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The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen
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- Creator
- translated and edited by Casey A. Wood & F. Marjorie Fyfe
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- English, Italian
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- Stanford University, Calif. : Stanford University Press; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, [1943]
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- 4 pages ., vii-cx, 637 pages including plates, portraits, maps, plans, facsimiles, genealogical tables. : color frontispiece, color plates, portrait ; 29 cm
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- ocm00634040
- Foreword, by R. L. Wilbur.--Translators' introduction.--Manuscripts and editions of the De arte venandi cum avibus.--The castles and hunting lodges of Emperor Frederick II, by Cresswell Shearer.--The art of falconry, by Frederick II.--Appended material.--Favorite birds of the chase probably well known to the emperor.--Annotated roster of birds that are mentioned, depicted by, and were probably familiar to Emperor Frederick II.--An annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval, and modern falconry (p.[557]-609)--Glossary and index