Lot 251
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WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas (1790-1815) and Samuel HOWITT (1765?-1822). Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. London: H. R. Young, 1819. 2 volumes, Large 4° (330 x 225mm). Additional lithographic titles in sepia, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Samuel Howett. (Occasional spotting and light soiling, offsetting to a few plates.) Contemporary green straight grained morocco elaborately tooled and gilt, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. G. Times (book label).
WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas (1790-1815) and Samuel HOWITT (1765?-1822). Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. London: H. R. Young, 1819. 2 volumes, Large 4° (330 x 225mm). Additional lithographic titles in sepia, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Samuel Howett. (Occasional spotting and light soiling, offsetting to a few plates.) Contemporary green straight grained morocco elaborately tooled and gilt, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. G. Times (book label).

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WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas (1790-1815) and Samuel HOWITT (1765?-1822). Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. London: H. R. Young, 1819. 2 volumes, Large 4° (330 x 225mm). Additional lithographic titles in sepia, 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Samuel Howett. (Occasional spotting and light soiling, offsetting to a few plates.) Contemporary green straight grained morocco elaborately tooled and gilt, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. G. Times (book label).

A FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING WITH HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES printed the year after the first edition of 1807. Abbey Travel, 431; Tooley 510; Schwerdt II, p. 299.

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