versterkings manieren van den heer Vauban. ...Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, Gerrit Tresling, 1765. 8vo. With 29 numbered folding plates (I-XXIX) and 2 folding letterpress tables (A & B). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
SIDERIUS, Mattheus. · 1633
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[16], 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. plus plates and tables.First edition, in the original Dutch, of a revised and modernized introduction to the methods and principles of fortification established by the greatest French exponent of the art, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707)...
Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf.
Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf.
BEHR, Johann Heinrich. · 1677
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[3], [1 blank], [20], 616 pp.Rare second edition, complete with all the preliminaries and engravings, of a detailed practical handbook of fortification design. This second edition, revised and improved by the author, emphasizes the new advances in fortification introduced in t...
Vertheidigung der Festungen im Gleichgewichte mit dem Angriffe derselben. ... Mit 14 Planen.München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin.
Vertheidigung der Festungen im Gleichgewichte mit dem Angriffe derselben. ... Mit 14 Planen.München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin.
VIRGIN, Johan Bernhard and Joseph von XYLANDER (translator).
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
XXIV, 416 pp.First and only edition of the German translation of a work on attacking and defending fortresses, by the Swedish major general Johan Bernhard Virgin. The work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the faults in the existing forts, particularly in Swede...
Mémoires sur la fortification, ou examen raisonné... avec atlas.Paris, Anselin (back of half-title: printed by A. Henry), 1827. 2 volumes (8vo text and 4to atlas). With 3 very large folding lithographed plates (ca. 54.5 x 77 cm) in atlas volume. Contemporary marbled half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Mémoires sur la fortification, ou examen raisonné... avec atlas.Paris, Anselin (back of half-title: printed by A. Henry), 1827. 2 volumes (8vo text and 4to atlas). With 3 very large folding lithographed plates (ca. 54.5 x 77 cm) in atlas volume. Contemporary marbled half calf, gold-tooled spine.
CHOUMARA, Pierre-Marie Théodore. · 1787
€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)
[6], 354, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a work on fortification by the French military engineer Pierre-Marie Théodore Choumara (1787-1870). It examines the characteristics and shortcomings of various French forts, giving suggestions for improvement at low cost. "That whic...
Maniere de fortifier de Mr. De Vauban. ... Avec un traité de geometrie ...Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1689. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and 30 numbered engraved plates (A-X & 1-8). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
Maniere de fortifier de Mr. De Vauban. ... Avec un traité de geometrie ...Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1689. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and 30 numbered engraved plates (A-X & 1-8). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
CAMBRAY, Chevalier de. · 1681
€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)
[6], 65, [7]; 99, [5] pp.Second edition of a work on fortification by Chevalier de Cambray, first published in 1681 at Paris. It is divided into two parts, starting with a treatise on geometry. It explains all the different geometric shapes, both two and three dimensional, how...
Nouvelle fortification, tant pour un terrain bas et humide, que sec et élevé, representée en trois maniéres sur le contenu intérieur de l 'exagone a la Françoise, ...Wesel, Jacob von Wesel [printed by Johann Kattepoel or his heirs, or possibly by a printer in the Netherlands], 1706. 8vo. With 14 (of 15) engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum.
Nouvelle fortification, tant pour un terrain bas et humide, que sec et élevé, representée en trois maniéres sur le contenu intérieur de l 'exagone a la Françoise, ...Wesel, Jacob von Wesel [printed by Johann Kattepoel or his heirs, or possibly by a printer in the Netherlands], 1706. 8vo. With 14 (of 15) engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum.
COEHOORN, Menno van. · 1648
€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)
[38], 261, [1] pp. plus plates.Second French edition of one of the greatest classics of the art of fortification, in the same year as the first French edition but with an additional plate, by the Master General of the artillery Menno van Coehoorn. The new plate added for the p...
De Engelsche marsch; versien met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers, en brillen. Vertonende den tegenwoordigen staat van alle Koninkrijken en landen van Europa. Met een korte verbeeldinge van de afkomste, het leven en de daden van Pater Peters; en een dispuit tusschen hem en een Engelsch Protestant.Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.With: (2) Twede deel van de Engelsche marsch, version met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers en brillen... en een cathalogus van eenige koddige boekken die hy voor den Prins van Wallis heeft gekogt. Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.(3) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesichten, op de mode geslepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(4) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesigten. Op de mode gesleepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen. Twede deel.[Amsterdam?], 1688.(5) De wonderlycke verrekyker siende in alle hoecken van de Europise werelt. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(6) De geest van Carel de V. verschenen aen Volkert, t'samenspraak houdende over de affaire van den tijd. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(7) De Franse quacksalver, of de boere klap beurs. Versien met veelderley koopluyden, of liefhebbers van alle nieuwe tydingen. Groningen, Tjerk Velsen, 1689. 7 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin).
De Engelsche marsch; versien met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers, en brillen. Vertonende den tegenwoordigen staat van alle Koninkrijken en landen van Europa. Met een korte verbeeldinge van de afkomste, het leven en de daden van Pater Peters; en een dispuit tusschen hem en een Engelsch Protestant.Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.With: (2) Twede deel van de Engelsche marsch, version met allerlei soorten van nieuwe onvergelijkelijke verrekykers en brillen... en een cathalogus van eenige koddige boekken die hy voor den Prins van Wallis heeft gekogt. Amsterdam, Cornelis Maertense, 1689.(3) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesichten, op de mode geslepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(4) Nieuwe geinventeerde brillen, voor alderhande gesigten. Op de mode gesleepen, op verscheyde slypsteenen. Twede deel.[Amsterdam?], 1688.(5) De wonderlycke verrekyker siende in alle hoecken van de Europise werelt. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(6) De geest van Carel de V. verschenen aen Volkert, t'samenspraak houdende over de affaire van den tijd. [Amsterdam?], 1688.(7) De Franse quacksalver, of de boere klap beurs. Versien met veelderley koopluyden, of liefhebbers van alle nieuwe tydingen. Groningen, Tjerk Velsen, 1689. 7 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin).
[GLORIOUS REVOLUTION]. · 1677
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
39, [1 blank]; 32; 24; 24; 24; 40; 38, [2 blank] p.Collection of seven pamphlets on current affairs, most importantly the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years' War against France. The first five pamphlets contain (satirical) dialogues on current politics as seen through magi...
Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ...Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume.
Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ...Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume.
HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. · 1515
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
Frontispiece plus [8], XXXII, [2], 115, [2], [1 blank] pp.; 48 ll.First printing in any language of three important manuscripts on falcons and falconry: a 12th-century Turkish treatise on falconry by Mahmud Ibn Mehmed al-Bargini, "Baz nama" [= Falcon book] (in the original Tur...
[Views, scenes, monuments, airplanes, military vehicles, British troops and local inhabitants].[Iraq (plus Malta and Egypt), ca. 1928-1933]. Oblong albums (25 x 34.5 cm & 21.5 x 28.5 cm). Two albums containing about 275 silver halide photographic gelatin prints (6 x 8.5 cm to 16 x 21.5 cm) assembled and mostly taken by a British Royal Air Force pilot while stationed in Iraq and then briefly Malta, with a visit to Egypt. The photos mounted with paper corner-mounts in two contemporary cloth-covered albums, the larger with padded boards covered in alligator-skin patterned dark green cloth, with the photographs on both sides of 24 dark grey album leaves, each leaf with a glassine paper guard-leaf (embossed with a spider-web pattern) bound in before it; the smaller covered in black cloth with a grey-white bird in a cloud painted on the front board and the word “snaps”, with the photographs on both sides of leaves 2-35 & 51-52 of 54 light brown album leaves.
[Views, scenes, monuments, airplanes, military vehicles, British troops and local inhabitants].[Iraq (plus Malta and Egypt), ca. 1928-1933]. Oblong albums (25 x 34.5 cm & 21.5 x 28.5 cm). Two albums containing about 275 silver halide photographic gelatin prints (6 x 8.5 cm to 16 x 21.5 cm) assembled and mostly taken by a British Royal Air Force pilot while stationed in Iraq and then briefly Malta, with a visit to Egypt. The photos mounted with paper corner-mounts in two contemporary cloth-covered albums, the larger with padded boards covered in alligator-skin patterned dark green cloth, with the photographs on both sides of 24 dark grey album leaves, each leaf with a glassine paper guard-leaf (embossed with a spider-web pattern) bound in before it; the smaller covered in black cloth with a grey-white bird in a cloud painted on the front board and the word “snaps”, with the photographs on both sides of leaves 2-35 & 51-52 of 54 light brown album leaves.
[PHOTOGRAPHS - IRAQ]. REYNISH, William. · 1928
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
A collection of about 275 photographs made by an RAF pilot, Sergeant William Reynish, during his service in Iraq ca. 1928-1933 and Malta 1933, and during a brief visit to Egypt. Most have captions written on the album leaves clearly identifying the scenes. Some photos show sce...
[Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts on the Islamic world].[Paris (1 Leipzig), 1831-1859]. 11 items in 1 volume. 8vo. With many passages in Arabic. Contemporary half vellum.
[Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts on the Islamic world].[Paris (1 Leipzig), 1831-1859]. 11 items in 1 volume. 8vo. With many passages in Arabic. Contemporary half vellum.
DEFRÉMERY, Charles and others. · 1782
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts of articles concerning the history of the Islamic world, all by notable orientalists, covering diverse topics such as the architecture of the Arabs and Moors, the astronomy of the Chaldeans, the Hindustani language, the Persian ch...
Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit ... Utrecht, François Halma, Willem vande Water, 1697. 8vo. With the main text in Arabic with a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages. Contemporary vellum.
Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit ... Utrecht, François Halma, Willem vande Water, 1697. 8vo. With the main text in Arabic with a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages. Contemporary vellum.
SIKE (SIECKE), Heinrich (editor).
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[22], 161, [7], 93, [1], [2 blank] pp.First edition of the apocryphal Arabic Infancy Gospel, with the Arabic text on the versos and the Latin translation on the facing rectos. Sike, a noted orientalist from Bremen, based his edition on a manuscript that was formerly owned by J...
[Drop-title:] He Inoinga ma te tangate e wakaaro atu ana ki te Iriiringa.[Heretaunga, William Colenso, ca. 1847]. Leaflet (17.2 x 11 cm).
[Drop-title:] He Inoinga ma te tangate e wakaaro atu ana ki te Iriiringa.[Heretaunga, William Colenso, ca. 1847]. Leaflet (17.2 x 11 cm).
[COLENSO, William]. · 1811
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
[1], [1 blank] pp.A leaflet containing a prayer for adults seeking baptism and a list of recommended Bible passages. The prayer was written and printed by the missionary and botanist William Colenso (1811-1899), and contains a number of typographical curiosities. For example, ...
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Dat is: het reysboek der Heyligher Schrift.Including: BÜNTING, Heinrich. Een besonder tractaet ende onderwijsinghe van de munte ende ghewichtre der Heyligher Schrifturen... [BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Dat is: een reysboeck, over het Nieuwe Testament. Het tweede deel...BÜNTING, Heinrich. Harmonia evangelistarum, dat is: eene seer schoone ende eendrachtige over-een-stemminge der heyliger vier evangelisten...Amsterdam, Hendrik Laurentsz., 1635. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 5 woodcut and 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary vellum, modern endpapers.
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Dat is: het reysboek der Heyligher Schrift.Including: BÜNTING, Heinrich. Een besonder tractaet ende onderwijsinghe van de munte ende ghewichtre der Heyligher Schrifturen... [BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Dat is: een reysboeck, over het Nieuwe Testament. Het tweede deel...BÜNTING, Heinrich. Harmonia evangelistarum, dat is: eene seer schoone ende eendrachtige over-een-stemminge der heyliger vier evangelisten...Amsterdam, Hendrik Laurentsz., 1635. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 5 woodcut and 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary vellum, modern endpapers.
BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT. · 1545
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[16], 355, [9]; [2], 36; [4], 163, [3]; 24 pp.Rare eighth(?) edition of the Dutch translation of a work on Biblical travels, written by the German Protestant pastor and theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606), first published in German in 1581 and translated by Matthias Hasaer...
Araneae Hungariae secundum collectiones a Leone Becker pro parte perscrutatas ... Tomus I. [, II-di pars prior., II-di parts posterior.].Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1891-1897. 2 volumes (vol. II in 2 parts) bound as 1. Royal 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). With 16 lithographed containing about 700 detail figures, nearly all combining line images and shading, and many in vol. I in duotone (grey and blue). Near contemporary green half cloth.
Araneae Hungariae secundum collectiones a Leone Becker pro parte perscrutatas ... Tomus I. [, II-di pars prior., II-di parts posterior.].Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1891-1897. 2 volumes (vol. II in 2 parts) bound as 1. Royal 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). With 16 lithographed containing about 700 detail figures, nearly all combining line images and shading, and many in vol. I in duotone (grey and blue). Near contemporary green half cloth.
CHYZER, Cornelius and Wladyslaw KULCZYNSKI. · 1836
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[4], 168, [4]; [4], 151, [1]; [4], 147-366 pp.Rare first and only edition, in Latin (with the preface to each part also in Hungarian/Magyar), of an extensive and thorough study of Hungarian spiders, with about 700 figures illustrating details of spider anatomy (mostly showing ...
De re medica huic volumini insunt...[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars.
De re medica huic volumini insunt...[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars.
[TORINUS, Albanus (editor)]. · 1489
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
[12], 125, [1] ll.First edition of a collection of four medical works, compiled by the Swiss physician Albanus Torinus (1489-1550). The main part of the work consists of De re medica, also known as Medicina Pliniana, a very popular medical text during the Middle Ages. Compiled...
Ko te Kawenata Hou a to tatou Ariki a te Kai Whakaora a Ihu Karaiti. He mea whakamaori mai no te Reo Kariki.London, printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1894. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth.
Ko te Kawenata Hou a to tatou Ariki a te Kai Whakaora a Ihu Karaiti. He mea whakamaori mai no te Reo Kariki.London, printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1894. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth.
[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - MAORI]. · 1887
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
250, [2 blank] pp.Eighth edition of the New Testament in Maori and a slightly corrected edition of the controversial revision of 1887. The first serious edition of the New Testament in Maori translation, had appeared in 1837. Subsequent editions followed until a large revision...
Traité de fauconnerie et d'autourserie suivi d'une étude sur la pêche au cormoran. Évreux, Charles Hérissey, 1903. Large 8vo (28.5 x 21.5 cm). With 35 plates and numerous illustrations in text. Modern red half sheepskin, with the original publisher's printed wrappers bound in.
Traité de fauconnerie et d'autourserie suivi d'une étude sur la pêche au cormoran. Évreux, Charles Hérissey, 1903. Large 8vo (28.5 x 21.5 cm). With 35 plates and numerous illustrations in text. Modern red half sheepskin, with the original publisher's printed wrappers bound in.
BELVALLETTE, Alfred.
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
12], 269, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a work on falconry, followed by a short treatise on cormorant fishing by Alfred Belvallette, "well known in France as a skilful falconer, and he writes with a thorough knowledge of his subject… French falcon...