Oriental Field Sports

Los 318
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 10 000
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VeranstaltungsortVereinigten Staaten, New York
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ID 753043
Los 318 | Oriental Field Sports
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$ 10 000 – 15 000
Oriental Field SportsThomas Williamson, 1807WILLIAMSON, Thomas (1758-1817). Oriental Field Sports: Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East. London: W. Bulmer for E. Orme, 1807 First edition of "the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence" (Schwerdt). “The printing process of the frontispiece and part wrappers, which show a tiger lying on a rock, seems remarkable and gives a brilliant effect when in fresh condition. The printing appears to be in oil colour, and in places it has chipped or flaked off… the process might possibly have been a stencil one, and the effect is similar to modern silk screen work” (Abbey). This copy with first issue of plate 31 ("Hunting Jackalls"); according to Abbey, "it is possible, but not certain, that all copies bound from parts, or the parts printing, contain the earlier state, making this an issue point." Those bound from parts, as seems to be the case here, contain "the finest impressions of the plates" (Toovey). Abbey Travel 427; Schwerdt II, 297; Tooley 508. Four volumes, oblong folio (585 x 480mm). Hand-colored frontispiece, 40 hand-colored aquatint plates (repaired tear on frontispiece just touching printed area, some repairs throughout--mostly marginalia but occasionally larger and affecting text, some leaves a little creased, a little worming in gutter). Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards with hand-colored blue wrappers pasted onto upper boards (rebacked to style, wrapper illustrations a little abraded). Provenance: Charles Chichester, Esq. (faint pencil inscription in vol. 1).
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