Author: Harding Cox; Hon. Gerald Lascelles
Title: Coursing and Falconry
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to coursing and falconry from the Badminton Library series. First edition. Badminton Library. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the sports of coursing and falconry. With falconry chapters on the Waterloo Cup, a treatise on breeding, the treatment of saplings, the greyhound in training, celebrated greyhounds of the past, and noted courses. Includes falconry chapters on the modern falconer, records of the sport, celebrated falconers, and different species of bird and their management. Written by Major Harding Cox, a British soldier and sportsman, and Gerald David Lascelles, the younger son of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, and Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Illustrated by John Charlton, R. H. Moore, Lancelot Speed, and G. E. Lodge. In the original full brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spine. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the foredge. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

Keywords: Coursing Falconry Cox Lascelles Falconry Various


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