WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel Howett; Edward Orme.
Oriental field sports,
being a complete, detailed, and accurate Description of the wild Sports of the East, and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting Manner, the Natural History of the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Tiger, the Leopard, the Bear, the Deer, the Buffalo, the Wolf,
Stock Code
98685
London, Thomas M'Lean, 1819
£15,000
Description
Landscape folio (45.1 x 56.9 cm), [4], ii, [2], 146, [4] pp., with 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates; a few short marginal tears, tear to plate I repaired, occasional light dust-staining and spotting; contemporary red straight-grained morocco, borders and lozenge roll-tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, all edges gilt; neatly rebacked and recornered, a little worn at extremities, corners bumped, nonetheless a very good copy.
Bibliography
Abbey (Travel), 427; Cf. Schwerdt II, p. 299; cf. Czech, p. 228; cf. 'Paul Mellon Collection', p. 202; Tooley 508.
Stock ID:98685
