Search Results: hindu koh wanderings and wild sport on by macintyre major general donald

Hardcover. Very Good+. John Culler & Sons With illustrations. New introduction by Kenneth P. Czech. Full black leather with gilt lettering and decoration. 4 raised spine bands. Blue marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Sewn-in yellow marker ribbon. This is an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 500. Leather boards have a few light, non-penetrating scratches. Slight wobble top of front hinge. Tight, pristine contents.

Camden, SC: John Culler & Sons. The Asian Series. No. 55 of a limited edition of 500 copies. A facsimile of the 1898 edition. Illustrated. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; ribbon page marker. Housed in a textured cloth slipcase. . Fine. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. 1994.

Edinburgh.: Blackwood.. New Edition.. 1891.. 2 photographic plates with keys printed on tissue guards, four full page sepia tinted illustrations, numerous engravings, xviii + 362pp and 24 pages of publisher's adverts dated 4/91 at the rear. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, light age toning to preliminaries, extremities little rubbed, head and tail of spine abraded and spine badly mottled, however a firm and clean ex-library copy stamped in gilt on the rear cover with the insignia of the Caledonian United Services Club. Yakushi M23. .

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 8vo. original decorated brown cloth gilt (endpapers renewed, a little rubbed with occ. small nicks/splits in cloth (neatly repaired), prev. owner's name to half-title, light offsetting, else clean & bright); pp. xx, 464, 24 (pubs. advts), with 35 illustrations, inc. a coloured frontispiece. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG.

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. New edition, with index. Photographic frontispiece of "Himalayan and North Indian Game", illustrated by photographs and text drawings. xviii, 362 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt with mountain goat on upper cover. Extremities a bit rubbed, front inner hinge cracked. Very good. New edition, with index. Photographic frontispiece of "Himalayan and North Indian Game", illustrated by photographs and text drawings. xviii, 362 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A scarce and classic work of big game hunting in the mountains of Central Asia. Yakushi M23

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889, First edition. . original brown pictorial cloth with gilt mountain sheep in decorative border, gilt spine title lettering, spine ends chipped & worn, corner wear, internal hinges repaired, faint blindstamp on title margin & cancelled libr bookplate on verso, good, copy. . 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xx, 464, 24 [publisher's catalogue] pp, fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) frontis, tissue guard, 8 plates from drwgs and photo with tissue guards (one with letterpress key), other engraved illus, complete. . Yakushi, M23: 'The author traveled from Srina -gar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo, Lingzi-tang in 1871'. Interesting descriptions of the peoples, their customs, cities, religion, and of nature including tiger, bear, mahseer, pheasant, partridge, jurrow, leopard, hog, musk-deer, ibex, swamp-deer, elephant, surrow, stag, yak, ovis ammon, goa, burrell, hunting and fishing, Goorkas, etc. Extensive travels including Cashmere… Read More

London: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. 2/3" stain to front board. 1/8" loss of cloth at tips of corners of boards. A few 1/8" splits to cloth at ends of spine. Moderate rubbing to joints. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Split to gutter at front hinge.; xviii, 362 page + photogravure frontis + 1 photogravure plate + 4 full page plates + 26 small in-text illustrations. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 202 x 129mm. The two photogravure plates show collections of game animal heads, both have an overlaying tissue paper guard with a printed key to the illustration. In the short preface to this new edition, the author notes that an index has now been added. "The bygone performances of an old 'muzzle-loader' may perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman of the present with his double 'express.' But as human nature always has been, and, I opine, ever will be much… Read More

London : White Lotus, 1891. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Macintyre, Major-General Donald. Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. xx, 464pp, num bw text drawings, 8 full page bw plates, colour frontis. Half-leather (leather spine and corners), contemporary marbled boards, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges. Spine with gilt title, heavily decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands. Prev owners (Ernest Farquhar) bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning to border of title page, offsetting from frontis to previous (blank) page, page edges toned. All plate tissue guards present and undamaged. A remarkably clean tight copy that may never have been read. Account of travels in the Himalayas, trans-Himalaya and surrounding areas including India and Tibet. Numerous accounts of hunting (bear, tiger, deer etc) and fishing including the giant Mahseer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Edinburgh & London: Blackwoods, 1889. First edition. Colored frontispiece, 3 photographic & 5 other plates, with numerous illustrations in the text. xx, 464.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown polished calf, gilt spine. Almost fine. First edition. Colored frontispiece, 3 photographic & 5 other plates, with numerous illustrations in the text. xx, 464.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yakushi, M23; Czech (Asia) p. 131