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, the Wild Hog, the Jackall, the Wild Dog, the Civet, and other Domesticated Animals; as Likewise the Different Species of Feathered Game, Fishes, and Serpents?

Edité par Edward Orme n.d. (c.1819)., London, 1819

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Edition : Second Edition., Full blue straight-grain morocco boards, rebacked preserving original spine. Matching upper and lower with gilt and blind floral borders. Spine with 5 slightly-raised bands and extensive gilt tooling, 2nd compartment lettered in gilt, remaining richly decorated. Gilt tooling on board edges. Gilt-tooled dentelles. Brown pasted and free endpapers., Ex-Libris; bookplate of Lord Farnham mounted to front pastedown; two bookplates of Henry Thomas Partridge mounted to front free endpaper, one of which was overlaid with the new family crest. Samuel Howitt (1756/57?1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors. Howitt was particularly noted for the illustrations in (Captain) Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807), based on sketches made by the author in India. He also illustrated several other works: Thoughts on Hunting (London: D. Bremner, 1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (50 plates, 1803); British Field Sports (20 coloured plates, 1807); The Angler's Manual (12 plates, 1808); A New Work of Animals (100 plates, 1811); Groups of Animals (24 plates, 1811); The British Sportsman (70 plates, 1812); Foreign Field Sports (110 plates, 1819)., Size : Folio (340 x 260 mm), A very attractive example, with original gilt binding. Complete with 40 finely hand-coloured plates. Wide margined copy. Inscription inked on flyleaf. , (Pp.) Blank (3). Frontispiece. Title. Printer?s imprint. Dedication. Blank. Plate index (2). Preface (v-xii). Pp. 1-456. Blank (2). Two leaves (pp. 273-276) repaired at fore edges, not affecting text. Interior otherwise clean and crisp.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
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, the Wild Hog, the Jackall, the Wild Dog, the Civet, and other Domesticated Animals; as Likewise the Different Species of Feathered Game, Fishes, and Serpents?
Auteur
Captain Thomas Williamson; Samuel Howitt [illustrator]
Éditeur
Edward Orme n.d. (c.1819)., London
Année de publication
1819
Reliure
Couverture rigide

Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books

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Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books are specialist dealers in 15th to 19th century Prints, Maps and Books. The gallery is able to offer one of the largest selections of Prints and Maps available in North America. The business was founded in 1982 and has supplied Prints, Maps and Books to many private and public art collectors. It strives to present a friendly and helpful atmosphere to both expert and amateur collectors. The shop has grown considerably since its humble beginnings to an internationally respected firm. We exhibit at major map & book fairs in North America and Europe and are happy to organize presentations of materials for corporations, interior designers and individuals. We are always interested in purchasing collections or individual items of quality. Catalogues and lists are issued periodically and we would be delighted to have details of customers’ specific interests, so we can contact them when examples come into stock.

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