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Signed first edition of Baker's The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, a cornerstone of Big Game in South Asia.
Signed first edition of Baker's The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, a cornerstone of Big Game in South Asia.
Signed first edition of Baker's The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, a cornerstone of Big Game in South Asia.
Signed first edition of Baker's The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, a cornerstone of Big Game in South Asia.

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BAKER, Samuel.

The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon.

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854.

£750.00
£750.00

The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon.

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Inscription: 'Mrs Holford/ from the author/ Samuel Baker'.

'A cornerstone in the Asian big game hunting library, this first book by the future African explorer recounts his arrival in Ceylon in the 1850s' (Czech).

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); signed presentation inscription to original front endpaper bound in, 6 colour lithographed plates after sketches by the author including frontispiece, further in-text wood engravings, a touch of offsetting to plate margins; contemporary half straight grained red morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, all edges marbled, a fine copy; xii, 409pp.

Czech (Asian), p19.

Stock code 120304

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Signed first edition of Baker's The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, a cornerstone of Big Game in South Asia.

The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon.

£750.00
£750.00

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