Syman Latham | Latham's Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure, and Cure, London, 1633, 2 vols in one, later calf

Syman Latham

Lathams Falconry: or, the Faulcons Lure, and Cure: in two books. London: Thomas Harper, for John Harison, 1633

2 volumes bound in one, 4to (190 x 138mm.), woodcut vignettes to title, 31 woodcuts (some repeated), later speckled calf gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt, red morocco labels, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, faint old library stamp to front pastedown,lower joints starting

An attractively bound and well preserved copy of a work which "ranks among the principal books on hawking in the English language." (Schwerdt I, 302). The first volume was published in 1615, and the second volume in 1618. The present edition is the first collected edition of the 2 volumes, using the same woodblocks, and according to Harting, is "quite as good as the first, of which it is a reprint without alteration".

LITERATURE:

Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, 20; Schwerdt I, 302.

PROVENANCE:

Bache Thornhill, of Youlgrave, Derbyshire (perpetual curate of Winster and Ashford, Derbyshire, between 1812 and 1827), ownership inscription to title, dated 1807, from when he was a matriculated student at Christ Church, University of Oxford