HEPBURN, W[illiam].

Notes on Elephants and Their Care.

Name: Notes on Elephants and Their Care.
Brand: HEPBURN, W[illiam].
SKU: 124139
Price: 1500.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 124139

Rangoon, American Baptist Mission Press, 1918.

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produced by the oldest indian trading company

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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