The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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... Falconry in the British Isles . By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick . 2nd edition . London , 1873 · - VII . - Histoire et Mémoires . Par le Général Cto de Ségur , Membre de l'Académie Française . Paris , 1873 . 7 vols . 8vo ...
... Falconry in the British Isles . By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick . 2nd edition . London , 1873 · - VII . - Histoire et Mémoires . Par le Général Cto de Ségur , Membre de l'Académie Française . Paris , 1873 . 7 vols . 8vo ...
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... Falconry in the British Isles . By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick . THE 2nd edition . 2nd edition . London , 1873 . age of chivalry is past . The tournament and the belted knight have disappeared . The manly and unselfish ...
... Falconry in the British Isles . By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick . THE 2nd edition . 2nd edition . London , 1873 . age of chivalry is past . The tournament and the belted knight have disappeared . The manly and unselfish ...
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... falconry doubtless originated in the East , where even at the present time it is more universally and successfully practised than in any other part of the world . Certain authors are inclined to refer it to a very early date and the ...
... falconry doubtless originated in the East , where even at the present time it is more universally and successfully practised than in any other part of the world . Certain authors are inclined to refer it to a very early date and the ...
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... falconry - a fact which clearly shows how unfashionable the pursuit was in his day . In his ' Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England , ' London 1773 , p . 8 , he mentions two portraits - one of which he engraves of King Stephen ...
... falconry - a fact which clearly shows how unfashionable the pursuit was in his day . In his ' Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England , ' London 1773 , p . 8 , he mentions two portraits - one of which he engraves of King Stephen ...
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... complaisant than we have every reason to believe them to have been at that day , probably had not a very profitable bargain by the exchange . he T he apologizes for being unable to send any white. 172 Falconry in the British Isles .
... complaisant than we have every reason to believe them to have been at that day , probably had not a very profitable bargain by the exchange . he T he apologizes for being unable to send any white. 172 Falconry in the British Isles .
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