Hunting - Sports - Bullfighting - Lot 353

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Hunting - Sports - Bullfighting - Lot 353
Hunting - Sports - Bullfighting CLARK (John Heaviside) Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes ... from Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch. London, Orme, 1814. (Followed by) Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales. London, Orme, 1813. In-4: unpaginated text and 110 aquatint plates after Samuel HOWITT, ATKINSON, J.H. CLARK, MANSKIRCH, engraved by DUBOURG, HOWITT, MERKE... (including 10 in the supplement, which has its own title page and a different printing date : Sports in the Field ... of the inhabitants of New South Wales ... London, Orme, 1813). Contemporary long-grain red chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, one spine split, wide garland and 3 gilt fillets framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, slight rubbing, edges gilt. A good copy. First edition of this beautiful work illustrating hunting and fishing sports throughout the world. One will note a dozen plates of bullfighting. The second book, illustrated with ten plates, is dedicated to New South Wales, a state in Australia.
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