Williamson Captain T (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An important early visual record of Aboriginal Australian life, hunting and customs. 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, frontis, [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).…

1st Edn.. xi, [i], 316 pp, Pages uncut. illustrated with 10 engraved plates 7 of which show various tackle the other 3 plates show various fish. Inserted between the front-end papers a 12pp catalogue of new works by Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green dated 1830. Bound in the original blue paper covered boards with brown paper spine with the printed title label (priced 8s in Boards, light rubbing to head of spine, a very good clean copy in the original state. A comprehensive work on angling with details on tackle baits, flies, the fish coarse and sea fish, Westwood & Satchell, pp. 241-242.…

First edition. First edition. With 10 engraved plates. xi, [i], 316 pp. Printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden. 1 vols. 12mo. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 241-242 Bound in three quarters morocco, slightly rubbed at joints, by Riviere & Son. Bookplate of Samuel Lambert With 10 engraved plates. xi, [i], 316 pp. Printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden. 1 vols. 12mo. …