Hunting Adventures in Forest and Field

Cloth split along half of lower joint. Short tears to cloth at head and tail of spine. Prize inscription " for best-written Exercise" on front endpaper, dated 1885. Hinges broken, with wide separation to the gutter at the front hinge. Adhesive tape stains to front hinge. Heavy foxing to plates. One plate detached with small chips and tears to margins. Binding shaken and loose. ; xii, [2], 314 pages + 8 plates (including frontispiece) + [24] pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. Page dimensions: 175 x 118mm. All page edges gilt. Hunting,including Africa and India. Contents: My First Steeple-Chase; A Rogue Elephant; Tiger Shooting in the Dehra Doon; Elephant Hunting in the Terai; A Trip to the Sacred Shores of Gunga; An Expedition to the Source of the Ganges; Cashmere; A Run for Life; or, the Fox's Account of a Sharp Burst; The Two Chargers, "Le Diable Rouge" and "Desert-Born"; The Voyage - Madeira and Teneriffe; The Gambia; Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas; The Gold Coast; Lagos; The Bights, the Oil-Rivers, and Fernando Po; The Gaboon; The Country between the Gaboon and the Nazareth; The N'Gobai and the Adjacent Country; The Kroo Coast and Prince's Island; Pencillings in Austria. ; 12mo

Product Info

Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co.

Year: [1882]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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