WILLIAMSON, THOMAS and SAMUEL HOWITT 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... London: W. Bulmer for E. Orme and B. Crosby, 1808. Second quarto edition. Two volumes. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked to style preserving marbled endpapers. 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23 cm); 306; 239 pp., index, with 2 lithographed additional titles and 40 engraved aquatint plates after Howitt (this copy uncolored). A very fine clean copy with only stray marginal spotting, creases to one preface leaf, bookplates of John Bragge and Alexander Byers. Abbey 431; Tooley 510. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
WILLIAMSON, THOMAS and SAMUEL HOWITT 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... London: W. Bulmer for E. Orme and B. Crosby, 1808. Second quarto edition. Two volumes. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked to style preserving marbled endpapers. 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23 cm); 306; 239 pp., index, with 2 lithographed additional titles and 40 engraved aquatint plates after Howitt (this copy uncolored). A very fine clean copy with only stray marginal spotting, creases to one preface leaf, bookplates of John Bragge and Alexander Byers. Abbey 431; Tooley 510. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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