FALCONRY: PRINCIPLES and PRACTICE. By Roger Upton. First edition.

1991 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp240. B/w photographs and illustrations, brief bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards.

"The author guides the reader through the principles of keeping, training and flying hawks ...ideas for practice and discussion on housing, management and flying at quarry. ...up to date information on hawking furniture and on the technology available to falconers". Chapters include: Introduction - suitable country for hawking, acquiring skills, obtaining hawks, success and failure; The hawk house, shelters and weathering grounds; Falconry furniture - gloves, jesses, leashes, hoods, hawking bags, jackets, lures, transporting hawks, weightin hawks, location-finding; Eyasses, passagers, hacking and thoughts on trianing; Flying out of the hood - rook hawking, crows, jackdaws, seagulls, magpies; Hawking dogs - breeds, dogs suitable for grouse hawkin, flushing, dogs suitable for partridge and pheasants; Game hawking - grouse hawking country, waiting-on, first flight at quarry, flushing down wind , the kill, grouse in cover, number of flights, tiercels at grouse, soaring versus waiting-on, peregrines at grouse, grouse with gyrs, other types of hawk at grouse, black game and ptarmigan, partridges, pheasants, snipe, woodcock, duck hawking; Glove and hood making - gloves, jesses, hoods, braces, trimming, lures; Patterns.