Author:
EDYE Surgeon Captain J.S.
Title:
Sport In India And Somali Land With Hints To Young Shikaris
Price:
£280.00
Year:
1895
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Gale Poldon Ltd
City of Publication:
Aldershot
Summary:
170 pages, Frontis and 22 b/w plates from photographs, armorial bookplate of C.J. Anstruther to front pastedown, some spotting to inner blank and 1/2 title. Publishers' brown pictorial cloth with gilt seated native on horseback to the upper board within patterned boarders and title printed in black. A very good copy. The author recounts hunting lion and rhinoceros, in Somalia also leopard blackbuck, cheetah markhor, tiger etc in India. He includes skinning and the preservation of trophies. Czech India 69, Africa 90
Ref:
22657