Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c
by Samuel Howitt
Published by Edward Orme, London, 1813

Gorgeous original hand-coloured aquatint engravings of exotic hunting and sporting scenes.

The sheet size of these beautiful aquatints is approximately 12 3/4 inches wide by 8 3/4 inches high.
(Image area varies, but approximately 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches.)
Printed on medium woven paper.
Mild grubbiness in the margins of most plates, occasional foxing, sometimes light text offsetting.
Please click on thumbnails for enlarged view of each plate.
(PLEASE NOTE: THE ENTIRE SHEET IS TOO LARGE FOR A COMPLETE SCAN, THUS THE MARGINS DO NOT APPEAR COMPLETE, BUT ARE.
THE LEFT & RIGHT MARGINS ARE APPROX. 2 INCHES AND THE TOP & BOTTOM ARE APPROX. 1 INCH.)

Hunted Elephant

The Elephant Killed

Anecdote of Hunters & Rhinoceros

$125

African Rhinoceros Hunting

Cafrres Hunting a Lion

$150

Hunting a Panther

$150

Shooting a Leopard

$150

Hunting the Gameleopard (Giraffe)

$125

Shooting Anecdote, India 1

$150

Shooting Anecdote, India 2

$175

Shooting the Hyaena

$125

Hunting the Tiger Cat [Lynx?]

$125

Hunting Antelopes with a Panther

$125

Tartars Hunting Deer

$125

A Trap to Shoot the Bear

The Bear Trap

$125

Finland Bear Hunting

$75

Kamtschatka Bear Hunting

$125

Hog Hunters in India Going Out No. 1

$125

German Wild Boar Trap

$125

Hunting Wild Boar in Germany

$125

Wild Boar Attacking Hunters

$125

Wild Boar Wounded

$125

Pions [sic] in S. America Catching Wild Horses

$150

South American Catching a Bull

$150

A Tartar Catching His Horse

$100

E. India Company's Stud at Chatterpore

$85

Mamalukes Exercising the Sabre

$100

Mamalukes Exercising the Spear

$100

Killing Seals in a Cavern

$125

Turtle Fishing in the Water

$100

Chamois Shooters Ascending the Rocks

$100

Chamois Shooters in the Tyrol

$100

Chamois Shooters Retreat

$100

Sailors Shooting a Wild Stag

$125

Shooting Antelopes, India

$125

German Deer Shooting, Winter

$125

Laplanders Hunting

$125

A Siberian Exile Shooting a Black Fox

$125

Russian Winter Fishery

$85

Anecdote, Shooting a Porcupine

$140

Catching the Badger

$140

Shooting a White Hare at Tornio

$140

Untitled (frontispiece?)

$50
(please click thumbnail for info)

German Fox Trap
[1]

$125

German Fox Trap
[2]

$115

German Wolf Trap

$125

Shooting Wolves in Winter

$125

American Anecdote, Wolves & Boy

$125

American Anecdote, Shooting the Wolves

$100

The Eagle & Wolf Disputing the Prize

Battle with the Great Boa & a Tiger

Egyptians, Crocodile Catching

The African Crocodile Hunters

Shooting the African Buffalo

$100

Lions waiting for their prey

$50
(a bit grubby, slightly rumpled, trimmed but ample margins...would look fine once mounted/framed.)

Mexican Lizard Catcher

Taking Vipors [sic] (vipers)

$75