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Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, WITH The Supplement of New South Wales

Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, WITH The Supplement of New South Wales by [WILLIAMSON Thomas Captain] 1758/9-1817

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Title
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, WITH The Supplement of New South Wales
Author
[WILLIAMSON Thomas Captain] 1758/9-1817
Seller
Madoc Books (United Kingdom)
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Description
London: Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street.: Edward Orme, 1814. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. WHITCOMBE T. SUTHERLAND T.. The uncommon, 1814, 1st edition, 110 coloured plates, including the Supplement on NSW. In 20th century maroon straight grain crushed morocco, decorative gilt & blind tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, worn slightly along joints & edges. Internally, frontis, [180] pp, 110 coloured plates (including the supplement), half title discarded, all edges gilt, some very light offsetting from some plates to text, some spotting to blank eps, red marbled endpapers, decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins. The all important supplement, by the author, has its own title page, 1813, and is dedicated to Rear Admiral Bligh. The fep is watermarked Abbey Mills Green field, plates are dated 1813, & watermarked J Whatman 1811, the paper is watermarked 1810. (286*223 mm). (Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577. Schwerdt 1, p177-9. Prideaux 283, 357. Bobins 337). OCLC locates very few 1st editions, 3 in the US, 1 in Australia & 3 in the UK. Superb plates depicting hunting, fishing, whaling, bull-fighting, bear trapping etc. around the world, and including the 10 supplementary scenes of aboriginal hunting and customs. First edition of "the most beautiful book on Indian sporting in existence" (Schwerdt). The text is taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served in Bengal for twenty years. Bound from the 20 original parts and containing 'the finest impressions of the plates' (Tooley) by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson.

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