Books and Manuscripts

(Williamson, Thomas)
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…With a Supplement of New South Wales
London: Published and Sold by Edward Orme, Printed by J.F. Dove, 1813-14. First edition. Two parts in one volume (with: Field Sports…of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales… London, 1813). 4to. With general half-title and separate title-page for Supplement. Illustrated with 110 hand-colored engraved plates, after drawings by Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, etc. Full contemporary brown calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, rebacked, tips renewed, wear and rubbing to extremities and boards, joints and spine ends worn; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; front and rear hinges repaired; armorial book-plate of Herbert Howard Wilson on front paste-down; soiling to prelims and text leaves; scattered stains in fore-edges of some plates and text, especially in plates German Deer Shooting and Wild Boar Wounded; tape repair in verso fore-edge of Hindoo Elephant Trap; small loss in bottom edge of Shooting the Hyaena, not affecting image. Abbey, Travel 2; Tooley 224

A handsome copy of this richly illustrated work on hunting, fishing, whaling, and related sporting activities from around the world. This copy includes the scarce supplement on New South Wales, with ten engraved scenes depicting hunting and customs of the region's Indigenous Peoples.