Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world.
London: Country Life, 1968. Quarto, text illustrations, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach, fine set in the slipcase. More
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The birds of Africa, Volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1983. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Handsomely produced and illustrated, this excellent series is the standard work on the birds of Africa. More
History and range expansion of Peregrine falcons in the Thule area, northwest Greenland.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book covers the discovery and history of the northernmost breeding population of peregrine falcons in the world, located near the Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland. Drawing on thirteen years of research, the authors present a comprehensive set of..... More
Peregrine Falcon populations: their management and recovery.
Boise: Peregrine Fund, 1988. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
How fast can a Falcon dive? Fascinating answers to questions about Falcons.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white and colour photographs. Explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. This colorful volume is complete with more than fifty-five color and black and white images from photographers and..... More
Coursing and falconry.
Southampton: Ashford Press, (1986. facsimile). Octavo, More
Birds of prey of Australia: a field guide.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. third edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, line drawings, maps. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of Prey of Australia contains two sections: a field guide with distribution maps, detailed illustrations and information on identification; and a handbook..... More
Falcon fever: a falconer in the twenty-first century.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $40. What is so compelling about falconry? Tim Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with Falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture of the sport exists outside the mainstream of American society, consisting of obsessed..... More
The peregrine falcon at the eyrie.
Covent Garden: Country Life, 1913. Octavo, black and white photographs. Publisher's cloth with tipped in photograph on cover, a very good copy. More
The Peregrine returns: the art and architecture of an urban raptor recovery.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are..... More
Falcons and falconry.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Some time with eagles and falcons.
Canberra: Author, 1994. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. This book begins 25 years ago with a search for missing men in the Yukon, a search helped by eagles. In stories packed with information, Olsen writes of ties between people, eagles and falcons. After trapping and hunting with falcons in Washington and..... More
Falcons.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 132. Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike. In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain's most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth..... More
Australian birds of prey in flight: a photographic guide.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify. Australian Birds of Prey in Flight is a photographic guide to the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high..... More
Trogons, laughing falcons, and other neotropical birds.
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1999. Octavo, text illustrations by Dana Gardner, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Flight of the Falcon.
Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 120 colour photographs of rare and endangered falcons accompany the text. A chart describing species and their habitats is complemented by detailed line drawings, and an appendix lists birds of prey organizations that are actively promoting falcon conservation..... More
A bird in the hand: celebrated falconers of the past.
London: Debretts Peerage, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Eleonora's Falcon: adaptations to prey and habitat in a social raptor.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Quarto, photographs, dustwrapper. More
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