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Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Slim, handy volume discusses the European tradition of falconry transplanted to British-occupied India. Three illustrated plates depict scenes from the book, and frontispiece depicts a falcon fearlessly attacking a gazelle Good with cracked front hinge and detached frontispiece. Spine ends have 1/4 inch losses, and cracks in joints. Light foxing on verso of each plate
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard Francis. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. Jon Van Voorst, London, 1852.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing bound in the publisher's original cloth with minor repair. A beautiful copy. The book is in great shape with light wear to the spine. The pages are clean with the original endpapers present. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. Jon Van Voorst, London, 1852.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First ed. 107 pp, 4 lithographed plates. Only 500 copies printed. Penzer p 41. After 10 years 257 copies remained for sale so the publisher recommended scrapping them and preparing a second edition. Thus the book is now RARE. Bound in dark purple cloth with gilt blind border enclosing corner & center designs on both covers. Gilt spine lettering. Burton's falconry experiences while in Sind in Northern India. A work that still today is of great interest to falconers and Burton collectors. Lovely very near fine to fine in all respects.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard Francis. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. Jon Van Voorst, London, 1852.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing limited to 500 copies printed. A beautiful copy. The book is in excellent shape with minor wear to the edges. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Richard Burton First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.