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FRANCHIÈRES, Jean de. La fauconnerie. Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1607. 4° (210 x 154mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, 29 large woodcuts of birds. (Title cropped at head, F3 shorter at bottom margin, occasional soiling and browning.) 20th-century brown calf, gilt spine, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed).
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FRANCHIÈRES, Jean de. La fauconnerie. Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1607. 4° (210 x 154mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, 29 large woodcuts of birds. (Title cropped at head, F3 shorter at bottom margin, occasional soiling and browning.) 20th-century brown calf, gilt spine, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed).

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FRANCHIÈRES, Jean de. La fauconnerie. Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1607. 4° (210 x 154mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, 29 large woodcuts of birds. (Title cropped at head, F3 shorter at bottom margin, occasional soiling and browning.) 20th-century brown calf, gilt spine, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed).

Franchières's treatise on hawking, first published in 1567, assembles information from the manuscripts of earlier falconers. Schwerdt I, p. 184; Souhart 195; Thiébaud 429.
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