[HOWITT, SAMUEL, AND OTHERS] | FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS ... WITH A SUPPLEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1819

[HOWITT, SAMUEL, AND OTHERS]
FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES, &C. &C. FROM DRAWINGS BY MESSRS. HOWITT, ATKINSON, CLARK, MANSKIRCH, &C. WITH A SUPPLEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. LONDON: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY H.R. YOUNG, 1819

4to (325 x 228mm.), 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates, index at end, contemporary straight-grain maroon morocco gilt with gilt stamp of stag in centre of sides, gilt edges, without half-title, first text leaf torn (without loss of text), offsetting of text and plates, some marks and dust-staining, extremities rubbed, hinges strengthened

A richly illustrated work on hunting around the world, including fishing, hawking, coursing, spearing, trapping, shooting, and netting.

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Provenance:
Robert Berkeley, Spetchley, armorial bookplate