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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting | Hints on the Management of Hawks, 1898, annotated

Lot Closed

May 13, 01:18 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

Lot Details

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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting


Hints on the management of Hawks… second edition. London: Horace Cox, “The Field” Office, 1898


8vo (222 x 135mm.), illustrations, numerous authorial notes, clippings, photographs and notes loosely inserted or bound in, original cloth gilt, falcon motif gilt on upper cover, upper joint worn


8vo (222 x 135mm.), illustrations, numerous authorial notes, clippings, photographs and notes loosely inserted or bound in, original cloth gilt, falcon motif gilt on upper cover, upper joint worn


THE AUTHOR’S COPY.


LITERATURE:

Swift 245.01


PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, MS notes; Downside Abbey, ink stamp