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...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas McLean, London
Date Published: 1819
Description: Second edition, large oblong folio (approx. 23 1/2" x 18 1/2"); pp. [2], 146; 40 spectacular hand-colored lithographs after drawings by Samuel Howett; full straight-grain blue morocco stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked to match; some scuffing of the binding, small repair to top corner of margin on frontispiece, but internally a fine and clean copy, brilliantly colored. Abbey Travel 427 citing the first edition (in original parts: "extremely rare") of 1805-07. There were two cheaper ... read more
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