Lot 187
India.- Williamson (Capt. Thomas) and Samuel Howett. Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East, "second edition", H. R. Young, [plates watermarked 1825]
Hammer Price: £1,100
Description
India.- Williamson (Capt. Thomas) and Samuel Howett. Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East, "second edition", paper repair to pp.273-6 fore-margin, offsetting, occasional foxing, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplates of Henry Thomas Partridge and Lord Farnham to front pastedown and endpaper, 19th century straight-grain navy morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original gilt backstrip, hinges repaired, g.e., [cf. Abbey, Travel 427], 4to, H. R. Young, [plates watermarked 1825]
Description
India.- Williamson (Capt. Thomas) and Samuel Howett. Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East, "second edition", paper repair to pp.273-6 fore-margin, offsetting, occasional foxing, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplates of Henry Thomas Partridge and Lord Farnham to front pastedown and endpaper, 19th century straight-grain navy morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original gilt backstrip, hinges repaired, g.e., [cf. Abbey, Travel 427], 4to, H. R. Young, [plates watermarked 1825]