FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES &c. WITH A SUPPLEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Containing One Hundred and Ten Plates.

172 pp including index, quarto, 110 beautiful hand-coloured plates in fine fresh condition including the very desirable Australian supplement. Contemporary straight red grain morocco, all edges gilt. The scarce second edition of a famous work, in larger format - one of the most notable books from the golden age of the handcoloured illustrated book. Orme's Foreign Field Sports comprised the 100-plate main work, depicting European, African, Indian, and American hunting scenes, together with a supplement of ten handcoloured aquatint plates of Australian Aboriginal scenes. The plates in this supplement represent in vivid style and delicate detail various aspects of Aboriginal life in the bush. The plates are justly celebrated and are without question the most attractive and sympathetic of the early European depictions of the Aboriginal inhabitants.