Published by Edward Orme, printseller to his Majesty 1814-1813, 1814
1st edn. Unpaginated 4to. 110 hand-coloured plates. Each plate accompanied by explanatory text. 100 plates to the first part, second title page for the New South Wales section with 10 coloured plates, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate to the front paste down of Mr Robt Maxwell, some light spotting to blank end papers. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained dark green Morocco binding, gilt tooled and blind stamped frames to the boards. The spine with raised bands gilt ornate tooling to 4 compartments and gilt title. Some light surface rubbing to the edges. The work depicts all manner of hunting sports and trapping, including big game hunting, whaling, fishing, birding, hunting in North America, Germany, Lapland, Spain, Russia, India, Asia and Africa, bull fighting in Spain. The New South Wales supplement with the illustrations of the 'Field sports depicting hunting and customs of the Indigenous Peoples. "The colour plates in this work, especially those drawn by Howitt, are both fine as regards draughtsmanship and production" Schwerdt 1, 177-179.Abbey Travel 2.
Published by Edward Orme. Printed by J. F. Dove 1814, 1813, London, 1814
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 4to. 28 by 22 cm. Unpaginated. 110 hand-colored plates. 107 of these are aquatints, two are line engravings, and one, a stipple and line engraving. Second title page for the New South Wales section. Each plate accompanied by one to four pages of explanatory text -- most are one or two pages long, though. The plates and the stories they tell are immensely varied in both the geographic location of the scenes and the type of hunting depicted. Not only are all continents represented, but also, such activities as whalehunting are included. Animals are shown in their own hunts, and even pursuing humans as well. One such plate, for instance, shows men desperately climbing a tree to escape a rhinoceros and as their horses panic. These plates were justly celebrated for their exciting drama and dynamism. A small sampling of other scenes: South American peons capturing bulls, then horses; Russians fishing in winter; Mamalukes wielding the sabre; sailors shooting wild deer; elephants in a pitfall; a Hindu elephant trap; shooting a leopard; wild boar shooting in Germany; hunting antelopes with a panther; taking vipers; seal catching in Greenland; and on and on. The New South Wales plates concern aborigines, and they show aborigines as warriors as well as hunting and fishing. Binding: contemporary diced Russia calf. Tooled in gilt. Edges marbled. Condition: rebacked, with original spine pasted on -- binding comes off as original throughout. Heavy rubbing along edges. Still attractive full calf. Tissue guards are heavily foxed. Some scattered light foxing and soiling on the text and plate leaves, but overall, these read as clean.
Published by London Edward Orme Printseller to his Majesty, New Bond Street, Howlett and Brimmer, Printers Frith Street, Soho, (Plates dated 1813), n.d. (1819),, 1819
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
First Edition
in-folio, 2 leaves (half-title & titlepage) + 170 p. + 1 leaf (Index) + 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, and Manskirch. engraved ex-libris with coat of arms ?Charles Langton Massingberd? with devise ?Est Meruisse Satis?, contemporary full straight-grained dark morocco binding, large giltframe on both covers, traces of use, joints starting, but firm, inside joints reinforced with leather, edges of boards a bit scuffed. Spine richly gilt. Second large-paper edition. Almost identical to the 1814 /(& suppl.) 1813 editions published by Orme & H. R. Young. Our copy with the imprint of Howlett and Brimmer on title-page v°. The vibrant illustrations of the magnificient work depict all manner of hunting sports and traps, including big game hunting, whaling, fishing, birding, hunting in North America, Germany, Lapland, Spain, Russia, India, Asia and Africa. Also 13 beautiful plates on bull fighting, and especially the supplement with the illustrations of the ?Field sports of the Native Inhabitants? (Australia) with bird-hunting on trees and fishing from dugout canoes, always with illustrations of numerous natives and idyllic landscapes all in colors. The earliest editions of this work (Tooley 226) contained 110 plates, and Tooley mentions another issue but does not indicate that fewer plates were included. The plates are dated 1813 but not watermarked; the second edition was published in 1819. Includes four illustrations of whaling.2. Ausgabe eines der prächtigsten Werke über alle Arten der Jagd in einem vollständigen Exemplar, einschl. d. Supplements. Die abwechslungsreiche Farbpalette sowie die in feinster Aquarelltechnik altkolorierten Tafeln illustrieren die informativen Texte der Jagdszenen. Behandelt wird die Jagd auf allen Kontinenten und bei allen Völkern: Jagd auf Elefanten in Indien und Afrika, auf Nashörner, Löwen, Tiger und Leoparden, in Europa auf Wildschweine, Bären, Füchse., in der Arktis und in Nordamerika auf Wölfe, Fischfang mit Fackeln, Wal-und Haifischjagd, Echsenjagd in Mexiko, Hirschjagd in Sibirien, Pferdefang bei den Tataren, Jagd auf Riesenschildkröten in der Südsee. Im Suppl. der Jagd in New South Wales (Australien).Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Abbey Travel 2-3. (other editions); Jagdbibliothek Kurt Lindner. Kat. Zisska 41/1, n°1174 (stating first edition ?London Orme, 1814, Suppl. 1813); Tooley 226 (first ed.); Nissen ZBI 2019; Schwerdt I, 177.
Published by Edward Orme n.d. (circa 1823), London, 1823
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco, with gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments (expertly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down), ornate gilt-stamped borders; folio; with 110 hand-colored aquatint plates. Edges of boards a bit scuffed; small circular stain on front board; minor off-setting from plates. Second, large-paper edition. Identical to the 1819 edition published by H. R. Young in six points, but has imprint of Howlett and Brimmer on title-page verso. The vibrant illustrations depict all manner of hunting sports, including big game hunting, whaling, fishing, birding, and bull fighting in North America, Germany, Lapland, Spain, Russia, and Africa. Abbey Travel 2-3.
Published by H.R. Young, London: 56, Paternosterr-Row, 1819
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HOWITT. ATKINSON. CLARK. MANSKIRCH. etc (illustrator). 2nd Edition. With 110 Splendid Hand Coloured Aquatint Plates 1819, Second edition of this splendidly illustrated work, [2], [1], 2-170 pp, [2] index, with 110 hand coloured aquatint plates, text and tissue-guarded plates generally quite clean, original colouring bright and vivid. With a Supplement of New South Wales. Large quarto, contemporary full straight-grain morocco re-backed, original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, elaborately gilt-decorated covers, all edges gilt. (327*234 mm). (Abbey Travel 3. Tooley 225). Armorial bookplate & ink library number to fpd (Charles Tennant). Plates after S. Howitt and others depicting vivid scenes of hunting and other field sports in countries around the world. The author of the main part of the text was Captain Thomas Williamson, who also wrote the text for Oriental Field Sports (described as "the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence" (Schwerdt II: 297). This large work includes scenes of hunting African crocodiles, buffalo, elephants and rhinoceros, as well as North American bears, Siberian foxes, South American wild horses, German wolves, deer, etc. Also includes plates depicting whale hunting and an extraordinary series of plates of seal catching in Greenland, as well as 13 splendid plates of bull fighting. The supplement (157-170) on field sports of New South Wales (with nine plates) was written by John Heaviside Clark. First published in 1814. A beautiful copy.