Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes.... With a Supplement of New South Wales

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With 110 Splendid Hand Coloured Aquatint Plates 1819, Second edition of this splendidly illustrated work, [2], [1], 2-170 pp, [2] index, complete with 110 hand coloured aquatint plates, text and tissue-guarded plates generally quite clean, original colouring bright and vivid. WITH the Supplement of New South Wales. Large quarto, contemporary full straight-grain morocco re-backed, original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, elaborately gilt-decorated covers, all edges gilt. (327*234 mm). (Abbey Travel 3. Tooley 225). Armorial bookplate & ink library number to fpd (Charles Tennant). Plates after S. Howitt and others depicting vivid scenes of hunting and other field sports in countries around the world. The author of the main part of the text was Captain Thomas Williamson, who also wrote the text for Oriental Field Sports (described as 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt II: 297). This large work includes scenes of hunting African crocodiles, buffalo, elephants and rhinoceros, as well as North American bears, Siberian foxes, South American wild horses, German wolves, deer, etc. Also includes plates depicting whale hunting and an extraordinary series of plates of seal catching in Greenland, as well as 13 splendid plates of bull fighting. The supplement (157-170) on field sports of New South Wales (with nine plates) was written by John Heaviside Clark. First published in 1814. A beautiful copy.