Williamson, Thomas. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, sporting antidotes, & c.

[Williamson, Thomas]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, sporting antidotes, & c., from drawings by Messers Howitt, Atkinson Clark, Manskirch, & c., Containing One Hundred Plates. With a supplement of New South Wales, 1st edition, London: Edward Orme, 1814, contemporary ownership inscription to head of title of Alex Mackenzie, 25the Regiment, 110 fine hand-coloured plates (including ten plates of field sports of New South Wales by Dubourg after John Heaviside Clark, dedicated to Rear Admiral Bligh, with separate title page, single leaf index at rear, tissue-guard to each plate, plate 11 (battle between the Grate Boa and a Tiger) with two or three short closed hairs to four-margin, not affecting image, plate 89 (Spanish bull fighting plate 2) with closed tear neatly repaired, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, early 19th century, full calf gilt, spine with black calf title label, rubbed and scuffed with some marks and upper joint partly cracked at head and lower joint partly cracked at foot, 4to

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Schwerdt I, 177-179; Abbey, Travel 2; Ferguson 577; Tooley 225; Nissen 2019.
Lavishly illustrated work on hunting across the known world, including chapters on wolves, crocodiles, snakes, elephants, seals, bears, birds, and fish, and including thirteen plates of Spanish bullfighting, and the important series of ten plates of hunting in New South Wales (the separate title page dated 1813).

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