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WILLIAMSON (THOMAS) AND SAMUEL HOWETT Oriental Field Sports, Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East, Edward Orme, 1807
14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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WILLIAMSON (THOMAS) AND SAMUEL HOWETT
Oriental Field Sports, Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Williamson and Howitt, text watermarked "1804", later half morocco gilt, gilt morocco lettering label on upper cover, corners slightly worn, short split foot of upper joint [Abbey Travel 427; Nissen ZBI 4416; Schwerdt II, 297; Tooley 508], folio (480 x 570mm.), Edward Orme, 1807
Footnotes
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON INDIAN SPORT IN EXISTENCE" (Schwerdt), illustrated with fine depictions of elephants (Keddahs and hunting), rhinoceroses, tigers, leopards, and other game.
Provenance: D.K. Dahmen, bookplate.



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