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The 1955 edition of The Art of Falconry published by the Charles T. Brandford Company of Boston is the second English edition of the book translated and edited by Casey A Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe. The book is in Good condition with signs of wear and dirt on the page edges. The dust cover is original, although in poor condition with tears. For International shipments, I will adjust the shipping fees to the actual cost once determined.

1961 Edition of The Art of Falconry published by the Stanford University Press is the third English edition of the book translated and edited by Casey A Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe. The book is in Very Good condition with minor signs of wear and dirt on the page edges. The dust cover is in Very Good condition. For International shipments, I will adjust the shipping fees to the actual cost once determined.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 3rd Edition. Sixe 225mmX290X60mm. De Arte Venandi cum Avibus was written shortly before the year 1250 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, in whose court, with its remarkably cosmopolitan and highly intellectual life, may be found the real beginning of the Italian Renaissance. In spite of its title, it is far more than a dissertation on hunting. There is a lengthy introduction dealing with th anatomy of birds, an intensely description of avian habits, and the excursions of migratory birds. Indeed, this ancient book has long been recognized as the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science. The 1943 edition od this single sumptuous volume now in hand is, however, was the first translation into English of the complete text, originally divided into a prologue of six books.The book is in very nice condition EXCEPT for a small shelf stain on the bottom while the jacket has several small tears.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. cx, 637 pp., colour frontis, half title, title, original green cloth with gilt decoration on spine, double column text, 186 illustrative plates, biblio, glossary in Latin and English, light foxing on end papers, copy in very good condition otherwise, reissued. A definitive work on falconry and ornithology written in the 1240s by Frederick II (1194-1250), Holy Roman Emperor. With extensive introductory material and appendices by the Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist C. A. Wood (1856-1942), who studied animal vision, especially that of birds, and was first published in 1943 by Stanford University Press. This book contains the manuscripts and editions of the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus, as well as six books on the art of falconry. There is evidence to prove that falconry was familiar to the people of China, India, Assyria, Sumeria, and other provinces of Babylon, Egypt, and Persia thousands of years before Rome came into existence.#11314.

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1943) 1961 reprint. Large 4to (220 x 286mm). Ppcx,637. Colour frontispiece, photographs, illustrations. Green cloth, spine profusely decorated and titled in gilt. Stained and used, browning to end-papers and edges, smells slightly musty. Good in browned and frayed dust-wrapper. "De Arte Venandi cum Avibus was written shortly before the year 1250 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, in whose court, with its remarkably cosmopolitan and highly intellectual life, may be found the real beginning of the Italian Renaissance. [This book] is far more than a dissertation on hunting. There is a lengthy introduction dealing with the anatomy of birds, an intensely interesting description of avian habits, and the excursions of migratory birds. .This ancient book has long been recognised as the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science." In addition to a well-informed translation of the original text (415pp), Wood and Fyfe have added much useful new material; a thirty-five page introductory essay; twenty-two pages on manuscripts and previous editions of this book; thirty-eight pages on the castles and hunting lodges of emperor Frederick II by Cresswell Shearer. 214 pages of appended material include articles on methods of capturing falcons, diseases and accidents to hawks, Frederick II's predecessors, birds of the chase and others familiar to the emperor, an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, as well as English-Latin, Latin-English glossary of ancient, medieval and modern falconry. Many photographs and illustrations of all descriptions. .

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

4to. (2), CX, 637, (1) pp. With 2 coloured plates (including a portrait frontispiece) and 184 black and white plates (1 of which not included in pagination). Original full cloth with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Second edition of this important English translation of the famous Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. It was prepared by the Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist C. A. Wood (1856-1942), who studied animal vision, especially that of birds, and was first published in 1943 by Stanford University Press. The plentiful illustrations include a portrait frontispiece of Frederick II, photographs of various decorative manuscript pages from "De arte venandi cum avibus", falconer's equipment, and landmarks associated with the Emperor, including Castel del Monte and his tomb in Palermo, as well as drawings and photographs of various species of falcons and hawks, and a map of southern Italy and Sicily showing the Emperor's castles and hunting lodges. - Giltstamping somewhat faded; edges very slightly foxed. A very good copy of this second edition, never seen at auction. - Oelgart 24B. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, 192. OCLC 459570612.