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Harting: 'The contents of this edition are the same as in that of 1627 and include all that d'Arcussia has written; but the text is much more correct. On this account it is to be preferred to any of the editions which preceded it'
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Arcussia (Charles d'): La Fauconnerie ... avec les Portraits au Naturel de Tous les Oyseaux, 2 parts in one, 4to, Rouen, chez François Vaultier et Jacques Besongne, 1644-43 [Schwerdt I, p. 43; Harting 153; Jeanson 1278], 11 full-page engraved illustrations of hawks, one double-page plate of hawking equipment only (of 5, 2T1 to 3Y4 slightly damp-stained at outer margin, light spotting and soiling), contemporary vellum (soiled).
