Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[ORNITHOLOGY]. BELANY, James Cockburn. A Treatise Upon Falconry. Berwick?upon?Tweed: [William Wallace Fyfe for] the author, 1841. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo. Lacking frontispiece (supplied in a high?quality facsimile). With the 6pp. ?Terms in Falconry? at end. Full modern niger, uncut. FIRST EDITION of this scarce treatise containing observations and histories on falconry, and the types of hawks used in training and flying. Harting 64; Schwerdt, Vol. I:58.