Oriental Field Sports: Being a Complete and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East [With a Magnificient Fore-Edge Painting]

Captain Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports: Being a Complete 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 undomesticated animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes and serpents: the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes ... the scenery gives a faithful representation of the picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants: the narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings. The whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson ... ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic], London: for H R Young by J M'Creery, 1819, second edition

2 volumes bound in 1
Vol. I: Title page; Dedication leaf; Preface pp. [i]–xiv; List of Plates pp. [xv]–xvi; descriptive text pp. 1–306.
Vol. II: Title page; text pp. 1–239, 12 index pages. With 40 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Samuel Howitt, after drawings by the author, interleaved with text and printed on wove paper, watermarked 1818 and 1819.
Full original green Morocco, gilt tooled back, gilt border on sides, gilt edges. Housed in a cloth folding case with gilt text at the spine.
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Oriental Field Sports of the East; Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East [Large-format Deluxe Edition]

Captain Thomas Williamson and Samuel Howitt, 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; the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes......, London: Edward Orme, 1907


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