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BURTON, Richard Francis. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, London: Samuel Bentley & Co. for John van Voorst, 1852. 12° (183 x 117mm). Half title, tinted lithographed frontispiece by Ford & West after Joseph Wolf, 3 tinted lithographed plates by B. Waterhouse Hawkins after Lieut. McMullin. (Without 8pp. publisher's advertisements, imprint of the final plate slightly shaved, some light browning.) Contemporary green morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind to an Arabesque style, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (very light scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Henry Howard (1802-1875, Greystoke Castle, Northumberland, armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, RARE. Casada 34; Penzer p. 41.
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