Lot 375
Big game hunting - Foreign Field Sports
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
£1,188
Description
Foreign Field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, with a supplement of New South Wales. London: Edward Orme, [n.d., text and plates watermarked 1823]. 4to, 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates [dated 1813 in plate imprints], plates within wash borders, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., spine emblematically tooled in compartments, some offsetting onto text, occasional light dust-soiling, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 1 (note, undated edition)]
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire