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A.I.R.G. (A.I.R.Glasfurd). LEAVES FROM AN INDIAN JUNGLE. |
£125.00 |
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Gathered during Thirteen Years of a Jungle Life in the Central Provinces, the Deccan and Berar. 247pp. 20 illustrations from drawings by the author. Photograph as frontispiece. Internally good but boards rubbed and edges slightly worn. 1903 First edition, The Times Press, Bombay. |
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Ali, Salim. THE FALL OF A SPARROW. |
£10.00 |
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265pp. Index. 71 b/w illustrations. Paperback edition. Autobiography of celebrated Indian naturalist. Accounts of bird expeditions all over the sub-continent including Burma, Tibet and Afghanistan. Fine. 1988 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Ali, Salim. THE BOOK OF INDIAN BIRDS. |
£12.00 |
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175pp. Index. Published for the Bombay Natural History Society. With 70 plates in colour of paintings depicting 280 species, and 22 in b/w. Fine in very good dw. 1977 Tenth edition. |
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Alter, Stephen. ELEPHAS MAXIMUS. |
£10.00 |
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A Portrait of the Indian Elephant. 320pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Harcourt Books, Orlando, Florida. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. NINE MAN-EATERS AND ONE ROGUE. |
£14.00 |
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251pp. 9 plates of b/w photographs and 5 sketch-maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 Reprint, Tideline Books. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI. |
£10.00 |
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247pp. 9 b/w photographs. Very good. 1960 Second impression US, Rand Macnally. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI |
£25.00 |
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and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle. 247pp. 5 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Ex-Boots Library. Very good indeed. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI |
£24.00 |
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and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle. 247pp. 5 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anon. THE ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE. |
£162.00 |
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From June 1828 to June 1833. In 2 vols. 492 and 436pp + Kegan Paul publisher's catalogue. Formerly in 'The Royal Library', Clifton. Slack but sound. Labels on front boards and front endpapers. 1873 Henry S.King. |
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Baden-Powell, Captain R.S.S. PIG-STICKING OR HOG-HUNTING. |
£98.00 |
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A Complete Account for Sportsmen; and Others. 312pp. Index. 42 of the author's humorous drawings, including 4 plates in colour. The illustrations were new to this edition. In the original green cloth. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1924 revised and enlarged edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Baker, E.C.Stuart. THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. |
£120.00 |
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Vol II, Snipe, Bustards and Sand-Grouse. 328pp. Index. 19 plates in colour from paintings by H.Gronvold. Stoutly bound with leather spine and corners. Extremities a little rubbed. Otherwise a very clean copy. 1921 First edition, The Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. THE RIFLE AND HOUND IN CEYLON. |
£40.00 |
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353pp. 6 full-page engravings. Silver Library edition. Very good. 1890 Reprint, Longmans. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. |
£76.00 |
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Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 455pp. 29 engraved illustrations. Expertly recased in the original decorated cloth. Very good. Spine rubbed. 1891 First Macmillan. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. EIGHT YEARS IN CEYLON. |
£58.00 |
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376pp. 6 engraved plates. Topography, natural history and hunting. First published in 1855. Recased in the original decorated green cloth. Very good. 1874 New edition Longmans. |
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Bates, R.S.B. and Lowther, E.H.N. BREEDING BIRDS OF KASHMIR. |
£14.00 |
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367pp. Index. 151 b/w photographs and 5 coloured plates by D.V.Cowen. First published in 1952. Fine in fine dw. 1991 reprint, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Blood, General Sir Bindon. FOUR SCORE YEARS AND TEN. |
£76.00 |
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356pp. Index. 8 plates and 4 maps. Autobiography of commander of the Malakand Field Force; sport and soldiering. Long service in India and on the North-West Frontier. In the original black cloth with gilt coat of arms on front board Very good . Internally excellent witout stains, labels or inscriptions. Hinges sound Slight nick to foot of spine. 1933 First edition, G.Bell and Sons. |
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Boomgaard, Peter. FRONTIERS OF FEAR. |
£16.00 |
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Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950. 306pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Booth, Martin. CARPET SAHIB. |
£19.00 |
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A Life of Jim Corbett. 278pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1987 Reprint, Constable. |
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Brander, Michael. THE BIG GAME HUNTERS. |
£16.00 |
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192pp. Many b/w illustrations. With a critical bibliography. Several long chapters on India. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Sportsman's Press. |
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Brown, J.Moray. SHIKAR SKETCHES WITH NOTES ON INDIAN FIELD SPORTS. |
£188.00 |
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336pp + publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with 9 full-page drawings. Concludes with a 39pp section of Indian sporting songs. Recased with the original decorated cloth laid-on. 1887 First edition, Hurst & Blackett. |
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Budden, John. JUNGLE JOHN. |
£10.00 |
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A Book of the Big Game Jungles. 304pp. Drawings. Fiction. Forest Officer's son learns the lore of the jungle. Very good. Crease to cloth of front board. 1929 Third impression, Longmans. |
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Burke, W.S. THE INDIAN FIELD SHIKAR BOOK. |
£75.00 |
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585pp. Index. Advertisments. 'Game Register' unused in rear pocket with the former owner's own small shikar notebook. Practical handbook concerning laws, licences, equipment etc. With factual information on game species. 8vo landscape. Ownership inscription of Major R.E.R.James 3/11 Sikh Reg., Dated 8.45. Very good. Rear hinge cracked but holding well. 1928 Seventh edition. Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla. |
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Byrne, Peter. SHIKARI SAHIB. |
£28.00 |
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335pp. Over 80 b/w photographs. He traces the jungle routes taken by Jim Corbett and identifies the places described in his books. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi Kathmandu. |
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Champion, F.W. WITH A CAMERA IN TIGER-LAND. |
£55.00 |
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228pp. Lavishly produced quarto volume with 73 full-page photographic plates. Forest Service officer who used a camera not a gun. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy with the very slightest fraying to the spine edge and an ownership signature from 1941. 1927 Third impression, Chatto & Windus.. |
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Champion, F.W. WITH A CAMERA IN TIGER-LAND. |
£45.00 |
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228pp. Lavishly produced quarto volume with 73 full-page photographic plates. Forest Service officer who used a camera not a gun. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1927 First edition, Chatto & Windus.. |
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Chilton, James. LORD OF THE JUNGLE. |
£12.00 |
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Burghi Bagh. The Life Story of a Notorious Tiger. 238pp. Drawings. Animals fictionalised by big-game hunter. A good copy in remains of dw. 1947 University of London Press Ltd. |
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Conway, Capt.C.W.W.S. SUNLIT WATERS. |
£25.00 |
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An Introduction to the Art of Fishing with Light Tackle. 163pp. 4to. 13 b/w and colour plates. Mainly fishing for mahseer in North Indian rivers. Internally very good. But boards rubbed and hinges strained. 1942 First edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£21.00 |
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212pp. Near-fine. Inscription. 1946 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. THE JIM CORBETT OMNIBUS. |
£16.00 |
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547pp. 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', 'The Temple Tiger' and 'Man-Eating Leopard of Rudrayprayag' in a single volume. Fine in fine dw. 1991 Oxfors University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON |
£10.00 |
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252pp. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard. Very good. 1952 First thus, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£12.00 |
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212pp. 4 photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1946 Oxford University Press and The Book Society. |
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Corbett, Jim. TREE TOPS. |
£10.00 |
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His last small book illustrated by Raymond Sheppard describing the Queen's visit to Tree Tops in Kenya at the time of her accession. 30pp. Very good in rubbed and worn dw. 1955 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£42.00 |
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212pp. 4 b/w photographs. Foreword by The Viceroy. Without inscriptions, labels or stains. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy in complete dustwrapper with slight edge-wear. 1946 First UK edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. MY KUMAON. |
£12.00 |
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Uncollected Writings. xx + 142pp. Card covers. Previously unpublished material and letters from the publisher's archive. Fine. 2015 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Courtney, Nicholas. THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Symbol of Freedom. 110pp. 4to. 65 illustrations in colour and b/w. Maps. The tiger in art, literature and history. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Quartet. |
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Courtney, Nicholas. THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Symbol of Freedom. 110pp. 4to. 65 illustrations in colour and b/w. Maps. The tiger in art, literature and history. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Quartet. |
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Cunningham, Lt.-Colonel D.D. SOME INDIAN FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES. |
£24.00 |
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A Study of the Ways of Birds and Other Animals Frequenting Indian Streets and Gardens. 423pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and 22 black and white plates. Very good but front endpaper damaged by scratching out an inscrition and tearing the paper. Otherwise an excellent copy. 1903 First edition, Johm,Murray. |
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Day, J.Wentworth. KING GEORGE V AS A SPORTSMAN. |
£15.00 |
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300pp. Index. 52 b/w photographs. Two chapters (37pp) on he royal tour of India for the Durbar of 1911 with 4 full page photographs. Very good. 1935 First edition, Cassell. |
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Day, Michael. FIGHT FOR THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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One Man's Battle to Save the Wild Tiger from Extinction. 374pp. Index. 49 photographs in colour and b/w. The illegal tiger trade of the Far East investigated. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Headline. |
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Dewar, Douglas. THE SPORTSMAN'S BIRDS OF INDIA. |
£18.00 |
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126pp. 4to. Illustrated with black and white drawings by G.A.Levett-Yates. In the original green cloth. Very good. Minor dents to bottom edge. 1923 First edition, Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, Thacker. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. |
£50.00 |
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324pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Account of his career in the Indian Forest Service from 1873. Boards poor, with cloth of one corner and one inch of the fore-edge worn through but not fraying. Internally very good. 1910 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. THE LIFE OF AN ELEPHANT. |
£36.00 |
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177pp. 9 plates and many drawings in the text. In the original red cloth Very good. Boards a little marked. 1912 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Elliott, Major-General J.G. FIELD SPORTS IN INDIA 1800-1947. |
£16.00 |
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223pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Sections on the Spear, the Rifle, the Rod and the Gun. Fine in dustwrapper with a single short tear. 1973 First edition, Gentry Books. |
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Elliott, Major-General J.G. FIELD SPORTS IN INDIA 1800-1947. |
£21.00 |
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223pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Sections on the Spear, the Rifle, the Rod and the Gun. Near-fine in like dustwrapperw. 1973 First edition, Gentry Books. |
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Endicott, Wendell. THE SAGA OF THE TENTED CITIES. |
£95.00 |
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237pp. 80 b/w photographs. Rich American's account of a lavish hunting expedition in Pakistan. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Fine. 1952 Privately printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.. |
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Fayrer, J. THE ROYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. |
£16.00 |
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His Life and Death. 99pp. 17 b/w illustrations. In pictorial boards. Facsimile edition of 1875 original. Fine. 1996 New Delhi. |
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Finn, Frank (edits). STERNDALE'S MAMMALIA OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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A New and Abridged Edition, thoroughly revised with an Appendix on the Reptilia. 347pp. Index. Many b/w drawings. It was from an earlier edition that Kipling drew in writing 'The Jungle Books'. Very good. Corners and extremities a little worn. 1929 Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla |
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Gee, E.P. THE WILD LIFE OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 12 colour plates. 64 black and white photographs. The author was an Assam tea planter much involved in wildlife protection and conservation before and after 1947. He visits reserves all over India and knows the leading experts in the field Very good indeed. Boards neatly covered with transparent film. 1964 First edition, Collins. |
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Gee, E.P. THE WILD LIFE OF INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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192pp. Index. 12 colour plates. 64 black and white photographs. The author was an Assam tea planter much involved in wildlife protection and conservation before and after 1947. He visits reserves all over India and knows the leading experts in the field Very good indeed. 1964 First edition, Collins. |
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Ghorpade, M.Y. SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS. |
£15.00 |
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An Indian Widlife Photographer's Diary 158pp. 4to. 87 b/w photographs. Accounts of nine wildlife sanctuaries. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Glasfurd, Colonel A.I.R. MUSINGS OF AN OLD SHIKARI. |
£49.00 |
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Reflections on Life and Sport in Jungle India. 304pp. Colour frontispiece and 41 plates of paintings, drawings and photographs. Very good 1928 First edition, John Lane. |
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Groning, Karl and Saller, Martin. ELEPHANTS. |
£25.00 |
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A Cultural and Natural History. 482pp. A vast and wonderfully colour-illustrated book. Weighs a ton too. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First English edition, Konemann, Cologne. |
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Gupta, Reeta Gupta. JIM CORBETT,THE HUNTER CONSERVATIONIST. |
£16.00 |
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88pp. Small 8vo. Short biography. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Rupa & Co, New Delhi. |
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Haribal, Meena. THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA AND THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. |
£36.00 |
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Includes many species found also in other parts of India and Himalaya. 217pp. Index. 600 coloured photographs on 60 plates. Very good indeed in like dw. No date (foreword dated 1992) Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£24.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. A heavy book. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£30.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£21.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hillard, Darla. VANISHING TRACKS. |
£12.00 |
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Four Years among the Snow Leopards of Nepal. 332pp. Index. 33 colour photographs. Four field sessions in the Langu Gorge, 1981-85. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Elm Tree Books. |
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Insight Guides. INDIAN WILDLIFE. |
£10.00 |
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Sri Lanka, Nepal. 363pp. Index. Includes guide to game reserves and parks of the sub-continent. Detailed practical information and many maps on 16 Indian wildlife parks with colour photographs. Card covers. Very good. Owner's name 1987 Apa Publications. |
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Ives, Richard. OF TIGERS AND MEN. |
£5.00 |
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Entering the Age of Extinction. 304pp. Journeys through India, Nepal and SE Asia to find the remaining tigers and meet their conservators. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Mainstream. |
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Lacy, G.H. (compiles). NORTH PUNJAB FISHING CLUB ANGLER'S HANDBOOK |
£120.00 |
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thoroughly revised and corrected up to date wth several new chapters and additional information by Dr.E.Cretin. 313pp. 13 b/w plates at rear. 5 maps (of 6) 4 folding. Many b/w illustrations in the text. Index. Blank 'Angler's Diary' partly completed neatly in ink.in 1897. A few neat notes by the same hand in the text. In the original brown cloth. Very good. Ownership inscription frm 1897, 'Captain Williamson, The Manchester Regiment'. One map missing. 1895 Third edition, W.Newman, Calcutta. |
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Levinson, H.A. ('The Old Shekarry'). THE FOREST AND FIELD. |
£55.00 |
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314pp. More hunting stories. 123pp on sport in India and the Himalayas. 8 engraved plates. In the original decorated green cloth. Front hinge slack and slight fraying to extremities. 1874 Reprint, Chatto & Windus. |
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Locke, Lt. Col. A. THE TIGERS OF TRENGGANU. |
£18.00 |
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191pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Man-eaters in remote Malaya. Very good. Boards a little rubbed but no inscriptions, labels or foxing. 1954 Second impression, Museum Press. |
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Lydekker, R. CATALOGUE OF THE HEADS AND HORNS OF INDIAN BIG GAME BEQUEATHED BY A.O.HUME,C.G., TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). |
£31.00 |
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45pp. Index. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and many b/w photographs in the text. Label reading 'Presented by The Trustees of the British Museum' on front paste-down. Very good. Label removed from front end paper. 1913 Trustees of the British Museum. |
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Magazine. THE GYMKHANA REVIEW. |
£10.00 |
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Social Sporting. 24pp. 4to. Wrappers. A light magazine with features, comments, humour and advertisments. Emphasis on racing and sport. Feature on a 'Bear Shoot' Very good. May 1922, Calcutta. |
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Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
£5.00 |
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242pp. Jungle life in Bihar. Her husband was estate manager for a mica mine and then forest officer in former-princely estates at Bettiah in the North Bihar terrai. Very good internally. Some loss to head and tail of spine cloth. 1949 First US, Little, Brown, Boston. |
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Masson, Jeffrey and McCarthy, Susan. WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP. |
£10.00 |
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The Emotional Lives of Animals. 268pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1994 Second impression, Jonathan Cape. |
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Masters, John. THE COMPLEAT INDIAN ANGLER. |
£165.00 |
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115pp. 4to. 16 plates of b/w photographs, colour frontispiece and 34 full-page drawing of fish by the author. A parody of Izaak Walton. By the father of the novelist. Very good indeed. 1938 First edition, Country Life. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£8.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Top of spine a little crushed. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£12.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£12.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Maxwell, George. IN MALAY FORESTS. |
£65.00 |
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306pp + publisher's catalogue. Hunting adventures. In the original green cloth. Very good. Front hinge a little slack and extremities slightly rubbed. 1907 First edition, William Blackwood. |
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Maxwell-Lefroy, H. INDIAN INSECT LIFE. |
£75.00 |
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A Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India). 786pp. Index. 84 tissue-guarded plates mainly in colour. Ex-university library copy. Weighs over 3kg. Very good indeed in library binding 1909 First edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla. |
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Mayer, Charles. JUNGLE BEASTS I HAVE CAPTURED. |
£16.00 |
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269pp. 18 full-page drawings. Adventures in Malaya and Borneo. Hinges weak. Otherwise very good. 1924 First edition, Heinemann. |
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McDougal, Charles. THE FACE OF THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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180pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs and 13 figures. A long study of the tigers in Chitwan Park, Nepal. Very good in torn dw. Front edge of title page torn. 1977 Claron Books, Delhi. |
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McNeely, Jeffrey A. and Watchel, Paul Spencer. SOUL OF THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia. 390pp. Index. Card covers. Much on traditional folklore of snakes, tigers, elephants, monkeys etc. Fine apart from garish bookplate. 1991 Oxford University Press, Singapore. |
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Mishra, Hemanta R. and Jefferies, Margaret. ROYAL CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK WILDLIFE HERITAGE OF NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Card covers. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Fine. No date (1990s) The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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Osmond, Edward. ANIMALS OF CENTRAL ASIA. |
£12.00 |
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150pp. Index. Drawings. Fine in chipped dw. 1967 First edition, Abelard-Schuman. |
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Padel, Ruth. TIGERS IN RED WEATHER. |
£5.00 |
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432pp. Index. 4 maps. Travels through Asia to remaining tiger habitats. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First US edition, Walker & Co., New York. |
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Padel, Ruth. TIGERS IN RED WEATHER. |
£12.00 |
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432pp. Index. 4 maps. Travels through Asia to remaining tiger habitats. Fine in fine dustwrapper 2005 First edition, Little, Brown. |
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Prater, S.H. THE BOOK OF INDIAN ANIMALS. |
£14.00 |
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324pp. Index. 69 plates in colour and 67 in b/w. Very good in very good dw. 1980 Reprint, Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Quammen, David. MONSTER OF GOD. |
£10.00 |
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The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind. 515pp. Index. Includes long studies of the lions of the Gir Forest and of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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Ridgeway, William. THE ORIGIN AND INFLUENCE OF THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. |
£25.00 |
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xvi + 538pp. Index. 143 b/w illustrations. Pale blue boards maybe faded and a little rubbed. 1905 at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Rivaz, C.A.G. INDIAN SMALL GAME SHOOTING FOR NOVICES. |
£45.00 |
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140pp. Index. 11 b/w plates of game birds. Much on the use of beaters and dogs. Very good. Small stain at foot of front board. Owner's name from 1913. 1912 First edition, Horace Cox. |
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Sanderson, G.P. THIRTEEN YEARS AMONG THE WILD BEASTS OF INDIA. |
£58.00 |
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Their Haunts and habits from Personal Observation; with an account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants. 387pp. With 20 illustrations from drawings and 3 maps. The author, in India from 1864, was the Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore. Rebound in modern green cloth with original gilt pictorial decoration laid-on front board. A sound copy well restored. 1879 Second edition, W.H.Allen. |
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Schaller, George B. STONES OF SILENCE. |
£8.00 |
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Journeys in the Himalaya. 292pp. Index. 14 colour photographs. Six years exploration by a distinguished field biologist. One journey was the subject of Peter Matthiessen's `The Snow Leopard'. Very good in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel but boards marked by condensation under the wrapper 1980 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Schillings, C.G. WITH FLASHLIGHT AND RIFLE. |
£55.00 |
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A Record of Hunting Adventures and Studies in Wildlife in Equatorial East Africa. xxxi + 782pp. Index. In the original green cloth. Over 250 b/w photographs. Borard spotted and front hinge slack. No date (1906) Second and popular edition, Hutchinson & Co..782pp. |
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Seshadri, Balakrishna. THE TWILIGHT OF INDIA'S WILDLIFE. |
£24.00 |
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212pp. Index. 58 b/w photographs. 5 maps. In the chapter on the tiger there is discussion of the origins of the tiger in India from the use of Sahskrit texts as well as its present decline. Another covers the former use of the cheetah in hunting and its extinction. Fine in fine dw. 1969 First edition, John Baker. |
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Sharma, R.C. Et al. AN INTRODUCTION TO BANDHAVGARH NATIONAL PARK and TOURIST GUIDE NOTE FOR BANDHAVGARH NATIONAL PARK. |
£10.00 |
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14 duplicated pages of foolscap. Poor. One document is pinned,the other bound with tape to spine. No date (c1980). |
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Sinha, Vivek R. THE VANISHING TIGER. |
£16.00 |
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Wild Tigers, Co-predators and Prey Species. 256pp. Index. Many colour photographs by leading Indian wildlife photographer. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Salamander. |
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Skene Dhu (Cecil Lang). THE ANGLER IN INDIA or The Mighty Mahseer. |
£25.00 |
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Being the incorporated 3rd edition. 786 +viii pp. Index. 22 b/w plates. Facsimile reprint. First published in 1906 and reprinted in 1923. Very good in very good dw. 1993 Reprint, Natraj, Dehra Dun. |
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Smeeton, Miles. A TASTE OF THE HILLS. |
£15.00 |
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205pp. 24 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Autobiography of cavalry officer - pig-sticking, point to point, big game and NW Frontier service - and mountaineeer attempting Tirich Mir with his wife Beryl and Tensing. Fine in very good dustwrapper A lovely copy. 1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£10.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good in very good dustwrapper but a little ink annotation on a few pages by an owner who has lived in Naini Tal. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£10.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£24.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Snaffles (C.J.Payne). MORE BANDOBAST. |
£65.00 |
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4to. 12 tipped-in plates in colour and many drawings in b/w. Field sports and army life on the North-West Frontier in India and in Somaliland and Aden. Very good in pictorial dw. A little wear to the cloth at the top of the spine and to the wrapper there. All illustrations fine. 1936 First edition, Collins. |
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St Joseph, J.D. LIFE IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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428pp. Sketch maps and 46 b/w photographs. The author's career in the Forest Department from 1891-1914. Edited from his papers with excellent detail on forest conservation, wild-life and the tribal peoples of Central India. Very close observation of tigers. Sadly, for such a lavishly produced book, no index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Stanford, J.K. MIXED BAGMEN, |
£16.00 |
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157pp. 14 b/w plates of drawings by 'Snaffles'. 12 accounts of game shooting exploits, several of them in Burma. Very good internally but boards faded and marked. Without inscriptions or labels. 1947 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stebbing, E.P. THE DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST IN INDIA. |
£45.00 |
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298pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs and 73 drawings by the author. Very good indeed apart from slight fraying to lower spine edge. 1920 First edition, John Lane. |
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Stebbing, E.P. JUNGLE BY-WAYS IN INDIA. |
£67.00 |
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Leaves from the Note-book of a Sportsman and a Naturalist. 307pp. Index. Drawings by the author. In original decorated boards. Close jungle observation from a Forest Officer. Neat inscription to Kurseong recipient. Very good indeed. Boards very clean and bright but a little spotting. 1911 First edition, John Lane. |
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Stockley, C.H. BIG GAME SHOOTING IN THE INDIAN EMPIRE. |
£67.00 |
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200pp. Index. 63 photographs. Internally very good but boards rubbed and grubby and rear hinge weak. 1928 First edition, Constable. |
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Stockley, Lt.-Col. C.H. STALKING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND NORTHERN INDIA. |
£85.00 |
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254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Very good in the original blue cloth. 1936 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stockley, Lt.-Col. C.H. STALKING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND NORTHERN INDIA. |
£45.00 |
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254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Poor attempt to remover private library label from verso of front endpaper. Internally very good but boards and spine rubbed and marked. 1936 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Storey, Harry. HUNTING AND SHOOTING IN CEYLON. |
£88.00 |
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366pp. Large coloured folding map. 73 illustrations. Various contributors. Very good. 1907 Second edition, Longmans. |
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Storey, Harry. HUNTING AND SHOOTING IN CEYLON. |
£95.00 |
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366pp. 73 photographs. Large coloured folding map. Very good. A clean , bright copy. Owner's name. 1907 Second edition, Longmans. |
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Strachan, Arthur W. MAULED BY A TIGER. |
£25.00 |
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Encounters in the Indian Jungles. 279pp. 8 plates of photographs. Rebound in plain green cloth. Very good. 1935 Reprint Moray Press, Edinburgh. |
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Sucksdorff, Astrid Bergman. TIGER IN SIGHT. |
£46.00 |
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110pp. B/w photographs. Photography and hunting with accounts of village life in Central India. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1970 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Taylor-Ide, Daniel. SOMETHING HIDDEN BEHIND THE RANGES. |
£10.00 |
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A Himalayan Quest. 303pp. Card covers. Illustrations in b/w. Conservationist searches for the Yeti in Nepal. Fine. 1995 First edition, Mercury House, San Francisco. |
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Thapar, Valmik (edits). SAVING WILD TIGERS 1900-2000. |
£10.00 |
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The Esential Writings. 411pp. Card covers. Fine. 2006 Permanent Black, Delhi. |
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Thapar, Valmik (introduces). TIGER: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE. |
£18.00 |
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339pp. Index. Over 200 superb colour photographs of tigers in the wild and other colour and b/w illustrations. A heavy book. Not published in UK or India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, CDS Books, New York. |
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Thapar, Valmik (introduces). TIGER: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE. |
£18.00 |
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339pp. Index. Over 200 superb colour photographs of tigers in the wild and other colour and b/w illustrations. A heavy book. Not published in UK or India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, CDS Books, New York. |
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Thapar, Valmik. RANTHAMBORE: TEN DAYS IN THE TIGER FORTRESS. |
£50.00 |
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152pp. 4to landscape. His journal of a visit and c200 colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Thapar, Valmik. TIGERS: THE SECRET LIFE. |
£13.00 |
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160pp. 4to. Colour photos by Fateh Singh Rathore. Study in Ranthanbore. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Elm Tree Books.. |
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Thapar, Valmik. THE TIGER'S DESTINY. |
£14.00 |
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176pp. 4to. Excellent colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Kyle Cathie. |
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Thapar, Valmik. THE TIGER'S DESTINY. |
£10.00 |
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176pp. 4to. Excellent colour photographs by Fateh Singh Rathore. Fine in very good dw with tear to spine panel.. 1992 First edition, Kyle Cathie. |
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Thapar, Valmik. LAND OF THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent. 288pp. 4to. Index. Many excellent colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, BBC Books. |
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Thomas, H.S. TANK FISHING IN INDIA. |
£55.00 |
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120pp. Index. Illustrated with 16 full page b/w plates of fish. Internally very good but hinges have been reinforced externally with parcel tape. Photograph on request. 1927 Second edition, Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta and Simla. |
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Todd, W.Hogarth. WORK, SPORT AND PLAY. |
£35.00 |
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An Englishman's Life in India before the War. 188pp.16 plates of b/w photographs. Pigsticking, polo and work on irrigation schemes. Very good. Faint inscription. Front hinge slack. 1928 First edition, Heath Cranton. |
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Toovey, Jacqueline (edits). TIGERS OF THE RAJ. |
£12.00 |
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Pages from the Shikar Diaries - 1894-1949 - of Colonel Burton, Sportsman and Conservationist. 295pp. Illustrated with Burton's photographs and drawings. Much detail on places all over India. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Toovey, Jacqueline (edits). TIGERS OF THE RAJ. |
£14.00 |
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Pages from the Shikar Diaries - 1894-1949 - of Colonel Burton, Sportsman and Conservationist. 295pp. Illustrated with Burton's photographs and drawings. Much detail on places all over India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Wardrop, Major-General A.E. DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH INDIAN BIG GAME. |
£85.00 |
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212pp. Index. 24 photographs. Armorial bookplate of Major General H.B.Jeffreys. 2 small rubber stamp marks and a number marked in crayon. Very good indeed. An excellent copy 1923 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. |
£5.00 |
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Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands. 262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good in darkening dw. 1957 First edition, Hart-Davis. |
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Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. |
£10.00 |
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Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands. 262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1957 First edition, Hart-Davis. |
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Wright, R.G. And Dewar, Douglas. THE DUCKS OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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231pp. Index. 22 full-page plates from paintings in colour. Poor. The boards are stained and the hinges slack but a complete copy with the plates in good order. 1925 First edition, Witherby. |
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Wynter-Blyth, M.A. JOURNAL OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. |
£32.00 |
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Off-prints of 8 contributions bound together. Maps and b/w illustrations. Includes 'An Expedition to Sangla in Kunawar', 'The Nilgiris Revisited', 'The Gir Forest and its Lions', 'A Naturalist in the North-West Himalaya', and 'Butterfly Collecting in India'. Rubber stamp mark of Rajkumar College. Binding strained but holding. In unlettered brown cloth now rubbed. 1948-52 Bombay Natural History Society. |
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