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Condition: 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 Empire. 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 'politically correct' age, but these memoirs and the many coloured plates are an item for the collector to treasure. Book.…

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Condition: 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 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 'politically correct' age, but these memoirs and the many coloured plates are an item for the collector to treasure. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: 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).…

Hardcover. Condition: 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, additional 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, & engraved by the first artists. WILLIAMSON Thomas Captain. HOWITT Samuel (MERKE Henri. VIVARES. HAMBLE J). (illustrator).…

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Two vols, large 4to, pp.I: xiv, [ii], 306; II: [iv], 239, [1, blank], [12, index], with an additional engraved title-page (oblong) and a total of forty hand-coloured etched plates of animals and hunting scenes (watermarked 1817); slightly toned, text leaves somewhat foxed throughout as always (the plates largely unaffected), dedication leaf in vol.I creased; a good copy in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with a wide floriated border in gilt and blind, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered and numbered directly in two, the others with a gilt block of a tiger hunting a deer; edges a little rubbed, corners bumped.Second quarto edition, one of the most beautiful of all hunting books, first published in 18057. Williamson served over twenty years in Bengal, and his pig-sticking, tiger-shooting, and buffalo-hunting adventures are described here, with lively illustrations after his original sketches by the self-taught sporting artist Samuel Howitt (1756/71822). His early work showed a debt to Thomas Rowlandson, his brother-in-law, 'but Howitt developed a more individual style as his career as a sporting artist progressed. He seems to have had an innate capacity for drawing animals, from commonplace hare and deer to exotic species that he studied in menageries. He was an animated draughtsman, and his drawings of hunts and sporting events have a fluidity and excitement fitting to the subject' (ODNB). The work was first published in twenty monthly folio parts for subscribers, with aquatint plates in 18057, and then in a reduced size edition of 18078, with the plates etched by Evans. Both the folio and the quarto editions were reprinted in 1819. Abbey, Travel 427 (1807); Czech, p.228; SchwerdtII, p.298 (1807 & 1808); Tooley 510.…

Hardcover. Condition: 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.).…

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.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes, 4to., (11 3/8 x 9 inches). Additional lithographed title-pages, dedication to George III, and 40 fine tinted aquatint plates by J. Clark after Samuel Howett (some occasional, mostly marginal spotting). Contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, all edges gilt (minor rubbing to joints and edges). Provenance: with the bookplates of Edward Francis Hutton on the front paste-down of each volume; with the small bookplate of Wolfgang A. Herz on the front paste-down of each volume, his sale "Important Voyages and Travels" Christies 9th December 2009, lot 159. First quarto edition, an early issue with plates and text watermarked 1805 and 1806, and an attractive copy. "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 Tiger, the Rhinoceros." (subtitle). "A self-taught artist, he turned professional when financial difficulties forced him to earn a living. He drew on his enthusiasm and knowledge as a sportsman and produced sporting and natural history paintings, etchings, and illustrations. He sometimes worked in oils but more frequently in watercolours, and he was an accomplished etcher" (Ruth Cohn for DNB). Abbey Travel 431; Tooley 510. **We original watercolors related to this title. Please inquire with Alison Petretti.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1892 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 74 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 74 Language: English.…

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For Oriental Field Sports, 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt). Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches). Siltzer p.164.

For Oriental Field Sports, 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt). Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches). Siltzer p.164.

For Oriental Field Sports, 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt). Captain Williamson was an extremely talented amateur artist who had built up a fine collection of sketches suitable for turning in to aquatint. He teamed up with Howett - a notable sportsman as well as an industrious engraver of animals to produce this magnificent work, widely considered to contain the finest images of field sports of the Orient. By their very nature aquatint books were always very expensive, but the British public had a great curiosity about India and Williamson's work helped satisfy this desire to know more about the customs of Britain's new addition to the empire. Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches).…

For Oriental Field Sports, 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt). Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches). Samuel Howitt, The Common Wolf Trap, 1819 Siltzer p.164.

For Oriental Field Sports, 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt). Captain Williamson was an extremely talented amateur artist who had built up a fine collection of sketches suitable for turning in to aquatint. He teamed up with HowItt - a notable sportsman as well as an industrious engraver of animals to produce this magnificent work, widely considered to contain the finest images of field sports of the Orient. By their very nature aquatint books were always very expensive, but the British public had a great curiosity about India and Williamson's work helped satisfy this desire to know more about the customs of Britain's new addition to the empire. Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches).…

Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 x 490mm. (14.75 x 19.25 inches). Siltzer p. 164. For "Oriental Field Sports".

A superlative copy with pre-publication watermarks of the rare first edition of "the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence" (Schwerdt) and justifiably described by the distinguished art historian Martin Hardie as "one of the finest series of sporting plates ever published". The vivacious Samuel Howitt was a self-taught artist who started life as a man of independent means; he was a keen sportsman, hunter, rider, and angler. He "turned professional when financial difficulties forced him to earn a living. He drew on his enthusiasm and knowledge as a sportsman and produced sporting and natural history paintings, etchings, and illustrations" (ODNB). He was Thomas Rowlandson's brother-in-law and his "early watercolour style has similarities to Rowlandson's, but Howitt developed a more individual style as his career as a sporting artist progressed. He seems to have had an innate capacity for drawing animals, from commonplace hare and deer to exotic species that he studied in menageries. He was an animated draughtsman, and his drawings of hunts and sporting events have a fluidity and excitement fitting to the subject" (ibid.). The author, Captain Thomas Williamson, was a multi-faceted soldier who served for 20 years with the Bengal army. Peremptorily dismissed from the service after voicing his opinion on British military policy in a newspaper article, he was forced to become, in the words of one historian, a reluctant "hack polymath" (Edwards, p. 674). In the present work he describes his "pig-sticking adventures; shooting tigers from machans [a platform erected in a tree] and elephant back, hunting buffalo, driving hogs, bears and wolves; and shooting peacocks and other game", creating "a benchmark in capturing the sporting bibliophile's imagination" (Czech). The work was issued for subscribers in twenty monthly parts between June 1805 and January 1807. The publisher Edward Orme was, "after Rudolph Ackermann, the most important publisher of illustrated books during the short golden age of the coloured aquatint" (ODNB); and for this enterprise he employed the services of the finest London printer of the day, William Bulmer. While bridling at the published price of twenty guineas - "a trifle in a Nabob's pocket: but Nabobs are not numerous in England" - the reviewer in the Monthly Review commented that "much entertainment for the eye, and much information for the mind, will be found in this splendid volume". He closes by observing that the plates, "handsomely framed" would "make an appropriate decoration of an apartment fitted up in the Asiatic style"; and thereby giving some indication of the destiny, even from an early date, of many copies of this superb book - to be broken by print dealers. Provenance: engraved armorial bookplate of Henry C. B. Bowles (1831-1918) by Henry Salt, a noted heraldic engraver. Bowles, of independent means, was JP for Middlesex and last governor of the New River Company; his residence, Myddelton House, a handsome Regency villa near Enfield, is known today for its fine gardens. Abbey, Travel, 427; Czech p. 228; Schwerdt II, 297; Tooley (1954) 508. The Monthly Review, September to December, 1807; Owain Edwards, "Captain Thomas Williamson of India", Modern Asian Studies, 14, 4, 1980; Martin Hardie, English Coloured Books, 1906. Landscape folio (460 x 560 mm). Complete with the additional hand-coloured title and 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates, all by Henri Merke, excepting 31, soft-ground etching with aquatint, by Viveres (Thomas Vivares), and 27 & 34, stipple engravings with aquatint, by J. Hamble; watermarks: J. Whatman 1804 (for the plates) and J. Whatman 1804 and E & P 1804 (for the text); with plate XXXI ("Hunting Jackalls") in the first state. Mid-19th-century red half morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt-lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, others with gilt scrolling decoration enclosing a foliate lozenge surrounded by stars and circlets, sides and corners trimmed with blind wavy line and gilt anthemion rolls, original blue stencil-coloured part wrapper mounted on front cover, Turkish pattern marbled sides and endpapers, gilt edges. Professional repair to foot of front joint, first few leaves lightly creased, a number of leaves lightly cockled at head. An excellent copy, clean and bright and handsomely bound.…

"The Manners, Customs, Scenery, and Costume of a Territory, Now Intimately Blended with the British Empire" (Preface) Forty Magnificent Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas, [Author, Illustrator], [HOWITT, Samuel, Illustrator]. 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 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. The Drawings by Samuel Howitt, Made Uniform in Size, and Engraved by the First Artists. Second Edition. London: Published by Edward Orme, [1819]. Second edition, later issue with plates watermarked 1828. Folio (12 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 327 x 241 mm.). [xii], [2, list of plates], 455, [1] pp. Forty magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates with original? loose tissue guards. Some very slight offsetting to text from plates, otherwise a very fine example. On the verso of the title-page is the imprint "W. Lewis, Printer." Contemporary full dark red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind. Spine with four shallow raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins, original dark gray/brown end-papers, all edges gilt. Small early booksellers description on front paste-down. Fine. The second edition of the finest book ever published on Indian sport and one of the great plate books of the period. Two cheaper editions published in 1807 and 1808 were both reduced in size. Williamson served in a British regiment in Bengal and was an avid sportsman while there. After being recalled to England, Williamson"s knowledge of wild life and Oriental sports come to the notice of Orme, who contracted this present work from 1805-1807. The painter Samuel Howitt was hired to prepare finished watercolors based on Williamson"s original sketches during his time in India. The result was "the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence" (Schwerdt). Abbey, Travel, II, 431; Tooley, 510; Schwerdt II, p. 298; Mellon, British Sporting and Animal Prints, p. 203. …