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six old books are lined up in a row on a white surfacean old book sitting on top of a table next to a white wallan old book sitting on top of a table next to a white wallthe rifle and hound in geylon by sir samuel w bakeran open book with a drawing of a man in a boatan open book with a picture of a bird on it ' s coveran open book with a picture of a cat sitting on top of ittwo books sitting on top of each other on a white surfacetwo brown books sitting on top of each other on a white surfacea book with a picture of a man pulling a dog on a leashan open book with a black and white image of a tennis ball on itan open book with a black and white image of a man ' s face on itan open book with a black and white title on itan open book with a black and white image of a tennis balla black book sitting on top of a table next to a white walla black book with gold lettering sitting on top of a tablean old book sitting on top of a table next to a white wallan open book sitting on top of a table next to a blue tablean open book with a picture of a cross on itan open book on a blue table with a black and white imagea blue book with gold lettering sitting on top of a white tablean old book sitting on top of a table next to a white walla blue book sitting on top of a white tablean open book with a picture of a man in a boat on the coveran open book with a picture of a wolf on itan open book with a page in it on a blue surfacea blue book with a gold emblem on ita blue book sitting on top of a table next to a white wallan old blue book with a gold emblem on itan open book with a black and white image of a man in a suit and tiean open book with a black and white photo of a man on a boatan old green book sitting on top of a white tablean old book sitting on top of a table next to a white walla green book sitting on top of a white tablean old book with a picture of a man and a womanan open book on a table with a number of words on itan open book with a black and white photo of a tree
Maître Cyril DUVAL

606 - BOOKS IN ENGLISH.— HUNTING IN ASIA.
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Estimate €300 - €350
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BOOKS IN ENGLISH.— HUNTING IN ASIA. Set of 6 volumes, 5 of which are in the publisher’s cardboard binding. From the hunting library of J. López de Ceballos (ex-libris), comprising: - BAKER (S. W.). *The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon*. London, Longmans & Green, 1892. 12mo, publisher’s burgundy percaline cloth binding, 354 pp. The author’s hunting memoirs from Ceylon in 1846: elephants, as well as wild boar, deer, etc. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 plates. Never before published in French. Good condition. First spine re-glued. - BROWN (J. M.). *Stray Sport*. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1893. 2 vols., 12mo, publisher’s binding in olive-coloured percaline, gilt decoration on the front cover, 304 + 294 pp. First edition of these accounts of tiger hunts in India, as well as in Ceylon and Great Britain, by an officer of the Indian Army. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Not previously published in French. A fine copy from the Dollar Institution in Scotland (with ex-libris and gilt supra-libris). - CAPPER (J.). The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon. A Book of Elephant and Elk Sport. London, Provost, 1871. In-8, contemporary black sheepskin binding, plain spine, 154 pp. First edition of the Duke of Edinburgh’s hunting accounts from Ceylon. Illustrated with 8 colour lithographs. Not previously published in French. Good condition. Slight foxing. English ex-libris. - DURAND (E.). Rifle, rod, and spear in the East. Being sporting reminiscences. London, Murray, 1911. In-8, publisher’s cardboard binding, 200 pp. First edition of these important accounts of hunting in India: tigers from the back of elephants, leopards, tahrs, wild boar hunted with spears, pheasants, etc. Numerous black-and-white plates. Not previously published in French. A fine copy. Attractive cardboard binding with gilded tigers, spine sun-faded. - FLETCHER (F. W. F.). *Sport of the Nilgiris and in Wynaad*. London, Macmillan, 1911. 8vo, publisher’s cardboard binding, 456 pp. First edition of the author’s hunting memoirs from the mountains of southern India (Nilgiris and Wynad): elephant, tiger, leopard, bear, yak, tahr, sambar, etc. Illustrated with 18 plates of black-and-white photographs and a large folded map of the region. Never published in French. A fine copy. Hardback, bearing the gilded coat of arms of an English school (prize copy), slightly rubbed. - GLASFURD (A. I. R.). *Musings of an Old Shikari. Reflections on Life and Sport in Jungle India*. London, Lane, 1928. In-8, publisher’s cloth binding, 304 pp. First edition. Memoirs of big-game hunting in India prior to the 1914 war, by a colonel in the Indian Army. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Unpublished in French. Good condition. Upper cap worn. Provenance: The hunting library of the late Don Javier López de Ceballos
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About the sale 📚🦓🦋 LA FLÈCHE Sale 2 – HUNTING: BOOKS, TROPHIES, TAXIDERMY & CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
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