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Published by Ishi Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 4871873102ISBN 13: 9784871873109
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Used: Good.
Published by Stanford University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0804703744ISBN 13: 9780804703741
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Large thick hardcover in green cloth, clean tight unmarked FINE condition, NO dust jacket.
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1961
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. cx, 637 pp., colour frontis, half title, title, original green cloth with gilt decoration on spine, double column text, 186 illustrative plates, biblio, glossary in Latin and English, light foxing on end papers, copy in very good condition otherwise, reissued. A definitive work on falconry and ornithology written in the 1240s by Frederick II (1194-1250), Holy Roman Emperor. With extensive introductory material and appendices by the Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist C. A. Wood (1856-1942), who studied animal vision, especially that of birds, and was first published in 1943 by Stanford University Press. This book contains the manuscripts and editions of the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus, as well as six books on the art of falconry. There is evidence to prove that falconry was familiar to the people of China, India, Assyria, Sumeria, and other provinces of Babylon, Egypt, and Persia thousands of years before Rome came into existence.#11314.
Published by Stanford University Press. Stanford, California. 1961., 1943
ISBN 10: 0804703744ISBN 13: 9780804703741
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1961). (1943) 1961 reprint. Large 4to (220 x 286mm). Ppcx,637. Colour frontispiece, photographs, illustrations. Green cloth, spine profusely decorated and titled in gilt. Stained and used, browning to end-papers and edges, smells slightly musty. Good in browned and frayed dust-wrapper. "De Arte Venandi cum Avibus was written shortly before the year 1250 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, in whose court, with its remarkably cosmopolitan and highly intellectual life, may be found the real beginning of the Italian Renaissance. [This book] is far more than a dissertation on hunting. There is a lengthy introduction dealing with the anatomy of birds, an intensely interesting description of avian habits, and the excursions of migratory birds. .This ancient book has long been recognised as the first zoological treatise written in the critical spirit of modern science." In addition to a well-informed translation of the original text (415pp), Wood and Fyfe have added much useful new material; a thirty-five page introductory essay; twenty-two pages on manuscripts and previous editions of this book; thirty-eight pages on the castles and hunting lodges of emperor Frederick II by Cresswell Shearer. 214 pages of appended material include articles on methods of capturing falcons, diseases and accidents to hawks, Frederick II's predecessors, birds of the chase and others familiar to the emperor, an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, as well as English-Latin, Latin-English glossary of ancient, medieval and modern falconry. Many photographs and illustrations of all descriptions. .
Published by Stanford Univ. Press [1969], Stanford CA, 1969
ISBN 10: 0804703744ISBN 13: 9780804703741
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall; Dark green buckram with ornate gilt spine, cvi, 637p., 186 plates with the frontispiece in color, annotated bibliography, glossary, index.
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1943
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Very nice clean copy, former owner name and address on front endpaper otherwise unmarked, light bump to one corner. Illustrated with 186 plates, annotated bibliography, glossary of English and Latin terms, general index, 637 pages.
Published by Stanford University Press / Humphrey Milford, California / London [1943], 1943
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Apparent First Edition, though with no date on title page [photo]; bound in green cloth with darker green and gilt inset and lettering on front cover and spine, clean tight and unmarked with tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, cx + 637 pages, illustrated.