Lot 217
[FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes... with a Supplement of New South Wales. L: Edward Orme, n.d., plates watermarked 1823?. Undated edition, likely later than 1819 2nd edition.
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[FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS]. Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c. From Drawings... with a Supplement of New South Wales. London: Edward Orme, n.d., plates watermarked 1823?.
4to (342 x 239 mm). Half-title, frontispiece, 110 hand-colored aquatint plates (dated 1813 in plate imprints). (Some offsetting, spotting, and staining.) Original half straight-grain maroon morocco, spines gilt-lettered (some light soiling and wear, spine sunned). Provenance: Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968) American-British mining magnate and philanthropist (bookplate).
Undated edition, likely later than the second edition of 1819, which is "the same as the preceding [1819] edition with certain modifications in the text" including the title-page imprint as "London: Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty, New Bond Street" (Abbey). Contains illustrations depicting sport around the world, including depictions of whale hunting and bull fighting. Plates watermarked to 1823? and prints dated to 1813. Abbey Travel 2 JA1164 (note, undated edition).
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Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch
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