Lot 742: Captain Thomas Williamson 1790-1815 and Samuel

Captain Thomas Williamson 1790-1815 and Samuel Howitt 1755-1822- Oriental Field Sports..., c. 1805, "Decoy Elephants Leaving the Male Fastened to a Tree", plate 10; published Sept 1th 1805 by Edward Orme, Bond Street London, aquatint, by Henri Merke act. late 18th/early 19th century, After Captain Thomas Williamson and Samuel Howitt, from the original edition of forty plates from the "Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed and accurate description of the wild sports of the East"; aquatint's by H Merke, J.Hamble and Viveres after Captain Thomas Williamson and Samuel Howitt, 34x45cm: together with one other hand-coloured aquatint by H Merke "The Chase After A Hog" pl.3; 38x50cm, ea., (2) (unframed) Note: (Schwerdt): "First Edition, "The Most Beautiful Book On Indian Sport In Existence", with fine aquatint's including some of the earliest of the wild elephant".; Abbey Travel 427; Mellon 88; Nissen ZBI 4416; Podeschi 88; Schwerdt II 297-298; Tooley 508.
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