Williamson, Captain Thomas Plate 36, "Smoking Wolves from Their Earths" from Oriental Field Sports;being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports ofthe East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the NaturalHistory of. . . undomesticated animals. . . interspersed with a variety oforiginal, authentic, and curious anecdotes London: Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty 59, Bond Street, September 1, 1806 Williamson spent20 years in Bengal. Howitt (c. 1756-1823) was the brother- in-law of Thomas Rowlandson. Drawings are on watermarked J. Whatman paper dated 1804, letterpress title, dedication, preface, 150 pp. text and index, list of plates leaf. British Sporting Artists, p. 165: "The most beautiful book on Indian Sport in Existence. Another edition was published in 1808. It is greatly inferior to the First Edition." First Edition. Oblong folio, 18-3/16 x14 inches to plate mark. Colored aquatint plate no. 34 (actually 36) by J. Hamble after Samuel Howitt's Drawings. Framed and matted. Abbey Travel 427; Archer 7; Nissen ZBI, 4416; Schwerdt, vol. II, p. 297; Tooley (1954), 508 Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 215633    inquire

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