American Hawking A General Account of Falconry in the New World by Peeters, Hans J. ; E. W. Jameson Jr - 1970

Davis, California. Near Fine. 1970. First Edition. Beautiful fine press book wonderfully illustrated by Hans Peeters. Illustrations include full color plates, black and white plates, monochrome illustrations in the text, and black and white illustrations in the text. Foreword by Alva G. Nye, Jr. This book is designed to be of immense help to the serious American beginner while scaring off dilletants and those only casually interested in hawking. While based in traditional Old World classical practices, the authors note that American Hawking has evolved and adapted its own unique features and style, some based on new technology, others based on the differences between Old and New World species. Book comes with publisher's card noting that, in the tradition of many fine editions, this book was published with "uncut" leaves and asks the owner to carefully slit open the pages with an ordinary table knife. A previous owner did just that, and did it well. All paged opened with no damage. Bound in publisher's tan cloth covered boards with gold cover design and spine titles. Gold decoration and spine titles clean and bright. No previous owner marks. Text and all illustrations clean and bright. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. Book now protected in clear plastic jacket. Mild offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers from the plastic jacket. This is a beautiful book with only minor wear - very gently bumped at both ends of spine. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 145 pages .