Lot Details
Lot 99
[INDIA - HUNTING] Four works.
Comprises LEAHY, GEORGE J. Shikar for Sher Khan. A privately printed narrative without imprint, circa 1964. Inscribed on the title by the author. Original cloth with mounted gold tiger illustration in colors to cover. 8 x 5 1/2 inches (20 x 14 cm); 44 pp., four mounted color photographs. Very minor rubbing to extremities, a few pale spots to endpapers, a fine copy; together with BRADDON, EDWARD. Thirty Years of Shikar. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt. x, 373, [2], 32 pp.; frontispiece, folding map, in-text illustrations, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Extremities worn, a few faint stains to cloth, occasional pale spots; LYDEKKER, R. The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet. London: Rowland Ward, 1924. Second edition revised. Publisher's gilt lettered green cloth. xv, [1], 412, illustrations, ads. Moderate wear, spine faded, old glue repairs to endpapers and hinges; and SANDERSON, G. P. Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1893. Fifth Edition. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and in black. xviii, 387, [1] pp., map, plates. Rubbing and wear, lean to spine, glue repairs to hinges, even toning to margins, bookplate. (4)
C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books
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