From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Thomas Williamson
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c.... Containing One Hundred Plates. With a Supplement of New South Wales London: Edward Orme 1814
FIRST EDITION, 4to (282 x 226mm.), half-title, 110 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (including the 10 scenes of hunting and customs of Indigenous Peoples in the Supplement of New South Wales), contemporary calf, spine gilt, covers tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, some marginal dampstaining (not affecting illustrations), tape repair at lower margin of one text leaf, "Hindoo elephant trap" plate splitting along platemark and with marginal tape repair, rebacked retaining original spine
A superbly illustrated work on hunting, fishing, whaling, and related pursuits from around the world. This copy includes the rare part on New South Wales, with the 10 supplementary scenes depicting hunting and customs of the Indigenous Peoples.
LITERATURE:Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577; Tooley 224
From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Thomas Williamson
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c.... Containing One Hundred Plates. With a Supplement of New South Wales London: Edward Orme 1814
FIRST EDITION, 4to (282 x 226mm.), half-title, 110 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (including the 10 scenes of hunting and customs of Indigenous Peoples in the Supplement of New South Wales), contemporary calf, spine gilt, covers tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, some marginal dampstaining (not affecting illustrations), tape repair at lower margin of one text leaf, "Hindoo elephant trap" plate splitting along platemark and with marginal tape repair, rebacked retaining original spine
A superbly illustrated work on hunting, fishing, whaling, and related pursuits from around the world. This copy includes the rare part on New South Wales, with the 10 supplementary scenes depicting hunting and customs of the Indigenous Peoples.
LITERATURE:Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577; Tooley 224
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