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SIMSON, Frank B.

Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal.

Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal.

Stock Code 117330

London, R. H. Porter, 1886

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First edition of this pleasant book on hunting in Bengal, written in the form of long letters. The letters cover shooting grounds, native shikaris, snipe hunting, boar hunting with spears as well as shooting tigers, buffalo, bear, rhinoceros, leopard & a variety of deer & waterfowl.

First edition; 4to (29 x 20 cm); 10 tinted lithograph plates, engraved vignette to title, waterstain to lower margin of first two plates not affecting image, touch of light spotting; publisher's red cloth, gilt vignette to upper board and gilt lettering to spine, a little worn, spine faded with a few tears to cloth of upper joint, a good copy; xvii, [2], 255, [16, ads] pp.

Czech 187; Schwerdt II, 163.

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