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FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c. From Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch &c.... with a Supplement of New South Wales, Edward Orme, 1814
11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£800 - £1,200
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FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c. From Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch &c.... with a Supplement of New South Wales, 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates, with wash borders, some browning and soiling throughout (mostly to text and margins but a few plates with some staining), contemporary brown morocco. tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., spine worn [Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577; Tooley 225; Schwerdt I, p.179; Westwood & Satchell, p.92], 4to, Edward Orme, 1814
Footnotes
"The coloured plates in this work, especially those drawn by Howitt, are fine, both as regards draughtsmanship and colouring, and the production as a whole possesses a certain cachet" (Schwerdt). The diverse field sports depicted include "Arabs Hawking Antelopes", "Russian Fishing in Winter", "German Bear-trap pitfull", "Hunting Antelopes with a Panther", Whaling (4), Bullfighting (13), "Greenlanders Seal Hunting" and "Hog Hunting in India". This copy includes the supplement of ten New South Wales plates.

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