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Oriental Field Sports (Wild Sports of the East) (Two volumes in one binding)

ILLUSTRATED : 40 full paged coloured plates, foxing to margins and slightly to plates, accompanied by a leaf of text.

CONDITION : Good BINDING : 13.5×9.7”, pp. xii, 456; full green morocco with gilt border to cover, 4 raised bands to spine with gilt decoration, gilt title to spine, inner dentelles.

BINDING CONDITION : Good

By Capt. Thomas WilliamsonSamuel Howitt

Published by Edward Orme London 1807

Edition: Second

Categories: Animals, India, Nature, Rare & Antique Books, Signature Selection SKU: 172

Description

A distinguished early 19th-century sporting classic, Oriental Field Sports remains one of the most celebrated illustrated works on Anglo-Indian hunting and natural history. The 1807 second edition is strongly collected, especially for its superb hand-coloured plates by Samuel Howitt, regarded as masterpieces of early British-Indian sporting art.

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