Foreign Field Sports: "Australian Aborigines": Sketch of the Manners Pursuits &c. of the Natives of New South Wales. Supplement section ONLY of Foreign Field Sports Fisheries Sporting Anecdotes 1813. 10 Aquatint hand coloured plates and letterpress.

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Here are the 10 aquatinted hand-coloured copper engraved plates issued as a supplement to "Foreign Field Sports" dated October 1st 1813 [but not sold until book was issued in 1814]. The plates are sold with the supplement letterpress pages describing the scenes and numbered pages 157-170. Engraved by M Dubourg after paintings by J H Clark. Some light handling and the odd light brown age spot, one plate of"Warriors of New South Wales" has a repair to top corner at gutter, plate itself not affected and professional repair to the back, all plates still suitable for either framing or to rebind as a separate Australian section. Quarto size. 31 x 22.5 cm. *These were the first hand coloured engravings of the Australian natives to be published and are wholly Australian in composition and interest, and strangely with a benign feel to the scenes not found later in the 19th century. Scenes are: 'Smoking Out the Opossum' 'Hunting the Kangaroo' 'Throwing the Spear' + 'Climbing Trees' + 'Fishing No. 1" + 'Fishing No. 2" + 'The Dance' + 'Warriors of New S. Wales' + 'Trial' (Initiation Ceremony) + 'Repose' *Note: R. V. Tooley states there was this 1813 supplement that went with "Foreign Field Sports and there was also an 1819 reprint but that was sold by H. R. Young and not Edward Orme and a 3rd edition issued without dates to the plates. These have the early imprint as "Published and Sold October 1st 1813. N° de ref. del artículo 8861

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