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FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c... with a Supplement of New South Wales, H.R. Young, 1819

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS

Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c... with a Supplement of New South Wales, second edition, half-title, 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates, with wash borders, light toning and some offsetting from text to plates, contemporary polished calf, covers detached [Abbey Travel 3; Ferguson 739; Tooley 225; Schwerdt I, p.179; Westwood & Satchell, p.92], 4to, Edward Orme, 1814, H.R. Young, 1819

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The field sports depicted include "Arabs Hawking Antelopes", "Russian Fishing in Winter", "German Bear-trap pitfull", "Hunting Antelopes with a Panther", "Whale Fishery" (4), Bullfighting (13), "Greenlanders Seal Hunting" and "Hog Hunting in India". The supplement has ten New South Wales plates.

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