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BIG GAME, INDIA -- William RICE. Tiger-Shooting in India. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. 8° (260 x 172mm). Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 11 plates after Rice. 24-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1859 bound in at the end. (Occasional spotting and light marginal browning.) Original cloth gilt (a little rubbed, cracking on hinges). FIRST EDITION. 'A DESIRABLE BOOK -- ONE OF THE BEST ON THE SUBJECT' (Schwerdt). Abbey Travel 484; Schwerdt II, p. 134.
William RICE. "Indian Game" (from Quail to Tiger). London: Shaw and Sons for W.H. Allen & Co., 1884. 8° (256 x 172mm). Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 11 plates after Rice, one lithographic diagram. Woodcut illustrations. (Occasional spotting.) Original cloth, upper board and spine blocked in gilt and black, lower board blocked in blind (a little rubbed and marked, hinges split). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (1862-1939, bookplate). FIRST EDITION. THE SCHWERDT COPY. Schwerdt IV, p. 81.
Sir Samuel White BAKER (1821-1893). Eight Years in Ceylon. London: Spottiswoode and Co. for Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. 8° (190 x 127mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 5 plates, illustrations in the text. (Occasional light spotting and marking.) Original cloth, upper board and spine blocked in black and gold, lower board with blind-ruled border (extremities a little bumped and rubbed). 'New' [i.e. second] edition of Baker's Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed '8 August 1888 To Lady Stradbroke from the Author with best regards Sam W Baker'.
With 14 other works in 15 volumes on hunting in India and other countries, including: E.D. Miller's Fifty Years of Sport (London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [?1925], FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To His Royal Highness Prince Henry with best wishes from the author E.D. Miller Spring Hill Rugby 1925'); F. Markham's Shooting in the Himalayas (London: Richard Bentley, 1854, FIRST EDITION); A.E. Wardrop's Modern Pig-Sticking (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914, FIRST EDITION, PRINCE EDWARD'S COPY with his bookplate and inscribed 'To Harry Hoping that one day he'll get a chance of enjoying this great sport as much as I did--from David March 1924'); Marcus W. Millett's Jungle Sport in Ceylon (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1914, FIRST EDITION); J.H. Baldwin's The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876, FIRST EDITION). (18)
William RICE. "Indian Game" (from Quail to Tiger). London: Shaw and Sons for W.H. Allen & Co., 1884. 8° (256 x 172mm). Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 11 plates after Rice, one lithographic diagram. Woodcut illustrations. (Occasional spotting.) Original cloth, upper board and spine blocked in gilt and black, lower board blocked in blind (a little rubbed and marked, hinges split). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (1862-1939, bookplate). FIRST EDITION. THE SCHWERDT COPY. Schwerdt IV, p. 81.
Sir Samuel White BAKER (1821-1893). Eight Years in Ceylon. London: Spottiswoode and Co. for Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. 8° (190 x 127mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 5 plates, illustrations in the text. (Occasional light spotting and marking.) Original cloth, upper board and spine blocked in black and gold, lower board with blind-ruled border (extremities a little bumped and rubbed). 'New' [i.e. second] edition of Baker's Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed '8 August 1888 To Lady Stradbroke from the Author with best regards Sam W Baker'.
With 14 other works in 15 volumes on hunting in India and other countries, including: E.D. Miller's Fifty Years of Sport (London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [?1925], FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To His Royal Highness Prince Henry with best wishes from the author E.D. Miller Spring Hill Rugby 1925'); F. Markham's Shooting in the Himalayas (London: Richard Bentley, 1854, FIRST EDITION); A.E. Wardrop's Modern Pig-Sticking (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914, FIRST EDITION, PRINCE EDWARD'S COPY with his bookplate and inscribed 'To Harry Hoping that one day he'll get a chance of enjoying this great sport as much as I did--from David March 1924'); Marcus W. Millett's Jungle Sport in Ceylon (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1914, FIRST EDITION); J.H. Baldwin's The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876, FIRST EDITION). (18)
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