447. [Howitt (Samuel, illustrator )].- Williamson ( Capt . Thomas) Oriental Field Sports...Wild Sports of the East, with 40 hand-coloured aquatint engraved plates as issued, reinforcement to verso of engraved title where creased, each plate with a page of descriptive text, captions in English and French, a little light browning, contemporary half brown hard-grain morocco, joints sympathetically repaired, brown cloth, gilt, [Abbey, Travel, 427; Schwerdt II], oblong folio, 1807.
est. £6500 – £7000
“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].