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Zustand: Good. 1810. No Edition Remarks. 311 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth covered boards and gilt. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear wit…h slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS 1819. Vols. I & II.
Captain Thomas Williamson (author) ; Samuel Howitt ( Illustrator).
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Zustand: New. SB. 2 vols., 306 pp + 21 colour plates & 239 pp.+ index + 21 colour plates, 2004 N&MP Facsimile Reprint of 1819 Original EditionPublished Price £58 The field sports - hunting, shooting and fishing - that they enjoyed at home were also essential to the expatriate lifestyle of the gentlemen who ran the British Empir…e. The abundant opportunities for hunting big game and other exotic species meant that many well-known sportsmen made their reputations on the plains and in hills of India, Burma and Ceylon.These two volumes cover hunting in the East, particularly India, at the beginning of the 19th Century. An outstanding feature of the books are the many superb colour illustrations taken from lithographs by the well-known animal artist Samuel Howitt. The text, by the military sportsman Captain Thomas Williamson, is of interest both to natural historians as well as to hunters, containing as it does the natural history and the hunting of the elephant, rhinoceros, tiger, leopard, bear, deer, buffalo, wolf, wild hog, jackal, wild dog, and the civet. The field sports celebrated in these books may have gone out of fashion in our âpolitically correctâ age, but these memoirs and the many coloured plates are an item for the collector to treasure.
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ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS 1819. Vols. I & II.
Captain Thomas Williamson (author) ; Samuel Howitt ( Illustrator).
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Zustand: New. SB. 2 vols., 306 pp + 21 colour plates & 239 pp.+ index + 21 colour plates, 2004 N&MP Facsimile Reprint of 1819 Original Edition The field sports - hunting, shooting and fishing - that they enjoyed at home were also essential to the expatriate lifestyle of the gentlemen who ran the British Empire. The abundant oppo…rtunities for hunting big game and other exotic species meant that many well-known sportsmen made their reputations on the plains and in hills of India, Burma and Ceylon.These two volumes cover hunting in the East, particularly India, at the beginning of the 19th Century. An outstanding feature of the books are the many superb colour illustrations taken from lithographs by the well-known animal artist Samuel Howitt. The text, by the military sportsman Captain Thomas Williamson, is of interest both to natural historians as well as to hunters, containing as it does the natural history and the hunting of the elephant, rhinoceros, tiger, leopard, bear, deer, buffalo, wolf, wild hog, jackal, wild dog, and the civet. The field sports celebrated in these books may have gone out of fashion in our âpolitically correctâ age, but these memoirs and the many coloured plates are an item for the collector to treasure.
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Verlag: Young, H.R., London, 1819
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Text volume only. Rebound with brown cloth covers and brown leather corners and spine. Gold lettering on spine is bright. Heavy wear, fraying and soiling on corners and spine ends. Small tears on upper front and back cover hinges. Moderate wear and to hinges and raised bands on spine. Moder…ate wear, soiling and bumping to edges. Moderate shelf wear and soiling to covers. Moderate soiling to page ends. Heavy soiling and foxing to inside front and back covers, ffep's and bfep's. Title page and first page of text has moisture staining, foxing and soiling. 2 pages with light writing in the margins. There are 2 pages with large tears and creases that are taped. Light yellowing to text due to age. "An exhibition 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." All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.
Weitere BilderThe Costume and Customs of Modern India
WILLIAMSON Captain Thomas 1758-1817. DOYLEY Charles 1781-1845 [D'OYLY]
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. BRITISH LIFE IN THE RAJ Large Paper Copy, with 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, watermarked 1821. Contemporary straight-grain morocco, attractive decorative wide gilt & blind edge tooling, a few marks, corners & edges rubbed. Re-spined, old laid down, raised bands, gilt title & ornate… gilt tooling. Internally, frontis, [3], (vi-xxiii) preface, (60 pp) not paginated (signatures: B-L2), 20 hand coloured plates (numbered, dated 1813 & titled, within pink washed frame), a.e.g., bound without the half title, old repaired margin tear to C3, not dated but c1823/4, plates watermarked J Whatman Turkey Mill 1821, text leaves watermarked 1822 & 23, horizontal crease to last 2 blanks, book plates to fpd (John Morrice; Hermann Marx of Cobham, Surrey). With 2 loose additional plates: Native Tailor, B&W, & Native Barber, coloured. (366*264 mm). (Abbey Travel 440; Colas 888; Lipperheide 1486; Tooley 184). D'Oyly was a civil servant in the East India Company who published a series of works with his lithographs of the region and its people. The plates in this work are identical to those in The European in India, which was published by Orme in 1813 (Abbey 435). 0. DOYLEY Charles [D'OYLY]. (CLARK J.H. [John Heaviside] and DUBOURG C. - engravers) (illustrator).
Weitere BilderSprache: Englisch
Verlag: Edward Orme, 1819
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. Original Second Edition of this classic early 19th century portrayal of the wildlife and the sporting life of colonial British India. Distinguished by hand-colored aquatint plates of drawings by Samuel Howitt. In this copy, the 39 plates present are generally in very Good condition and the… original tissue guards remain intact with most. However, this copy lacks Plate No. 40 and the several following pages of descriptive tex thatt had originally accompanied that plate are not present. Both the front and back covers are missing from this volume. Pages are detached or very loose between the front endpaper and the first page of narrative about Plate No. 1. Between that page and page 446 the binding is intact and an original leather backstrip is in place. Page 447/448 is detached. This copy is in a 9-1/2" by 12-3/4" format with "W. Lewis, printer" stated on the verso of the title page. So, again, Plates 1-39 are present, with Plate 40 is absent. The title illustration with the tiger is present but among the pages detached at front. Due to the size and condition of this volume, shipping is available in the U.S. only. Howitt, Samuel (illustrator).
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Verlag: Edward Orme, London: Bond-Street, The Corner of Brook-Street., 1807
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Contains one of the finest series of sporting plates ever published (Hardie). 1st edition, 41 hand coloured aquatints. In half brown morocco over light green cloth, by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, some gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, addi…tional hand coloured title page, [4] tp & dedication, (ii) preface, 150 pp (includes index), [1] pl list, plus 40 fine hand coloured plates by H. Merke after Howitt and Williamson, dated 1805-7, watermarked J Whatman 1804, with the early pl 31 Hunting Jackalls, floral endpapers, a.e.g., occasional light marginal spotting. Large oblong folio. (book 462*600 & sheets 447*572 mm). Abbey Travel 427; Schwerdt II, pp. 297-98; Tooley 508. "The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence." (Schwerdt). "The book is not only a mine of information as to the manners, customs, scenery, and costume of India, but contains one of the finest series of sporting plates ever published." (Martin Hardie, English Coloured Books, 1906). A very good copy with the plates generally clean and bright. The first edition of 1807 in large folio, with the early watermarks, and first state of plate XXXI (Hunting Jackalls). The work had been issued for subscribers in twenty monthly parts between June 1805 and January 1807. Title continues: 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, taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal; the drawings by Samuel Howett, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists. WILLIAMSON Thomas Captain. HOWITT Samuel (MERKE Henri. VIVARES. HAMBLE J). (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The uncommon, 1814, 1st edition, 110 coloured plates, including the Supplement on NSW. In 20th century maroon straight grain crushed morocco, decorative gilt & blind tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, worn slightly along joints & edges. Internally, fro…ntis, [180] pp, 110 coloured plates (including the supplement), half title discarded, all edges gilt, some very light offsetting from some plates to text, some spotting to blank eps, red marbled endpapers, decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins. The all important supplement, by the author, has its own title page, 1813, and is dedicated to Rear Admiral Bligh. The fep is watermarked Abbey Mills Green field, plates are dated 1813, & watermarked J Whatman 1811, the paper is watermarked 1810. (286*223 mm). (Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577. Schwerdt 1, p177-9. Prideaux 283, 357. Bobins 337). OCLC locates very few 1st editions, 3 in the US, 1 in Australia & 3 in the UK. Superb plates depicting hunting, fishing, whaling, bull-fighting, bear trapping etc. around the world, and including the 10 supplementary scenes of aboriginal hunting and customs. First edition of "the most beautiful book on Indian sporting in existence" (Schwerdt). The text is taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served in Bengal for twenty years. Bound from the 20 original parts and containing 'the finest impressions of the plates' (Tooley) by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson. WHITCOMBE T. SUTHERLAND T. (illustrator).
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Verlag: London: printed for Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, 1810, 1810
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8vo, xiii, (iii), 311, (1) pp., 20 engraved plates (some offset onto text), uncut copy in the original cloth-backed drab boards, neatly rebacked. First edition. A scientific and technical approach to the design of agricultural equipment, particularly ploughs. Williamson was of the opinion that implements were not well designed,…being put together "by guess and by God." He approached the subject in a theoretical way by the application of mathematics and the theory of levers, pulleys and the screw. Williamson served 20 years in the Bengal army. Fussell III, p. 86.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Archibald Constable and Co., 1892, 1892
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Weitere BilderVerlag: Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, 1892
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Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong octavo, viii, [2], 20pp, [5pp ads]. Red cloth, title in gilt on front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, some wear to boards, faint toning to edges, light rubbing to corners, a near fine example. Complete with ten full-page c…olor plates. First edition of Illustrations of Indian Field Sports by Captain Thomas Williamson. (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Howlett for Thomas McLean, London, 1819
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Second. Second edition. London: Howlett for Thomas M'Lean, 1819. Oblong broadsheet folio (17 13/16" x 22 7/16", 453mm x 570mm). [Full collation available.] With a pochoir illustrated-title and 40 hand-colored aquatint-engraved plates. Bound in late-XIXc green panelled morocco by Pfister Co. (their…ink-stamp to the verso of the front free end-paper). In the corners, a stag, a fox, a lion and an elephant all gilt. On the spine, five raised bands. Title ("WILD/ SPORTS/ OF THE/ EAST") gilt to the second panel, author gilt to the fourth, imprint gilt to the tail. Gilt rolls to the turn-ins. Cream watered-silk end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. Sunning to the spine and peripheries. A little rubbing at the hinges, and along the peripheries. Fore-corners bumped. Evenly tanned, with offsetting at the plates. Tears to the edges of the leaves and plates, some repaired, seldom if ever affecting text or image. Lower fore-corner of leaf 12 restored (not affecting the text). Thomas George Williamson (ca. 1759-1817) served as an officer in the Bengal army of the British East India Company whose career was cut short for publishing in a newspaper his view of military policy. As such, he occupied a liminal position in British India, which allowed him to make rather more interesting observations than many of his co-evals (e.g., Cornwallis). Oriental field sports, first published in 20 parts in 1807 (reissued in 1808, and, per Tooley, "greatly inferior), is, as the long title suggests, an ambitious work that hazards far-reaching observations about Indian natural history, landscape and culture. Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822) specialized in the illustration of animals; the pochoir (i.e., stencil-painted) title of a recumbent tiger is an emblem of British books on India. Bibliographers do not generally (Abbey notes the Young imprint) record the present edition, which has come to market with imprints of Orme, Young and McLean as here. The watermarks (seemingly to the text only) date to 1817 and 1818. Frank J. Pfister (ca. 1853-1935) established a book-binding firm in New York in the late XIXc, at times working with Alfred William Launder, the Metropolitan Museum's first bookbinder. Cf. Abbey, Travel 427 (first edn.); Nissen, ZBI 4416 (first edn.); Schwerdt II p. 298 (first edn.), Tooley 508 (first edn.).
