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Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East, and exhibiting ... 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 [sic] animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of ... anecdotes

Title: Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East, and exhibiting ... 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 [sic] animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of ... anecdotes / taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal ; the drawings by Samuel Howitt, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists.
Author: Williamson, Thomas, Captain.
Publication: London : Printed for H.R. Young by J. M'Creery, 1819.

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2 v. : 42 ill. (40 col.); 34 cm.

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Illustrations: 2 added engraved title pages printed in sepia; 40 full-page hand-colored aquatints by J. Clark after Williamson and Howitt, with imprint: London : Published by Edw. Orme, & by B. Crosby & Co., 1807. Ill. are reduced copies of those in the original ed. (London : Printed ... for Edward Orme ..., 1807; issued in 20 monthly parts, 1805-1807) engraved by H. Merke, J. Hamble and Vivares.

Indexed In (note)

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.)
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting

Call Number

*KF+ 1819 85-154

OCLC

80507540
NYPG85-B46877

Author

Williamson, Thomas, Captain.

Title

Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East, and exhibiting ... 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 [sic] animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of ... anecdotes / taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal ; the drawings by Samuel Howitt, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists.

Imprint

London : Printed for H.R. Young by J. M'Creery, 1819.

Edition

2nd ed.

Indexed In:

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 510

Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, II, 299

Local Note

Binding, contemporary, in the style of Thomas Gosden, of green straight-grained morocco, gilt and blind-stamped, with gilt panel depicting sporting motifs, signed Knights sc., on front and back covers.

NYPL copy incomplete: Vol. 1 wanting.

Provenance: Library of Joan Whitney Payson.

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Added Author

Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822.

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770-1863.

Research Call Number

*KF+ 1819 85-154

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