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This
is an important work on the wild animals of India and forms a
significant link in the development of travel guide literature
to South Asia. It was quite possibly the first extensive guide
to hunting in India written by an Englishman. It is also a rare
work and no copy of it exists in any Australian library as far
as I can determine.
It includes forty beautiful plates,
and two fronticepieces, which are presented here separately from
the text of the book itself. The decision to present them separately
was made because they are not paginated in with the text of the
book and are arranged so as to face the page numbers mentioned
after each plate title.The plates are also found as a separate
series of coloured prints.
Bibliographic Details
Author: Captain Thomas Williamson
Title: Oriental Field Sports
Place: London
Publisher: Edward Orme
Date: 1808
Volume 1: xv+321 and 21 plates, Volume 2: iv+255 and 21 plates
[Added to DCD on Monday, January 8, 2007]
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