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First edition of Notes on Elephants and Their Care by William Hepburn, Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited.
First edition of Notes on Elephants and Their Care by William Hepburn, Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited.
First edition of Notes on Elephants and Their Care by William Hepburn, Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited.
First edition of Notes on Elephants and Their Care by William Hepburn, Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited.

produced by the oldest indian trading company


HEPBURN, W[illiam].

Notes on Elephants and Their Care.

Rangoon, American Baptist Mission Press, 1918.

$2,055.00
$2,055.00

Notes on Elephants and Their Care.

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Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited, the oldest Indian trading company still active today. With a letter to the revenue Secretary to the Govt. of Burma from the manager of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited with additional notes on elephant keeping.

Rare, with only 2 institutional copies worldwide (Zoological Society of London, University of Missouri 2nd imp) and never appearing at auction.

First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 16.5 cm); 2 printed folding tables, typescript letter loosely inserted, discreet ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original speckled calf over limp boards, gilt lettering to upper cover, a little rubbing, one gathering sprung, otherwise a very good copy; viii, 63 pp.

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First edition of Notes on Elephants and Their Care by William Hepburn, Rare treatise on the care of commercial elephants, largely in the use of logging, produced by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited.

Notes on Elephants and Their Care.

$2,055.00
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