[WILLIAMSON, Thomas] - Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes.. Field Sports of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales. London: Edward Orme, 1814-13 [tavole con filigrana del 1811]. The coloured plates in this work, especially those drawn by Howitt, are fine, both as regards to draughtsmanship and colouring, and the production as a whole possesses a certain cachet.." (Schwerdt). The field sports depicted are wonderfully diverse, including "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"; ir includes the supplement of ten New South Wales plates. Plates watermarked 1811. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (280 x 216mm). Half-title, 110 handcoloured plates (some light soiling and a few scattered stains) Contemporary half leather, gilt spine, marbled edges (joints split, extremities rubbed and scuffed).

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