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Blome, Richard. Hawking or Falconry. Thames Valley Press, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1929.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprinted form the 1929 edition published by the Cresset Press Limited. Bright green boards with gold embossed design on cover and title on spine. Slight edgewear on DJ. ; 8.90 X 6.0 X 0.60 inches; 123 pages
Seller: Readers Cove Used Books & Gallery, DEMING, NM, U.S.A.
Richard Blome. Hawking, or Faulconry. Cresset Press Limited, [London] Fitzroy Square, 1929.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 410 in limited edition of 650 copies, light cream "vellum" spine over tan paper-covered boards, light soil to covers, slight discoloration to interior endpaper joints both front and rear; 4 full-page very detailed plates in very nice condition, text clean and unmarked, folding frontispiece lacking
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
BLOME, RICHARD. Hawking or Falconry.. Cresset Press, 1929.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: Number 97 of a Limited Edition of 650. Folding frontispiece. 8vo (8 3/4 x 7 inches), 123-pages. Original parchment backed boards. Boards damp-marked, endpapers foxed. Spine spotted and discoloured. Contemporary signature and date on front free endpaper.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Blome, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry. Cresset Press Limited, (Great Britain), 1929.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 123p octavo, illustrated. top edge gilt. A very good copy in tan boards and white vellum spine.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
BLOME, Richard.. HAWKING OR FAULCONRY.. The Cresset Press, London., 1929.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Limited edition of 650 copies this being No 511. 8vo.xxxii,123, [1]. Fold out frontispiece plus 4 full page plates and 3 text illustrations. Paper covered boards, spine sunned. Previous owners signature on free front end paper and out line on paste-down where book plate has been removed. The first page of the preface has slight printers crease . This is a nice sound copy although the description does not make it sound so.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Blome. Richard Preface By E D Cuming. Hawking Or Faulconry. The Cresset Press, 1929.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Coveres have wear to edges, scuffed cornerstand boards lightly soiled. Gilt title and top edge. Foredge rough cut. Limited edition but this copy not numbered. Contents clean and unmarked, square and sound.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
BLOME Richard. Hawking Or Falconry. The Cresset Press, 1929.
Price: US$147.52 + shipping
Description: XXXII 123 pages, TEG, page uncut, large folding frontis plate, foxing to eps, limited to 650 copies, original 1/4 parchment over paper covered boards. A reprint of the falconry section from the 1683 Blome's Gentleman's Recreation.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
BLOME Richard. Hawking Or Falconry. The Cresset Press, 1929.
Price: US$147.52 + shipping
Description: XXXII 123 pages, TEG, pages uncut, large folding frontis plate + 4 full page plates and text illus, limited to 650 copies, publishers 1/4 parchment over paper covered boards, dj present but loss to the top 4.5cm of spine, chipping to base, No 99 of limited edition of 650 copies. E.D.Cumming wrote the 32 page preface, the book is the hawking section from The Gentlemans Recreation of 1674. Swift 65.04
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Blome, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry. The Cresset Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxxii, 123, [1], . . HB. 8vo, qtr parchment, paper-covered boards, teg. Vg in worn and slightly soiled d/w (small piece torn from spine; a few edge tears). Facsimile edition of the falconry section from The Gentleman's Recreation, 1683. Preface by E.D .Cuming. Limited edition of 650 copies, No. 479.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Blome, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry. The Cresset Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slender Octavo. xxxii, 123 pp with large folding chart of the breeds of hawk bound in before text. A limited edition reissue of Richard Blome's treatice on hawking published in 1686. Hand numbered 546 of an edition of 650 printed on handmade stock, top edges gilt. A loose illustration, possibly a copy of the original title page, is laid in. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, larked charge is uintact but has a dogear. Tan vellum boards with cream calf spine, gold-stamped titles to spine. Spine darkened. Richard Blome (1635-1705) was an English engraver, cartographer, and publisher.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
BLOME, RICHARD. HAWKING OR FAULCONRY. Cresset Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition 256/650 copies. Original vellum backed boards. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Letterpress printed in Monotype Cochin on Arnold hand-made paper. Large engraved folding frontispiece illustration. Several engraved text illustrations. Some spotting to covers and endpapers, text is clean and nice. Overall a very good copy.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Blome, Richard. HAWKING OR FAULCONRY. The Cresset Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$212.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition; # 135/650. Printed on Arnold hand-made paper. xxxii + 123 pages. Pages are in excellent condition; edges a little yellowed. Illustrated with lovely engravings, including a folding frontispiece. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Some very light foxing on the endpapers. Quarter bound with white vellum over beige boards. Gilt titles on the spine. Edges a little darkened, corners lightly bumped. Two tiny punctures on the lower board. Very nice copy. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Blome, Richard.. Hawking or Faulconry.. [London:] The Cresset Press, 1929., 1929.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engravings in text. Quarter parchment over boards, gilt spine. Several brown spots on spine, light soiling, some offsetting on pp. 22-23 from a clipping once laid in. Overall a very good copy. One of 650 copies, printed on Arnold hand-made paper in Monotype Cochin.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Blome (Richard).. HAWKING OR FAULCONRY. By Richard Blome.. Cresset Press. London. 1929., 1929.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: (Hardcover, 1929). (1686) 1929 new edition. Small 4to (180 x 220mm). Ppxxxii,123. Folding frontispiece, text illustrations. Full limp vellum boards, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, printed on Arnold hand-made paper. Total edition limited to 650 numbered copies. This is one of 50, numbered A to L, in full limp vellum. Vellum binding slightly spotted and a little wavy. One of the deluxe edition of only 50 copies, numbered A to L, in full limp vellum. This is number VI. A new edition of the hawking section of The Gentleman's Recreation, originally published in 1686. This attractive limited edition includes a new preface by E.D. Cuming. Swift 65.04. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom