Author:
BRADDON Sir Edward
Title:
Thirty Years of Shikar
Price:
£300.00
Year:
1895
Edition:
1st Edn
Publisher:
W.H. Blackwood & Sons
Summary:
x+373pp. + 32 pp of adverts, frontis illustration and 13 decorative initial letters & 13 tailpieces heading & tailing to each chapter, large coloured folding map at rear. of "Oudh Forest Tracts & Nepal Terai." Bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt title and tiger hunting scene to the upper cover VG+ copy. A combination of Indian hunting and military and sporting exploits. Pig sticking, tiger shooting encounters with panther and bear and other game including elephant. The book was also issued in a plainer binding lettered in black. Czech 30
Ref:
23409