📚 Falconry

Hawking with the hawk: the training of the raptor and the oldest hunt still practiced on foot.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject falconry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	H Is for Hawk	Helen Macdonald	2006	29
	The Goshawk (A Viking compass book, C291)	T. H. White	1951	26
	Practical falconry	Gage Earle Freeman	1869	12
	The boke of Saint Albans	Juliana Berners	1800	10
	Falconry in the British Isles	Francis Salvin	1855	7
	Bibliotheca accipitraria	James Edmund Harting	1891	6
	Falcons and falconry	Frank Illingworth	1948	6
	A manual of falconry	Michael Woodford	1960	6
	As the falcon her bells	Phillip Glasier	1963	6
	Flashing wings	John K. Terres	1968	6
	La Fauconnerie de F. Ian des Franchieres	Jean de Franchières	1567	5
	Ornithologiae libri tres	Francis Willughby	1676	5
	A Hawk for the Bush	Jack Mavrogordato	1960	5
	Falconry and hawking	Phillip Glasier	1978	5
	A rage for falcons	Stephen Bodio	1984	5
	Arte da caça de altaneria	Diogo Fernandes Ferreira	1616	4
	El libro de la caza	Don Juan Manuel	1880	4
	Bert's Treatise of Hawks and Hawking	Edmund Bert	1891	4
	The art and practice of hawking	E. B. Michell	1900	4
	Hints on the management of hawks and practical falconry	James Edmund Harting	1970	4
	The encyclopedia of falconry	Adrian Walker	1999	4
	Arab falconry	Roger Upton	2002	4
	Falconry Basics	Tony Hall	2017	4
	Coursing and falconry	Harding Edward de Fonglanque Cox	1892	3
	A year of sport and natural history	Oswald Crawfurd	1895	3
	Falconry	Gilbert Blaine	1936	3
	Falcons and falconry	Frank Illingworth	1946	3
	Falconry in Arabia	Allen, Mark	1980	3
	Jemima Parry-Jones' Falconry	Jemima Parry-Jones	1988	3
	Falconry	Emma Ford	1992	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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